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

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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