Dr
Arndt Remhof
(EMPA, Dep. Materials for Energy Conversion, Switzerland)
07/07/2015, 15:00
multifunctional materials
The conversion and storage of energy is becoming increasingly important. Finite reserves of fossil energy carriers and growing environmental concerns are leading to an increased use of so-called renewable energy sources such as solar or wind energy. A future society therefore requires materials to convert energy fluxes to energy carriers for the convenient storage and transport of energy....
Prof.
Zbigniew Łodziana
(Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Kraków)
07/07/2015, 15:30
Metal borohydride complexes and their derivatives are of great interest due to their potential as hydrogen storage materials. Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of these materials can be tuned using: mixed-metal borohydride complexes; ammonia-containing metal borohydrides; confinement of these materials in small nanopores. Any of such procedures leads to materials with complex crystalline...
Dr
Mirosław Gałązka
(Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN, Kraków)
07/07/2015, 15:50
We present a new scaling relationship accounting for relaxation processes of both real and imaginary parts of the complex dielectric permittivity data in wide temperature range of various dielectric substances (liquid crystals, neoalcohols, liquid glass-formers). It has been successfully used for experimental data related to various dynamics in liquid (IL, N, Ch, SmA) and solid (SmB, Cr, ODIC)...
Dr
Robert Gębarowski
(Institute of Physics, Cracow University of Technology)
07/07/2015, 16:10
The Ising model offers an excellent testing ground for examining classical and quantum phase transitions. Although the Ising model has been studied extensively for a long time (see e.g. [1]), its analytical solutions are known only for some cases. Applications of the Ising model are reaching far beyond molecular level of physical complexity, scaling and universality of critical phenomena. For...
