SYMPOSIUM E - PROGRESS ON DEVELOPMENT OF ELECTROCERAMIC MATERIAIS (Joint Symposium: IV Brazilian Symposium on Electroceramics)

Electroceramics is an important interdisciplinar research area in Materials Science. New materials showing outstanding properties and potential technological applications, together with old materials with actual technological applications and enhanced properties offer a broad field of research opportunities.

This symposium, organized by the Brazilian-MRS in collaboration with the American and the European MRS, intends to be a forum for researchers on electroceramics. R&D on several electroceramic materials will be focused with state-of-the-art reviews and forecasts of future developments. Emphasis will be on the opportunities for exchange of experiences and discussions among researchers of different areas. Several aspects of R&D on electroceramics, including novel processing and experimental procedures, will be considered.

The main topics are:

• Synthesis and Processing of electroceramics; stability and phase transition; thick and thin film processing and characterization; self-supported structures on metals and semiconductors; heterostructures; crystalline and porous particles; ceramic and polymer ceramic matrix composites; nanostructured ceramics.
• Standard electrical measurements; electron microscopy and other complementary techniques of analysis; other non-conventional techniques for the analysis of transport phenomena.

Keyword: Electroceramics.
 

Symposium Organizers

Antonio Eduardo Martinelli
DEME / UFRN
aemart@uol.com.br 

Antonio Gouveia de Souza
DQ/UFPB
gouveia@quimica.ufpb.br 

José Antonio Eiras
DF/UFSCar
eiras@df.ufscar.br

Reginaldo Muccillo
IPEN/SP
rmuccill@ipen.br

Sidnei Antonio Pianaro
DEMA/UEPG
pianaro@uepg.br