Schedule

Technical Program

The AVS Pacific Rim Symposium on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces (PacSurf 2020) will be held on the Big Island of Hawaii from December 6-10, 2020. This conference is being organized by AVS with a Steering Committee composed of representatives from Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Taiwan, and the United States. Symposium attendees will interact during morning and evening sessions that will include plenary, invited, and contributed presentations.The main topics for PacSurf 2020 will be focused on the latest advances in Biomaterial Surfaces & Interfaces, Energy Harvesting & Storage, Nanomaterials, Plasma Processing, and Thin Films. We will have morning and evening technical sessions with the afternoons free for other activities and discussions.

The conference will be held in the Waikoloa Beach Marriott Resort and Spa on the Big Island of Hawaii.  We are confident you will benefit by attending PacSurf 2020 and networking with the other attendees.

Invited Speakers

Biomaterial Surfaces & Interfaces

• Satoka Aoyagi (Seikei University, Japan), “Machine Learning for Prediction of TOF-SIMS Spectra of Peptides”
• Bryan Coad (University of Adelaide, Australia), “Why Mechanism Matters for Antimicrobial Biomaterials”
• Christine DeWolf (Concordia University, Canada), “Structure in Lipid Films: From Biophysical Models to Drug Delivery”
• Lisbeth Grondahl (University of Queensland, Australia), “Longevity of Hydrophilic Surface Layers on Biodegradable Polyester Biomaterials”

Charles S. Fadley Memorial Session: Past, Present, and Future of Photoemission Techniques

• Alexander Gray (Temple Uinversity, USA), “Synergies Between Synchrotron and Lab-based X-ray Techniques for the Studies of Complex Materials and Interfaces”
• Slavomir Nemsak (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), “Catching a Wave: From Quantum Materials to Liquid Chemistry”
• Jean-Pascal Rueff (Synchrotron SOLEIL, France), “HAXPES Research at Synchrotron SOLEIL”
• Gerd Schönhense (Institut für Physik, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Germany), “Pursuing Chuck Fadley’s Ideas a Scientific Lifetime: Photoelectron Recording with Maximum Parallelization”

Energy Harvesting & Storage

• David Ginger (University of Washington, USA), “Surface Recombination and Surface Passivation In Halide Perovskite Solar Cells”
• Craig Perkins (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA), “Passivating Interfaces in Thin Film Photovoltaics

Nanomaterials

• Hiroshi Daimon (Toyota Physical and Chemical Research Institute, Japan), “Development of Atomic Holography Microscope Compact DELMA”
• Byron Gates (Simon Fraser University, Canada), “Tuning the Surfaces of Nanomaterials: From a Diverse Chemical Functionality to Applications in Assembly and Imaging”

Plasma Processing

• Kateryna Bazaka (The Australian National University, Australia), “Controlling Plasma-Surface Interactions”
• Lanbo Di (Dalian University, China), “Understanding the Effect of Cold Plasma Treatment on the Pd/C Catalysts for Formic Acid Dehydrogenation Reaction”
• Geun-Young Yeom (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea), “VHF Plasma Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of SiNx”

Thin Films

• Drew Evans (University of Southern Australia, Australia), “Thin Film Conducting Polymers: From Ion Interactions to Sensing and Energy Storage”
• Andrea M. Hodge (University of Southern California, USA), “Magnetron Sputtering for Microstructure and Alloy Design”
• Hisao Ishii (Chiba University, Japan), “Electronic Structures of Inorganic, Organic and Bio Materials Studied by High-Sensitivity Photoemission Spectroscopy”
• Jolanta-Ewa Klemberg-Sapieha (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada), “Functional Coatings for Aerospace Applications – Perspectives and Sustainable Development”
• Jyh-Wei Lee (University of Technology, Taiwan), “Development of Biocompatible Thin Film Metallic Glasses and High Entropy Alloy Coatings”
• Cecilia Noguez (UNAM Mexico, Mexico), “Electronic Interaction in Graphene/WS₂ Assisted by the Interlayer Rotation Angle”
• Jiandong Ye (Nanjing University, China), “Epitaxy of Meta-Stable Phase Gallium Oxide Semiconductor Material”