Scope
The ISSB international conference series first started in 1959 in Asbury Park, New Jersey and since then, it has continued its more than five-decade-long run as a once-every-three-years conference in different countries. The latest one, ISBB 16, was attended by more than 120 people from 16 countries at Matuse, Japan in September 7-12, 2008. The participants reported recent progresses in their research and activities on boron and related materials, and actively exchanged their ideas as oral (55, including 22 invited) or poster (66) contributions.
In 2011, the ISBB 17 conference will be coordinated and hosted jointly by the Istanbul Technical University, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Energy and Mineral Sources and National Boron Research Institute. We anticipate more than 200 attendees comprised of scientists (physics, chemistry, metallurgy and materials science, mining etc.), engineers and government agencies with special interest and expertise in:
- Preparation of New Materials (single crystals, thin films, nanopowders, ceramics, coatings, glasses, composites, biopolymers etc.) in normal and extreme conditions (super-high pressure, ultracentrifuging, microgravity).
- Crystal Structure and Chemical Bonding (nonstoichiometry, defects, clusters, quantum-chemical calculations).
- Physical and Chemical Properties (band structure, phonon spectra, superconductivity, optical, electrical, magnetic, emissive, mechanical properties, phase diagrams, thermodynamics, catalytic activity etc.) in a wide range of temperature and pressure.
- Applications and Prospects (memory elements, thermoelectric converters, composites, ceramics, coatings, biomedicine etc.)
The oral and poster contributions are invited and conference language will be in English.
You can be directed to the scientific and organization committees of the ISBB 17 by clicking the committees link.
Previous ISBB Conference Series
- New Jersey, USA, 1959
- Paris, France, 1964
- Warsaw, Poland, 1968
- Tiflis, Georgia, 1972
- Bordeaux, France, 1975
- Varna, Bulgaria 1978
- Uppsala, Sweden, 1981
- Tiflis, Georgia, 1984
- Duisburg, Germany, 1987
- Albuquerque, USA, 1990
- Tsukuba, Japan, 1993
- Wien, Austria, 1996
- Rennes, France, 1999
- Saint Petersburg, Russia, 2002
- Hamburg, Germany, 2005
- Matsue, Japan, 2008
- Istanbul, Turkey, 2011
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