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A&T JOINS WITH NATO TO SPONSOR MAJOR MATERIALS
SYMPOSIUM
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The Center for Advanced Materials and Smart Structures (CAMSS) of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University joined with The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to sponsor a special materials workshop. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop titled “Mixed Ionic Electronic Conducting Perovskites for Advanced Energy Systems” co-sponsored by CAMSS was held at the capitol city Kyiv, Ukraine June 1-5. CAMSS center director and principal investigator, Dr. Jag Sankar and the Center’s outreach manager and senior research scientist, Dr. Sergey Yarmolenko, took lead roles in the workshop, which provided a forum for the exchange of information on recent developments in various advanced energy systems especially related to Fuel Cell technology. Professor Sankar gave a talk on the various activities of CAMSS, chaired sessions, and organized and led a discussion on “International Collaborative Research Activities in Science: Why, How and When?” The discussion provided a forum for globalization activities and strategic steps for joint |
proposals, funding,
exchange of students and scientists, organizing international symposiums
through various inter-governmental support programs and other international
activities of the existing U.S Federal Agencies Programs. Yarmolenko gave a
talk on “Low-cost processing of YSZ thin films for solid oxide fuel cell
application.” According to Sankar one of the key
reasons the conference was organized in Ukraine is that Ukraine contains
some of the richest ores of Zirconia, a key
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