Ceramic Integration and Joining Technologies

The functional and economic impacts of ceramic materials are historically related to their integration and joining technologies that connect innovation in ceramics with manufacturing. Reliably integrating ceramics into products of very large or small sizes, and complex shapes or functions is a must to facilitate these emerging ceramic applications. Therefore, the integration and joining of ceramics have received increasing attention in many fields such as aerospace, aviation, nuclear energy, batteries, thermoelectric devices, medical treatment, and microelectronics. The joining of ceramic to itself or metal can be realized by using a variety of methods, such as diffusion bonding, brazing, soldering, hot pressing reaction sintering joining, self-propagating high-temperature synthesis joining, riveting, packaging, and chemical vapor deposition. The symposium provides a forum for researchers to share state-of-the-art ideas about the technical issues, challenges, perspectives, and opportunities in ceramic joining and integration. This symposium will discuss current computational and experimental studies in areas such as ceramic joining and integration technologies, microstructure-interface physical evolution-property relationships, ceramic assemblies' reliability, and performance, with the ultimate goal of being application-oriented.

Proposed sessions

ª	Ceramic joining to itself or metal
ª	Ceramic riveting and bonding
ª	Ceramic packaging for device fabrication
ª	Micro- or Nano-integration for ceramic
ª	Green ceramic joining or integration materials and equipment development
ª	Processing, properties, and evolution of ceramic surface and interface
ª	Modeling and theory computation of ceramic joining and integration
ª	Performance and reliability of ceramic assemblies in the working environments

Organizers

-	Tiesong Lin (Points of Contact), Harbin Institute of Technology, China, tiesonglin@hit.edu.cn
-	Rajiv Asthana (Points of Contact), University of Wisconsin-Stout, USA, asthanar@uwstout.edu
-	Heli Jantunen, University of Oulu, Finland
-	Fei Shen Ong, The University of Tokyo, Japan
-	Fabiana D'Isanto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
-	Mrityunjay Singh, Ohio Aerospace Institute, USA
-	Yan Liu, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
-	Jian Cao, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
-	Zhenwen Yang, Tianjin University, China
-	Lei Liu, Tsinghua University, China
-	Dehua Xiong, Wuhan University of Technology, China
-	Xiaobing Zhou, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
-	Xiaoguo Song, Harbin Institute of Technoloy, Weihai, China

Point of Contact Assistant

*	Liangbo Sun, Harbin Institute of Technology, China, sunliangbo@hit.edu.cn

Federico Smeacetto, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Tentative Title:	Advanced Glass and Ceramics as Joining and Coating Materials for Energy Conversion: Integration Issues, Challenges and Perspectives
Brief Bio: Federico Smeacetto, Ph.D. is a Full Professor of Materials Science and

Technology at Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests currently deal with required engineering solutions for designing, developing, and characterizing functional glass-ceramics and ceramics as joining and coating materials for energy conversion and storage. Post-doc researcher at Imperial College, London UK (2006), University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield UK (2008) and AGH-UST, Krakow PL (2010).
He is supervising a research group of 6+ post-doc researchers and PhDs; he is a member of the Board of the Ph.D. School of Materials Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Torino and chair (2013-present) of the Advanced Glass and Glass-based Components course.
Principal investigator of EU-funded projects and contracts mainly related to hydrogen technologies: NewSOC, BEST4HY, HyP3D, and 24_7 ZEN.
He was recently awarded the prestigious Acers Global Ambassador from The American Ceramic Society, "For his outstanding leadership and services to the Society in the division, conferences, and publications along with his dedicated global outreach and collaboration efforts".

Fabrizio Valenza, National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and technologies for Energy (CNR-ICMATE), Italy
Tentative Title:	Advanced Routes for Ceramic Brazing: Wetting and Metal-ceramic Interfaces
Brief Bio: Dr. Fabrizio Valenza is a researcher at the National Research Council of

Italy, Institute of Condensed Matter Chemistry and technologies for Energy (CNR-ICMATE). His research is focused on basic and applied materials science studies about the wetting of ceramics by liquid alloys and metal-ceramic interfaces at high temperature. His activity also includes ceramic joining by liquid media (e.g. brazing, transient liquid phase bonding, soldering).
Dr. Valenza is member of the scientific committee of High Temperature Capillarity and co-organised symposia at several international conferences (e.g. Euromat, CALPHAD, HTC); he also served as a guest editor and as a reviewer for ISI scientific journals.
He is involved in Italian and European Projects with both scientific and coordinating roles and he is project evaluator for the Italian Ministry of Economic Development.
He tutored several PhD, Master and visiting students and he is author and co-author of about 60 papers on peer-reviewed journals.

Peng He, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Tentative Title:	Advanced Joining Technologies for new and heterogeneous Materials
Brief Bio: Peng He, professor, doctoral supervisor, national high-level talent. He has

been engaged in the research of new materials and dissimilar materials welding and joining, electronic packaging and so on. He is currently the director of the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Welding and Joining, and the vice Dean of the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Harbin Institute of Technology. He is also the director of the Brazing Sub-Committee of the National Welding Standardization Committee, the standing member of the Welding Branch of the Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society, and the vice chairman of the Brazing Materials, Equipment and Technology Branch of the China Welding Association. He has won 1 second prize of National Natural Science, 1 second Prize of National Science and Technology Progress, 2 China Patent Excellence Awards, and 5 first prizes of provincial and ministerial level. He has published 380 academic papers, authorized 100 national invention patents, and developed 18 national standards.

Peter Tatarko, Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Tentative Title:	Joining of Advanced Ceramics using Field Assisted Sintering Technology
Brief Bio: To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Lixia Zhang, Harbin Institute of Technology, China
Tentative Title:	The Advanced Joining of Ceramics and Ceramic Matrix Composites With Metals
Brief Bio: Lixia Zhang, Ph. D., a Full Professor of Materials Science and Lixia Zhang,

Ph. D., a Full Professor of Materials Science and Technology at Harbin Institute of Technology, China, currently supervises a research group of one professor, two post-doc researchers, and 20+ postgraduates. Her recent research fields specifically cover the brazing and diffusion bonding of ceramics or CMCs with metals, the joining technology of high-efficiency thermoelectric devices, and the application of bionic structures in the strengthening and toughing of joints.
She has published 150+ papers, and the number of papers published in SCI journals ranks fifth in the international brazing field. The CN-funded national projects she has led mainly fall in the brazing and diffusion bonding of ceramics, CMCs, Titanium, and Zirconium alloys. She was awarded the Second Prize in China National Technology Invention (2014) for her outstanding contribution to the joining of dissimilar materials and was selected for the China national plan for special support for top-notch talents.

Jun Tao, AVIC Manufacturing Technology Institute, China
Tentative Title:	Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of SiCf/SiC-MX246A Brazed Joints
Brief Bio: To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Lei Liu, Tsinghua University, China
Tentative Title:	Ceramic Bonding by Femtosecond Laser: Technology, Interface and Devices
Brief Bio: To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Zhenwen Yang, Tianjin University, China
Tentative Title:	Interface design and reaction control of dissimilar materials joining
Brief Bio: To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Xiaobing Zhou, Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Tentative Title:	Near-seamless Joining of SiC Ceramics and Ceramic Matrix Composites
Brief Bio: To be confirmed

To be confirmed

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