Denmark: Ph.D. Course on Transport Properties in Glasses and Mesoporous Materials

Prof. Yuanzheng Yue is holding a Ph.D. Course on Transport Properties in Glasses and Mesoporous Materials from 25-27 June at Aalborg University, Denmark. The course is registration-fee free. The reception dinner and three lunches will be provided.

Prof. Yuanzheng Yue of the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering at Aalborg University, Denmark, is organizing a PhD course from 25-27 June. The course deals with “Transport properties in Glass and Amorphous Membrane”.
The lectures will be given by distinguished scientists such as Prof. Austen Angell and Prof. Neville Greaves. The course is registration-fee free. The reception dinner and three lunches will be provided.
Participants – limited to a total of 25 – can register on the website: http://phdcourse.aau.dk/index.php?list=29583.
The course will take place at the Department of Biotechnology, Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Aalborg University, Room D205, D104, Sohngaardsholmsvej 57, DK-9000 Aalborg, Denmark.
Over three days, topics discussed will include: The Structure and Dynamics of the Vitreous State, presented by Neville Greaves; Gas Transport through Silica Membranes, with Vittorio Boffa as speaker; Mechanical properties of glasses – Neville Greaves; Cationic Diffusion in Oxide Glasses, presented by Morten Mattrup Smedskjaer and Yuanzheng Yue; Thermodyanics and Dynamic Aspects of Viscous Liquids and the Glass Transition, with Austen Angell as speaker; Dynamics of Ion Motion in the Glassy State – Austen Angell.
There will also be a series of seminars, lab tours and exercises.
Reading materials are as follows:
For the lectures of Austen Angell:

1. C. A. Angell, “Formation of glasses from liquids and biopolymers”, Science 267 (1995) 1924-1935.
2. C. A. Angell, “Fragile glass formers: Evidence for a new paradigm and a new relation to strong liquids”, Chapter 7 in: Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids: Theory, Experiment, and Applications, by Peter G. Wolynes,Vassiliy Lubchenko, Wiley-VCH,  (2012) 237-278.
3. C. A. Angell, “Dynamic processes in ionic glasses”, Chem. Rev. 90 (1990) 523-542.
4. C. A. Angell, “Mobile ions in amorphous solids”, Annu. Rev. Phys. Chem. 43 (1992) 693-717.

For the lectures of Neville Greaves:

1. G. N. Greaves and S. Sen, “Inorganic Glasses, Glass-Forming Liquids and Amorphising Solids” Adv. in Phys. 56 (2007) 1-166.
2. G. N. Greaves, A. L. Greer, R. Lakes and T. Rouxel,”Poisson’s Ratio and Modern Materials” Nature Mater. 10 (2011) 823-837.

For the lecture of Vittorio Boffa:

1. S. T. Oyama, M. Yamada, Y. Sugawara. A. Takagaki, and R. Kikuchi, “Review on mechanisms of gas permeation through inorganic membranes”, J. Japan Petro. Inst. 54 (2011) 298-309.
2. V. Boffa, “Fabrication of ultramicroporous silica membranes for pervaporation and gas-separation”, in Molecules at Work (B. Pignataro ed.) Wiley-VCH, (2012) 177-205.

For the lecture of Morten Mattrup Smedskjaer:

1. M. M. Smedskjaer, J. Deubener and Y. Z. Yue: “Inward cationic diffusion and formation of silica-rich surface nanolayer of glass”, Chem. Mater. 21 (2009) 1242-1247.
2. M. M. Smedskjaer and Y. Z. Yue: “Inward and Outward Diffusion of Modifying Ions and its Impact on the Properties of Glasses and Glass-Ceramics”, Inter. J. Appl. Glass Sci. 2 (2011) 117-128.