Preface and Committees

Abstract

A number of topics were highlighted in the scope of special sessions and some of the presented papers are collected in this volume: FLOW SYSTEMS, DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION (SS1) (by A.F. Miguel, L. Rocha), DIFFUSION PROCESSES AND REACTIONS IN ENGINEERING ALLOYS (SS2) (by H. Mehrer, G.E. Murch, I. Belova), GRAIN BOUNDARIES AND INTERFACES: STRUCTURE, THERMODYNAMICS AND DIFFUSION PROPERTIES (SS3) (by V.V. Popov, B. Straumal), ALTERNATIVE ENERGIES (SS4) (by G. Ferreira), CARBON AND OXIDE NANOSTRUCTURES (SS5) (by N. Yahya, G. Kozlowski, K. Koziol), DRYING AND WETTING OF SOLIDS AND PARTICULATE MATERIALS (SS6) (by A.G. Barbosa de Lima, J.M.P.Q. Delgado), HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER IN POROUS MEDIA (SS7) (by J.M.P.Q. Delgado), NANO/BIO MATERIALS SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERIZATION, MODELING AND APPLICATIONS (SS9) (by A. Shokuhfar, C. Politis), HYDROGEN‐RELATED KINETICS IN MATERIALS (SS10) (by Y. Fukai, M. Wilde), MICROSCOPY, MICROANALYSIS AND THEIR APPLICATION ON MATERIALS (SS11) (by K. Shin), NANOTECHNOLOGY IN OIL AND GAS (SS12) (by H. Soleimani).