FS1: Bioinspiration, Green Processing, and Related Technologies of Advanced Materials

During the last decades, bioinspiration has attracted increasing attention as well from basic and applied research as from various fields of industry and building construction. Bioinspiration has a high innovation potential and offers the possibility for the development of sustainable technical products and production chains. A bioinspired material is any material that exhibits a structure or function that is inspired in some material or process related aspect by examples found in living nature. The study of bio-inspired materials is a technical means to learn from biology, in order to develop new materials and structures with novel functionalities. In addition to bioinspired material, green processing and related technologies exhibit flexibility for materials design to impart various functionalities for diverse applications.

The symposium is aimed at providing a forum for researchers, students, and entrepreneurs to present and discuss their recent scientific results on a wide variety of topics related to science and engineering issues associated with bioinspired and green processing of advanced materials. Novel sophisticated methods for quantitatively analyzing and simulating the form-structure-function-relation on various hierarchical levels allow new fascination insights in multi-scale mechanics and other functions of biological materials and surfaces. Additionally, new production methods enable for the first time the transfer of many outstanding properties of the biological role models into innovative biomimetic products for reasonable costs. A particular emphasis will be placed on the fundamental issues related to advancing our understanding and utilization of processes inspired by living nature to develop materials with new functionalities and structures, current progress and challenges, and future directions in green processing and related technologies as well.

Proposed Session Topics

• Bio-inspired processing of ceramics and fiber-reinforced materials systems
• Advances in bioinspired materials and surfaces and related applications
• Bottom-up assembly and complex colloids
• Green processing for energy conversion and storage materials and systems
• Green processing of functional materials
• Green technology for environmental sustainability
• Future directions of bioinspired materials, green processing and technologies

Symposium Organizers

• Thomas Speck, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Bastian Rapp, University of Freiburg, Germany
• Manoj K Mahapatra, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
• Cordt Zollfranck, Technical, Univeristy Munich, Germany
• André Studdart, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Ada-Ioana Bunea, DTU, Denmark
• Ina Yadroitsava, CUT, South Africa (now Moscow)

Points of Contact:

• Thomas Speck: thomas.speck@biologie.uni-freiburg.de
• Bastian Rapp: bastian.rapp@neptunlab.org