Plenary Lecture

Progress and Prospect on Multifunctional Metal Matrix Nanocomposites

Prof. Soon Hyung Hong received Ph.D. on Material Science and Engineering of Northwestern University, USA in 1984. He has been worked for R&D as a professor at Korea Advanced Institute of Science of Technology (KAIST) since 1986. Prof. Hong has been carried out innovative research and development as a global leading scientist in areas of nanomaterials and nanocomposites. He had founded and served as Director the KAIST Institute for NanoCentury (KINC) to lead advanced researches on nanoscience and nanotechnology at KAIST.
Prof. Hong had been adjunctly appointed as Managing Director to plan and manage national R&D programs on materials and components at the Office of Strategic R&D Planning (OSP) in Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) of Korea. He also appointed as Director of Basic Research and planned and managed national funding programs to support universities and institutes at the National Research Foundation (NRF) of Korea. He had been elected as Presidents of Korean Powder Materials Institute (KPMI), Korean Society for Composite Materials (KSCM) and Society for Advancement of Material and Process Engineering (SAMPE) Korea. Prof. Hong is currently appointed as Director of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and Director of the Korea Carbon Industry Promotion Agency (KCIPA).

Advanced powder metallurgical techniques and additive manufacturing for innovative soft magnetic materials

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Thomas Weißgärber is head of the Dresden branch of the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials IFAM and a member of the institute’s management. He has held the professorship of Powder Metallurgy at TU Dresden since 01.04.2022. His expertise lies in the areas of powder metallurgy and additive manufacturing. He has worked on various material groups such as metal matrix composites, dispersion-strengthened materials, high-temperature, and lightweight materials and has published more than 200 articles and been involved in more than 18 patent applications. In 2018, he was awarded the “Skaupy Award”, the highest honour in the German-speaking world in the field of powder metallurgy and 2022 he received the EPMA Fellowship award.

Heterostructured Materials: Principles, Properties and Processing

Yuntian Zhu joined the City University of Hong Kong in 2020 as a Chair Professor, before which he was a Distinguished Professor in North Carolina State University, where he worked from 2007 to 2020. He worked as a postdoc, staff member and team leader in Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) until 2007 after obtaining his Ph.D. degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1994. In recent years he has focused on the deformation mechanisms at dislocation level and mechanical behaviors of heterostructured materials and nano/ultrafine-grained materials. He is an experimentalist with a primary interest in fundamental aspects of materials research and also in designing materials with superior strength and ductility. He and his colleagues are pioneers of the emerging field of heterostructured materials. He recently received the Institute of Metals Lecture and Robert Franklin Mehl Award , ASM International Albert Sauveur Award, IUMRS Sômiya Award, TMS SMD Distinguished Scientist/Engineer Award, and TMS Leadership Award. He has been elected to the Academia Europaea, European Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Inventors (US), as well as Fellows of five academic societies: TMS, MRS, APS, ASM, and AAAS. More information can be found in his personal website: http://www.hsm-lab.com/

Materials Informatics Approach for Evaluating the Effects of Pores in Powder-Based Materials via 3D X-ray CT and Persistent Homology

High and Low Temperature Sintering of Ceramics: Advanced Multi-task Functions and Innovative Processing

– Design & development of ceramic-based nanocomposites and their eco-friendly fabrication processes.
– Design and tuning of multifunctional semiconductor oxide nanostructures for energy, environmental and various functional applications.
– Room-temperature crack healing of ceramics using electrochemical protocols.

Hardmetals – a century of success

Herbert Danninger is retired professor for Chemical Technology of Inorganic Materials at Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology), Vienna, Austria. He studied Technical Chemistry at TU Wien, earning his PhD in 1980 and the venia docendi (Habilitation) for “Powder Metallurgy” in 1990. In 2003 he was appointed Full Professor at TU Wien. From 2004 to 2011 he was head of the Institute of Chemical Technologies and Analytics, with about 100 employees, and from 2011 to 2019 Dean of the Faculty of Technical Chemistry. From 2009 to 2020 he was also chairman of the “Gemeinschaftsausschuss Pulvermetallurgie”, the PM association of the German-speaking countries. He has been active in powder metallurgy research and education for more than 40 years and is author/co-author of 550+ publications as well as several books and book chapters. His research work includes sintering and properties of ferrous, light alloy and refractory metal systems, with particular focus on the chemical aspects of sintering and other heat treating processes. He holds honorary doctoral degrees of Technical University Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain) and Universitatea din Craiova (Romania) and is Fellow of APMI and EPMA. In 2020 he was awarded the “Ivor Jenkins Medal” of IOM3 and in 2022 the “Richard Zsigmondy Medal” of TU Wien.