NCM12 - 12th International Conference on the Structure of Non Crystalline Materials

Following the last edition held in Paris, the 12^th International Conference on the Structure of Non-Crystalline Materials (NCM12) will be held in July 7^th through July 12^th, 2013, in Riva del Garda (Trento) Italy.

Scope

The NCM Conference is devoted since the first meeting to investigations on the structure and dynamics of materials where the long-range order typical of crystals is absent, or modified on different length scales. Main subjects of the Conference will include, but are not limited, to the following:

Topics

- Structural modeling of glasses and melts; theoretical aspects
- Short- and medium-range order in glasses and melts (spectroscopy, diffraction, new experimental structural approaches)
- Nucleation and crystallization processes
- Nano-crystalline materials
- Sol-gels and heterogeneous systems
- Nanostructural and microstructural features
- Structural properties of glass surfaces
- Structural evolution under forcing conditions: high pressure, irradiation, photo-structural changes, polyamorphism and reversibility windows; glass to melt transformations
- Relationships between structure and properties: physico-chemical properties (nuclear waste glasses, fast ion conducting glasses, glasses for photonics, specialty materials...)
- Dynamical properties
- Relaxation phenomena

Materials

- Oxide (silica/silicate, borate, phosphate,...), chalcogenide, oxynitride glasses and melts;
- Metallic glasses
- Geological glasses, polymer glasses , bioglasses
- New glass-forming systems
- Amorphous systems, quasycristals, …
- Nano structures in glasses and crystals

Experimental and numerical methods

- Scattering methods (x-ray, neutron)
- Solid-state spectroscopic methods (x-ray absorption spectroscopy, NMR, vibrational spectroscopy methods, ion scattering spectroscopy ...)
- Experiments at extreme conditions (new possibilites using Large Scale Facilities)
- Influence of materials preparation (thermal history, crystal amorphization, etc )
- Microscopy (electron, near-field, surface investigations, ...)
- Numerical modeling including structural modeling, atomistic modeling, and ab initio approches.