The Seventh Chinese-Norwegian Symposium on Light Metals and New Energy Materials
News 2023
Profs. Yanjun Li and Knut Marthinsen, from SFI PhysMet, together with 8 other Norwegian representatives (6 from NTNU, 2 from SINTEF and 1 from Hydro) attended 4-7. October 2023, the Seventh Chinese-Norwegian Symposium on Light Metals and New Energy Materials (CNS7), in Tianjin, China. In total more than 200 people attended the conference, including a number of persons who have obtained their PhD from NTNU and/or have spent time as Postdocs with us, and who now have continued their academic career in China.
The "Chinese-Norwegian Symposium on Light Metals and New Energy" is an international platform for scientific and technological exchanges between China and Norway, with the aim of promoting the scientific development, technological innovation and achievement transformation of light alloys and new energy materials and cultivating excellent researchers. Since 2005, six symposiums have been successfully held.
The conference was hosted by Hebei University of Technology (HEBUT) and Jilin University (JLU) and co-organized by NTNU. The Norwegian delegates were fully or partly funded by the Intpart project IntMat.
The subject of this Symposium was the Science, Technology and Applications of light alloys such as aluminum, magnesium, titanium and new energy materials. Topics included microstructure design and characterization, deformation and strengthening, industrial processing and applications, corrosion and functional property, and new energy materials.
Both Knut Marthinsen and Yanjun Li gave plenary lectures, with titles: EBSD software development and its applications to EBSD software development and its applications to particle analysis and Strengthening Aluminium alloys by Mn-bearing dispersoids.
During the symposium Knut Marthinsen also received the Outstanding contribution Award – in recognition of distinguished contribution to the academic exchanges in the field of light metals between China and Norway.
After the conference Knut Marthinsen also visited Nanjing Univ. of Technology and Jiangsu Industrial Technology Research Institute (JITRI), Materials Academy, in Suzhou (outside Shanghai, where also Hydro has an extrusion facility).
In addition to the scientific activities, the China trip also gave ample possibilities to taste the Chinese cuisine, as well as visiting the ‘old cities’ in Tianjin and in Nanjing.