Perovskites – Properties and Potential Applications

will take place, within the XVIII International Materials Research Congress, organised by the Sociedad Mexicana de Ciencia de Materiales with the collaborative support of the MRS-USA

Date:16-21 August 2009

Venue: Hotel Marriott Casamagna, CANCÚN, Q.R. México (*)

Chairpersons:

• M.Á. Alario-Franco, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain
• Anke Weidenkaff, Empa, Switzerland
• Mas Subramanian, Oregon State University, USA
• Antoine Maignan, CRISMAT, CNRS/ENSICAEN, France

International Advisory Committee:

• Alexandra Navrotsky, University of California, USA
• Ken Poeppelmeier, Northwestern University, USA
• Ichiro Terasaki, Waseda University, Japan
• Armin Reller, University of Augsburg, Germany
• Stefan Ebbinghaus, University of Halle, Germany
• Martin Jansen, MPI Stuttgart, Germany
• Matt J. Rosseinsky, University of Liverpool, UK
• Thom Palstra, Groningen University, Netherlands
• Bernard Raveau, CRISMAT Caen, France
• Sylvie Malo, CRISMAT Caen, France
• Myriam Aguirre, Empa, CH
• Thomas Lippert, PSI, Switzerland
• Oystein Fischer, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• John B. Goodenough, University of Texas , Austin, USA
• Emilio Morán-Miguélez, Universidad Complutense, Spain
• Daniel Kohmskii, University of Köln, Germany
• Patrick Woodward, Ohio State University, USA
• Maria Elena Villafuerte, UNAM, Mexico

Aims and Scope:

Transition metal oxide compounds with perovskite-type structure (AMX3-d), and its numerous derivatives, show attractive physical and chemical properties, such as high temperature superconductivity, magnetoresistance, multiferroicity, thermoelectricity, as well as interesting catalytic properties for various redox reactions.

These properties make perovskites a suitable functional material for many applications as well as a unique formal laboratory to test models and theories pertaining to Solid State Chemistry and Physics. Due to the very flexible structure of the perovskites, composition, structure and therefore properties can be tuned in a broad range, but in-deep understanding of the structure-microstructure-composition-properties-relation is still far from perfect.

The aim of the conference is two-fold: In the one hand, to assemble scientists from universities and other scientific institutions as well as industrial laboratories to discuss recent ideas and establishing the present “state of the art” in the perovskite world. Secondly, and not less important, to promote the international co-operations on perovskite-type materials in both basic and applied aspects.

For this we are taking the opportunity of joining the XVIII Mexican International Materials Research Society Meeting (IMRC) that every year congregates together in Cancún (Quintana Roo, México) many scientists from Latin America, Europe and the USA.