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Materials for Electronics, Optoelectronics and Sensing

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Emerging materials for biointegrated and sustainable (opto)electronic devices

Next-generation electronics increasingly depend on thin-film materials that unite high performance with sustainability and biocompatibility. Advances in 2D crystals, organic semiconductors, oxides, and bio-polymers enable flexible, biodegradable, and high-functionality devices for future technologies.

Scope:

The development of next-generation electronic and optoelectronic platforms increasingly relies on thin film materials that combine high performance with sustainability and biocompatibility.

Emerging classes of materials—including two-dimensional crystals, organic semiconductors, functional oxides, and bio-derived polymers—are being engineered and processed into diverse nanoscale and mesoscale architectures such as dots, nanowires/tubes, thin films, and 2D layers.

They exhibit unique transport, optical, mechanical, and biomimetic properties, including brain-inspired functionalities, self-healing mechanisms, ionic-electronic conduction, that can be tuned with unprecedented accuracy. Additionally, they can be processed using advanced manufacturing techniques, such as additive printing, solution-based deposition, and large-area vacuum processes, enabling the creation of complex and high-performance devices that operate reliably on flexible, stretchable, and biodegradable supports.

Such advances are unlocking a new generation of biodegradable and bioresorbable devices, highly sensitive sensors and actuators, and optoelectronic circuits designed for sustainable and circular electronics. Applications extend across human–machine interfaces, soft robotics, prosthetics, biomedical and Internet of Things technologies, highlighting the transformative role of these materials in wearable, implantable, and environmentally responsible devices.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

  • Sustainable Materials for Electronics, Sensors and Actuators
  • Materials for Advanced Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Bio-hybrid devices bridging Biology and Electronics
  • Materials for Neuromorphic biosensing
  • Materials for soft Robotics and prosthetics
  • Materials for Bio- and Circular Economy
  • Life cycle assessment methodology for electronic devices
  • Low-cost, green and large-area manufacturing
  • Wearable energy harvesters

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Symposium organizers
Daniela IACOPINOTyndall National Institute

Dyke Parade, Cork, Ireland

daniela.iacopino@tyndall.ie
Francesca LEONARDIIMEC the Netherlands

Wageningen university campus, Bronland 10, 6708WH, Wageningen, The Netherlands

francesca.leonardi@imec.nl
Giovanni Antonio SALVATORE (Main organizer)Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Via Torino 155, 30172 Venice, Italy

giovanni.salvatore@unive.it
Seung-Kyun KANGSeoul National University

1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Republic of Korea

kskg7227@snu.ac.kr