IGPAC 2025
5 – 9 October 2025 Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan
This conference will focus on non-equilibrium processes of inorganic materials that contribute to the synthesis of new functions and new materials while reducing resource and environmental burdens, and their applications, and will also discuss the elucidation of physicochemical phenomena that enable these processes. These are seen as contributing to engineering practices that contribute to a carbon-neutral and the circular economy and aim to provide a long-term vision of the science and technology platform to accelerate the development of advanced ceramic technologies and manufacturing processes.
Specifically, we will focus on methods that can realize new functions while considering resource procurement and reducing environmental burdens, such as lowering process temperatures through non-thermal equilibrium processes, expressing rare element replacement functions through microstructure and interface control, and imparting self-repair functions. For example, we will discuss new coating technologies such as aerosol deposition and nanosheet methods, which are attracting attention as room-temperature ceramic processes, and new bulk processes using cold sintering methods and mechanochemical and biochemical reaction processes.
Finally, the conference will conclude with a panel discussion featuring prominent researchers and engineers from academia and industry who have successfully developed new processes and implemented them in society, to discuss the future direction of process research in the field of ceramics from an international perspective.
Chair（Japan）, Dr. Jun Akedo
Principal Researcher, Device Technology Research Institute, AIST
Dr. Jun Akedo has been working at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) since 2001, serving as a Group Leader. In 2010, he became a Principal Researcher (concurrently serving as a Group Leader). Since April 2015, he has been the Director of the Advanced Coating Technology Research Center, a position he continues to hold. He holds a Doctorate in Engineering, specializing in thin-film engineering. Following the discovery of the cold impact solidification phenomenon, he has been actively engaged in research and development of room-temperature ceramic coatings using the Aerosol Deposition (AD) method.
Co-Chair（USA）, Prof. Clive A. Randall
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and the Director of Materials Research Institute at The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.
Professor Randall utilizes a combination of the material science approaches of structural-property-process-performance relations and coupling these with material physics to understand, design, and manufacture future generation electroceramic materials and devices. Specific materials the group is studying are ferroelectric and related materials, microwave, electrochemical, semiconducting, and piezoelectric materials in a variety of different forms, ranging from crystal structure, composition, particle and grain size, bulk, film and composites are considered.
Co-Chair（Europe）, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ralf Moos
Department of Functional Materials, Faculty of Engineering Science, University of Bayreuth
Professor Moos’s team works together in an interdisciplinary manner on a large number of projects in our areas of expertise: gas sensors, exhaust gas aftertreatment, ceramic microsystems technology, biosensors and materials for energy conversion.
His team consists of engineers from the fields of materials science, environmental or biotechnology or electrical engineering, natural scientists from the fields of chemistry or physical engineering and laboratory staff.