ANIM 5: advances and enhanced functionalities of anion-controlled new inorganic materials and mixed-anion research for energy conversion

Following successful Anion-controlled New Inorganic Materials (ANIM) symposia in 2013/15/19/21 this symposium will focus on the chemistry and physics of mixed-anion compounds for energy conversion. This has synergies with a programme led by Japanese, French, and UK teams and we will actively promote expansion of this diverse field.

Scope:

ANIM 5 will provide a forum for discussion of a wide range of topics in the general area of mixed-anion compounds which offer diverse potential applications in fundamental fields and particularly in energy-related fields such as batteries, photovoltaics, non-linear optics, thermoelectrics and superconductivity. Chemists, physicists and materials scientists from Europe and around the world will engage in discussion to create new collaborative ideas in this field which is of growing importance with increasing numbers of new materials having multiple anions. The symposium will benefit from a current so-called “core-to-core” collaborative programme led by Kyoto University with support from JSPS (Japan) and EPSRC (UK) and involving several collaborative groups in France, Belgium and Germany. This will help to attract several delegates from Japan.

Particular areas of focus will be:

• The use of the anion sublattice to control physical and chemical properties and hence function in solid state compounds with a range of structures. This will include the use of anion redox chemistry, anion ordering to control the ligand field around a transition metal, realizing unusual transition metal oxidation states in multi-anion environments.
• The optimization of particular physical and chemical properties using anion tuning. To include
  Optical properties (e.g. in solar absorbers or photocatalysts), electronic and magnetic properties (e.g. in new superconductors, thermoelectrics, ferromagnets), properties relating to energy applications (e.g. solar absorbers, battery electrodes and electrolytes, ionic conductors).
• State-of-the-art synthesis and characterisation techniques to enable the synthesis of multi-anion compounds and investigation of anion ordering (e.g. between O, N and F) on a range of lengthscales, and the control of the anion ordering through synthesis 
• The use of computational and machine learning approaches for suggesting new target materials with particular structures and anion ordering schemes and properties and assessing their stabilities.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

• Innovative synthesis for Anion-substituted New Inorganic Materials (ANIM)
• Anion substitution to control electronic structure in semiconductors (as solar absorbers and electrocatalysts)
• Mixed-anion solids as battery materials
• Using anion redox to control physical properties.
• Soft chemical and electrochemical approaches to control composition and properties in mixed-anion compounds.
• Control of optical properties using mixed-anion approaches.
• Electronic, magnetic and spintronic properties of new mixed-anion materials.
• Computational and machine-learning approaches to structures and properties of mixed-anion compounds.

List of confirmed invited speakers:

• Hiroshi Kageyama, Kyoto University, Japan.
• Patrick Woodward, The Ohio State University, USA
• Amparo Fuertes, ICMAB, Barcelona, Spain
• Emma McCabe, Durham University, UK
• Shunsuke Sasaki, CNRS-IMN, Nantes, France
• Hubert Huppertz, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Austria
• Kang Min Ok, Sogang University, Korea
• Fabian von Rohr, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• David Scanlon, University of Birmingham, UK
• Kazuhiko Maeda, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Alexander Corkett, RWTH, Aachen, Germany