Program – Challenges and Prospects for Solid State Chemistry

CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS FOR SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
University of Sevilla, 9 and 10 September 2016

Updated Program + Abstracts

Friday, 9 September 2016
09:00 – 09:30	Registration
09:30 – 10:00	Opening Remarks
	Prof. José Antonio Odriozola, Organizing Committee Prof. Pilar Malet Maenner, Dean of the Chemistry Department Prof. Martin Jansen, Chair of Division
	*Frontiers of solid materials synthesis*
	Chair: Maria Gracia Francesconi
10:00 – 10:50	Ullrich Haussermann, Stockholm University “Hydrogen incorporation in Zintl phases and transition metal oxides – new environments for the lightest element in the solid state”
10:50 – 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
	Chair: Alfonso Caballero Martínez
11:30 – 12:20	Andrei Shevelkov, Moscow State University “Back to the Iron Age: Structure and properties of iron compounds with strong electron correlations”
12:20 – 13:10	Amparo Fuertes, ICMAB Barcelona “New developments in the chemistry of oxynitride materials”
13:10 – 15:00	LUNCH
	Structural advances through new methodology
	Chair: Paul Attfield
15:00 – 15:50	Florence Babonneau, UMPC Paris «Solid-state NMR characterization of organic-inorganic materials: some recent advances»
15:50 – 16:50	COFFEE BREAK AND POSTER SESSION
	Chair: Wolfgang Bensch
16:50 – 17:40	Thierry Epicier, INSA Lyon “Life materials chemistry at the nano scale in environmental transmission electron microscopy”
17:40 – 18:30	Andrew Goodwin, Oxford University “Local symmetry and hidden order”

Saturday, 10 September 2016
	Solid state chemistry and applications
	Chair: Colin Greaves
10:00 – 10:50	Barbara Albert, TU Darmstadt “Complexity in borides: exotic solids or useful materials?”
10:50 – 11:40	Clare Grey, Cambridge University “Challenges for rechargeable batteries – new characterisation approaches and new chemistries”
11:40 – 12:20	COFFEE BREAK
	Chair: Antoine Maignan
12:20 – 13:10	Teofilo Rojo, CIC-Energigune “Towards all solid state batteries”
13:10 – 15:00	LUNCH
	Rationales for functional materials synthesis
	Chair: Edmund Cussen
15:00 – 15:50	Claudia Felser, MPI-CPS Dresden “Topology – from the materials perspective”
15:50 – 16:40	Maarit Karpinnen, Aalto University “Layer-engineering of novel functional oxide materials”
16:40 – 17:10	COFFEE BREAK
	Chair: Emilio Moran
17:10 – 18:00	Joao Rocha, Aveiro University ”Microporous lanthanide silicates and coordination polymers for optical sensing and nanothermometry”
18:00 – 18:30	Quo vadimi? Panel and audience: Concluding discussion