Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa
Ames Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, Ames, Iowa
Ames, Iowa --Whatever happened to quasicrystals, the new form of matter discovered in 1984? Since the initial wave of publicity, these novel materials have received little popular press. In the intervening years, however, many research groups have been busy investigating their properties and defining applications suited to those properties.
This research will be the topic of a conference August 19-23 at Iowa State University (ISU) in Ames, Iowa, an outgrowth of a major research effort on quasicrystalline materials at the Ames Laboratory, a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory operated by ISU.
According to Alan Goldman, a scientist at Ames Lab who is one of the conference co-chairs, the event is intended "specifically to explore technological applications of quasicrystals. This is a serious attempt to blend together basic and applied research efforts in quasicrystals," he says.
The conference, which is meant to complement the broader 6th International Conference on Quasicrystals to be held in Japan next year, will focus on three topics: existing and potential applications of quasicrystals; surface and interface properties of quasicrystals; and potential new quasicrystalline materials.
The Ames conference will also be international in scope. Sponsored in part by agencies of the U.S. and French governments, it will feature speakers from France, Canada, Japan, Germany, Switzerland, India, Mexico, China and the United States.
The conference is sponsored by: Alcoa Technical Center; Ames Laboratory; the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique of France; Deere & Company; Groupe PRIMA-Ecole des Mines of France; ISU's Institute for Physical Research and Technology; ISU's International Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics; the Ministère des Affaires Etrangères of France; and the National Science Foundation.
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