Symposium TT-Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling

Over the past two decades significant advances in materials synthesis at the nanoscale and recent progress in novel characterization techniques have led to the emergence of a class of materials in which topology (i.e. arbitrary deformations do not alter the global connectivity) plays a prominent role in terms of their functionalities. These materials are ubiquitous and range from (i) various nanoscale allotropes of carbon such as nanotubes, nanorings, nanohorns, peapods, etc. (ii) metallo-organic frameworks, (iii) helical gold nanotubes (iv) Mobius conjugated polymers (v) block co-polymers, (vi) supramolecular assemblies to (vii) a variety of biological and soft-matter systems, e.g. foams and cellular materials, vesicles of different shape and genus, biomimetic membranes, filaments as well as (viii) network structures. Concurrently, topological database and algorithms to model such materials have been established. In order to understand and properly characterize these important materials one must go significantly beyond the traditional paradigm of microscopic structure-property correlation to a paradigm which explicitly incorporates topological aspects from the beginning in characterizing and/or predicting the physical properties and currently untapped functionalities of these materials.
The main objective of this symposium is therefore to foster this transformative change in our view of nanomaterials with an emphasis on topological metrology. To this end, invited speakers with the expertise in both topology as well as materials science who could provide a tutorial level exposition to the subject to the broader materials science community have been invited. After the conclusion of the symposium, both early career and advanced researchers will be motivated to pursue the new research threads unraveled at the symposium.

• Fundamental basis of topology and curvature in functional materials
• Underpinnings of Topological materials / Topology in low-dimensional systems / nanosystems
• Material aspects of Topological insulators; Dirac materials
• Topological allotropes of de novocarbons at nanoscale
• Topological defects / surfaces / interfaces / excitations andtopological phases
• Topology of bio-macromolecules / Gyroid and Cubic Bicontinuous Phases in soft- and bio- Matter/Triply-periodic Minimal Surfaces/Biological Photonic Crystals / Network Topology, Knots and braids
• Topology/geometry in hierarchical self- and directed-assembly syntheses/ Self-organization / Supramolecular materials / MOFs / Topo-selectivity
• Metrology/Characterization techniques for nanocarbons and othertopological materials
• Designing topological materials via simulation and molecular modeling (Quantum chemistry, Molecular Dynamics)

• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _0 (Osaka University, Japan)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _1 (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _2 (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _3 (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _4 (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _5 (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _6 (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _7 (TU Berlin, Germany)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _8 (Swinburne University, Australia)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _9 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _10 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _11 (Copenhagen University, Denmark)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _12 (Vrije Universiteit-Amsterdam, Netherlands)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _13 (Harvard University, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _14 (Harvard University, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _15 (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _16 (University of Queensland, Australia)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _17 (Australian National University, Australia)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _18 (Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces-Potsdam, Germany)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _19 (Harvard University, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _20 (Ludwig Maximilians University, Germany)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _21 (University of Yamanashi, Japan)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _22 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _23 (Hokkaido University, Japan)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _24 (Tsinghua University, China)
• TT_Topology in Materials Science—Biological and Functional Nanomaterials, Metrology and Modeling _25 (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)