Symposium SM2-Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications

The increasing interest in the emerging field of Bioinspired Materials have advanced a large diversity of areas of materials science from nano/micro-structures to mechanics and physics. The appealing dynamic characters of biological and synthetic systems have become a recent focus of the field. The complex out-of-equilibrium features underlie the interactions of many important aspects including molecular to macroscopic level transduction of (bio)chemical, mechanical, optical, electrical signals, and fluid-solid interactions in hierarchical architectures.

Recent findings in synthesis, engineering and application of dynamic materials that mimic, or are enabled by, biological systems will be presented in this symposium. Nature exhibits functions, such as muscle contraction, self-healing, and camouflage, which use dynamic or out-of-equilibrium chemistry, mechanics, optics, and surface interactions that are currently still superior to synthetic approaches. With the aim to understand the dynamics of biosystems and stipulate designs toward effective biomimicry and bioinspiration, a large range of research deals with molecular/micro-mechanics, experimental and numerical methods at the micro- and nano-length scale, creating 'living materials' that exhibit the "life-like" properties mentioned above.

This symposium attempts to provide a forum that brings together materials scientist, chemists, and synthetic biologists, and where new concepts of synthesis, characterization, fabrication, and computational modeling will merge. More specifically, the symposium will focus on synthesis, assembly, mechanics, optics, surfaces and interfaces of bioinspired, dynamic materials. The presentation of advances in this emerging field will promote the discussion of the latest ideas on their applications to sensing, drug delivery, soft robotics, smart optics and electronics, and energy harvesting.

Topics will include:

Dynamic and non-equilibrium materials and systems
Microfluidics and microdroplets
Synthetic biology-materials interface
Design of bio-inspired materials for energy harvesting and (opto)electronic applications
Biological-inspired Responsive Materials – synthesis, processing and mechanics
Novel characterization of mechanical response from nano- to macroscale for biological materials through experiments such as nanoindentation, infrared and Raman spectroscopy, electron microscopy, etc.
Stimuli-responsive materials and autonomous materials - Self-healing, self-regulation, self-oscillation, and soft robotics
Chemical or biolocial sensing based on optical, chemical, or electrical detection
Biological optics and photo-responsive molecules, surfaces and materials
Hybrid materials and composites - soft matter integrated with 2-D, semi-conducting, nano/micro-functional materials

Invited Speakers:

SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _0 (Tokyo University, Japan)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _1 (Harvard University, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _2 (University of Pittsburgh, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _3 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _4 (University of Melbourne, Australia)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _5 (Duke University, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _6 (University of California, Riverside, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _7 (Hokkaido University, Japan)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _8 (University of British Columbia, Canada)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _9 (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _10 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _11 (Warwick University, United Kingdom)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _12 (Kyushu University, Japan)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _13 (University of California, Davis, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _14 (Emory University, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _15 (Delft University, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _16 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
SM2_Bioinspired Dynamic Materials—Synthesis, Engineering and Applications _17 (Tokyo University, Japan)