Functional Materials
FApplied optical materials for emerging functionalities
This symposium explores how applied optical materials enable emerging functionalities across computing, energy, sensing, and imaging, emphasizing systems where optical properties drive device performance in disordered, colloidal, hybrid, and nanostructured materials.
Scope:
This symposium addresses the rapidly expanding field of applied optical materials and their transformative role in enabling emerging functionalities across diverse technological domains. The focus encompasses materials where optical properties—including scattering, nonlinearity, emission, and thermal management—are central to device performance and novel applications.
The symposium covers six key thematic areas: (1) Disordered photonics for computing and imaging, exploring wave interference phenomena in complex media for optical reservoir computing and inverse imaging; (2) Materials for radiative cooling and thermal management through spectral control of thermal emission; (3) Optical sensing materials utilizing plasmonic, dielectric, and hybrid platforms for biosensing and environmental monitoring; (4) Nonlinear optical materials exhibiting bistability and dynamic response; (5) Perovskites as versatile emitters and light-active platforms; (6) Optics for studying out-of-equilibrium active systems, bridging synthetic colloids and biological microorganisms.
This interdisciplinary approach brings together materials scientists, physicists, and engineers working on fundamental light-matter interactions and their technological implementations. The symposium welcomes both fundamental research and application-oriented contributions, fostering cross-pollination between different materials classes and application domains.
The timing is particularly relevant as the field moves toward integrated solutions where multiple optical functionalities are combined in single material platforms. Recent advances in nanofabrication, colloidal synthesis, and hybrid material design have opened new possibilities for creating materials with tailored optical responses, making this symposium essential for identifying future research directions and technological opportunities.
Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:
- Disordered photonics for optical computing and reservoir computing
- Radiative cooling materials and thermal management coatings
- Plasmonic and dielectric materials for advanced optical sensing
- Nonlinear optical crystals and polymers for dynamic applications
- Halide perovskites for emission and electro-optical devices
- Active matter optics and reconfigurable photonic systems
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Physics Department, Cosenza, Italy
giovanni.iacucci@phys.ens.frSor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, Cantoblanco, 28049 Madrid, Spain
pd.garcia@csic.es