To be wound up tomorrow by a free workshop for smart materials technologies stockholders
The Saudi International Advanced Materials Technologies conference 2011 carries on its activities

20/11/1432

    Activities of The Saudi International Advanced Materials Technologies conference 2011, organized by King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, went on with a distinguished presence of prominent scientists, experts and specialists in the field of advanced materials technologies.
Activities of the second day of the conference included two scientific sessions, the first of which was chaired by Dr. Saleh Alsayed Professor, Civil Engineering Department College of Engineering, King Saud University (KSU) and Eng. Ahmad Alumair, Sr. Engineering Consultant, Consulting Services Department, Saudi ARAMCO.
This session comprised six varied scientific papers, the first of which gave an overview on smart materials and was presented by Prof. Marthinus Van Schoor, MIDE Technology Corporation, U.S.A, while Prof. Mingxing Zhang, School of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, UQ, Australia, where he  discussed a new technology on surface coating of light metals using kinetic metallization. Meantime, the third paper that was presented by Prof. Christian Kloc, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, NTU, Singapore, elaborated on elementary and secondary semiconductors.
The fourth paper, presented by Prof. Klaus Friedrich, Research Consultant at Germany talked over using advanced nano-particles hybrid composites to reduce energy consumption through friction.  Prof. Stephen Liu, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Colorado School of Mines, USA, presented the fifth paper that dealt with advanced nano-particles hybrid composite for low-consumed energy in friction. The session was concluded by a scientific paper presented by Dr. Shamsad Ahmad, Professor in the Civil Engineering Department at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, through which he explored the possibility of producing ultra high-performance concrete in Saudi Arabia.
The second session was chaired by Dr. Maher Alodan, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering Department, King Abdullah City for Atomic and Renewable Energy and Dr. Mohammed Almajed, Director, KACST Space and Aeronautics Sector and included four scientific papers.
The first scientific paper in this session that was presented by Dr. Jenn-Ming Yang, Chairman, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA),USA addressed Nanostructured Materials and Nanocomposites for Light Weight Aerospace Applications, then Dr. Robert Allen, Senior Manager, Chemistry and Advanced Materials, IBM Research, USA presented the second scientific paper concentrating on Advanced Polymer Chemistry at IBM, from water purification materials to IBM quest to cure diseases.
The third scientific paper in this session treated orientation of organic molecules for novel color e-paper device and organic electronics and was presented by Dr. Vladimir E. Agabekov,
Director of the Institute of Chemistry of New Materials of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.  The fourth and last scientific paper in this session was presented by Dr. Akiel Baig, from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals where he dealt with Microwave Synthesis of LTA ZeoliteLayer on Mesoporous TiO2 Coated-Alumina Substrate.
Activities of the conference would be concluded tomorrow, Wednesday, by free workshop for smart materials stockholders that include indentifying these materials, discussing piezoelectrics polycrystalline and single crystal, shape of memory alloy both thermally and magnetically activated. The workshop also covers issues of Magneto-strictive, Magnetor-heological, and Electro-rheological powers besides providing detailed explanation on electro-active polymers and smart gels besides examples of some related-applications.