First International Symposium on Soft Materials

The last few decades have witnessed rapidly growing research activities on various anomalous physical behaviors of soft materials for which the standard theories cease to work. Soft materials are those commonly used in fields such as fibrous, particulate, porous, and discrete media. Ever since Pierre-Gilles de Gennes proposed the term for these kinds of materials in 1991, the concept of soft matter has been accepted with remarkable speed by a growing scientific population. The numbers of research efforts and publications on soft matter science (also known as condensed soft matter science) have been growing as well, at an amazing rate. This symposium aims to build bridges among the different disciplines using theoretical, modeling, experimental investigations, and industrial applications. Presentations of reviews and perspectives of the current and potential research areas are especially welcomed. The scope and interests of the symposium include, but are not limited to, biomedical soft materials, aeronautical and astronautical soft materials, gels, and porous media.