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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:#00335E">The deadline for submission of abstract to the symposium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00335E">Advances and Challenges in Multimodal Characterizations of Functional Materials</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:#00335E"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:#00335E">XXV International Materials Research Congress,
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:#00335E">Cancun Mexico, August 14-19, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:#00335E">has been extended to
</span><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:red">April 15, 2016</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif;color:#00335E">. Information on the symposium can be found in
<a href="https://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2016/abstract-instructions.php">https://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2016/abstract-instructions.php</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"alegreya_sans_scbold",serif">. The link for abstract submissions
is </span><a href="https://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2016/abstract-instructions.php">https://www.mrs-mexico.org.mx/imrc2016/abstract-instructions.php</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#00335E">Invited Speakers:</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(confirmed)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Ke An</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Albina
Borisevich</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Oak Ridge National
Laboratory, USA),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">William Chueh</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Stanford
University, USA),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Olivier Delaire</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Duke
University, USA),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Matthew Highland</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Argonne
National Laboratory),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Nouamane
Laanait</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">, CNMS (Oak Ridge National Laboratory),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Xin
Li</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Harvard Univeristy, USA),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Valeri
Petkov</span></strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Central Michigan University, USA), <strong><span style="font-family:"work_sanslight",serif">Charudatta Phatak</span></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Argonne
National Laboratory),<strong><span style="font-family:"work_sanslight",serif">Efrain Rodriguez</span></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(University
of Maryland, USA), <strong><span style="font-family:"work_sanslight",serif">José Rodriguez-Rivera</span></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(National
Institute of Standards and Technology, USA), <strong><span style="font-family:"work_sanslight",serif">Kazu Suenega</span></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(National
Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Subramanian
Sankaranaravanan</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Argonne
National Laboratory),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Michael Toney</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(SLAC
National Accelerator Laboratory), <strong><span style="font-family:"work_sanslight",serif">Yusuke Wakabayashi</span></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Osaka
University, Japan),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Xun-Li Wang</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(City
University of Hong Kong, China),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Jianguo
Wen</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Argonne National Laboratory,
USA),</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><strong><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Wenge Yang</span></strong><span class="apple-converted-space"><b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></b></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(HPSTAR,
China),<strong><span style="font-family:"work_sanslight",serif">Shuyun Zhou</span></strong></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> </span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">(Tsinghua
University, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#00335E">Hua Zhou, </span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Argonne National Laboratory,
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> <b>E-mail</b>: <b><a href="mailto:hzhou@anl.gov"><span style="color:#00335E">hzhou@anl.gov</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#00335E">Yang Ren,
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Argonne National Laboratory,
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151"> <b>E-mail</b>: <b><a href="mailto:ren@aps.anl.gov"><span style="color:#00335E">ren@aps.anl.gov</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#00335E">Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca,
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">E-mail</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">: <b><a href="mailto:fernandezbja@ornl.gov"><span style="color:#00335E">fernandezbja@ornl.gov</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#00335E">Dong Su,
</span></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Center of Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Stony brook University,
</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">E-mail</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">: <b><a href="mailto:dsu@bnl.gov"><span style="color:#00335E">dsu@bnl.gov</span></a></b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:17.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1CB2BB">Materials Characterization<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00335E">E.2 Advances and Challenges in Multimodal Characterizations of Functional Materials<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:11.25pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"work_sanslight",serif;color:#525151">Exploring, understanding, and designing structures and functionalities of materials for energy, information and technological
applications has been the main goal of materials discovery. This goal has inspired new efforts to develop integrated approaches to probe the dynamical processes of materials synthesis, as well as the evolution of structures, properties and performance of functional
materials. Light-source-based X-ray methods, high flux source enabled neutron techniques and advanced (scanning) transmission electron microscopy have been tremendously developed to meet fast-growing research needs in materials science. Both electron and X-ray
imaging methods provide opportunities to study functional materials in three-dimensional views in real time, in addition to providing spectroscopic information. Neutron techniques provide access to a unique range of energy/momentum space that is inaccessible
to other probes. These techniques have been employed, for example, to understand physical and (electro-)chemical processes of energy materials in operation, the nucleation and growth of nanoparticles as well as various thin films, emergent phenomena and exotic
physics of epitaxial heterostructures and heterointerfaces. In recent years, important developments of the spatial-temporal-energetic resolution and efficiency of these techniques have resulted in a paradigm shift for scientists in understanding the working
mechanisms of functional materials at a deeper level. In addition, the big data and deep data acquired multimodal characterizations will undoubtedly stimulate multiscale modeling and simulations via high-performance computation towards the ultimate goal of
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