Gordon Research Conference - Thin Film and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior - Registration is open

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM - Registration is open
Thin Film and Small-Scale Mechanical Behavior
July 25 - 30, 2010 at Colby College, Waterville, Maine

Online Application:
http://www.grc.org/application.aspx?id=9398

Preliminary Program:

Session Topic 1: Elasticity, plasticity and fracture of small structures
Leader Name: William Gerberich (Univ. of Minnesota)
Speaker Names:    
H. Daniel Wagner (Weizman Institute, Israel)
The mechanics of small objects: selected experiments from various landscapes
Alfonso Ngan (Hongkong)
Mechanical Properties of Nano-honeycomb

Session Topic 2: Radiation damage and mechanical behavior
Leader Name: Easo George (Oak Ridge)
Speaker Names:
Steve Roberts (Oxford)
Micromechanical testing of materials for fusion and fission applications
Michael Demkowiczs (MIT)
Tailoring nanocomposites properties by atomic-scale design of interfaces

Session Topic 3: Nanomechanics of battery materials
Leader Name: Y.T. Cheng (Univ. of Kentucky)
Speaker Names:    
Bob McMeeking (UCSB)
Li ion battery materials; the influence of mechanics on their performance,
reliability and durability
Reiner Mönig (KIT)
In situ SEM observations of Li ion insertion kinetics and related stress effects

Session Topic 4: Nanocrystalline Metals, Films and Multilayers
Leader Name: Amit Misra
Speaker Names:    
Andrea Hodge (USC)
Mechanics of thin films and multilayers at the nanoscale
G.P. Zhang (CAS, Shenyang)
Plasticity and fatigue of metallic multilayers: length scale and interface effects
Chris Schuh (MIT)
Progress in High-Temperature Nanoindentation

Session Topic 8: Electro-Mechanical Coupling in Nanostructures
Leader Name: Marc Legros
Speaker Names:    
Jianyu Huang
In-situ atomic scale nanomechanics of carbon nanotubes, nanowires and graphene
Julia Greer
Mechanical-electrical coupling in graphene-based devices: lessons from 2-D materials

Session Topic 6: Plasticity in confined geometries
Leader Name: Mike Uchic
Speaker Names:    
Wei Cai (Stanford)
Dislocation Multiplication in Micro-Pillars and Thin Films
Christian Motz (Leoben)
Plasticity and Fracture in Confined Volumes: Experiments and Modeling

Session Topic 7: Nanotribology
Leader Name: Peter Gumbsch
Speaker Names:    
Robert Carpick (U Penn)
Tribology of Ultrastrong Carbon-Based Films from Nano to Macro Scales
Roland Bennewitz (INM Saarbrücken)
Friction on molecularly thin films

Session Topic 8: Nanomechanics for improving microdevice performance
Leader Name: Matt Begley
Speaker Names:    
S. Lacour (Cambridge Univ)
Engineering thin film device materials with enhanced stretchability
Young-Chang Joo (Seoul National Univer.)
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Marcel Utz (University of Virginia)
Electro- and chemo-mechanical interactions of polyelectrolytes in microsystems

Session Topic 9:    
Leader Name:    
Speaker Names:    
Alex Hamza
Nanomaterials for Targets at the National Ignition Facility