Symposium O: Materials Inspired by Biology"

描述（由申请人提供）： 会议目标：1。汇集材料科学家/工程师、化学家、化学工程师、物理学家、生物材料科学家/工程师等，分享受生物模型启发的材料的最新理解和应用。2.促进材料科学界研究人员在不同领域（如生物材料、矿化材料、胶体系统和自组装材料）之间的合作关系，以便鼓励设计先进材料的新方法和/或更好的方法。3.为初级教师，博士后研究员和研究生提供机会，在跨学科和充满活力的国家研讨会上展示研究成果。4.为新型结构和/或功能材料的基础研究成果与工业应用提供联系。虽然许多专题讨论会只关注生物材料应用中合成材料的使用或材料合成的一种生物模型，但很少有专题讨论会将生物无机材料，聚合物和胶体系统联系在一起。组织者认为，专门讨论这些不同领域所涵盖的更广泛的科学和材料挑战的研讨会将促进思想和技术的相互交流，从而有助于加速这些高度跨学科领域的科学进步。这种进步的应用将是深远的，因为基于生物学原理的材料设计在许多生物医学，工程和科学领域都有应用，从组织工程到生物材料到光子学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Objectives of the Conference: 1. To bring together materials scientists/engineers, chemists, chemical engineers, physicists, biomaterials scientists/engineers, etc., to share state-of-the-art understanding and applications of materials that are inspired by biological models. 2. To foster collaborative relationships between researchers in the materials science community in disparate areas such as biomaterials mineralized materials, colloidal systems, and self-assembled materials so that new and/or better ways of designing advanced materials will be encouraged. 3. to facilitate opportunities for junior faculty, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students to present research results in an interdisciplinary and dynamic national symposium. 4. to provide connections between basic research results and industrial application of materials with novel structure and/or function. While many symposia focus only on the use of synthetic materials for biomaterials applications or on one biological model of materials synthesis, few symposia have linked biD-inorganic materials, polymers, and colloidal systems under a common biologically inspired theme. The organizers believe that a symposium devoted to the broader scientific and materials challenges encompassed by these varied areas will promote cross-fertilization of ideas and technologies, and thereby help to accelerate scientific advancements in these highly interdisciplinary fields. The applications of such advancement would be far reaching, as the design of materials based on biological principles has applications in many biomedical, engineering, and scientific fields from tissue engineering to biomaterials to Photonics.