The 8th Institute of Materials (East Asia) Conference on

The 8^th Institute of Materials (East Asia) Conference on

"Advanced Materials for the New Millennium"

24 March 2000 Mandarin Singapore (Mandarin Court D)

Technical Program

9.10 - 9.15 am	Opening Remarks
	Assoc Prof Sam Zhang, Chairman of the Organizing Committee
9.15- 9.25 am	Presidential Address
	Vice President of IoM (E. Asia), Assoc Prof Peter Hing
9.25 - 9.35 am	Address by IoM (UK)
	The Institute of Materials in the New Millennium
	Mrs June Hawkins, Director, IoM (UK)
9.35 - 9.55 am	Keynote Speech
	Recent Advances in Nano Materials and Technologies
	Assoc Prof Sam Li, Chemistry Department, National University of Singapore
9.55 - 10.15 am	Invited Paper: Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) : New Matter for the New Millennium!
	Asst Prof Franck Chollet, School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
10.15 - 10.35 am	Development of Advanced Materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
	Assoc Prof P. Hing and Zhang Tianshu, Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC), c/o School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
10.35 - 10.40 am	Presentation of Token of Appreciation
10.40 - 11.10 am	Morning Tea/Coffee Break
11.10 - 11.30 am	Acoustic and Electroacoustic Phenomena in Concentrated Dispersions and Emulsions. Theory, Experiment and Applications
	Dr Philip J. Goetz, Dispersion Technology Inc. USA(Sponsored by LMS Technologies Pte Ltd)
11.30 - 11.50 am	MaxRes: Event-Controlled Adaption of the Heating Rate
	Dr Benedikt Schenker, Technishch-Chemisches Laboratorium, Switzerland(Sponsored by Mettler-Toledo (S) Pte Ltd)
11.50 - 12.10 pm	Design of an Ultra-High Spatial Resolution Mapping System Using Near-Field Spectroscopy
	T. Ikeda, Y. Narita and T. Williams JASCO Corporation Japan. (Sponsored by Alpha Analytical (S) Pte Ltd)
12.10 - 12.25 pm	The Relationship between Raman-Determined Id/Ig and PEELS-Determined sp3/sp2 of Magnetron Sputtered a-C
	Assoc Prof Sam Zhang, Assoc Prof P. Hing and Ms Xie Hong School of Mechanical Production & Engineering, Advanced Materials Research Centre (AMRC), c/o School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University and Gintic Institute of Manufacturing Technology(Sponsored by IoM, E. Asia)
12.25 - 1.40 pm	Lunch/Poster/Announcement of Materialography Competition
1.40 - 2.00 pm	Performance and Applications of a Mid-Infrared Step Scan FT-IR Spectroscopic Imaging System
	Dr N. A. Wright, Bio-Rad, USA (Sponsored by Bio-Rad Laboratories (S) Pte Ltd)
2.00 - 2.20 pm	Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy for Materials Characterization
	Dr. W. K. Wong, Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (Sponsored by Image Transforms Pte Ltd)
2.20 - 2.40 pm	XRFS Technique for Determining the Oxygen Content in AlN
	Assoc Prof F. Boey, Tok Iing Yoong Alfred and Nelson Ng
	Advanced Materials Research Centre, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Sponsored by Philips Analytical)
2.40 - 3.00 pm	Scanning Acoustic Microscope in Materials Analysis
	Dr Gan Woon Siong and Ng Choon Huat, Acoustical Technologies Singapore Pte Ltd, c/o Innovation Centre, Nanyang Technological University (Sponsored by AMRC)
3.00 - 3.45 pm	Afternoon Tea/Coffee Break
3.45 - 4.00 pm	Thermal diffusivity and thermal expansion of advanced ceramic materials
	Oh Joo Tien, P. Hing, F.S. Fong, Materials Engineering Division, SAS, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Sponsored by ITS Science & Medical Pte. Ltd.)
4.00 - 4.15 pm	Development and Fabrication of High Temperature and Low Field Colossal Magnetoresistance (CMR) Materials
	Asst Prof Sean Li, Assoc Prof P. Hing and Yuebin Zhang Advanced Materials Research Centre, c/o School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Sponsored by Mettler-Toledo Pte Ltd)
4.15 - 4.30 pm	Development of Novel Pyroelectric Materials for Infrared Sensors
	Haitao Huang, Dr Jayati Ray and Peter Hing, Materials Engineering Division, School of Applied Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Sponsored by National Scientific (S) Pte Ltd)
4.30 - 4.45 pm	Development of In situ Composites based on Polypropylene and Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polymer
	Assoc Prof Hu Xiao, P. M. Tangamathesvaran and Prof C. Y. Yue Advanced Materials Research Centre (SAS and MPE), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore(Sponsored by Extrad Instrumentation Pte Ltd)
4.45 - 5.00 pm	Quantitative Description of Material Microstructures (click here for full paper)
	J. M. Li, Assoc Prof Lu Li, and Prof. M. O. Lai ,Materials Science and Engineering Department, National University of Singapore (Sponsored by IoM, E. Asia)
5.00 - 5.15 pm	Characterization of nanosize particles
	P. Hing, Advanced Materials Research Centre (SAS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Sponsored by ITS Science & Medical Pte. Ltd.)
5.15 - 5.20 pm	Closing Remarks
	Assoc Prof Peter Hing, Vice President, IoM (E. Asia)