Schedule

Technical Program

The AVS Pacific Rim Symposium on Surfaces, Coatings and Interfaces (PacSurf 2024) will be held on the Big Island of Hawaii from December 8-12, 2024. This conference is being organized by AVS with a Steering Committee composed of representatives from Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, South Korea, 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 2024 will be focused on the latest advances in Biomaterial Surfaces and Interfaces, Nano and 2D Materials, Renewable Energy and Energy Storage, and Thin Films and Surface Modification. 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 2024 and networking with the other attendees.

Plenary Speaker

Yang Shao-Horn, MIT, USA

Yang Shao-Horn is JR East Professor of Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.). Her research programs are centered on exploiting chemical/materials physics and physical/materials chemistry principles to understand and design charge transfer, kinetics and dynamics at the solid-gas and solid-liquid interfaces, critical to enable the deployment of clean air and clean energy technologies. She has pioneered the use of electronic structure to develop universal guiding principles of processes governing reactivity, ion mobility and stability to enhance functions across a number of applications spanning from oxidation of air pollutants, making of sustainable fuels and chemicals from reduction of water, CO₂ or nitrogen to rechargeable lithium-ion and lithium-air batteries. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Electrochemical Society, the National Academy of Inventors and the International Society of Electrochemistry. She has advised 100+ students and postdocs at MIT, who are now pursuing successful careers in industry, national research laboratories, and in academia.

Invited Speakers

Biomaterial Surfaces & Interfaces

• Amy Gelmi, RMIT, Australia
• Gabriella Lindberg, University of Oregon, USA
• Jiro Matsuo, Kyoto University
• Saimon Moraes Silva, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia
• Volker Nock, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
• Kaori Sugihara, University of Tokyo, Japan

Nano and 2D Materials

• Sarah Burke, University British Columbia, Canada
• Joshua Goldberger, Ohio State University, USA
• Ikutaro Hamada, Osaka University, Japan
• Yu-Chuan Lin, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan
• Akitoshi Shiotari, Fritz-Haber Institute, Germany

Renewable Energy and Energy Storage

• Seung-Yong Lee, Hanyang University, South Korea
• Elisa Miller-Link, NREL, USA
• Ryota Shimizu, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Jeong Young Park, KIST, South Korea

Thin Films and Surface Engineering

• Sangmin An, Jeonbuk National University, South Korea
• Diana Berman, University of North Texas, USA
• Hyo-Chang Lee, Korea Aerospace University, South Korea
• Christopher Muratore, University of Dayton, USA
• Sandra Rodil, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
• Tetsuhide Shimizu, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
• Ryo Toyoshima, University of Tokyo, Japan
• Chen-Hao Wang, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan