Sunday, September 2 (Morning) - COST 539, ELENA

9.30 - 9.45

COST-O-01

Understanding Electroceramics At The Microscopic Scale To The Nanoscale
Robert Freer¹, Feridoon Azough¹, Colin Leach¹, Robert Cernik¹, Margaret Wegrzyn¹, Zhe Zhang¹, Tekeshi Shimada²

¹Materials Science Centre, School of Materials, University of Manchester, Grosvenor Street, Manchester M1 7HS, UK

²R & D Center, Neomax Ltd, 2-15-17 Egawa, Shimamoto-cho, Mishimagun, Osaka 618-0013, Japan

9.45 - 10.00

COST-O-02

Dielectric spectroscopy of nanograin NaNbO₃
J. Banys¹, R. Grigalaitis¹, Y. Shiratori², C. Pithan³

¹Laboratory of Phase Transitions Dielectric Spectroscopy, Faculty of Physics, Vilnius University, 9 Sauletekio str., 10222 Vilnius, Lithuania

²Department of Chemical System Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo,
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan

³Institut für Elektronische Materialien, Institut für Festkörperforschung, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52428 Jülich, Germany

10.00 – 10.15

COST-O-03

Production Of Complex Proton Conducting Oxide Powders
By Spray Pyrolysis
Kjell Wiik, Tommy Mokkelbost, Trine Øyås, Mari-Ann Einarsrud, Tor Grande Rune T. Barland

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), 7491 Trondheim, Norway

10.15 – 10.30

COST-O-04

Hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanorods: a statistical determination of the significant parameters in reducing
the diameter
K. Elen^1,2, M. K. Van Bael^1,3, R. Peeters², H. Van den Rul^1,3,
A. Hardy^1,2, D. Franco², J. D’Haen⁴, J. Mullens¹

¹Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research, Laboratory of Inorganic & Physical Chemistry, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

²XIOS Hogeschool Limburg, Agoralaan Building H, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

³IMECvzw division IMOMEC, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

⁴Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research, Materials Physics Group, Agoralaan Building D, B-3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

10.30 - 10.45

COST-O-05

Influence of Dopants Precursors on Phase Formation and Microstructure of La(Sr)Ga(Mg)O₃ Solid Electrolites
Victor Fruth¹, Marija Zaharescu¹, Cristian Andronescu¹,
J. Moreno², M. Popa² and Vladimir V. Srdic³

¹Institute of Physical Chemistry “Ilie Murgulescu” of the Romanian Academy, 202 Splaiul Independentei, Bucharest, Romania, 060021

²Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

³University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia

10.45 – 11.15

COFFEE BREAK

COST-I-02   INVITED

Soft chemical deposition of BiFeO₃ multiferroic thin films grown on Pt electrodes
A. Z. Simões*, A. H. M. Gonzalez, C.S. Riccardi,
L.S. Cavalcante, E. Longo, J.A.Varela

Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Cerâmica, Departamento de Físico-Química, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, R. Francisco Degni, s/n, Bairro Quitandinha, Araraquara - SP, Brazil.

COST-I-03   INVITED

Crystallisation studies of PZT sol gel thin films on Pt/Ti/SiO₂/Si substrates
Ian M. Reaney

Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield, Mappin St., Sheffield S1 3JD

COST-O-06

The Influence Of The Ba²⁺ Concentration On The Aqueous Synthesis Of BaTiO₃ 1d Nanostructures

Paula M. Vilarinho, Florentina Maxim, Paula Ferreira

Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, CICECO,University of Aveiro, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal

COST-O-07

Dynamic functionality of thin-film perovskite paraelectrics
M. Tyunina, J. Levoska, I. Jaakola, M. Plekh

Microelectronics and Materials Physics Laboratories, University of Oulu, PL 4500, FI-90014 Oulun Yliopisto, Finland

COST-O-08

Ferroelectricity Induced By Confinement Conditions In The Incipient Ferroelectric Nanorods
M. Glinchuk¹*, A. Morozovska² and E. Eliseev¹

¹Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NASc of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo 3, 03680, Kiev-142, Ukraine,
*E-mail address: glin@materials.kiev.ua

²Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NASc of Ukraine

Sunday, September 2 (Afternoon) - COST 539, ELENA

14.30– 15.00

COST- I-04   INVITED

Perovskite-like oxides: sintering of pure and core-shell tailored nanosized powders to dense nanocrystalline ceramics
Maria Teresa Buscaglia¹, Vincenzo Buscaglia¹,
Massimo Viviani¹, Liliana Mitoşeriu², Paolo Nanni³

¹Institute of Energetics and Interphases, Italian National Research Council (IENI-CNR), Via De Marini 6, I-16149 Genoa, Italy

²Department of Solid State and Theoretical Physics, Al. I. Cuza University, Bd. Carol I, 11,
Iaşi 700506, Romania

³Department of Process and Chemical Engineering “G.B.Bonino” (DICheP), University of Genoa, P.le Kennedy 1, I-16129 Genoa, Italy

15.00 – 15.15

COST-O-09

Study of the grain size influence on the properties of
Ba(Zr,Ti)O₃ ceramics
C.E. Ciomaga¹, L. Mitoseriu¹, M.T. Buscaglia², M. Viviani²,
V. Buscaglia², A. Ianculescu³, C. Galassi⁴ , P. Nanni²,⁵

¹Department of Solid State and Theoretical Physics, Al. I. Cuza Univ., Bv. Carol I no. 11, Iasi 700506, ROMANIA, E-mail: lmtsr@uaic.ro

²Institute for Energetics & Interphases - CNR, Via de Marini no. 6, Genoa I-16149, ITALY

³Polytechnics University of Bucharest, 1-7 Gh. Polizu, P.O. Box 12-134, 011061 Bucharest, ROMANIA

⁴Institute of Science and Technology of Ceramics-CNR, Via Granarolo no. 64, I-48018, Faenza, ITALY

⁵Dept. of Chemical & Process Engineering, University of Genoa, P-le Kennedy no. 1, I-16129, ITALY

15.15 – 15.30

COST-O-10

Shear coefficients from a non-standard sample of (Bi_1/2Na_1/2)_0.94Ba_0.06TiO₃ ceramics prepared by hot-pressing

Lorena Pardo^1*, Elisa Mercadelli², Klaus Brebøl³,
Alvaro García¹, Carmen Galassi²

¹Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ICMM-CSIC). Cantoblanco. 28049- Madrid (Spain)

²National Research Council Institute of Science and Technology for Ceramics (ISTEC-CNR) via Granarolo 64. I-48018 Faenza (Italy)

³Limiel ApS. Langebæk. (Denmark)

15.30 – 15.45

COST-O-11

Phase formations during mechanochemical synthesis of ferroelectric perovskites
Izabela Szafraniak^1,2, Bozena Hilczer², Adam Pietraszko³,
Ewa Talik⁴

¹Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Poznań University of Technology,
M. Skłodowska-Curie Sq. 5, 60-965 Poznań, Poland

²Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, M. Smoluchowskiego 17, 60-179 Poznań, Poland

³Institute of Physics, Silesian University, Uniwersytecka 4, 40-007 Katowice, Poland

⁴Institute of Low Temperature and Structure Research, Polish Academy of Sciences,
Okólna 2, 50-422 Wrocław, Poland

COST-O-12

The Influence of sintering schedule on microstructure of SrTiO₃ ceramics
Karel Maca

Department of Ceramics, Brno University of Technology, Technická 2, 616 69 Brno, Czech Republic

COST-O-13

Mechanochemical synthesis of lead based perovskites
Holc Janez, Kuščer Danjela, Drnovšek Silvo, Kosec Marija

Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

COST-O-14

Broadband Dielectric Response (10²-10¹⁴ Hz) of PMN-35%PT Fine and Coarse Grain Ceramics
V. Bovtun^1*, S. Veljko¹, D. Nuzhnyy¹, M. Savinov¹, P. Vanek¹,
S. Kamba¹, J. Petzelt¹, J. Holc², M. Kosec², H. Amorín³ and
M. Alguero³

¹Institute of Physics ASCR, v.v.i., Na Slovance 2, 18221 Prague, Czech Republic

²Institute Jozef Stefan, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

³Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain

16.30-16.45

COFFEE BREAK

COST-P-01   

Stretching the limits of the aqueous solution-gel synthesis for electroceramic metal oxides
An Hardy^1,2, Sven Van Elshocht³, Marlies Van Bael^1,4, Heidi Van den Rul^1,4,
Jan D’Haen^4,5, Olivier Douhéret⁴, O. Richard³, A. Franquet³, T. Conard³,
C. Adelmann³, Stefan De Gendt^3,6, Matty Caymax³, Marc D’Olieslaeger^4,5,
Marc Heyns³, Jules Mullens¹

¹Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research, Inorganic and Physical Chemistry Group, Diepenbeek, Belgium

²XIOS Hogeschool Limburg, Department IWT, Diepenbeek, Belgium

³IMEC vzw, Heverlee, Belgium

⁴IMEC vzw, Division IMOMEC, Diepenbeek, Belgium

⁵Hasselt University, Institute for Materials Research, Materials Physics, Diepenbeek, Belgium

⁶Catholic University of Leuven, Department of Chemistry, Heverlee, Belgium

COST-P-02   

The mechanochemical synthesis of NaNbO₃ at different ball-impact energies
Tadej Rojac, Marija Kosec, Barbara Malič, Janez Holc

Jožef Stefan Institute, Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

COST-P-03   

LiFePO₄ (Triphylite) for Li-ion-batteries obtained by aerosol route
Ana Dávila¹, Luz Stella Gómez V.¹, Maria Eugenia Rabanal¹, Isabel Martin¹,
Jose Manuel Torralba¹, Olivera Milosevic²

¹Materials Science Department -Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, avenida de la Universidad 30, C.P. 2911, Leganés Madrid-Spain

²Institute of Technical Sciences of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, K.Mihajlova 35/IV, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

COST-P-04   

Mechanochemical syntheses and structure study Of Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂ powders
Zorica Ž. Lazarević^1*, Biljana D. Stojanović², Carlos O. Paiva-Santos³
and Nebojša Ž. Romčević¹

¹Institute of Physics, Pregrevica 118, 11080 Zemun, Serbia
*E-mail address: lzorica@yahoo.com

²Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade, Kneza Viseslava 1a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

³Instituto de Quimica-UNESP, Araraquara, S. P., Brasil

COST-P-05   

Synthesis of Sr- and Mg-Doped LaGaO₃ using Pechini method
Cristian Andronescu¹, Victor Fruth¹, Maria Zaharescu¹, Nikolina Pavlovic², Ivan Stijepovic² and Vladimir V. Srdic²

¹Institute of Physical Chemistry, "Ilie Murgulescu", Bucharest, Romania

²Dept. Materials Engineering, Faculty of Technology, University of Novi Sad, Serbia

COST-P-06   

Na_0.76Fe_0.79Ti_1.21O₄– the new CaFe₂O₄ structure type compound obtained from natural ilmenite sand under hydrothermal conditions
Lidija Mančić¹, Bojan Marinković², Paula Jardim², Fernanado Rizzo²,
Olivera Milošević¹

¹Institute of Technical Sciences of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Knez Mihailova 35/IV 11000, Belgrade, Serbia

²Departamento de Ciencia dos Materiais e Metalurgia, Pontifıcia Universidade Catolica, Rua Marques de Sao Vicente 225, 22453-900 Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

COST-P-07   

Sol-Gel Synthesis and Structure of La₂O₃– CoO – SiO₂ Powders
Bisserka Samuneva¹, Liliana Pavlova¹, Lachezar Radev¹, Elena Kashchieva¹,
Irena Mihailova¹, Maria Zaharescu², Barbara Malic³, Luminita Predoana²

¹University of Chemical Technology and Metallurgy, Sofia, Bulgaria

²Institute of Physical Chemistry “I.G.Murgulescu”,
Romania Academy, Bucharest, Romania

³Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia

COST-P-08   

Processing and characterization of nanostructured 0.92Pb(Zn_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃- 0.08PbTiO₃ ceramics
Teresa Hungria^1,2, Miguel Alguero¹, Harvey Amorin¹, Jesus Ricote¹, Jean Galy², Alicia Castro¹

¹ Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM, CSIC), 28049 Cantoblanco Madrid (Spain)

²Centre d'Elaboration de Matériaux et d'Etudes Structurales (CEMES, CNRS), 29, rue Jeanne Marvig, BP 94347,31055 Toulouse (France)

COST-P-09  

Processing and Characterization of Carbon Nanotube/Zirconia Nanocomposite
Annamaria Duszova¹, Jan Dusza², Gurdial Blugan³, Jakob Kuebler³ and
Vladimir Koval²

¹Technical University of Košice, Faculty of Metallurgy, Letná 9,
042 00 Košice, Slovak Republic

²Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Watsonova 47, 04353 Košice, Slovak Republic

³Empa, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research, Laboratory for High Performance Ceramics, 8600 Duebendorf, Switzerland

COST-P-10

Preparation and characterisation of Si₃N₄ from mesoporous SiO₂
Andrei Sarbu¹, Victor Fruth², Luminita Mara³, Stefania Motoc⁴, Sorina Garea⁵, Florica Papa², Cristina Nistor¹, Cristian Andronescu², Liliana Sarbu¹

¹INCDCP ICECHIM, Bucharest 060021, Romania

²Institute of Physical Chemistry, Romanian Academy, Bucharest 060021, Romania

³INCDIMNR IMNR, Com. Pantelimon, jud. Ilfov, Romania

⁴ICEM SA, Bucharest 060543, Romania

⁵University Politehnica Bucharest 060042, Romania

COST-P-11   

Systematic study of thickness increase of CSD derived Pb(Zr,Ti)O₃ films
S. Corkovic , Q. Zhang

Department of Materials, Cranfield University, Beds, MK43 0AL, UK

COST-P-12 

Sintering and electrical behaviors of Bi_3.5La_0.5Ti₃O₁₂ and Bi_3.5Ce_0.5Ti₃O₁₂ ceramics
Nikolina Pavlovic¹, Ruzica Djenadic¹, Jan Dusza², Vladimir Koval²,
Ljubica Nikolic¹, Vladimir V.Srdic¹

¹Department of Materials Engineering, Faculty of Technology, Novi Sad, Serbia

²Institute of Materials Research, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Kosice, Slovakia

COST-P-13   

Effect of Lanthanum on microstructure of BaTiO₃ prepared by polymeric precursors method
M.M. Vijatović¹, J.D. Bobić¹, M. Cilense³, Lj. Živković², B.D. Stojanović¹

¹Center for Multidisciplinary Studies University of Belgrade, Kneza Višeslava 1a, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

²Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia

³Instituto de Quimica-UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil

COST-P-14   

Mesoporous BaTiO₃ with single-crystalline framework
Ru Zhong Hou, Paula Ferreira, Paula M. Vilarinho

Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, CICECO, University of Aveiro, 3810-193 AVEIRO, PORTUGAL

COST-P-15   

Microstructure development of Bi₄Ti₃O₁₂ and BaBi₄Ti₄O₁₅ ceramics prepared by mechanochemical synthesis
J.D. Bobić¹, Lj.Z. Živković³, M. Cilense², M.M. Vijatović¹, B.D. Stojanović¹

¹Center for Multidisciplinary Studies of the Belgrade University, Serbia, *E-mail address: bobic_jelena@neobee.net

²Instituto de Quimica-UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil

³Faculty of Electronic Engineering, University of Niš, 18000 Niš, Serbia

COST-P-16   

Structural and morphological properties of nanostructured Y₂O₃:Eu³⁺ phosphor particles prepared through aerosol synthesis
K. Marinkovic¹, M.E.Rabanal², L. S. Gomez², I. Martin², O. Milosevic¹

¹Institute of Technical Sciences of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, K.Mihajlova 35/IV, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

²Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avda. de la Universidad 30, 28911 Leganes, Madrid, Spain

COST-P-17 

Structural and Electrical Properties of Zinc Chromate Spinel
Obtained from Mechanically Activated ZnO-Cr₂O₃ Mixtures
Z. Marinković Stanojević, G. Branković, B. Stojanović

Center for Multidisciplinary Studies, University of Belgrade, Kneza Višeslava 1a, 11030 Belgrade, Serbia

COST-P-18   

Dielectric characterization of ferroelectric nano-particles
R. Jiménez¹, J. Ricote¹, J. Holc², M. Kosec² , M. Algueró¹

¹Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid Spain

²Institute Jozef Stefan. Jamova 39, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia

COST-P-19   

Appearance of Ferroelectricity in Thin Incipient Ferroelectric Films
Eugene A. Eliseev¹, Maya D.Glinchuk¹, and Anna N.Morozovska²

¹Institute for Problems of Materials Science, NAS of Ukraine, Krjijanovskogo 3, 03142 Kiev, Ukraine, eliseev@i.com.ua, glin@materials.kiev.ua

²V. Lashkarev Institute of Semiconductor Physics, NAS of Ukraine, 41, pr. Nauki, 03028 Kiev, Ukraine

COST-P-20

Ferroelectric characteristics of BiFeO₃ thin films prepared via a simple chemical solution deposition
A.H.M. Gonzalez ¹, A.Z. Simões ¹, L.S. Cavalcante ²,¤ C.S. Riccardi ³,
E. Longo ⁴, and J.A. Varela ⁴

¹Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, Av. Luiz Edmundo Carrijo Coube, 14-01, Vargem Limpa, 17033-360, Bauru-SP, Brazil

²Laboratório Interdisciplinar de Eletroquímica e Cerâmica, Departamento de Química, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, P.O. Box 676, 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil

³School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, 770 State Street, Boggs Bldg., Atlanta, GA 30332-0400, U.S.A.

⁴Laboratório Interdisciplinar em Cerâmica, Departamento de Físico-Química, Instituto de Química, Universidade Estadual Paulista, P.O. Box 355, 14801-907, Araraquara, SP, Brazil.

COST-P-21

Processing and Application of Nano-structured Materials
in Commercial Manufacturing
H. Zoz^1,2, H. Ren1, H. U. Benz¹, S. Diaz de la Torre² and David Jaramillo V.²

¹Zoz GmbH, D-57482 Wenden, Germany

²CIITEC-IPN, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico City, C.P. 02250 México, D.F.

18.00– 18.30

GENERAL DISCUSION