The symposium will cover a broad range of topics that are germane to building advanced materials via self-assembly. Self-assembly is an important phenomenon on the formation of minerals in nature and has been become to a popular method to synthesize advanced materials in both lab and industrial scales. Up to now, plentiful materials prepared via self-assembly have been applied in various fields such as energy, catalysis, biomedicine, and electrics. For instance, advanced luminescent materials have been prepared self-assembly of intrinsically non-emissive molecules with aggregation-induced emission (AIE) .

One of the challenges facing this fast-growing field of advanced materials is to develop a fundamental understanding of self-assembly mechanisms, which will be addressed in this symposium. Contributions will include, but are not limited to: 1) Advances in synthesis of advanced materials via self-assembly; 2) Investigations into self-assembly mechanisms; 3) Observation of the self-assembly pathways via in situ techniques; 4) Theoretical development on the self-assembly; 5) Materials with aggregation-induced emission and their applications. The Symposium aims to bring researchers updated information on the fundamental self-assembly research through theory to experiments. It is also designed for the experienced researchers to reinforce their knowledge on the scopes of development of new techniques, especially the state-of-the-art in situ characterization tools, to understand mechanisms of self-assembly.

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