Shaping the Future: Paving the Way for Tomorrow’s Technologies
The theme of NextGen Materials 2025, “Shaping the Future with Advanced Materials”, offers a wide range of specialist disciplines the opportunity to present and discuss the latest findings in data-driven design approaches, novel material syntheses and innovative manufacturing techniques. Through collaboration and the integration of advanced technologies, we aim to overcome traditional boundaries and unlock new potential in material functionality and application. 

Participants can look forward to in-depth discussions on key topics such as living materials, adaptive materials and materials design methods. Each of these material concepts represents a decisive step towards future technologies that are more adaptable, sustainable and resilient. 

Innovative Material Concepts: Main Topics 

• Engineered Living Materials: Hybrid materials with living cells as functional components, enabling adaptive, self-assembling, and responsive properties for dynamic applications. 
• Quasi-Living Materials Systems: Artificial systems inspired by nature that autonomously adapt, harvest energy, and recover, with a focus on sustainability and societal impact. 
• Mechanical and Functional Metamaterials: Architected materials with unique internal structures for enhanced mechanical properties and innovative applications in mobility, health, and energy. 
• Programmable Materials: Materials engineered to reversibly and locally change properties, self-assemble, or self-repair in response to external stimuli. 
• NextGen Materials Design Methods: Advanced computational tools, such as machine learning and multiscale modeling, to accelerate sustainable materials discovery with high throughput. 

Submit Your Abstracts by 31 January 2025
Scientists from all over the world are invited to submit abstracts on the core topics of the conference. This is an excellent opportunity for early career and experienced researchers to present, participate in important discussions and help shape the future of materials science. The deadline for abstract submission is 31 January 2025.