The Advanced Materials Show Sessions Presentation Agenda features a series of presentations delivered by industry thought leaders, experts from exhibiting companies, and members of the Advanced Carbons Council. Attendees will explore the forefront of advanced materials, gain insights into the latest developments in materials science, and discover innovations in commercialized graphene.
Presented by: Karl Hautekiet, Head of Global Business Development
Showcase Description: A non-destructive method based on pulse-resonance analysis is proposed to predict the effects of process variations during sintering, heat treatment, and cold working on final mechanical properties. Elastic defects, such as porosity and anisotropy, primarily affect resonance frequencies, while dissipative defects correlate with increased damping and reduced elongation at break, reflecting greater internal energy dissipation. This relationship is extended to additively manufactured materials and metal injection moulding (MIM). In 3D-printed alloys, microstructural features, porosity, and anisotropy reduce elongation and increase damping. In MIM aluminium, porosity and particle boundaries show similar effects, linking processing, microstructure, damping, and ductility.
Visit them on booth 724 for more information.
Presented by: Dr. Cary Hill, Head of Testing & Characterization
Showcase Description: How can customers and suppliers use standards (ISO/ANSI/ASTM) to better understand the materials they use for commercial applications? The successful use of engineered carbons depends on accurate and detailed characterization and measurement to ensure that bona fide materials are used, properly integrated and to verify the intended outcomes. This session will cover the most dependable techniques and highlight the details and nuances that differentiate nano-carbon materials and the products they are used in.
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Kayvon Savadkouei, Applications Scientist
Showcase Description: Surface properties often govern the performance, reliability, and lifetime of materials and products across a wide range of industries. From semiconductor devices and energy storage systems to advanced coatings, polymers, and additive manufacturing, understanding surface chemistry, morphology, and microstructure is critical throughout the product lifecycle—from research and development (R&D) to manufacturing and quality control (QC).
This presentation highlights the application of Glow Discharge Depth Profiling technique in different industries. We demonstrate how this technique enables failure analysis, process optimization, contamination detection, coating evaluation, root-cause investigations, and product design and qualification.
Visit them on booth 733 for more information.
Presented by: Kathryn Carpenter, CEO
Showcase Description: Cecilia’s technology converts plastic into two valuable resources: hydrogen and carbon. While hydrogen is a useful clean energy byproduct, the core innovation lies in advanced carbon materials. Cecilia creates high-performance carbon with exceptional strength, conductivity, and heat absorption. By converting waste plastics, the circular carbon reduces resource extraction and minimizes emissions. An energy-efficient process is powered by electricity and can achieve carbon neutrality with renewable grid electrification.
Presented by: Dr. Benjamin R. Luginbuhl PhD, Senior Scientific Software Developer
Showcase Description: Materials R&D is undergoing a fundamental shift, and agentic AI is driving it. Companies are racing to accelerate discovery and product development, but separating what can actually be built today from the hype remains a massive challenge. This session busts the top prevailing myths, guiding you through the inevitable transition to an agentic R&D organization and toolset.
Presented by Enthought, pioneers of the scientific Python ecosystem and AI solution partner for R&D-critical sectors, including advanced materials, specialty chemicals, and semiconductors.
Visit them on booth 728 for more information.
Presented by: Mike Harrison, Chief Executive Officer
Showcase Description: Graphene oxide has long promised performance gains for industry in advanced materials applications, from cementitious systems and composites to coatings, batteries and printed electronics. But the cost and batch variability of commercially available Hummers GO remains an obstacle to widespread adoption. Mirogo is a tuneable graphene oxide platform, using one-step chemical synthesis to deliver controllable oxidation, higher yield and the potential for order-of-magnitude higher throughput. Using sustainable feedstocks to onshore a critical material for advanced manufacturing, Mirogo makes GO consistent, affordable and application-ready.
Presented by: Parth Kotak, Lead Scientist Surface Materials Characterization
Showcase Description: Nanomechanical testing has become a standard and reliable approach for measuring the mechanical properties of materials. This presentation showcases recent applications of nanoindentation and nanoscratch testing in addressing real-world materials challenges. Through practical examples, it demonstrates how these techniques can uncover subtle weaknesses in hardness, elastic modulus, coating adhesion, and long-term reliability that may be overlooked by conventional characterization methods. The presentation will also illustrate how advanced testing options and thoughtful data interpretation provide deeper insights into material performance, enabling manufacturers to optimize products, improve reliability, and stay competitive in an increasingly demanding global market.
Visit them on booth 917 for more information.
Presented by: TBC
Showcase Description: TBC
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Danny Schnaars, Chief Executive Officer
Showcase Description: The bulk bag industry has seen surprisingly little evolution over the past 50 years. A bulk bag designed decades ago shares nearly the same materials, construction, and features as one produced today. While other forms of industrial packaging have advanced through engineering and innovation, FIBCs have remained largely unchanged.
Fusion® Technology represents a fundamental leap forward rather than another incremental improvement. By rethinking how bulk bags are manufactured, Fusion® delivers enhanced containment performance, improved moisture protection, greater consistency, and eliminates the need for liners in many applications. It is a new approach to what a bulk bag should be.
Attendees will learn:
• Why FIBC technology has remained largely unchanged for decades
• How Fusion® Technology redefines bulk bag construction and performance
• The operational and sustainability benefits of liner-free FIBC solutions
• Real-world applications where Fusion® Technology delivers measurable value
Visit them on booth 617 for more information.
Presented by: Garrett Hill, CTO & CSO – Founder/Inventor
Showcase Description: Advanced-carbon development often begins with available grades, leaving users to test, reformulate, and source material forms from unrelated production routes. This session presents an alternative: begin with the application’s required performance, translate it into measurable material attributes, and work backward toward the material regime and production conditions capable of delivering them. Using Rimere’s production of distinct carbon morphologies from one feedstock and reactor platform as a case study, the session explores specification and qualification challenges. It is intended for producers, users, application developers, researchers, and standards professionals seeking a framework for developing, characterizing, comparing, and procuring emerging carbon materials.
Visit them on booth 1131 for more information.
Presented by: Chad Linder, Senior Sales Engineer
Showcase Description: Advanced technologies depend on a global network of critical minerals, specialty chemicals, and engineered materials. This session explores how supply chain resilience, purification chemistry, diversified sourcing, and strategic inventory management are becoming essential drivers of innovation. Attendees will gain insight into the challenges and opportunities shaping the future of advanced materials development
Presented by: TBC
Showcase Description: TBC
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Matthew Elmer, Applications Scientist
Showcase Description: This 15-minute talk shows how Microtrac particle characterization supports more reliable ceramic batch formulation. By combining particle size and shape analysis, zeta potential, true density, surface area, and pore-size data, ceramicists and engineers can better understand powder behavior and suspension stability. These measurements provide the critical inputs for predictive batch calculations, helping optimize solids loading, dispersant levels, processing, and final ceramic properties.
Visit them on booth 825 for more information.
Presented by: Terrance Barkan, Exectuive Director
Showcase Description: This panel session will highlight three early stage growth companies that are currently accepting outside capital to discuss their vision for the engineered carbons sector.
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Jamie Scaglione, Market Development Manager
Showcase Description: Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are emerging as critical materials for aerospace, defense, space, and nuclear applications, offering exceptional high-temperature performance, lightweighting, and durability in extreme environments. As global demand grows, secure and resilient supply chains are becoming increasingly important. In this presentation, Jamie Scaglione, Ph.D., will explore the latest developments in CMC technology, key challenges in qualification and commercialization, and the testing and characterization strategies needed to accelerate adoption. The session will also highlight Lucideon’s vision for establishing a sovereign UK CMC manufacturing capability and strengthening industrial resilience through advanced materials innovation.
Visit them on booth 931 for more information.
Presented by: Scott Eckley, Technical Sales Manager Americas
Showcase Description: In this presentation, we’ll explore how 3D image processing and analysis can turn scan data of various advanced materials into quantitative insights. Using Dragonfly 3D World, we’ll walk through real-world workflows for analyzing advanced materials, from anode inspection and overhang analysis in batteries to quantifying powder size for metal additive manufacturing to identifying and measuring internal defects using AI-enabled analysis. This presentation is intended for anyone wanting to gain more information from their 2D, 3D, and 4D images.
Visit them on booth 1028 for more information.
Presented by: Tarek Jalloul, Business Development Manager – North America
Showcase Description: Graphene dispersions in water aren’t new, but none have combined what HydroGraph achieved with Fractal Graphene Paste. At 20% graphene concentration, it is many times more concentrated than anything else on the market yet remains fully flowable. Its stable for over two years without settling and is fully dispersed to an ultra-fine particle size. It integrates into any water-based formulation with standard mixing equipment; no specialist processing required. Join HydroGraph to see why Fractal Graphene Paste represents a genuine step-change in how high-quality graphene can now be accessed in a practical, easy-to-use format, for a wide range of commercial applications.
Presented by: Ted Huang, CT Application Scientist
Showcase Description: X-ray computed tomography (CT) is a non-destructive characterization technique that generates 3D digital twins of samples across a wide range of spatial resolutions. In this presentation, we introduce the latest Rigaku CT system, designed to balance accessibility and capability. With 160 kV of power to accommodate a wide range of materials and sample sizes, the system can achieve true submicron spatial resolution without hardware reconfiguration, while maintaining a simple, easy-to-use workflow. This new Rigaku CT system combines versatility and high resolution in a platform designed to be accessible to a broad range of laboratories and facilities.
Visit them on booth 929 for more information.
Presented by: Joseph Simpson, Founder & CEO
Showcase Description: Manual SEM/EDS analysis is limited by both the number of fields an analyst can review and the phases they already expect to see. Onyx, by D10 Analytics, was built to eliminate the needle-in-the-haystack search for inclusions, contamination, and rare phases, empowering analysts to review flagged anomalies instead and to make decisions with statistical confidence drawn from hundreds of fields of view. Requiring no training data and no reference libraries, Onyx runs fully offline on any alloy. We will show Onyx detecting metal powder contaminants, turning massive EDS datasets into statistics a lab can defend.
Visit them on booth 629 for more information.
Presented by: Dr. Borek Scerba, Ph.D., Sales Engineer
Showcase Description: The presentation focuses on practical applications of X-Sight’s DIC deformation measurement technology in material testing and FEM model validation. It presents application examples including spruce wood compression testing and forming limit curve determination. The final part introduces the X-Sight Ansys ACT tool, which provides a workflow for importing DIC data, aligning it with FEM models, and quantifying deviations to support FEM model calibration and validation.
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Terrance Barkan, Executive Director, Advanced Carbons Council
Showcase Description: This session will review the materials that are driving advanced carbons commercial activity (graphene, CNT’s, carbon fiber, biochar) and identify emerging carbon forms (MXenes, etc.) We will cover production, demand, and pricing trends across the spectrum of advanced carbon materials. Content and data taken from original market research and the content of extensive market reports for key materials.
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Ron DeKok, Chief Commercial Officer
Showcase Description: Carbon isn’t one material. Structure and morphology decide how it performs, yet conventional manufacturing starts with a process and accepts what that process produces. Rimere works the other way. By varying the plasma conditions in which carbon forms, we have demonstrated materially different morphologies from a common methane feedstock and modular reactor platform — Branched Nano-Spheres and graphene-family Crumpled Nano-Sheets — while the space between them, and structures beyond them, remain development-stage and continue to be mapped. Ron DeKok will cover what this changes for materials buyers, where the platform stands today, and what Rimere is looking for from partners.
Visit them on booth 1131 for more information.
Presented by: Ron Presswood, CTO & Founder
Showcase Description: Elemental Advanced Materials (EAM) has developed and patented a molten-metal process that converts hydrocarbon feedstocks, including waste and low-value hydrocarbon streams, into hydrogen and high-value carbon nanomaterials without conventional combustion. The process is designed for continuous, scalable production and produces advanced carbon structures including carbon nano-onions (CNOs), multi-layer fullerenes, and graphene-like materials. This presentation will introduce EAM’s production technology and discuss how the unique morphology and properties of its CNOs can provide performance advantages in commercial materials. Particular attention will be given to applications in lubricants and greases, polymers and resins, composites, concrete and cementitious materials, and energy-storage systems.
End of Day 2 Sessions
Presented by: Alex Stanton, Chemical Analyst
Showcase Description: Nanocarbon materials such as graphene and carbon nanotubes are entering broader commercial use, raising regulatory and trade questions for global supply chains. This talk will provide a brief overview of how key jurisdictions such as the US, EU, Canada, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and South America manage nanocarbon materials under chemical-control frameworks such as TSCA and REACH. It will also touch on known compliance challenges, including material characterization, nomenclature, data gaps, and downstream-use obligations. Relevant trade considerations such as tariffs and customs classification, which can affect cross-border movement of nanocarbon materials, will also be briefly discussed. Presented by form EPA Team Leader and currently Chemical Analyst at WILEY, this presentation will provide an update in the most recent changes to international regulations that govern engineered carbon production and application.
Presented by: TBC
Showcase Description: TBC
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Garrett Hill, CTO & CSO – Founder/Inventor
Showcase Description: Carbon is not one material: structure and morphology drive the characteristics that determine performance. Yet conventional carbon manufacturing is largely fixed-output—the process defines the material, leaving application developers to select among available grades and adapt accordingly. This session explores an alternative approach: starting with application requirements and working backward toward the material structure and formation conditions needed to address them. Rimere will present its staged plasma platform and technical evidence showing two materially different carbon morphologies produced from the same methane feedstock and platform under different process conditions: branched nano-spheres and crumpled nano-sheets, graphene-family. The session will distinguish demonstrated results from work still under investigation and discuss the path toward application-directed material development. The target audience is materials developers, formulators, application engineers, manufacturers, and R&D teams. Attendees will leave with a framework for thinking beyond fixed-output carbon and evaluating where tunable material formation could matter to their applications.
Visit them on booth 1131 for more information.
Presented by: TBC
Showcase Description: TBC
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
Presented by: Terrance Barkan, Executive Director
Showcase Description: This session will use 10 years of survey data to demonstrate the commercial trajectory of one of the most exciting new materials to have been developed in the past century.
Visit them on booth 1121 for more information.
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