Conveners
AUSE A - 5/09/22
- O. Vallcorba (ALBA Synchrotron Light Source)
The study of Cultural Heritage involves the investigation of what is left of our past (materials) to learn about the immaterial (knowledge).
The subject by definition involves many disciplines such as History, Archaeology, Conservation, Museology, Materials Science, Technology, Anthropology among other, which have their own methodology designed to obtain information relevant to them....
Portland cement (PC), is one of the most manufactured commodity in the world. Moreover, cement industry is one of the major contributors for greenhouse gases emissions. In the fabrication of one tone of PC clinker, about 0.87 tons CO2 are emitted to our atmosphere. There are two main approaches to decrease the carbon footprint of cements. On the one hand, PC can be party replaced by...
Metal iodates form a diverse range of non-centrosymmetric structured materials, which exhibit useful and interesting properties such as non-linear optics; visible to far-IR transparency; large second-harmonic generation coefficients; a high optical damage threshold; and good thermal stability. They have been intensely studied under ambient conditions. In contrast, there remains a large deficit...
Tetradymite α-Bi2Te3 (space group (S.G.) R-3m, centrosymmetric) is well known to be found in a few group-V A2X3 compounds (A=As, Sb, Bi) at room conditions (RC). Under high temperature (HT), this R-3m can be obtained in the In2Se3, the β phase [1], which belongs to the group-III A2X3 compounds (A=Al, In, Ga). A few theoretical works have shown that this β- In2Se3-like structure is stable above...
