Introduction
This international symposium will bring together international researchers from across the breadth of materials science in order to promote communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials science research. The symposium will be held in the campus of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing, China, from lunchtime on Friday 2nd June to lunchtime on Sunday 4th June.This symposium is co-organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the ICCAS, and chaired by Prof Deqing Zhang, Prof Lanqun Mao, Prof. Seth Marder. The journal Materials Horizons (2015 IF=9.095), a flagship journal in this field published by the RSC will also be present and promoted in this symposium.
Format
The symposium is organized into 3 themes run in two parallel sessions, with two poster sessions to allow maximum participation of all delegates. Four Plenary Lecturers will talk across the scope of the conference, while 10 Keynote Speakers will set the scene for different aspects of the 3 topics, supported by nearly 30 contributed talks.Themes
The themes of the whole symposium include:- Materials for Energy & Sustainability
- Materials for Biology & Medicine
- Materials for Optics and Electronics
