SIGs
Role and constitution of a SIG
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Promoters
Dr. Pamela Thomas (p.a.thomas@warwick.ac.uk
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Dr. Pierre Bordet (pierre.bordet@grenoble.cnrs.fr
)
Proponents
Prof. C.C.Wilson (c.c.wilson@rl.ac.uk)
Prof. J.Boeyens (jboeyens@postino.up.ac.za
)
Prof. D.Viterbo (viterbo@unipmn.it)
Dr. J-L. Hodeau (hodeau@grenoble.cnrs.fr
)
Mission Statement
The purpose of the Materials Science SIG (renamed "Crystallographic of Functional Materials" in August 2008) is to provide a forum in the
European Crystallographic Association for the branch of crystallography
in which the key aim of the study is to learn something about a
material, rather than specifically to develop a technique or extend
crystallographic theory. Whilst it is recognized that crystallographic
studies of materials often necessarily such developments in order to
complete the investigation, the Materials Science SIG will exist
primarily to serve crystallography in which gaining insight about
materials is the principal objective. The SIG will provide a home within
the ECA for the wide range of crystallographers who have materials as
their focus and who employ common crystallographic techniques to address
problems across the spectrum from magnetism to pharmaceuticals. The SIG
will aim to unite crystallographers in these apparently diverse fields
and to promote communication, exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas.
The SiG will maintain an active role in producing a coherent
materials-led strand to the programme for future ECMs and will liaise
with technique and theory-driven SIGS to develop collaborative
programmes.
Suggested Themes for SIG
- Amorphous and non-crystalline materials
- Defects and Domains
- Disordered Materials
- Ferroelectrics (relaxors, piezoelectrics, pyroelectrics)
- Ferroelastics
- Ionic Conductors
- Liquid Crystals
- Magnetic Materials
- Nanomaterials
- Negative Thermal Expansion Materials
- Optical and Nonlinear Optical Materials
- Perovskite Materials
- Pharmaceutical Materials
- Photoconducting and Photoreactive Materials
- Semiconductors
- Sensors and Actuators
- Structural Materials
- Superconducting Materials
- Thin Films
Founder Members
Mike Glazer, UK glazer@physics.oxford.ac.uk
Ulrich Bismayer, Germany ubis@mineralogie.uni-hamburg.de
Hatmut Fuess, Germany hfuess@tu-darmstadt.de
Jens Kreisel , France jens.kreisel@inpg.fr
Kosmos Prassides , UK k.prassides@sussex.ac.uk
Calestani, Italy calestg@ipruniv.cce.unipr.it
Theo Siegriest, Sweden, theo.siegrist@materialkemi.lth.se
Claude Lecomte, France lecomte@lcm3b.uhp-nancy.fr
Eugene Antipov, Russia antipov@icr.chem.msu.ru
Gustav van Tendeloo, Belgium gvt@ruca.ua.ac.be
Carles Miravitlles, Spain, miravitles@icmab.es
