American Chemical Society Spring 2019 National Meeting Symposium: ?Structure-Property Correlations in Functional Inorganic Materials?

先进的材料使现代生活成为可能，使未来可持续发展。例如，我们的手持电子设备是由可以储存能量的固态元件制成的。这些部件中的许多材料都是无机固体，可以定义为通常包含多种元素的固体材料，包括金属与非金属（如氧）或类金属（如硅）的结合。材料化学家不断努力排列这些固体的原子，以优化它们的功能特性。这一领域的研究人员研究基本的科学问题，解决结构之间的关系，或者这些原子是如何排列的，以及存储能量的能力等特性。在2019年美国化学会春季全国会议上，该领域的顶尖专家将举行研讨会，以更好地了解固态中的这些关系。由美国化学学会无机化学分会主办的题为“功能无机材料的结构-性质相关性”的研讨会由四个半天的会议组成，其中包括邀请和贡献的口头报告。对于特邀演讲，研讨会通过邀请职业生涯早期的科学家，如助理教授级别的教师，带来新鲜的新想法。研讨会还包括一个海报环节，博士生和博士后研究助理将展示他们在这些功能材料方面的工作。因此，这次由美国国家科学基金会材料研究部固态与材料化学项目部分支持的研讨会，不仅通过展示无机固体的最新发现推动了这一领域的发展，而且通过将年轻学生和博士后与更大的研究团体结合起来，发挥了很大的教育作用。技术概述固态材料的结构与性能的相互关系是设计和合成新材料的基础。为了鼓励这一研究领域的知识交流，材料研究部的固态和材料化学项目在2019年美国学会春季全国会议上支持题为“功能无机材料的结构-性能相关性”的研讨会。研讨会包括四个半天的口头报告和一个海报展示环节。根据邀请的演讲者和贡献的演讲，主题分为五个主题。这些主题包括：1)新的金属间相的合成和晶体结构的解释；2)超导体、磁性材料、拓扑绝缘体等量子材料的化学性质和结构；3)卤化物基钙钛矿等新型半导体的发光和光学性质；4)固态合成和晶体生长的创新方法，例如使用PARADIM用户设施；5)研究从局部到平均的不同长度尺度如何影响过渡金属氧化物的体积性质。会议有邀请和贡献的混合演讲。大多数受邀演讲的都是职业生涯初期的科学家，而不是资深科学家。前者包括博士后研究助理和年轻教师。后者包括现任或前任相关期刊的编辑，如《材料化学》和《科学进展》。贡献的唯一会议的特点是几位职业生涯中期（任期后）的科学家和海报会议的研究生在该领域。因此，会议承诺混合几代工作者在这一领域，并提出不同的主题在材料和固体化学。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Non-Technical SummaryAdvanced materials make modern life possible and the future sustainable. Our handheld electronic devices, for example, are made portable by the solid state components that can store energy. Many of the materials in those components are inorganic solids, which can be defined as solid materials that typically contain a wide range of elements including metals combined with nonmetals such as oxygen or metalloids such as silicon. Materials chemists constantly work to arrange the atoms of these solids to optimize their functional properties. Researchers in this field study the fundamental scientific problems that address the relationships between structure, or how those atoms are arranged, and properties such as the ability to store energy. At the 2019 Spring National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, leading experts in the field will hold a symposium to better understand these relationships in the solid state. Hosted by the ACS Division of Inorganic Chemistry, the symposium titled 'Structure-Property Correlations in Functional Inorganic Materials' consists of four half-day sessions that include a mixture of invited and contributed oral presentations. For the invited talks, the symposium brings in fresh, new ideas by inviting scientists early in their career such as faculty at the Assistant Professor level. The symposium also includes a poster session where PhD students and post-doctoral research associates will present their work on these functional materials. Therefore, this symposium, which is supported in part by the Solid State and Materials Chemistry program in NSF's Division of Materials Research, not only moves this field forward by presenting the latest findings in inorganic solids but also plays a large educational role by integrating young students and post-docs with the larger research community.Technical SummaryFundamental to designing and synthesizing new materials is the elucidation of structure-property correlations and relationships in solid state materials. To encourage the exchange of knowledge in this area of research, the Solid State and Materials Chemistry program in the Division of Materials Research supports the symposium titled 'Structure-Property Correlations in the Functional Inorganic Materials' at the 2019 Spring National Meeting of the American Society. The symposium includes four half-day oral presentation sessions and one poster presentation session. The topics are divided around five themes based on the invited speakers and contributed talks. These themes include: 1) the synthesis and crystal structure elucidations of new intermetallic phases; 2) chemical properties and structures of quantum materials such as superconductors, magnetic materials, and topological insulators; 3) luminescent and optical properties of novel semiconductors such as the halide-based perovskites; 4) innovative approaches towards solid state synthesis and crystal growth, such as use of the PARADIM user facility; and 5) investigating how various length scales, from the local to average, affect bulk properties in transition metal oxides. The session has a mixture of invited and contributed talks. The majority of the invited talks is given by early-career scientists rather than senior scientists. The former group includes post-doctoral research associates and young faculty. The latter group includes faculty who are current or past editors of relevant journals such as Chemistry of Materials and Science Advances. The contributed only session features several mid-career (post-tenure) scientists and the poster session graduate students in the field. Therefore, the session promises to mix several generations of workers in this field and to present diverse themes in materials and solid state chemistry.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.