IAAM Awards During the year 2019

Advanced Materials Laureate is one of the biggest honours that IAAM confers upon researchers and scientists of the sphere of advanced materials. This coveted honour is awarded to the deserving minds who make some pioneering progress and help in stimulating the advancement of materials. It is a title awarded to people who conduct some ground-breaking research and explore an untrodden path of science and shed light on it.

This year, the title of ‘Advanced Materials Laureate’ was awarded to renowned scientist, Professor Herbert Gleiter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.

Prof. Gleiter is a revolutionary researcher of the world of nanoscience and his work is primarily focused on the application of nanotechnology, studying nanoglasses, which is a new class of non-crystalline nanomaterials. He also focuses on the transition between classical physics and quantum physics.

In the year 1970, Prof. Gleiter demonstrated a new class of materials: nano-crystalline materials. Later in his career, in the year 1989, he initiated the development of a new class of non-crystalline solids, called nanoglasses. These nanoglasses possess new properties that differ from those of today’s glasses and thus, lead to a range of novel applications that pave the way for a lot of new technologies.

In the last three decades, Prof Gleiter has conducted some ground-breaking research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. With this discovery and development of new materials, his work is bound to have long-lasting positive consequences not just for the scientific line of enquiries, but also for the daily life of human beings in the future.IAAM honoured Prof. Herbert Gleiter with this prestigious title in the Asian Advanced Materials Congress 2019 held in Singapore.

In the 27th assembly of Advanced Materials Congress organized by International Association of Advanced Materials in Stockholm, Sweden from 11 to 14 August 2019, the association honoured as many as 30 researchers from all over the wold with the most prestigious awards and accolades.

In this assembly, IAAM awarded Dr. Frank Engelke with the title of ‘Advanced Materials Laureate’. Dr. Eglenke delivered an Advanced Materials Laureate Lecture on the topic: “Recent developments in solid-state DNP MAS NMR instrumentation”. In this talk, the speaker described the progress in Dynamic Nuclear Polarization (DNP) instrumentation and methodology and suggested key factors in the recent growth of solid-state DNP NMR applications. The speaker reviewed the current state of the art of solid-state DNP NMR instrumentation, particularly focusing on solid-state NMR probe technology. A DNP system overview was given, including options for microwave sources and DNP NMR probes. He focused on some specific developments for DNP at 100 K with magic angle spinning (MAS).

As part of the 27th assembly of AMC, IAAM honoured Prof Herbert Pfneur from Institute of Solid State Physics, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, with the European Advanced Materials Award. He also delivered a lecture on the topic: “Quasi-one dimensional arrays of atomic wires: A new route to nano-optoelectronics?”. In this talk, the professor demonstrated that the embedding environment contributes crucially to the electronic properties in these systems that lead to dimensional crossover, as consistently predicted by the DFT calculations. In his study, adsorption of atomic hydrogen and oxidation was tested. It turned out that these systems are surprisingly robust against oxidation.

In the year 2019, IAAM also honoured two worthy and deserving researchers with ‘American Advanced Materials Award’. These two eminent researchers are Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal, Washington University in St. Louis, USA, and Prof. Yi Lung Mo, University of Houston, USA. These awards were conferred upon these two researchers at the 31st assembly of Advanced Materials Congress held in Orlando, USA.

Prof. Ramesh K. Agarwal is currently the William Palm Professor of Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. He is an elected Fellow of 22 prestigious societies ASME, IEEE, AIAA, Royal Aeronautical Society, etc. for his extraordinary research contributions. He has received many prestigious honors and awards like ASME Honorary Fellowship (2017), Royal Aeronautical Society Honorary Fellowship (2016), SAE International Medal of Honor (2015), AIAA Reeds Aeronautics Award (2015), etc. Prof. Agarwal is one of the forerunners of the technologies related to ‘Green Transportation’, Computational Materials Science and Manufacturing, Geo-mechanics, and their applications to industrial problems in mechanical and aerospace engineering. During the 31st assembly of Advanced Materials Congress, Prof. Agarwal delivered an American Advanced Materials Award Lecture on “Environmentally Responsible Sustainable ‘Green’ Composites”.

Prof. Yi Lung Mo is a John and Rebecca Moores Professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the University of Houston (UH), USA. He is also Chair Professor at the College of Urban and Infrastructure Research, Tsinghua University, China. Prof. Mo is one of the pioneers in multi-resolution analytical simulations, network analysis, large-scale concrete structure testing, and field investigations of the response of advanced materials and structures. During the 31st assembly of Advanced Materials Congress, Prof. Mo delivered an American Advanced Materials Award Lecture about “Periodic Metamaterials for Vibration Isolation of Engineering Structures”.