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’s 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 “materials for energy and environment”
  2)Photos from Forum meeting at NIST