Conference Description
This 4th GRC on Nano-Mechanical Interfaces in 2019 will continue the effort to address fundamentals of small-scale material systems subjected to mechanical perturbation generated by thermal, electrical, biological, chemical, or other nano-sized forces. The focus of this conference is on multiphysics and multidisplinary nature of nano-mechancial interfaces but with an emphasize on the integration of theory, experiments with modeling and design.
Distinctive from previous meetings, this meeting will stress the advances in modeling and computation enabled discovery, design and fabrication of nanomatrials and systems. Of particular interest are topics on mechanics of nanomateirals and biomaterials and their experimentation and fabrication, multiphysics and multiscale behavior of architectured/meta and low-dimensional nanomaterials, machine learning for complex hierarchical materials, and thermo-, electro-, chemical-, and/or mechanical coupling in nanoscale materials and systems. Advances in these areas have found applications in sensing networks, biomedical devices, energy harvesting and storage, high performance and “smart” materials, etc., and provided novel solutions to many technologically important problems.
This meeting aims to engage students, faculty and researchers from different disciplines and background, deliver a unique experience of scientific and intellectual interactions, and generate inspiration, insights and ideas by communicating cutting edge research activities at the frontier of nano-mechanical interfaces. In conjunction with this conference, a Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) will be offered for the first time for this series. Young researchers (students, post-docs and new faculty members) working in relevant areas are strongly encouraged to submit posters and participate in the GRS.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by April 11, 2019. Please check back for updates.
Thermal Transport at Nano Interfaces
Discussion Leaders
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Qing Hao (University of Arizona, USA)
Speakers
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Li Shi (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
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Alexander Neimark (Rutgers University, USA)
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Ronggui Yang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Nanomechanics of Solids
Discussion Leaders
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Qing Ping Sun (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR China)
Speakers
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Yonggang Huang (Northwestern University, USA)
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Leslie Banks-Sills (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
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Shaofan Li (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
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Yang Lu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
Machine Learning for Material Design
Discussion Leaders
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Yuan Lin (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
Speakers
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Wing Liu (Northwestern University, USA)
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Surya Kalidindi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
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Seeram Ramakrishna (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Bio-Mechanics
Discussion Leaders
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Liang Zhu (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
Speakers
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Gang Bao (Rice University, USA)
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Hanqing Jiang (Arizona State University, USA)
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Sulin Zhang (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Nanoelectromechanical Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Yang Xu (Zhejiang University, China)
Speakers
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Xiang Zhang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
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Aman Haque (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
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Yihui Zhang (Tsinghua University, China)
Mechanics of Advanced Fabrication
Discussion Leaders
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Fadi Abdeljawad (Clemson University, USA)
Speakers
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David Srolovitz (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
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Xiaoyu Zheng (Virginia Tech, USA)
Mechanics of Low-Dimensional Materials
Discussion Leaders
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Huijuan Zhao (Clemson University, USA)
Speakers
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Jamie Warner (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
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Sarah Haigh (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Late-Breaking Topics
Discussion Leaders
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Srikanth Pilla (Clemson University, USA)
Speakers
Electrochemical Interfaces
Discussion Leaders
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Alfonso Ngan (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
Speakers
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Narayan Aluru (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
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Dierk Raabe (Max Planck Institute for Iron Research, Germany)
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Taher Saif (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA)
