Mini-symposium on Mechanics of Bioinspired Materials and Structures at EMI2017

Dear colleagues, 

We would like to invite you to submit abstracts for our mini-symposium (MS13) on Mechanics of Bioinspired Materials and Structures in the upcoming EMI conference (June 4-7, 2017) at San Diego. The scope of the mini-symposium is listed below: 

"Biological systems exhibit features ranging from nano to macroscale in a hierarchical fashion, which calls for multi-scale modeling and experimental techniques that need to overcome long-standing challenges in accurately capturing the physical, chemical and structural complexities transcending length and time-scales. From another aspect, it is also a long-standing challenge to design engineering materials and structures inspired from biological systems. Recent years have witnessed a wave of renewed interest in designing bioinspired materials and structures especially accompanied with the rapid development of modern fabrication technology, such as nanofabrication and 3D printing. For example, a number of novel top-down or bottom-up fabrication approaches have been developed to tailor materials into bioinspired structures that enable unprecedented properties such as ultra-lightweight, ultra-tough, ultra-strong and ultra-stretchable. This symposium attempts to provide a forum that brings together mechanicians, experimentalists and materials researchers who investigate the mechanical behavior of biological materials with the aim to understand the novel mechanics of biosystems and stipulate designs toward effective biomimicry and bioinspiration. Topics will cover various aspects of mechanics, micro and nanostructures, synthesis and processing of materials and structures inspired by biology including but not limited to following themes: 

1. Materials design, synthesis and processing of inspired biological materials,

2. Self-assembly and 3D printing of bioinspired materials and structures.

3. Nano and micro scale characterization of biological and bioinspired materials and structures,

4. Modeling and simulation of mechanical properties of biological materials and structures,

5. Structure-function relationships in bioinspired materials and structures"

The due date for the abstract submission is currently set at January 1, 2017. Further details can be found at the URL listed below.

http://jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/events/2017/emi2017/

Best Regards,

Nima Rahbar - Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wanliang Shan - University of Nevada, Reno

Qiming Wang - University of Southern California