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THE
SIXTH CONFERENCE OF THE YUGOSLAV MATERIALS
RESEARCH SOCIETY
YUCOMAT 2004
BY
PARTICIPANCE OF THE LARGE NUMBER OF DOMESTIC
AND FOREIGN DISTINGUISHED SCIENTISTS, CONTEMPORARY
CONTENT, PROCEEDINGS WITH PAPERS BY AUTHORS
FROM 20 COUNTRIES, YUCOMAT 2004 REPRESENTS
THE TOP MEETING OF CREATORS IN THE FIELD OF
ADVANCED MATERIALS
From September
13-17 th , Herceg Novi was again the host of
the Sixth Yugoslav Materials Research Society
Conference YUCOMAT 2004, whose general sponsor
was the Institute of Technical Sciences of
the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Previous
five Conferences were also held in Herceg Novi,
when Yugoslav Materials Research Society was
formed as non-government, non-profit, scientific
association, whose main goals and tasks are
to encourage creativity in materials science
and engineering to achieve harmonic coordination
of this field in our country and to connect
it with analogous activities worldwide in order
to include us more easily into the global international
programs. Materials science and engineering
incorporate acquiring of the knowledge that
connects materials synthesis and processing,
their composition and structure, properties
and behaviour and their functions and potentialities
and its application to the devices, machines,
units and other final products. Economic prosperity,
quality of life and healthy environment are
closely connected to improvement of existing
and development of the new materials and processing
technologies that contribute numerous national
priorities: energy saving, quality of environment,
health protection, information and communications,
infrastructures, transportation, etc.
Program
of this year's Conference consisted of two
Plenary Sessions, five one-day Symposia dedicated
to advanced methods in materials synthesis
and processing, advanced materials for high-technology
application, nanostructured materials, composites
and biomaterials, as well as one one-day Workshop
and Tutorial on nanomaterials and nanotechnologies.
The objective of the Conference was to critically
consider the most actual problems in materials
science and engineering and to present to domestic
and international public, in the best possible
way, the state and our possibilities in this
field. Few hundred scientists from our country
and the world submitted 195 papers, of which
170 were presented. 73 papers were presented
orally and 97 as posters, prepared exclusively
in English. Authors of 33 papers were from
foreign laboratories, 23 papers were the product
of joint research teams with our authors realized
through international cooperation, while the
rest were from our country. Authors from 20
countries altogether were represented and scientists
from USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Russia,
Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Slovenia, Ukraine
and Republic of Srpska participated at the
Conference. Proceedings of this, as for the
previous five conferences, will be published
by Trans Tech Publication Ltd , Zürich,
Switzerland, in its prestigious Materials Science
Forum Edition in English, in two volumes (600
pages, approx. 90 selected papers), thus adequately
presenting our scientists and the whole manifestation
to the world. This journal's impact factor
for the last few years was between 0.5-1.0,
at the middle of the listing in this field,
and for 2003 it is 0.602.
At
the First Plenary Session were presented six
invited lectures on the most actual problems
of materials science and engineering. The honour
to be the first speakers at this Conference
was given to Prof. R. Sinclair from Stanford
University (SAD), Prof. X. Batlle from the
University of Barcelona (Spain), Prof. V. Radmilovic
from Berkeley University of California (SAD)
and Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy in
Belgrade, Dr. T. Jung from Paul Scherrer Institute
in Zurich (Switzerland), Dr. J. Nedeljkovic
with associates from the National laboratory
for Renewable Energy Sources in Golden (SAD)
and the Institute «Vinča»,
and Prof. D. Suvorov from Jozef Stefan Institute
in Ljubljana (Slovenia). The Second Plenary
Session also consisted of five invited lectures
by renowned scientists. Dr. M. Komac from the
Slovenian Ministry for Education and Science
and Jozef Stefan Institute in Ljubljana (Slovenia)
presented a framework for the research and
technology policy in small countries on the
example of Slovenia. Then, Dr. E. Antic-Fidancev
from the National Research Centre in Paris
(France), Prof. F.T. Hong from the Wayne State
University in Detroit (SAD), Dr. B. Bonnetot
from the University of Lyon (France) and Dr.
P. Jovancic from the Faculty of Technology
and Metallurgy in Belgrade gave their lectures
.
40
papers were presented in Symposium A ,
Advanced Methods in Synthesis and Processing
of Materials , dedicated to various unconventional
methods of materials' synthesis and processing,
which enable achieving completely new properties
or significantly improved materials' characteristics
by designing on molecular level. Papers on
nanoengineering, colloid, plasma, laser, microwave,
aerosol, electrochemical, mechanochemical,
radiation and rheological processing and designing
of materials' structure and characteristics
are certainly noticeable. The honour to open
this Symposium was this time given to a distinguished
scientist, Dr. A. Auroux from the Institute
for catalysis of the National Research Centre
(France), who gave a plenary lecture on atomic
layers engineering and active centres characterization
of the new generation of oxide catalysts and
who successfully cooperated with our researchers
for years.
Symposium B ,
Advanced Materials for High-Technology Application
, was the biggest with 59 presented papers
dedicated to new materials that are the focal
point of interest in contemporary science and
the framework of high-technologies, including
the latest methods of their characterisation.
Materials with strictly controlled chemical
composition, diamond and related materials,
superconductors, magnetic, electron- and electrode-materials,
catalysts, intermetallides, new metal, ceramic
and polymer materials and their application
in high-technology were the subject of the
Symposium. This Symposium was open by the plenary
lecture of Dr. H.Th. Langhammer from the Martin-Luther
University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Germany),
who spoke of a contemporary class of functional
gradient materials and who cooperated with
our researchers for years.
Since
nanomaterials will have the decisive role in
nanotechnology as one of the most important
future technology, one Symposium was again
dedicated to this topic. Namely, the progress
in materials with high performances for various
applications will depend on our capabilities
to control size, distribution and morphology
of constituents (particles, grain and phases)
at the levels less than 100 nm (1nm=10 -9 m).
21 papers were presented at this Symposium C Nanomaterials
, which brought forward numerous examples of
powders and thin films synthesis, theoretical
models and experimental methods that enable
the gathering of information at atom level
and the number of applications based on electronic,
magnetic, optical, chemical, catalytic and
mechanical properties. The number of papers
on fullerens and nanotubes was presented at
this Symposium. Our long-term scientific partners,
Prof. R.A. Andrievski from the Institute for
the Problems in Chemical Physics of the Russian
Academy of Sciences in Chernogolovka (Russsia)
and Prof. M. Drofenik from the Jozef Stefan
Institute in Ljubljana and the Faculty for
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering of the University
of Maribor (Slovenia) were the main foreign
lecturers at this Symposium, speaking on the
most important problems of synthesis, processing
and application of nanostructured materials.
Thanks
to good working characteristics and stability
during application, as well as favourable production
conditions, low price and great possibilities
for designing, composites represent today a
huge group of engineering materials with the
growing application in numerous fields. 15
papers presented at Symposium D Composites
, brought forward numerous examples of synthesis
and production of composites with polymer,
metal and ceramic matrix, interactions of constitutive
phases of composites and interface phenomena,
properties, research and application of composites,
including nanocomposits. The plenary lecturer
at this Symposium was Dr. D. Perreux from the
University of Besançon (France ), who
spoke of the static and dynamic damages of
composite materials and who is our partner
in bilateral scientific-technological cooperation
with France.
Symposium E Biomaterials
was dedicated to biomedical materials used
within human body as endoprosthetics, i.e.
artificial substitutes that permanently replace
sick or damaged organ or part of organism or
fix harmed parts of organism. Depending on
their function they have to meet complex demands
considering stability, strain and biocompatibility
with human organism. 24 papers presented at
the Symposium E Biomaterial
S brought out the latest results in advanced
methods of processing contemporary ceramic,
metal and polymer biomaterials, interdependence
of structure, properties and processes of biomaterials
production, biological response of organism
to biomaterials implantation and clinical experience
in biomaterials implantation. Symposium was
open by the plenary lecture of Dr. A.R. Boccaccini
from the Imperial College in London (UK), who
spoke of the latest generation of biomaterials
in the tissue engineering.
In
accordance to the international tendency for
nanomaterials and nanotechnologies to take
over one of the most important roles in global
trade development in the future, two adjacent
events were organized on this topic. On Saturday,
September 11 th , was held the Workshop on
theoretical and experimental research of nanomaterials
where researchers in this field exchanged opinions
on their current work, achieved results and
programme of their research in their field.
On Sunday, September 12 th , was held the Tutorial
on nanotechnologies with lectures given by
Prof. Dr. F. Hong from Wayne State University
in Detroit (USA), Dr. Th. Jung from the Laboratory
for Micro and Nanotechnology Paul Scherrer
Institute (Switzerland) and Prof. Dr. X. Batlle
from the University of Barcelona (Spain). Also,
an apparatus for the characterization of micro
and nanostructured materials, made by JEOL
Company (Japan) was presented.
To
encourage the affirmation of prospective young
scientists, Yugoslav Materials Research Society
at this Conference, again, selected the author
of the best PhD and MSc thesis done between
two Conferences and the best oral and poster
presentation of the Conference. Awards were
again given to young authors, not older than
35, as a rule.
Considering
the large number of papers with actual contents
given by foreign and our authors, high-quality
Proceedings of this Conference, YUCOMAT 2004
succeeded again in keeping the tradition of
top manifestation in the field of materials
science and engineering that rightly align
us with much more developed countries than
ours.
AWARDED PAPERS
The Awards
Committee of the Yugoslav Materials Research
Society (Prof. Milorad Davidovic, Prof. Vera
Dondur and Prof. Milenko Plavsic) announced
the authors of the best PhD and MSc. thesis
done between two Conferences and the best oral
and poster presentation of the Conference.
For
the best PhD thesis done between two Conferences
(YUCOMAT 2003 and YUCOMAT 2004), considering
scientific contribution, quality of generated
publications from the thesis and potential
application of obtained results, was declared
the thesis by Slobodanka Galovic , defended
at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in
Belgrade on December 5 th , 2003, named " MODELLING
AND ANALYSIS OF PHOTOTHERMAL SIGNALS FOR THE
ENVIRONMENTS WITH THERMAL MEMORY ".
For
the best MSc thesis done between two Conferences
(YUCOMAT 2003 and YUCOMAT 2004), considering
scientific contribution, quality of generated
publications from the thesis and potential
application of obtained results, was declared
the thesis by Sinisa Vucenovic , defended at
the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade
in December of 2003, named " DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES
OF MOLECULAR NANOCRYSTALLINE STRUCTURES ".
For
the best oral presentation of the Conference
YUCOMAT 2004, considering scientific contribution,
quality of the presentation and general impression
of the author, was declared the presentation
O.S.C.8 by Jelena Ristic , E. Calleja, S. Fernández-Garrido,
A. Trampert, K.H. Ploog, M. Povoloskyi, A.
Di Carlo, named "GaN/AlGaN Nanocavities with
AlN/GaN Bragg Reflectors Grown in AlGaN Nanocolumns
by Plasma-assisted MBE" . Commended papers
were O.S.A.2 by Z eljko P. Cancarevic , J.Ch.
Schön, D. Fischer, M. Jansen , named « Theoretical
and Experimental Exploration of the Energy
Landscape of LiI", and the paper O.S.C.7 by
Snezana Lazic , M. Moreno, J.M. Calleja, F.
Naranjo, E. Calleja , named "RESONANT RAMAN
SCATTERING IN STRAINED AND RELAXED InGaN/GaN
MULTIPLE QUANTUM WELLS ".
For
the best poster presentation of the Conference
YUCOMAT 2004, considering scientific contribution,
look, graphic design and quality of presentation,
was declared poster P.S.B.14 by D. Popovic,
N. Romcevic, Slavica Spasovic , J. Dojcilovic,
named "DIELECTRIC, SPECTRAL AND RAMAN SCATTERING
STUDIES OF Nd-DOPED SrTiO
3 SINGLE CRYSTAL". Commended posters
were P.S.E.11 by Sanja Trajkovic , S. Dobric,
A. Djordjevic, V. Dragojevic-Simic, named "RADIOPROTECTIVE
EFFICIENCY OF FULLERENOL IN IRRADIATED MICE",
poster P.S.B.13 by Vesna Sipka , O. Neskovic,
M. Veljkovic, S. Velickovic , named "CARBON
NANOTUBES AS ASSISTED MATRIX FOR FULLERENES ",
and poster P.S.B.21 by Igor Kovacevic , B.
Sarler , named " A COMPARISON BETWEEN PHASE-FIELD
AND MOVING MESH MODEL FOR SOLVING SOLID-SOLID
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN BINARY ALUMINIUM ALLOYS ".
Conference
2004 (Yucomat 2004):
Current Research
in Advanced
Materials and Processes
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