The conference themes are as follow :
- Advances in Multifunctional Materials
- Shape Memory Materials: State-of-the-art Research and Applications
- Advances in Multiferroic and magnetoelectric materials and applications
- Advances in Inorganic Luminescent Materials and Applications
- Metamaterials and Metadevices
- Electro-active polymers: current capabilities and challenges
- Photocatalytic Materials for Energy and Environmental Applications
- Energy Harvesting via Smart Materials
- Materials and Mechanisms of Superconductivity
- Stretchable and Flexible Electronic Materials & Devices
- Bioinspired Materials
- Biomimetic bioactive biomaterials – the novel materials of implantable devices
- Stimuli Responsive Materials
- Intelligent drug delivery and release systems
- New Materials for sensors and actuators: Sensing the Future with New Materials
- Progress in Wearable/Wireless and Implantable Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications
- Intelligent Materials for Intelligent Textiles
- Fire retardant materials and surfaces
- Smart Materials & Micro/Nanosystems
- Graphene and Other Emerging 2D-layered Nanomaterials
Focused session on functional Hybrids and composite materials
Chairs: Prof. Eduardo Ruiz-Hitzky, ICMM-CSIC, Spain/ Prof. Pilar Aranda, ICMM-CSIC, Spain/ Prof. Francisco M. Fernandes, UPMC, France
Plenary/ Keynote speakers
Assembling building blocks of different nature to obtain high performance functional materials has become a widespread strategy in Materials Science. This symposium aims at bringing together Academia & Industry researchers interested in the latest progress on hybrid, biohybrid and composite materials. The Symposium will focus in recent developments in the processing, characterization and application of this emerging class of nanomaterials.
Due to its moderate size, the symposium’s ambition is to provide a forum for high level scientific discussion in a context that favors the exchange between the different participants on this wide interdisciplinary topic.
Expected contributions will span the wide processing approaches available for the assembly of organic compounds and/or components of biological origin to diverse inorganic nanoparticles, ranging from self-assembly mediated processing to additive manufacturing. In particular, sol-gel processes, intercalation, encapsulation, LbL assembling, 3D printing, among other techniques, will be considered. Advances in processing procedures to generate monoliths, nanofibers, foams, thin layer and multilayer nanostructures as well as their applications will be relevant features in the Symposium.
The Symposium topics will include the following aspects:
The Symposium will start on the morning of Thursday April 27, 2017 with an introductory Plenary Lecture by Professor Clément Sanchez from the Collège de France. Four invited keynote speakers will open sessions on the following topics: