Symposium E-Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials

Bioinspired engineering is a promising approach to generate advanced materials for various applications. Natural architecture and assembly processes offer materials scientists and engineers a sustainable path to the development of high-performance, next-generation materials and devices. There have been many exciting recent developments in bioinspired engineering of advanced structural, sensing, and energy materials, as well as adhesives, coatings, and membranes. This symposium will cover both the fundamental exploration of the synthesis, structure, and performance of materials inspired by biological systems in nature, and their applications. There will be sessions dedicated to structured materials at different length-scales for applications in functional surfaces, coatings, sensing, and energy and sessions that target the applications of bioinspired materials in photonics and electronics. We anticipate this symposium will bring together leading researchers from around the world to discuss the state-of-the-art developments in this exciting area of materials science and engineering.

Topics will include:

Photonic devices with biological and bio-inspired materials (joint session with the symposium E "Engineering and Application of Bio-inspired Materials")
Bioinspired structural materials
Structure-function relationships in bioinspired materials
Energy storage and other energy-related applications of bioinspired materials
Bioinspired sensing materials
Bioinspired coatings
Electronic devices with biological and bio-inspired materials
Surfaces and interfaces inspired by nature
Biomolecular and biomimetic self-assembly processes
Synthesis of protein-mimetics
Biomimetic control over formation of inorganic materials

Invited Speakers:

E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _0 (Harvard University, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _1 (University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _2 (California Institute of Technology, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _3 (ICFO, Spain)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _4 (ICCAS, China)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _5 (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _6 (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _7 (Sydney University, Australia)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _8 (GE Research Center, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _9 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _10 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _11 (New York University, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _12 (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _13 (AMI, Switzerland)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _14 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _15 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
E_Engineering and Application of Bioinspired Materials _16 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)