InMa 2024

Interfaces are present in almost all materials we use and dictate many of the materials’ properties, functions, and behaviors. Consequently, a fundamental understanding of material interface structures, how they interact with other material constituents, and how they can be modified is desirable to benefit from such interfaces for new material developments with tailored properties or functions. As a consequence, the scope of the symposium will be to bring together scientists investigating interface-dominated materials with different backgrounds, but the common goals of understanding these materials and interface-related mechanisms better, of answering application-relevant questions, and of developing promising new materials.

The in-person symposium will cover three days, which will contain several topic sessions, a poster session, two invited international keynote speakers, a “Think-outside-the-box” talk, and a podium discussion. Besides the topic sessions, one session will be dedicated to the promotion of young scientists including a best talk award. 

Topics relevant for the symposium include:

• Structural and energy materials
• Materials in harsh environments
• Interfaces of architectured materials
• In situ/operando characterization
• Computational science of interfaces
• Advances in methodology and informatics

Organizing committee:

Head organizer: Dr. Nicolas J. Peter (IMD-1)
Co-organizers: Dr. Jin Wang (IMD-1), Dr. Abril Azocar Guzman (IAS-9), Dr. Bashir Kazimi (IAS-9)

Tentative schedule:

Speakers include:

 Keynote Speaker:

 Robert Sinclair (Stanford University)

 Keynote Speaker - Think-out-of-the-box:

 Andreas Offenhäusser (Forschungszentrum Jülich) - "Bioelectronic interfaces"

 Invited speakers:

Marc Heggen (Forschungszentrum Jülich - ER-C)
Ralph Spolenak (ETH Zürich)
Markus Stricker (Ruhr University Bochum - ICAMS)
Lorenz Romaner (University of Leoben)
Jens Bauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT))
Siyuan (Spark) Zhang (Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials - MPI SusMat)
Matteo Ghidelli (Laboratoire des Sciences des Procédés et des Matériaux - LSPM-CNRS)

Important dates:

Workshop fee: 

To participate in the symposium, a fee of 150 € for students and 250 € per senior scientist has to be payed before November 10th. Payments arriving after this date can not be considered anymore and on-site participation will no longer be possible, even if abstracts were submitted successfully and accepted. We ask for your understanding. The registration fee includes all coffee breaks and lunches, and finger food and drinks at the poster session and for the "think-outside-the-box" talk.

Accomodation: 

Travel arrangements are your responsibility. There is the Mercure hotel "Aachen Europaplatz" about 300 m away (5 min walking distance). Rooms there start at around 90 € per night.

Acknowledgements: 

Financial support from the Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH is gratefully acknowledged.  

We are also happy to express our gratitude to our sponsor ThermoFischerScientific. 

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