MS-004: Crystal growth, phase transitions, and applications of multi-ferroic, multi-functional, and other complex materials

Co-Chairs: Weiwei Xie & Davide Delmonte

Sponsoring Commission: Magnetic Structures

Co-Sponsoring Commission: Crystal Growth and Characterization of Materials

Supporting Commission: Powder Diffraction

This microsymposium will explore recent synthetic, experimental, theoretical, and computational work that illuminates structure-property relationships in functional and multifunctional materials. “Functional” implies a material’s capacity to respond to stimuli, and “multifunctional” implies different and sometimes complementary physical properties that coexist in a unique crystallographic phase. Such material properties can enable the realization of new devices with improved characteristics such as sustainability, miniaturization, self-healing, adaptation, and self-assembly. Material classes and applications of particular interest include ferroics and piezoelectrics, multiferroics, photoferroelectrics, magneto-, electro-, and barocalorics, coupled sensing-actuating phases, and soft bio-inspired or hybrid materials grown in powder, single-crystal, film, or nanostructural form. Functional behaviors involving antiferromagnetic order are also of interest.