Thursday  January 5, 2006.               

 

Chair: Helmer Fjellvåg, Research strategy        

Tor Grande, FUNMAT                                           Opening

Knut Fægri, FUNMAT                                            FUNMAT - Status and Challenges            

Hendrik Brinks, IFE                                                 FUNMAT Strategy on Materials for Energy Technology

Magnus Rønning, NTNU                                         FUNMAT Strategy on Materials for Environmentally Friendly Process Technology

Ralph Bernstein, SINTEF                                         FUNMAT Strategy on Materials for ICT/Microsystems Technology

                                                    

Chair: Tor Grande, Invited talks I         

Christina Abildgård, Norwegian Research Council    Future Funding of Functional Materials and Nanotechnology in Norway            

Astrid Brenna, Norwegian Research Council            Functional Materials and Nanotechnology: Status EU 6FP and Future Possibilities in EU 7FP     

Erik Sauar,                       REC                                Photovoltaics in Norway - an Industrial Perspective 

                                                    

Chair: Bengt Svensson, Invited talks II              

Kjell Ove Kongshaug, NTNU                                  Nanoporous Coordination Polymers: Opportunities for Applications in Adsorption Separations, Catalysis, and Gas Storage

Henrik Ræder, SINTEF                                           Integration of Functional Ceramics in Microsystems

May-Britt Hägg, NTNU                                           Gas Separation Membranes

                                                    

Chair: Eva Dugstad, Invited talks III    

Terje Finstad, UiO                                                   Embedded Semiconductor Nanocrystals

Hendrik Brinks, IFE                                                 Materials for Hydrogen Storage - International Trends          

                                                    

Chair: Knut Fægri, Project summaries 

Asle Sudbø, NTNU                                                 Oxides for Future Information and Communication Technology

Rune Bredesen, SINTEF                                         Functional Oxides for Energy Technology   

Bjørn Hauback, IFE                                                 Materials for Hydrogen Technology

 

 

Friday January 6, 2006.                    

Session 1: Functional Oxides for Energy Technology, Chair Rune Bredesen,

Tor Grande, NTNU                      Mechanical properties of perovskite materials

Marian Palcut      NTNU                Cation diffusion in LaMnO3 and LaCoO3 studied by diffusion couple measurements

Christian Kjølseth, UiO                  Hydrogen in ZnO

Marie-Laure Fontaine, SINTEF     Development of asymmetric membranes and fuel cells with proton conductors

Alexander Ulyashin, UiO               Application of TCO layers for solar cells

Ann Mari Svensson, SINTEF        Transient modelling of fuel cell electrodes

Espen Olsen, SINTEF                   Protective oxide layers for photoelectrochemical hydrogen production

Kjell Wiik, NTNU                         Production of multicomponent oxide powders by spray pyrolysis

Hilde Lea Lein,   NTNU                Aqueous tape casting

Ramon Schifano, UiO,                   Schottky contacts to ZnO

Thomas Moe Børseth, UiO            Annealing Studies of as-grown ZnO employing photoluminescence, XRD, AFM, and resistivity measurements

Silvie Svarcova   NTNU                Structure and nonstoichiomtery in the fast oxygen ion conductor BaxSr1-xCo0.8Fe0.2O3-d (0<x<0.5)

Vajeeston Nalini, UiO                    High temperature protonic conduction in TiP2O7

Espen Rudberg,  NTNU                Interpretation of oxygen diffusion and surface exchange data for LaxSr1-xCoO(3-d)

Johan Taftø, UiO                           Thermoelectric materials, with focus on the electronic structure of skutterudites

Tommy Mokkelbost, NTNU         Sintering and Characterization of AxLa1-xNbO4 (A=Ca, Sr and Ba) Proton Conductors

Anja Olafsen, SINTEF                  Exfoliation and restacking of layered double hydroxides

 

Session 2: Materials for Hydrogen Technology, Chair Bjørn Hauback                

Reidar Tunold, NTNU                  Development of electrocatalysts for water electrolysis using PEM electrolytes

Ingvar Kvande, NTNU                  Synthesis of Carbon Nanofibers (CNF) and preparation of Pt/CNF-catalysts

Stein Trygve Briskeby, NTNU       Carbon nano fibre supported Pt catalysts for high temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells

Carlos F. Sanz-Navarro,  NTNU  Free energy calculations of the binding of Pt clusters to carbon nanocones

Ole Martin Løvvik, UiO                 Electronic structure modelling of materials for hydrogen technology

Knut Thorshaug, SINTEF              Synthesis of new alanates for hydrogen storage

Yumiko Nakamura, IFE                Diffraction study of Li and Mg amides and imides for hydrogen storage

Sabrina Sartori, IFE                       Hydrogen storage in Mg-based compounds for vehicular applications

Stefano Deledda, IFE                    The synthesis of Mg-based transition-metal complex hydrides using different milling techniques

Jose M. B. von Colbe, IFE            Synthesis of sodium alanate-based hydrogen storage materials

Ponniah Vajeeston, UiO                Theoretical modelling on hydrides

Hallgeir Klette, SINTEF                Palladium membranes and their applications

Wakshum M. Tucho, NTNU         The microstructure of Pd/Ag membrane and changes during processing and testing

Amutha Ramachandran, NTNU     PdAg membrane surface characterization

Artem Pilipenko, SINTEF             Update on mechanical characterisation of Pd-membranes

Yiu-Yan Kan, UiO,                       Silicon wafer integration - porous silicon membrane + Pd for H separation

Frode Seland, NTNU                    Electrochemical oxidation of methanol and formic acid in fuel cell processes

 

 

Session 3: Oxides for Future Information and Communication Technology, Chair Asle Sudbø

Jonas Höwing, IFE                        Strontium doping at the Bi-site of multiferroic BiFeO3

Charles Hervoches, IFE                 Heterovalent substitution effect on structure and magnetism of one-dimensional Ca3Co2O6

Vitaliy V. Yurchenko, UiO             Guided motion of magnetic flux in artificially patterned high-temperature superconductors: direct experimental visualization

Ton van Helvoort, NTNU              Ferroelectric thin films study using various transmission electron microscopy techniques

Arne Røyset, SINTEF                   Characterisation of ferroelectric thin films for optical waveguide applications

Ola Nilsen, UiO                             Texture control in thin film growth

Øystein Dahl, NTNU                     Preferential polarization in PbTiO3/STiO3 ultra thin films

Chang Chuan You, NTNU            Synthesis of ferroelectric structures on nanoscale perovskite templates

Ørnulf Nordseth, NTNU               Simulations of photonic waveguides in ferroelectric thin films

Frode Tyholdt, SINTEF                Thin films of PLZT and ITO for electro-optical applications

Jørn Foros, NTNU                        Magnetization dynamics in nanoscale ferromagnets

Jacob Linder, NTNU                    Interplay between ferromagnetism and superconductivity in tunnelling currents

Hongsi Chen, UiO                         A study of Tl-2201 superconducting films by magneto-optic imaging

Daniel Shantsev, UiO                     Vortex avalanches in superconductors: Size distribution and mechanism

Per Martin Rørvik, NTNU             Chemical preparation of ferroelectric nanorods

Sverre Magnus Selbach, NTNU    Cation non-stoichiometry of PbTiO3

Wang Guozhong, NTNU               Preparation and characterization of nanoscale PbTiO3 by hydrothermal method

Juan Cardenas, UiO                      Chemical modification of Carbon nanotubes