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YCN Newsletter 17 - Research in Spot - Physics-based modeling of glass structural fluctuations by Katelyn A. Kirchner
Research in Spot – 3rd YCN Workshop edition - 1st place of the Best oral presentation
"Physics-based modeling of glass structural fluctuations" by Katelyn A. Kirchner
Atomic structure dictates the performance of all material systems; characteristic of disordered materials is the significance of spatial and temporal fluctuations (derivations of the atomic structure in space and time) on structure-property-performance relationships. Glass’s nonequilibrium, noncrystalline, and nonergodic nature induces localized distributions in physical properties that are conventionally defined by average values; however, in practice, glasses with similar average property values can behave vastly differently.
Our work develops physics-based models to quantify spatial and temporal fluctuations in two- and three-dimensional oxide glasses. Rigorous investigations of fluctuations enable researchers to improve fundamental understanding of the chemistry and physics governing glass-forming systems and optimize structure-property-performance relationships for next-generation technological applications of glass, including damage-resistant electronic displays, safer pharmaceutical vials to store and transport vaccines, and lower-attenuation fiber optics. Processing parameters such as composition, temperature, pressure impact fluctuation formation. Ongoing work is investigating thin film glasses and the potential to manipulate fluctuations formation with changing dimensionality.
We invite you to join us in exploring what can be discovered by going beyond the average understanding of glass-forming systems.
Katelyn A. Kirchner
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
The Pennsylvania State University, USA
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ACerS is offering travelling grants of 1.500 $ to attend the two 2024 ECerS Summer Schools
The grants can be allowed to undergraduate, graduate, and Ph.D. students from non-European based universities. The 2024 ECerS Summer Schools will be held prior to Electroceramics XIX (Vilnius, Lithuania - School: 17-18 August 2024) and Shaping 9 (Warsaw, Poland - School: 24-25 September 2024)!
2024 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2024 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a third call, this time to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2024 Fall meeting of Korean Ceramic Society (COEX) that will be organised by the Korean Ceramic Society in Seoul, Korea, from 16th to 18th October 2024.
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