Symposia Structure
Area A: Functional Materials
Area Overseers: Paloma Fernández and Paula M.S. Vilarinho
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| A1 | Materials for Information Technology | Michele Muccini |
| I | Ultrafast Laser Processing and Functionalization of Materials for Technological Applications   |
Javier Solís Razvan Stoian Jan Siegel |
| III | Materials and Devices for Sensing | Giorgio Sberveglieri Luisa Torsi |
| A2 | Magnetic and Multiferroic Materials | Manuel Vazquez |
| I | Domain Structure and Magnetization Processes in Magnetic Nanoscale Systems |
Agustina Asenjo Volker Neu |
| II | Biological Application of Magnetic Nanoparticles | Ricardo Ibarra Paolo Freitas |
| III | Multiferroic Single-Phase and Composite Materials for Novel Magnetoelectric Technologies | Catherine Elissade Miguel Algueró |
| A3 | Carbon Based Materials | Eric Anglaret Marc Monthioux |
| I | Carbon-containing Composites and Materials | Juan José Vilatela Marc Monthioux |
| II | Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene | Vincenzo Palermo Eric Anglaret |
| A4 | Functional Nanostructures and Self Assembled Materials | Urszula Narkiewicz |
| I | Semiconductor Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterisation and Applications |
Javier Piqueras Aleksandra Djurisic |
| II | Nanopowders for Applications in Biology, Medicine, Photonics and Photovoltaics | Stuart J.C. Irvine Marek Godlewski |
| IV | Functional Nanostructures Oxides and Hydroxides | Jean-Francois Hochepied Stéphane Daniele |
| Cancelled or merged symposia: A1II; A4III | ||
Area B: Structural Materials
Area Overseers: Malgorzata Lewandowska and José Kenny
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| B1 | Advanced Metals | Ralf Busch |
| I | Nanostructured Steels | H.K.D.H. Bhadeshia F.G. Caballero |
| II | Metallic Glasses and their Composites | Mihai Stoica |
| III | Intermetallics | Srdjan Milenkovic David Morris |
| IV | High Strength ODS steels: Fundamentals and Applications |
Carlos Capdevila Marta Serrano Mónica campos |
| B2 | Advanced Ceramics | Dariusz Kata |
| I | Advanced Ceramics | Jerzy Lis Thomas Graule |
| B3 | Advanced Polymers | Jean-Francois Gerard José Kenny |
| I | Biobased Polymers, Composites and Nanomaterials | Lars Berglund |
| II | Fire retardant Polymers, Composites and Nanocomposites | De-Yi Wang |
| III | Hybrid Polymer Nanocomposites | Jean-Francois Gerard |
| B4 | Composite, Hybrid and Multi-scaled Structural Materials | Bill Clyne |
| I | Hybrid and Metal-Organic Framework Materials | Jin-Chong Tan Bartolomeo Civalleri |
| II | Highly Porous Metals and Ceramics | Paolo Colombo Russell Goodall |
| III | Composite Materials and Systems for High Temperature Use | Francis Delannay Bill Clyne |
| Cancelled symposia: All symposia in Topic B2 have been merged; B4IV has been cancelled | ||
Area C: Processing
Area Overseers: Pedro D. Portella and Agustin R. Gonzalez-Elipe
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| C1 | Solidification and Solid State Transformations | Rosa I. Merino Michel Rappaz |
| I | Solidification | Jean Marie Drezet José I. Peña |
| II | Solid State Transformations | Frédéric Danoix Benoît Appolaire |
| C2 | Joining and Interface Design | Jolanta Janczak-Rusch |
| I | Wetting | Boris Straumal Alberto Passerone |
| II | Interface Design | Lars P.H. Jeurgens George Kaptay |
| III | Joining Technologies | Ivan Kaban |
| C3 | Nano-Powder and Solution Routes: Synthesis to Materials | Maria Teresa Vieira José Manuel Torralba |
| I | Nano-Powder Development by Advanced Techniques SPTJ |
Bruno Trindade Olivera Milosevic |
| II | Advanced Processing Methods to maintain Nano-Features from the Powder | Alberto Molinari Thomas Schlothauer Olivier Guillon |
| III | Processing of Ceramics and their Mechanical Properties | Arturo Dominguez |
| IV | Additive Manufacturing and other Near Net Shape Techniques | Nahum Travitzky |
| C4 | Advanced Coating and Surface Structuring | Albano Cavaleiro Andrés Lasagni |
| I | Protective Coatings and Thin Films | Tomas Polcar Ben Beake |
| II | Plasma Deposition of Thin Films and Coatings | Hynek Biedermann, Andrey Shukurov Ondrej Kylian |
| IV | Laser Micro-/Nanoengineering | Andrés Lasagni Udo Klotzbach Jürgen Stampfl |
| Cancelled or merged Symposia: C4III; C4V | ||
Area D: Characterisation and Modelling
Area Overseers: Frank Mücklich and Dierk Raabe
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| D1 | Physical, Chemical and Structural Characterisation | Beata Dubiel |
| I | Atom Probe Tomography | Didier Blavette |
| III | Tomographic and Radiographic Imaging with X-Rays and Neutrons | Alexander Rack Timm Weitkamp |
| IV | Neutron and X-Ray Diffraction and Imaging for Materials Science and Engineering | Michael Fitzpatrick Jon James |
| V | Advanced Electron and Ion Microscopy Methods in Materials Characterization | Maria Sozanska Beata Dubiel Christian Kübel |
| D2 | Mechanical Characterisation | Gerhard Dehm |
| I | Mechanical Behavior of Advanced Materials | Jon Molina Ruth Schwaiger |
| II | In-situ Micro- and Nano-Mechanical Characterisation | Marc Legros Sandra Korte |
| III | Interface Failure in Thin Film Structure and Composite Materials | Megan Cordill James Dean |
| IV | Characterization of the Mechanical Aspects of Corrosion and Environmental Degradation | Afrooz Barnoush Wolfgang Dietzel |
| D3 | Materials Modelling on all Length Scales | Risto Nieminen Alfred Ludwig |
| I | Materials Discovery and High-Throughput Methods in Modelling and Experiments |
Ralf Drautz Nicola Marzari Jörg Neubauer Alfred Ludwig |
| II | Multiscale and Thermodynamics Modeling - from Atomic-Scale Properties to Macroscopic Behavior | Alexei Khokhlov Hans Jürgen Seifert Igor Abrikosov |
| IV | Materials Modeling for Energy Applications | Rajeev Ahuja |
| Cancelled or merged symposia: D1II and D3III D3I and D4II were the same symposia, so they have been unified D4I has been merged with D3I |
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Area E: Energy and Environment
Area Overseers: Lorenz Singheiser
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| E1 | Materials for Renewable Energy | Maria Luisa Di Vona |
| II | Materials for Solar Energy Conversion | Susan Schorr Martin Schmücker Sergui Levcenco Ivan Davoli |
| III | Materials for Fuel Cells | Maria Luisa Di Vona |
| E2 | Transportation and Mobility | Dirk Lehmhus |
| I | Lightweight Materials and Structural Solutions for Transport Applications | Kambis Kayvantash Axel von Hehl |
| E3 | Energy Conversion and Transport | Peter Schaaf Per Eklund |
| I | Materials for Power Plants: Energy Conversion and CO2 Capture | W.A. Meulenberg, Christoph Leyens Axel Kranzmann |
| IV | Materials for Nuclear Applications | Nicolas Dacheux Philippe Raison |
| E4 | Energy Harvesting and Storage | Claus Daniel |
| I | Energy Harvesting and Storage | Claus Daniel |
| Symposia E3I, E3II and E3III have been merged All symposia in Topic E2 have been merged All symposia in Topic E4 have been merged |
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Area F: Biomaterials and Healthcare
Area Overseers: Peter Fratzl
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| F1 | Materials for Healthcare Applications | Peter Fratzl |
| I | Micro- and Nano-Engineered Materials for Medical Application | Wojciech Swieszkowski |
| II | Bio-Inspired Materials for Regenerative Medicine | Aldo Boccaccini João Mano Jürgen Groll |
| F2 | Bio-Inspired Materials | Thomas Scheibel |
| I | Bio-Inspired Materials | Richard Weinkamer Tobias Kraus Mischa Zelzer |
| F3 | Bio-Sensing Materials and Devices | Laura Lechuga |
| I | Bio-Sensing Materials and Devices | Arben Merkoçi Peter Bienstman Laura Lechuga |
| All the symposia in Topic F3 were merged All symposia in Topic F2 have been merged |
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Area G: Education, Strategy and Technology Transfer Area
| Title of Area / Topic / Symposium | Coordinator | |
| This area is scheduled in the form of a symposium G1II to be held on Wednesday as one of the parallel sessions in the Conference and several side events combining plenary talks and round tables to be held on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the 13:30-15:00 slot when a cold buffet will be offered for participants | ||
| G1 | Education and Career | |
| I | Education and Career | Flavio Soldera |
| II | Education in MSE: Interdisciplinary and International Aspects | Arlindo Silva Flavio Soldera Mike Ashby |
| G2 | Technology Transfer | |
| I | The role of European Research and Technology Organizations in promoting the Technology Transfer of Materials Technology | Patrick Bressler |
| G3 | Strategic Materials for Europe | |
| I | Materials in Functional and Structural Components | Ehrenfried Zschech |
| II | Relevance of Resources Strategies and Global Competition | Margarethe Hofmann |