Programme

Scientific programme of C-MAC Days 2013 (List of Participants)

10th December:

8:50 – 9:00     Opening

                           Chair: J. Dolinšek

            9:00 – 9:40      Jean-Marie Dubois

                                   Beyond the Julia treshold in Al-based intermetallics

            9:40 – 10:00    M. Heidelmann, M. Feuerbacher

                                   Grain boundaries and interface congruency in high entropy alloys

10:00 – 10:20  P. Boulet, M.C. de Weerd, J.M. Dubois

Approximant crystal structure in the (Ce, Nd, Sm, Gd)-Au-Sn systems

10:20 – 10:40 P. Priputen, M. Drienovský, M. Kusý, I. Černičková, D. Janičkovič, J. Janovec

                       Contribution to Al-Co phase diagram with respect to structurally complex phases

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break

                           Chair: P. Gille

11:10 – 11:50  S. Förster, K. Meinel, M. Trautmann, R. Hammer, W. Widdra

                        A two-dimensional quasicrystal from perovskite oxides

11:50 – 12:10  Peter Jeglič, Denis Arčon, Andrej Zorko, Jingtao Xu, Jun Tang, Yoichi Tanabe, Satoshi Heguri, Katsumi Tanigaki

                        Rattler site selectivity and covalency effects in type-I clathrates

12:10 – 12:30 U. Burkhardt, H.D. Nguyes, M. Baitinger, J. Grin

                        Constitutional investigations of the clathrate phases in the Ba-Ir-Ge System

12:30 – 12:50  M. Bobnar, I. Antonyshyn, M. Wedel, H.D. Nguyes, U. Burkhardt, Yu. Prots, B. Böhme, L. Muzica, R. Cardoso, W. Schnelle, I. Veremchuk, M. Baitinger, Yu. Grin

NMR investigations of the aluminium substituted barium clathrate Ba8Si46

12:50 – 14:30 Lunch break

                           Chair: S. Kobe

14:30 – 15:00 Paul J. McGuiness

Magnetocaloric materials (tentative title)

15:00 – 15:20  A. Waske, M. Krautz, J. Hosko, K. Skokov, P. Svec, M. Stoica, L. Schultz, O. Gutfleisch, J. Eckert

                        Melt-spun magnetocaloric bilayers

15:20 – 15:40  B. Podmiljšak, P.J. McGuiness, K. Skokov, O. Gutfleisch, S. Kobe

                        Direct adiabatic temperature change measurements in a series of modified Gd5Si2Ge2 alloys

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break

                           Chair: J. Wolny

16:10 – 16:40 Hae Jin Kim

Hydrogen storage in Zr based quasicrystal and nanostructured materials

16:40 – 17:00 Anton Gradišek, Changsoo Kim, Hae Jin Kim, Sang Moon Lee, Sanggap Lee, Andraž Kocjan, Tomaž Apih, Zvonko Jagličić

                        Ti-Hf-Ni and Ti-Zr-Ni as hydrogen storage materials

17:00 – 17:20  Partha P. Jana, Sven Lidin

δ’’-, η-phases in the gold-cadmium binary system: synthesis, crystal structure determination

17:20 – 17:40  D. Liu, T. Yamada, M. Mihalkovič, M. de Boissieu

Tetrahedron ordering in the Cd6Tb and Zn6Sc 1/1 quasicrystalline approximants: Experiment and Simulation

17:40 – 18:00  M. Mihalkovič

Pseudo-Mackay clusters in CMA, realistic simulations close to the melting point

18:00 – 19:30 dinner

19:30 – 21:00 poster session

11th December:

                           Chair: M.-G. Barthes-Labrousse

            9:00 – 9:40      Julia Dshemuchadse, Walter Steurer

                                   Geometry and chemistry: how we look at intermetallic structures

9:40 – 10:00   P. Donnadieu, S. Benrhaiem, C. Tassin, J.J. Blandin

Deformation of in situ Mg-γMg17Al12 composites: recent results and prospects

10:00 – 10:20  S. Vrtnik, S. Jazbec, M. Jagodič, Z. Jagličić, P. Jeglič, M. Feuerbacher, U. Mizutani, J. Dolinšek

                        Stabilization mechanism of γ-Mg17Al12 and β-Mg2Al3 CMAs

10:20 – 10:40  Magdalena Wencka

Physical properties of InPd intermetallic catalyst

10:40 – 11:10 Coffee break

                           Chair: Yu. Grin

11:10 – 11:50  M. Armbrüster, Y. Luo, R. Leary, J.M. Thomas, P.A. Midgley

                        High-performance catalytic materials based on intermetallic compounds

11:50 – 12:10  D. Kandaskalov, J. Ledieu, V. Fournée, É. Gaudry

Surface reactivity of Al13Co4 (100), a catalyst for the semi-hydrogenation of acetylene

12:10 – 12:30 Judith Schwerin, Dirk Müller, Peter Gille

Single crystal growth and characterization of the intermetallic compound GaPd2

12:30 – 12:50  D.C.A. Ivarsson, M. Neumann, M. Armbrüster

                        In situ GIXRD experiments and some first results for ZnPd

12:50 – 14:30 Lunch break

                           Chair: R. McGrath

14:30 – 15:00 M. Krajči, J. Hafner

Surfaces of intermetallic Ga-Pd compounds as selective hydrogenation catalysts: a DFT study

15:00 – 15:20  Andreja Jelen, Vili Bukošek, Janez Dolinšek

Dynamic mechanical properties of nanocomposites with metallic nanoparticles and an organic metal

15:20 – 15:40  Nikša Krstulović, Marijan Bišćan, Zlatko Kregar, Domagoj Kos, Slobodan Milošević

                        Laser produced plasmas for nanomaterial synthesis

15:40 – 16:10 Coffee break

                           Chair: J. Ledieu

16:10 – 16:40 V. Fournée, É. Gaudry, J. Ledieu, M.C. de Weerd, D.M. Wu, T. Lograsso

Molecular films with long-range quasiperiodic structures

16:40 – 17:00 Joe Smerdon, Kirsty Young, Micharl Lowe, Sanger Hars, Thakur Yadav, David Hesp, Vinod Dhanak, An-Pang Tsai, Hem Raj Sharma, Ronan McGrath

Templated quasicrystalline molecular layers

17:00 – 17:20P. Tomeš, D. Nguyen, L. Nguyen, C. Candolfi, M. Baitinger, M. Ikeda,  A. Sidorenko, Y. Grin, S. Paschen

                        Physical properties of the clathrate - I phase Ba8IrxGe43 (x < 0.4)

17:20 – 17:40  L. Ďuriška, R. Čička, I. Černičková, M. Drienovský, D. Janičkovič, J. Janovec

                        Contribution to thermodynamic description of ε-family phases in Al-Pd system

17:40 – 18:00  Valentina Giordano, M. de Boissieu

                        Phonons and thermoelectricity (tentative title)

18:00              M. de Boissieu

                        Concluding remarks

 

19:30     Gala dinner

 

12th December:

9:30 – 12:30   Governing Board and General Assembly meeting

 

Posters:

1.) Radoslaw Strzałka, Janusz Wolny

Structural model for icosahedral quasicrystals based on statistical approach

2.) J. Wolny, B. Kozakowski, P. Kuczera, R. Strzałka

Periodicity and scaling in diffraction patterns of selected aperiodic structures

3.) M. Chodyń, P. Kuczera, J. Wolny

Average unit cell for the Generalized Penrose Tiling

4.) I. Bugański, R. Strzałka, J. Wolny

The structure factor for arbitrary decorated Ammann tiling in the Average Unit Cell approach

5.) M. Adamech, L. Ďuriška, I. Černičková, V. Kolesár, M. Drienovský, J. Janovec

Investigation of complex metallic alloys in Al-Pd-Cr system

6.) L. Ďuriška, R. Čička, I. Černičková, D. Janičkovič, J. Janovec

Experimental characterization of ε-family phases in Al-Pd system

7.) R. Berthold, U. Burkhardt, G. Kreiner

On the phase equilibrium of the ternary Al-Mg-Zn phases

8.) Elizaveta Evteeva, Céline Grimm-Allio, Stephan Pohl, Carola Dietrich, Franz Ritter, Wolf Assmus, M. Baitinger, Yuri Grin, Cornelius Krellner

Crystal growth and orientation of type-I clathrate single crystals

9.) Michael Hahne, Peter Gille

Single crystal growth and characterization of InPd

10.) G. McGuirk, V. Fournée, É. Gaudry, J. Ledieu

Towards the formation of a PdIn phase using surface alloying

11.) S. Thorn, S. Hars, T.P. Yadav, R. Tamura, P.J. Nugent, C. Cui, K. Nozawa, J. Smerdon, M. Shimoda, A.P. Tsai, Y. Ishii, R. McGrath, H.R. Sharma

Surface structure of quasicrystals and related approximants

12.) H.R. Sharma, J.A. Smerdon, P.J. Nugent, K. Young, S.S. Hars, M. Lowe, R. McGrath

Quasicrystalline thin films of single elements and molecules

13.) M. Meier, É. Gaudry, J. Ledieu, M.-C. De Weerd, R.D. Diehl, V. Fournée

Structural Investigation of the (001) Surface of the Al5Co2 Complex Metallic Alloy

14.) M. Sorić, J. Ivkov, Ž. Bihar, M. Hahne, P. Popčević

Transport properties of intermetallic compound PdIn

15.) Petar Popčević, Kristijan Velebit, Shiro Kashimoto, Janez Dolinšek, Ana Smontara

Quantum critical behavior in transport properties of i-AuAlYb

16.) Petar Popčević, Peter Gille, Ana Smontara

Electronic transport in high quality d-AlCoNi quasiperiodic crystals

17.) Pierre-François Lory, Marc de Boissieu, Peter Gille, Mark Johnson, Marek Mihalkovič, Helmut Schober

Lattice dynamics and macroscopic properties in the complex metallic alloys

18.) P. Koželj, S. Jazbec, S. Vrtnik, A. Jelen, M. Jagodič, Z. Jagličić, P. Boulet, M.C. de Weerd, V. Fournée, J.M. Dubois, J. Dolinšek

Magnetism of Gd3Au13Sn4 quasicrystalline approximant – an experimental study of geometric frustration of spins arranged on icosahedral clusters

19.) Janez Lužnik, Jože Luzar, Anton Gradišek, Dorthe B. Ravnsbæk, Stanislav Vrtnik, Andraž Kocjan, Tomaž Apih, Torben R. Jensen, Janez Dolinšek

NMR study of molecular dynamics in complex metal borohydride LiZn2(BH4)5

20.) J. Ivkov, N. Radić, K. Salamon

Al-Mo thin films prepared by magnetron sputtering