Focused Session 1: Bioinspiration, Design, Green Processing, and Related Technologies of Advanced Materials
During billions of years of evolution and natural selection, living organisms can efficiently and accurately produce complex and multifunctional materials under environmentally benign conditions. Taken inspirations from the structure-function relationships and the fabrication processes of these biological materials, numerous advanced materials with novel structures and functions have been designed and fabricated. In addition, novel bio-fabrication techniques, multi-scale modeling accelerated by AI, green processing and related technologies exhibit flexibility for materials design to impart various functions 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 biological materials, bioinspired materials, rational optimization and green processing technologies of advanced materials. A particular emphasis will be placed on the fundamental issues related to advancing our understanding and utilization of the biological materials synthesis and fabrication strategies, current progress and challenges, and future directions in green processing and related technologies.
Proposed Session Topics
- Structure and properties of biological materials
- Aqueous synthesis, colloidal processing and bottom-up assembly
- Advances in multiscale modeling, physics-informed machine learning and artificial intelligence methods
- Advances in bioinspired materials and bioprocess inspired fabrication techniques
- Advances in cold sintering process on functional ceramic materials
- Green processing for energy conversion and storage materials and systems
- Green processing for environmental sustainability
- Future directions of bioinspired materials, green processing and technologies
Symposium Organizers
- Zhaoyong Zou, Wuhan University of Technology, China
- Manoj K Mahapatra, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
- Zhao Qin, Syracuse University, USA
- Ling Li, University of Pennsylvania
- Wei Zhai, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Points of Contact
- Zhaoyong Zou: zzou@whut.edu.cn
- Manoj K Mahapatra: mkmanoj@uab.edu
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