Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics, July 20-25, 2014 at Holyoke College, MA

非技术描述：在运输和反应性的挑战陶瓷戈登会议聚集了一个星期（2014年7月20日至15日）在山霍利奥克学院，马萨诸塞州的演讲者，讨论领袖，专业人士，博士生和博士后研究人员的多元化群体，在一个互动的环境中，跨学科的理解正在建立;和新的想法是共享，产生和分散在整个社区。博士生，博士后助理，早期职业教师和代表性不足的群体（URG）成员的比例（包括。少数民族和妇女）的与会者人数众多，预计将与该领域有经验的科学家进行有益的互动。延长海报会议和一个特殊的学生介绍招待会滋养这些交流。学生通过讲座，海报讨论和指导在该领域的最新科学成果进行培训。 他们接触到不同的建模方法和最新的测量技术，包括现场和操作中的工具，并开始合作努力，进一步探索知识和工具。作为会议的长期利益，跨学科，更快的创新和合作加速了该领域的科学进步。 此外，还创造了更合适的劳动力，这对经济和社会都有好处。该会议分为九个部分，分别讨论受限陶瓷或电化学器件中的缺陷，传输和反应性，晶界，界面和表面结构与传输之间的相关性，陶瓷在大，复杂或混合驱动力下的行为，氧化物的催化活性，氧化物和非氧化物陶瓷中的电荷转移和传输过程，陶瓷热电体，燃料电池、电池和电容器中的交换过程，陶瓷中的氢传导。几个介绍侧重于现场研究的光谱，层析成像和应变测量。不同的建模方法，从从头算到相场建模，包括不同的长度尺度集成到会议。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Ceramics Gordon Conference on challenges in transport and reactivity gathers a diverse group of speakers, discussion leaders, professionals, doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers for one week (July 20-15th, 2014) at Mount Holyoke College, MA, in an interactive environment where an interdisciplinary understanding is being built; and new ideas are shared, generated and dispersed across the community. The fraction of doctoral students, postdoctoral associates, early career faculty and underrepresented group (URG) members (incl. minorities and women) attendees is significant, beneficial interactions with experienced scientists in the field are anticipated. Extended poster sessions and a special student introductory reception fertilize these exchanges. Students are trained via lectures, poster discussion and mentoring in the latest scientific achievements in the field. They are exposed to different modeling approaches and the latest measurement techniques, including in situ and in-operando tools and are starting collaborative efforts to further explore knowledge and tools. As a long term benefit of the conference, scientific progress in the field is accelerated by interdisciplinary, faster innovation and collaboration. As well, a more suitable workforce is created that benefits both the economy and society in general.TECHNICAL DETAILS: The conference is structured in nine sessions that address defects, transport and reactivity in constrained ceramics or electrochemical devices, correlation between structure and transport at grain boundaries, interfaces and surfaces, behavior of ceramics under large, complex or mixed driving forces, catalytic activity of oxides, charge transfer and transport processes in oxide and non-oxide ceramics, ceramic thermoelectrics, exchange processes in fuel cells, batteries and capacitors, hydrogen-conduction in ceramics. Several presentations focus on in situ studies by spectroscopy, tomography and strain measurements. Different modeling approaches ranging from ab initio to phase field modeling and including different length scales are integrated into the sessions.