EURO Intelligent Materials

Intelligent materials with integrated functionalities are required to make devices more energy efficient, autonomous, self-responding, switchable, biocompatible, and anti-bacterial. They are also integrated into novel sensor and actuator devices with significantly increased sensitivity. Such intelligent materials typically have a complex internal structure: they can be composites from different material classes like multiferroics. They might be nanostructured or hierarchically built-up, they could be bio-inspired and possess functional elements ranging from single molecules to the macro-scale. All those materials and their design and development has to be accompanied by high-resolution analytical tools that are able to characterize the materials on all scales and, moreover, to track and reveal their function-structure relations in situ.

The symposium will bring together experts in the field of intelligent materials in order to present and discuss recent developments and detect future trends.

The symposium will be a forum to get in contact with international key researchers and stimulate new collaborations for developing novel intelligent material systems, characterizing their functionality from molecular mechanisms to applications.

The following subjects will be discussed:

• Multiferroics
• Smart materials
• Composites
• Bio-inspired materials
• Medical applications
• Biofunctional materials
• Switchable surfaces / properties
• Advanced characterization techniques

The symposia will be organised by the DGM e.V., Frankfurt.

For further information please visit http://www.dgm.de/intelligent_materials