9^th International Conference on Smart Materials and Structures November 16-17, 2020 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Session-1: Emerging Smart Materials

The medieval era where stone, bronze, steel was used, now ceramics, minerals developed, from which metallurgical fields were born. Research on metals, alloys, silica and carbon nanometry has been researched in physics, chemistry, thermodynamics and many other areas of science. Material Science has now revolutionized the metals and alloys from semiconductor, plastic, biomaterials, rubbers, polymers, magnetic materials, medicinal implant materials, nanometers, etc. And it has not stopped yet! Smart structures are tools made from smart materials capable of feeling stimuli, respond to it and return to their original state after removing the stimuli. Self-healing materials, magnetic and thermoelectric materials, polycaprolactone are emerging smart structures, etc.

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Session-2: Materials  and Science Engineering

The discipline of science emerged by the fusion of scientific discipline, ceramics, natural philosophy, and chemistry is that the field that deals with identification, study, and style of materials. To grasp associate in nursing ancient development in geology and metals, researchers combined the information of physics, chemistry, and engineering that led to the event of a replacement field in science particularly Material Engineering or Material science. The bonding nature, shape, form, magnetic, chemical, optical, electrical, thermal, physical and a number of other properties of cloth is discovered and studied during this field. The discipline is vital each from an inquiry perspective, additionally as from associate in nursing industrial one.

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Session-3: Carbon Nanotubes, Graphene and Composites

Carbon has long progressed from a component to diamond, graphite, carbon nanotubes and grapheme. Carbon Nanotubes are carbon allotropes with a cylindrical nanostructure and weird properties finding applications in physics, applied science, and optics. Graphene is another carbon chemical element with a polygon lattice structure having many sorts like Bi-layer grapheme, Penta-graphene, etc. Majorly used as grapheme biosensors. Composites (Composite Materials) are materials shaped by a mixture of two or additional materials to possess higher characteristics compared to individual parts. Composite materials fabrication varies for various composites like Nano composites, Textile composites, etc.

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Session-4: Material Synthesis and Characterization

Manufacturing materials with desired structure and properties involves the employment of many totally different process steps. As a cloth investigator, the structure, property, and process of the fabric (Materials Paradigm) should be legendary. The fabric can't be factory-made in business and marketing if no economical and qualitative production technique for it's been developed. Thus, the process of materials is significant to the sector of materials science. The material's paradigm helps in rhetorical engineering, failure analysis, and investigation of aviation accidents. Recently many sensible materials have emerged through new production ways or changed synthesis steps.

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Session-5: Optical, Magnetic  and Electronic Materials

Optics, magnetic and electronic content research combines the principles of many fields of science such as solid state physics, chemistry, materials science, electronic and chemical engineering. Magnetic materials will be employed in research and data storage, super magnetism and spintronics, while electronic content will receive application in the form of electrics, nanometer/photonic material and pseozoillectric in electronic, semiconductor and energy industries. Their optical properties have been modified to meet the demands of energy conservation, national security and commercial sector in different materials like glass, ceramics, electrics, semiconductors, nanopromocytes and polymer fibers.

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Session-6: Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology is rapidly evolving and is merged with the field of Materials Science. Nanotech-level smart materials or nanomaterial’s synthesis can have different properties for finding healthcare, construction, and material applications in the material industry. Nanotechnology is rapidly evolving and it has been mixed in the field of materials science. Nano-level smart materials or nanometers to synthesis materials industry can have different properties to find healthcare, construction, and content applications.                                         

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Session-7: Piezoelectric Materials  and 3-D Printing

Piezoelectric materials are smart materials which accumulate electric charge across the material surface upon mechanical stress and this charge can change the shape of the material. Some of these materials are ceramic, quartz, quantum dots, etc. These electronic materials are used as sensors and actuators in the automotive industries. Rapid prototyping, 3dimensional (3D) printing or additive manufacturing (AM) of smart materials like smart nano composites, shape memory alloys, ceramics, shape memory polymers, actuators  for soft robotics, self-evolving structures, anti-counterfeiting system has been going on and 4D printing has also come into picture to include the structural reconfiguration of materials over time.

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Session-8: Materials in Healthcare

The explore for ideal restorative material for medicine gave hope for applications of sensible materials in dental science. Sensible materials are materials whose properties may be altered during a controlled fashion to support the tooth structure. Sensible biomimetic materials will mimic enamel or dentin. The employment of sensible materials like sensible composites, sensible ceramics, resin-modified glass monomer, amorphous phosphate emotional pit and fissure sealants, dentistry form memory alloys, sensible impression material, sensible suture, smart burs, etc. have revolutionized medicine and maximized the advantage of standard restorative techniques. Sensible materials have conjointly found their applications in health care sectors as implants, biosensors, etc.

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Session-9: Market Demand and Future

Smart materials and structures market is expected to cross more than $40billion in the upcoming years and the market is segmented by products, end-user industry applications, and geography. In the industries, R&D investment, government assistance, research and defense in many universities and adopt smart content products in many areas such as aerospace, automotive, healthcare, and consumer electronics has led to the market of smart goods. There are many promises in many areas of applications such as energy, architecture, textiles, ceramics, automotive, aerospace, equipment, medical and electronics industries in the future for these emerging materials.

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Session-10: Ceramics and Textiles Industries

The earlier brittle materials that were exhausting and robust in compression and weak in tension and cutting were ceramics. To improvise their properties, good materials were incorporated into them that semiconductor diode to the event of good ceramics that area unit ceramic materials fictional from ultrafine particles victimization the sol-gel route, good ceramics realize applications in bone surgery, tissue engineering, dental applications, bio imaging, sensors, paints and pigments, optics, and natural philosophy, drug, and substance delivery.

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Session-11: Polymer Science and Engineering

Polymer science and engineering is the field of science that studies the synthesis and applications of chemical compound materials (polymers). Crystallization and polymerization of polymers, chemical compound engineering science, materials science and physics study and apply chemical compounds in many applications like lithium-ion polymer battery (LiPo), electro active polymers, chemical compound brush, self- assembled chemical compound films, chemical element nano spheres, collagen, enzymes, elastin, cellulose, chitin, plastics, fibers, and adhesives. Sensible materials like electricity materials, self-healing, and from memory polymers have additionally return underneath analysis during this field.

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Session-12: Sustainable Energy and Development

Depletion of natural resources and a worldwide increase in population has created a worldwide demand for energy. Materials hope for renewable energy sources, super capacitors, energy storage in batteries, thermo electrical devices, energy conversion through star cells and fuel cells.  For the growing would like for production and energy storage, systems as well as numerous materials, operations and properties are used, for instance, batteries like atomic number 3 batteries area unit employed in numerous kinds of mobile devices, as well as installation, computers, recreation devices, power tools, toys, games, lighting, and medical devices. Semiconductor devices have replaced vacuum tubes and from these semiconductor materials diodes, transistors, light-weight emitting diodes (LEDs) have emerged for energy efficiency. 

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Market Research:

Smart Materials and Polymer Technology 2020 are the global smart materials market size was valued at USD 32.77 billion in 2016 and is anticipated to expertise sturdy growth at a CAGR of 13.5% from 2017 to 2025. They exhibit responsiveness in a very controlled manner to ever-changing environments. They need a molecular structure that permits them to retort to a good array of external stimuli, like electrical fields, magnetic fields, pressure, temperature, moisture, and chemicals.

Why to organize this conference:

Smart material and polymer technology conference area unit organize as a result of several edges of smart materials depend upon the actual fact that it's doable to tailor the structures of materials at extraordinarily tiny scales to attain specific properties, so greatly extending the materials science toolkit. Exploitation technology, materials will effectively be created stronger, lighter, a lot of sturdy, a lot of reactive, a lot of sieve-like, or higher electrical conductors, among several alternative traits. Several everyday business product area unit presently on the market and in daily use that have confidence sensible materials and processes.

Smart Material helps to significantly improve, even revolutionize, several technology and business sectors: data technology, Office of Homeland Security, medicine, transportation, energy, food safety, and biology, among several others. Delineated below could be a sampling of the chop-chop growing list of advantages and applications of technology.

Electronics and IT Applications: Smart materials has greatly contributed to major advances in computing and electronics, leading to faster, smaller, and more portable systems that can manage and store larger and larger amounts of information.

Medical and Healthcare Application: Nanotechnology is already broadening the medical tools, knowledge, and therapies currently available to clinicians. Nanomedicine, the application of nanotechnology in medicine, draws on the natural scale of biological phenomena to produce precise solutions for disease prevention, diagnosis, and treatment.

Energy Applications: Smart materials is finding application in traditional energy sources and is greatly enhancing alternative energy approaches to help meet the world’s increasing energy demands. Many scientists are looking into ways to develop clean, affordable, and renewable energy sources, along with means to reduce energy consumption and lessen toxicity burdens on the environment.

Environmental Remediation: In addition to the ways that Smart materials can help improve energy efficiency, there are also many ways that it can help detect and clean up environmental contaminants. Smart materials could help meet the need for affordable, clean drinking water through rapid, low-cost detection and treatment of impurities in water.

Future Transportation Benefits: Smart materials offers the promise of developing multifunctional materials that will contribute to building and maintaining lighter, safer, smarter, and more efficient vehicles, aircraft, spacecraft, and ships. In addition, Smart Materials offers various means to improve the transportation infrastructure.

Scope of conference:

Smart materials have several applications in numerous fields of medication and engineering and additionally the increase in demand for the good materials is enough to believe that there's a good scope for the good materials within the future. The event of true good materials at the atomic scale remains how off, though the sanctioning technologies area unit below development. Worldwide, considerable effort is being deployed to develop smart materials and structures and also the technological edges of such systems have begun to be known and, demonstrators area unit below construction for a good vary of applications from area and part, to engineering and domestic product these systems area unit recognized as a strategic technology for the longer term, having considerable potential for development of unknown product and performance improvement of existing product in industrial sectors that is that the way forward for smart materials and additionally creates several job opportunities during this sector.

Business value:

The global smart materials market is anticipated to succeed in USD 98.2 billion by 2025, in keeping with a report by Grand read analysis, Inc. in depth analysis & innovation activities have widened the economic applications of sensible materials. Increased use of sensible actuators & motors, sensors, and structural materials is anticipated to bolster the demand over consecutive few years.
Smart materials are advanced product, which might sense and answer a broad vary of stimuli, as well as electrical and magnetic fields, temperature, pressure, mechanical stress, hydrostatic pressure, nuclear radiation, and amendment. Distinctive properties of those product enable them to revert to their original state once removal of the stimuli.

Top global Universities in the field of Smart material:

• Nanyang Technological University
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Stanford University
• Tsinghua University
• Harvard University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• University of California--Berkeley
• Fudan University
• National University of Singapore
• Peking University

List of Universities in the field of Smart material in Europe:

• Universite Paris Saclay (ComUE)
• Communaute Universite Grenoble Alpes
• PSL Research University Paris (ComUE)
• Universite de Lyon (ComUE)
• Languedoc-Roussillon Universites (ComUE)
• University of Lorraine
• Communaute d'Universites et Etablissements d'Aquitaine (ComUE)
• University of Strasbourg
• Universite Sorbonne Paris Cite-USPC (ComUE)
• Universite Federale Toulouse Midi-Pyrenees (ComUE)

List of Universities in the field of Smart material in America:

• Universidade de São Paulo
• State University of Campinas
• Federal University of Sao Carlos
• UNESP - Universidade Estadual Paulista
• National Autonomous University of Mexico
• Federal University of Minas Gerais
• Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul
• Federal University of Santa Catarina

List of Universities in the field of Smart material in Australia/New Zealand:

• Monash University
• University of Wollongong
• University of New South Wales
• University of Queensland Australia
• University of Adelaide
• University of Melbourne
• University of Sydney
• RMIT University         
• Deakin University
• Curtin University of Technology

List of Universities in the field of Smart material in Asia/Africa:

• Nanyang Technological University
• Tsinghua University
• Fudan University
• National University of Singapore
• Peking University
• Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• University of Science and Technology of China
• Seoul National University
• Zhejiang University
• Soochow University
• Universite de Sfax

Members Associated with Materials Science:

Research Positions:

• Research Associate
• Research Scientist
• Bitumen Research Associate

Apart from the industrial personnel where most of the research work is done, other research communities include:

• Academicians include Student community
• Researchers include Post docs, Research Associates
• Scientists include Professors, Associate professors and Assistant professor
• Industries include Presidents, CEO’s and R&D Managers

 Major Materials Science Associations around the Globe:

• American Chemical Society (ACS)
• American Physical Society (APS)
• The Materials Information Society (ASM International)
• Microscopy Society of America (MSA)
• The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS)
• Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society
• International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE)
• The American Ceramic Society (ACerS)
• International Association of Advanced Materials(IAAM)

Market Growth of Materials Science in the last and upcoming five years:

The global market is projected to achieve $6,000 million by 2020 and register a CAGR of 10.2% between 2015 and 2020 in terms important . the expansion within the market is calculable to be driven by the increasing demand for aerogel materials from oil & gas and construction applications. The North yank region remains the most important market, followed by Asia-Pacific. The Europe market is calculable to be growing at a gentle rate because of economic recovery within the region at the side of the increasing concern for the building insulation and energy savings.

References:

• https://www.marketdataforecast.com/market-research
• https://www.grandviewresearch.com/

Conclusion:

• Smart materials are able to sense and respond to environment around them. They have the potential to improve existing technology and add new functionality to products. They have applications in a wide variety of areas and they have an waste reduction important role in waste reduction.
• They have a capability to work in multifunctional way. Although Smart materials and systems have been researched for decades, commercial exploitation has been slow. The interdisciplinary nature of the subject and divide between scientist and designers has slowed this exploitation.
• Thus we conclude that there is an important role of smart materials in our life.