Proceedings
ISBN: 978-85-63273-33-8

### Symposium C

#### Symposium on complex advanced materials: from novel superconductors to magnetic nanostructures.

Scope of the Symposium

The emergence of complex collective phenomena in condensed matter defines one of the most interesting challenges in Physics and one of the areas with highest potential for practical applications. Examples of such phenomena are superconductivity, complex magnetic ordering and Kondo-like behavior, which stem from a coupling between the micro- and macroscopic worlds materialized on the mesoscopic scale. The scientific objective of the symposium is to pursue a series of events worldwide to discuss materials were emergent phenomena can be observed. Among the systems that will be debated are complex oxides, superconductors, superconducting/ferromagnetic hybrids, and heavy-fermion, thermoelectrical and multifunctional materials. Since the phenomena are rooted in the nanoscopic scale, we will give particular attention to small-sized systems. In fact, nanoscale materials (such as heterostructured magnetic nanoparticles with e.g., core-shell, dumbbell, or dimer architectures) have raised considerable interest in basic research as well as potential industrial applications due to their broad range of novel and enhanced properties. Notably, one of the major challenges in the synthesis of complex multiphase nanoscale materials is how to design and prepare the chosen structure with desired multi-functionality.
As such, the design, synthesis and characterization of complex advanced materials in bulk and nanostructured form and the current understanding of the emergent complex collective phenomena that govern their physical properties will be the focus of this symposium.

Abstracts will be solicited in (but not limited to) the following areas

- Kondo physics in bulk materials and nanoscale structures
- Complex Oxides: Ferroics, multiferroics and Rare Earth based magnetic oxide
- Superconductivity and magnetism, including exotic superconductivity
- Topological Insulators and metal-insulators transitions
- Heavy Fermion Physics including Valence and charge fluctuations
- New Materials Design and advanced materials characterization techniques
- Thermoelectrical and multifunctional materials
- Granular magnetic nanoparticles, superparamagnetism & related properties
- Magnetic nanohybrids, related properties & applications
- Dipolar Interactions in magnetic nanosystems, Bimagnetic heterostructured nanoparticles, Spin polarization and charge transfer mechanism, Magnetic nanohybrid catalyst, Biomedical Applications and Exchange coupled magnets

List of invited speakers

- Yakov Kopelevitch
  (IFGW-Unicamp)
- Priscila Ferrari Silveira Rosa
  (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
- Waldemar Augusto de Almeida Macedo
  (Centro de Desenvolvimento da Tecnologia Nuclear)
- Liane M. Rossi
  (Instituto de Química - USP)
- Prof. Dr. Célia Machado Ronconi
  (Laboratório de Química Supramolecular e Nanotecnologia (LQSN))
- Dr. Leandro M. Socolovsky
  (Laboratorio de Sólidos Amorfos - INTECIN)
- Prof. Dr. Andrea D. Bianchi
  (Department of Physics - Montreal University)
- Josep Nogues
  (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), Spain)
- Latif Ullah Khan
  ( (IQ-USP), Brasil)

Symposium Organizers

- Marcelo Knobel (IFGW - UNICAMP)
- Surender Kumar Sharma (Federal University of Maranhao)
- Pascoal José Giglio Pagliuso (IFGW-Unicamp)
- Marcos de Abreu Ávila (GMQ-UFABC)