International symposium ÒBULK NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS: from
fundamentals to innovations. BNM-2007Ó
summary
The international symposium ÒBulk nanostructured materials: from fundamentals to innovations. BNM-2007Ó was held in Ufa on August 14-18, 2007, organized by the Ufa State Aviation Technical University (USATU). A total of 223 scientists took part in the symposium. They represented 23 countries: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Germany, USA, Japan, China, Austria, Turkey, Brazil, Poland, South Korea, Czech Republic, Iran, UK, Greece, India, Hungary, Slovakia, Italy, Estonia, Spain, and Republic of South Africa. Russia was represented by 156 participants; representatives from 7 Ufa universities and research centers were among them. Below is an illustration of the geographical coverage which includes the countries (colored ones) represented at the symposium.
The program of the conference was arranged with the following sessions:
ÒProcessing of bulk nanomaterialsÓ, ÒStructural CharacterizationÓ, ÒPhysical
and mechanical propertiesÓ, ÒDeformation mechanisms and their transformationÓ,
ÒModeling of nanostructured materialsÓ. In addition, a special session for young
scientists and a session of the International Science and Technology Center
ÒInnovation trends and applications of nanomaterialsÓ were organized.
The symposium was co-organized by the Russian Foundation for Basic
Research, the Academy of Sciences of the Bashkortostan Republic, the Institute
for Metal Superplastity Problems RAS, the International Science and Technology
Center (Moscow), the Ufa Motor Industrial Incorporation, the Priority-oriented
national project ÒEducationÓ of the RF Ministry of Education and Science and
other institutes.
The symposium demonstrated that research in the field of bulk
nanomaterials (BNM), which started twenty years ago in Ufa, has now achieved
wide international recognition and development. The broad geography of the conducted
work, the dynamics of the growth in scientific investigations and the high
ratings of scientific publications prove that this subject is one of the most
important trends of modern nanomaterials science and nanotechnologies.
Recent discoveries of unique properties of bulk nanomaterials, together
with the novel deformation mechanisms and phase transformations, will be the
basis for further development and applications of bulk nanomaterials as
functional and structural materials for the next generation. Now it is time to
pass from the laboratory testing of bulk nanomaterials to their commercial
application. This is supported by the creation of new schemes and technologies
for processing bulk nanomaterials by means of severe plastic deformation techniques
and the wide involvement not only of model materials but also of industrial
alloys and steels in the research efforts.
The successful innovative developments for the application of
nanostructured Ti in medicine and machinery, the use of nanomaterials in sports
and everyday life and many other possibilities were presented during the
symposium.
The following represents the top-priority tasks in the field for the
next years:
- mechanisms of
nanostructure formation during severe plastic deformation;
- development of
new techniques and effective technologies of severe plastic deformation
for processing bulk nanostructured materials, their dimensions scaling and
advancing from laboratory to industrial conditions, taking into account
the amount and dimensions of the obtained nanomaterials;
- elaboration of
new schemes and an increase in the intervals of loading efforts and temperature-strain rate intervals
in which the properties of bulk nanostructured materials are investigated;
- research on
functional properties, apart from the most investigated mechanical ones,
including corrosion, catalytic reactivity, and electrical and magnetic
properties;
- development of
investigations aimed at an analysis of physical mechanisms which are
responsible for the formation of the properties of bulk nanostructured
materials;
- development of
adequate phenomenological and physical models for predicting the
deformation behavior and failure of bulk nanostructured materials,
particularly when exposed to loading in extreme conditions;
- marketing and
commercialization of bulk nanostructured materials.
The symposium participants stressed the high international scientific
and organizational level of the conducted event.
The organizing committee thought it viable to hold the symposium
regularly once in two years for generalization and discussion of the results
obtained during the given period in the field of bulk nanostructured materials.