First Announcement of the 4th WMRIF
- Materials Challenges for Safety and Reliability -
WMRIF plans the meeting to be held in May 2011 as below;
¡ÈThe 4th WMRIF¡É
VENUE: Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
DATE: May 22-26, 2011
HOST: The Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Please see the attached PDF for more information. 
WMRIF plans the meeting to be held in November 2010 as below;
“The 2nd Asia-Oceanic WMRIF”
VENUE: MTEC,
DATE: November 17-19, 2010
HOST: National Metal and Materials Technology Center (MTEC), Thailand
Please visit the website below for more information.
WMRIF plans the meeting to be held in August 2010 as below;
“The 2nd International Workshop for Young Materials Scientists”
VENUE: BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing, Berlin, Germany
DATE: August 31 - September 3, 2010
HOST: BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing
Please visit the website below for more information.
http://www.bam.de/en/microsites/wmrif/index.htm
The 3rd World Materials Research Institute Forum
1. Date: June 21 to 25, 2009
2. Location: NIST Gathersburg MD, USA
3. Organizer:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
4. Presentations
1) President¡Çs address 
2) Recent activities of each MRI (by directors of each MRI)
http://wmrif.nims.go.jp/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=thread&topic_id=101&forum=30&post_id=120#120
ASIA- IMRE - IMS - JNCASR - KAIST
- KIMS - KIST - MIRDC - MTEC
- NEERI - NIMS - SIC1 - SIC2
AMERICA- BNL - INMETRO - LLNL - NISTMSEL - ORNL
EUROPE- BAM - CSICICMM - EMPA - Helmholz-Berline Center
- MFAKFKI - NPL - UnivSheffield - VTT
3) Materials challenges for clean energy (by invited speakers)
http://wmrif.nims.go.jp/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=101&forum=30
A)Overview of energy materials needs
- L. Horton on US energy overview
- M. Kitagawa on Japanese overviewhttp://wmrif.nims.go.jp/modules/newbb/download.php?url=/hirose_WMRIF%20Klenk.pdf.1246603172000
- R. Tomellini on EU overview
B)Materials for Solar Energy Development
- R. Klenk
- L. Han
C)Hydrogen and Bio-energy Processes and Materials
- A. Zuttel
- K. Uosaki
D)Energy Storage and conversion
- C. Uher
- R. Baessler
- K. Takada
E)Materials for Energy Efficiency
- K. T. Hong
- A. C. Ritschkoff
- I. D. Bohn
- E. Garboczi & J. Chin
- W. Liu
F)Nuclear Energy Materials
- A. Erhard
- T. Muroga
- W. R. Corwin
- S. Banerjee
4) Special Topics
- NanoEHS (Chair: Eric Amis)
Dr. Kamal Hossain, NPL
Dr. Debra Kaiser, NIST
- Synchrotron (Chair: Thomas Boellinghaus)
Dr. K.Kobayashi,NIMS
Dr. Altaf Carim, U.S. DoE
Prof. Yves Petroff, UC Berkeley
- Sustainability (Chair: Komei Halada) ¡¡
Dr. Komei Halada, NIMS
Dr. Ichiro Daigo, Univ. of Tokyo
Session Summary to be prepared and posted soon: Dr. Mike Symonson ORNL
5) Working groups reprots
WG3 promotion of young scientists (Thomas boellinghaus BAM)
WG4 Data-base (Graham Sims NPL)
WG5 Energy materials (Mike Simonso ORNL)
WG6 Structural materials reliability (Ann-Christine Ritschkoff VTT)
Asean-Oceanic meeting (Hideyuki Murakami NIMS)
5. Report from secretariat
New members, Collaboration with VAMAS and STAM¡¢Presidential board
6. Next WMRIF at PR China in 2011
7. Additional information
1)Links to outlook of ¡Èmaterials for energy and environment¡É
2)Photos from Forum meeting at NIST
General Information on
3rd World Materials Research Institute Forum
General Assembly
and
Symposium on Materials Challenges for Clean Energy
June 21-25, 2009
June 21 (Sun): Welcome Reception
June 22 (Mon): Symposium on Materials Challenges for Clean Energy (1)
June 23 (Tue): Symposium on Materials Challenges for Clean Energy (2)
June 24 (Wed): 3rd General Assembly (1)
June 25 (Thu): 3rd General Assembly (2)
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LOCATION
The meetings will be held at the National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Gaithersburg is located 40 km north of Washington, DC.
PROGRAM OUTLINE
Symposium on Materials Challenges for Clean Energy
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June 21 (Sunday)
1900-2100¡¡Registration & Get Acquainted Reception
Crown Plaza Suites Hotel Rockville, MD
June 22 (Monday)
800 Transport from hotel to NIST
830 Symposium Opening Dr. Mike Simonson, ORNL
835 Welcome Prof. Teruo Kishi, NIMS
840 Welcome Dr. Eric Amis, NIST
850 Announcements/
Arrangements Dr. Stephen Freiman, NIST
Session 1: Overview of Energy Materials Needs Session Chair: Dr. Eric Amis
900 Energy Research Needs and Opportunities in Materials Sciences and
Engineering Dr. Linda Horton, U.S. DOE
940 Japanese Clean Energy Policy and Some Activities of
Asian Member Institutes Dr. Masaki Kitagawa, NIMS, Japan
1020 Novel Materials for Energy Applications
Dr. Renzo Tomellini, European Commission
1100 Break
Session 2: Materials for Solar Energy Development, Session Chair: Dr. Stephen Freiman
1130 Dye-sensitized Solar Cells with Nanotechnolog,Dr. Liyuan Han, NIMS
1200 Structure and chemistry measurements for organic photovoltaic materials,
Dr. Dean DeLongchamp, NIST
1230 Materials Development for Solar Energy, Dr. Chad Duty, ORNL
1300 Lunch
Session 2 (continued)
1400 Dr. Reiner Klenk, Helmholtz Center Berlin
Session 3: Hydrogen and Bioenergy Processes and Materials, Session Chair: Dr. Thomas Bollinghaus
1430 Prof. Dan Eliezer, Ben-Gurion University
1500 Interfacial processes for interconversion between water and hydrogen
Prof. Kohei Uosaki, Hokkaido University
1530 Prof. Andreas Zuttel, EMPA
1600 Break
1630 Poster Session and Reception
1830 Transportation back to hotel
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June 23 (Tuesday)
800 Transportation from hotel to NIST
900 Session 4: Energy Storage and Conversion,
Session Chair: Dr. Graham Sims
830 Dr. Kazunori Takada, NIMS
900 Dr. Ralph Baesler, BAM
930 Prof. Ctirad Uher, Univ. of Michigan
1000 New Opportunities for Computational Science in Electrochemical Energy Storage Research
Dr. Jack Wells, ORNL
1030 Break
Session 5: Materials for Energy Efficiency, Session Chair: Dr. Juergen Lexow
1100 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Bohn, RWTH Aachen
1130 Dr. Kyung-Tae Hong, KIST
1200 Dr. Anne-Christine Ritchkoff, VTT
1230 Lunch
Session 5 Continued
1330 Prof. Wei Liu, IMRE
1400 Predicting the Sustainability of Cementitious and Polymeric Infrastructural
Materials used in Energy Applications, Dr. Ed Garboczi/Dr. Joannie Chin, NIST
Session 6: Nuclear Energy Materials, Session Chair: Dr. Naoto Kishimoto
1430 Prospects for Evolutionary and Revolutionary Development of Structural Materials for Fission and
Fusion Energy, Dr. William Corwin, ORNL
1500 Dr. Takeo Muroga, NIFS
1530 Dr. Anton Erhard, BAM
1600 Dr. Srikumar Banerjee, Bhabha At. Res. Ctr.
1630 Session Summaries, Session Chair: Dr. Mike Simonson
1730 Adjourn Symposium: Transportation back to hotel or to airport
3rd General Assembly of the WMRIF
PROGRAM OUTLINE
June 24, 2009 (Wednesday)
800 Transportation from hotel to NIST
830 Welcome Addresses
Dr. Patrick Gallagher, Acting Director, NIST
Dr. Eric Amis, Acting Director, MSEL
Prof. Dr. Teruo Kishi, President NIMS
900 Report of Secretariat, Dr. Masaki Kitagawa, NIMS
910 Working Group Reports (5 minutes each) Working Group Leaders
WG 3- Young Researchers, Thomas Bollinghaus, BAM
WG 4- Global Database, Graham Sims, NPL
WG 5- Materials for Sustainable Energy Technology, Linda Horton, U.S. DoE
WG 6- Materials Reliability, Anne-Christine Ritschkoff, VTT
Asian Meeting report , Hideyuki Murakami, NIMS
945 Coffee Break
1000 Reports from Material Research Institutes, MRIs
1230 Lunch and Group Photo
1330 MRI Reports Cont.
1500 Coffee Break
1530 Energy Symposium Summaries Mike Simonson + Symposium Session Chairs
1700 Transportation back to hotel
1830 Reception at Crown Plaza Suites Hotel
Speaker: Dr. Frank Gayle, Chief, Metallurgy Division, NIST
¡ÈThe Collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers - A Metallurgist’s View¡É
June 25, 2009 (Thursday)
800 Transportation from hotel to NIST
830 Special Topics(50 minutes each)
NanoEHS, (Chair: Eric Amis)
Dr. Kamal Hossain, NPL
Dr. Debra Kaiser, NIST
Synchrotron, (Chair: Thomas Boellinghaus)
Dr. K. Kobayashi, NIMS
Dr. Altaf Carim, U.S. DoE
Sustainability, (Chair: Komei Halada)
Dr. David L. Greene, ORNL
Dr. Ichiro Daigo, Univ. of Tokyo
1100 Break
1130 Plans and Venue for next WMRIF and associated Workshop,
Professor Kishi
1150 Adjourn, Professor Kishi
1200 Lunch
1330 NIST Tours: Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology
NIST Center for Neutron Research
NIST Museum
1500 Individual Working Group Meetings (as needed)
1600 Transportation to hotel and airports
(Individuals to make their own arrangements)
REGISTRATION
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/090621.htm
ACCOMMODATION
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/090621.htm
TRANSPORTATION
http://www.nist.gov/public_affairs/confpage/090621.htm
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Angela Ellis
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Drtop 1071 Room B116 20899-1071
Telephone: (301) 975-3881
Email: angela.ellis@nist.gov
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Stephen Freiman
National Institute of Standards and Technology
100 Bureau Dr place Gaithersburg1 20899-8520
Telephone: (301) 975-5310
Email: stephen.freiman@nist.gov
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