Call for Papers

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Advanced functional materials whose optical, electronic, and mechanical characteristics can be customized through chemical design offer unprecedented opportunities to generate new solutions for societal challenges, advancing the potential applications of emerging technologies in environmental monitoring, energy technology, robotics, communication, smart agriculture, healthcare, wearable, and Internet of Things devices. Processing such materials by the large palette of state-of-the-art additive 2D and 3D printing techniques represents an opportunity to develop integrated (opto)electronic or sensor systems that can be personalized to the application needs in a cost- and material-efficient manner. Developing high-performance printed optical, chemical, biological and physical sensors, thermoelectric, light-emitting, or photovoltaic devices, all the way to supercapacitors and actuators, requires a holistic multidisciplinary approach. This involves the design of novel materials, the fabrication of multi-material/multifunction device architectures with high-quality interfaces, and integrating systems onto flexible, stretchable, and soft substrates. Furthermore, the current advances in 3D printing technology open new pathways for fabricating devices with unprecedented form factors while carrying exciting material science challenges. This symposium aims to bring together scientists and engineers across different disciplines to discuss the challenges and the recent advances in the design of advanced materials, their processing through additive manufacturing techniques and the fabrication of next-generation devices and integrated systems. The contributions should discuss the fundamental understanding of the devices and their engineering challenges without forgetting the role of circular materials, green solvents, and sustainable applications.

Topics will include:

• Synthesis and characterization of novel printable optoelectronic and sensing materials
• Printed chemical, biological, and physical sensors and applications
• Printed optical sensors
• Printable energy harvesting and energy storage devices
• Printeable light emitting devices (OLEDs, LECs, LEFETs)
• Organic electrochemical devices and lasers
• Green solvents and circular materials in printed electronics
• Solution-processable electronics
• Optical, electronic, magnetic, structural and morphological characterization of printed functional films
• Material-property-performance relationships in printed devices
• Investigation of device physics in printed devices.
• Methods for processing of printed multilayers.
• Rational and machine learning-driven design of ink formulations and printing processes
• Applications of printed elements in integrated electronic systems

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Chihaya Adachi (Kyushu University, Japan)
• Thomas Anthopoulos (The University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• Jason Azoulay (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Derya Baran (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)
• Mario Caironi (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
• Fabio Cicoira (Polytechnique Montréal, Canada)
• Ravinder Dahiya (Northeastern University, USA)
• Wei Gao (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• Sungjune Jung (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Do-Hwan Kim (Hanyang University, Republic of Korea)
• Hyunhyub Ko (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Jodie Lutkenhaus (Texas A&M University, USA)
• Roderick MacKenzie (Durham University, United Kingdom)
• Vincenzo Pecunia (Simon Fraser University, Canada)
• Barbara Stadlober (JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbh, Austria)
• Stefano Toffanin (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy)
• Graham Turnbull (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)
• Gregory Whiting (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
• Wenzhou Wu (Purdue University, USA)
• Cunjiang Yu (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)

Symposium Organizers