Smart Materials and Surfaces 2025 Conference themes are as follow:

• Advances in Functional and Multifunctional Materials
• Multifunctional and smart surfaces and coatings/ thin films
• Hybrid 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
• Catalytic materials
• 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 Textiles
• Fire retardant materials and surfaces
• Smart Materials & Micro/Nanosystems
• Graphene and Other Emerging 2D-layered Nanomaterials

In addition to the main conference sessions, we will host EU projects workshops and focused sessions on innovative topics:

-  EU projects Workshop:  Next-Gen Nanocoatings: Accelerating Antimicrobial Innovation with Modeling & AI

-  Smart Coatings and Surfaces: Innovations, Applications, and Future Directions

-  Nanomaterials for Smart Systems: From Fundamentals to Applications

-  Quantum Materials: Unlocking the Future of Electronics and Matter

-  Bioinspired and Biomimetic Materials: Bridging Nature and Innovation

-  Smart Composite Materials and Surfaces: Tailored Functionality for Advanced Applications

EU projects Workshop (RELIANCE, NOVA, and NANOBLOC):  Next-Gen Nanocoatings: Accelerating Antimicrobial Innovation with Modeling & AI

Organisers: EU-funded Projects RELIANCE, NOVA, and NANOBLOC

Join us for a full-day workshop at Smart Materials and Surfaces 2025, where we dive into the next generation of antimicrobial nanocoatings. Organized by three leading EU-funded projects, this session will spotlight how modeling, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Safe and Sustainable by Design (SSbD) principles are reshaping the innovation landscape—from fundamental research to real-world industrial deployment.

Workshop highlights:

• Project overviews from RELIANCE, NOVA, and NANOBLOC
• Technical deep-dives into modeling and AI methodologies
• Integration of SSbD frameworks in nanocoating development
• Case studies and practical examples from industry applications

RELIANCE: Smart response self-desinfected bio-based nanocoated surfaces for healthier environments. 

NOVA: Next Generation BiOactiVe NAnocoatings

NANOBLOC: Antiviral, Antibacterial & Antifungal Nanocoating Platform

This is a unique opportunity to explore how digital tools and advanced materials science are coming together to tackle urgent antimicrobial challenges.

Don't miss this insightful session on 30 October 2025 in Rome!