10th International IUPAC Conference on High Temperature
Materials Chemistry (HTMCX)
10-14 April 2000, Jülich, Germany
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The IUPAC conferences on HighTemperature Materials Chemistry were
initiated by the Inorganic Divisions Commission on High-Temperature
Materials and Solid State Chemistry (II.3) in 1977 and have become
the premier international venue for exploring the combination of
chemistry and materials science as these affect understanding, production,
and use of high-temperature materials. As part of its service to
the high-temperature and materials chemistry communities, IUPAC
Commission II.3 has provided overall organization and continuity
of the series, along with selection, coordination, and guidance
of the individual-conference local organizers. This tenth conference
in the series was held 10-14 April 2000 in Jülich, Germany.
It was organized by Prof. Klaus Hilpert of the Forschungszentrum
Jülich with the help of F. Froben and L. Singheiser. The Jülich
conference provided significant opportunities for productive interchange
between basic and applied researchers, with particular emphasis
on applications of thermodynamics, of modern diagnostics, and of
corrosion studies to the high-temperature processing and chemical
behavior of bulk materials and coatings, and to high-temperature
light sources.
There were about 250 papers and 250 participants from 26 countries
at this highly successful, fully subscribed meeting. International
participation was facilitated by a generous grant from the German
Science Foundation to support attendance by scientists from the
former "East". To ensure productive dialog between basic
science and applicationsand among industrial, research laboratory,
and academic scientiststhe conference, following tradition,
was held with no parallel sessions and with lots of opportunities
for formal and informal discussion. The majority of the papers were
presented in poster sessions. In addition, there were 7 invited
lectures, 17 keynote lectures, 41 shorter oral presentations, and
7 hands-on demonstrations of computerized thermodynamic databases.
Main lectures to be published in a future issue of Pure and Applied
Chemistry introduced the following different topics and sessions:
hydrocarbon oxidation kinetics (J. Warnatz, IWR, Heidelberg, Germany);
laser vaporization for mass spectrometric studies at 3000-5000 K
(J. Hastie, NIST, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA); containerless levitation
methods to produce and study high-temperature liquids (P. Nordine,
Containerless Research, Evanston, Illinois, USA); thermodynamic
models for use in computer databases (M. Hillert, KTH, Stockholm,
Sweden); transport processes between the 1000 K wall and the 3600
K electrode in metal halide gas discharge lamps (W. van Erk, Phillips,
Eindhoven, Netherlands); analysis of kinetic processes at solid-solid
interfaces (H. Schmalzried, University of Hannover, Germany); and
applications of chemical vapor deposition to produce tailored structural
coatings (G. Wahl, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig,
Germany).
Keynote lectures by leaders of their fields comprised presentations
discussing and using varied techniques, including high-temperature
mass spectrometry, molecular beam sampling, electric-field activated
combustion synthesis, synchrotron X-ray studies of levitated liquids,
and gas-phase electron diffraction determination of molecular structure;
a number of forefront experimental and modeling studies of ceramic
materials and oxides; and studies of alloys, fullerenes, carbon
nanotubes, and fuel cells. These papers, along with the other oral
and poster presentations, illustrated the tremendous variety of
physical and chemical techniques that are utilized, and of systems
-technological and basic- that are studied under the umbrella of
"high-temperature materials".
The two meetings that immediately preceded HTMC-X in this well-established
and successful IUPAC series were in State College, Pennsylvania,
USA (1997) and Vienna, Austria (1994). Following a pattern of meeting
every three years on a different continent, the next conference,
HTMC-XI, is scheduled for 2003. It will be held in Asia for the
first time, in Tokyo, Japan, hosted by Michio Yamawaki of the University
of Tokyo ([email protected]).
Dr. Gerd M. Rosenblatt
Vice President, IUPAC Inorganic Chemistry Division (II)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
> Published in Chem.
Int. 22(5), 2000