邀请讲座人：Zi-Kui Liu 教授

简介：Zi-Kui Liu（刘梓葵）教授，美国宾夕法尼亚州立大学材料系杰出教授(Distinguished Professor)，曾先后在瑞典皇家工学院、美国威斯康辛麦迪逊分校和美国QuesTek Innovation公司任职。现任《CALPHAD》期刊主编，CALPHAD基金会主席，美国材料学会ASM International副主席；于2002年率先提出了“材料基因”(Materials Genome®)概念，并拥有其注册商标；曾任美国矿物、金属和材料学会(TMS)理事会成员；获2018年TMS William Hume-Rothery奖，2015中国科学院沈阳金属所李薰奖，2014年ASM J.W. Gibbs相平衡奖，2008年美国陶瓷学会Spriggs相平衡奖，2007年ASM会士。刘梓葵教授在国际著名期刊(包括Nature Materials, Nature Communication, Nature Nanotechnology, Nano Letters, Physical Review Letters, Advanced Materials, Acta Materialia)上发表论文500余篇。

【报告题目】Entropy Production and its Applications to Critical Phenomena, Nanograins, and Information

时间:  2019年5月29日 上午10：30

地点:  材料学院 仲英楼楼 第一会议议室

摘要：Thermodynamics is a science concerning the state of a system, whether it is stable, metastable or unstable, when interacting with the surroundings.  Computational thermodynamics based on the CALPHAD approach enables quantitative calculations of thermodynamic properties as a function of both external conditions and internal configurations and is the foundation of Materials Genome®, materials design, and integrated computational materials engineering (ICME).  Generally speaking, phase stability is the key for computational design of materials design to obtain desired phases and avoid detrimental phases, while the properties of individual phases and phase interfaces are used to predict properties of materials.  For a system not at equilibrium, spontaneous and irreversible internal processes are possible inside the system with each of them resulting in positive entropy production due to the second law of thermodynamics. In this presentation, the fundamentals of entropy and entropy production are reviewed, and their applications to critical phenomena and thermodynamically stable nanograins are discussed. Furthermore, our recent efforts in connecting the entropy production and information production/erasing will be presented along with potential impact on complex systems.

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