Discovery of Dynamically Reconfigurable, Hybrid, and Sustainable Materials

The Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures brings together a vibrant international community of scientists and engineers from a wide range of disciplines encompassing physics, mechanics, engineering science, chemistry, materials science, biology, mathematics and computational science and engineering to discuss recent advances and unpublished research with the aim to spawn new ideas and foster productive interdisciplinary collaborations. The vibrant and diverse Multifunctional Materials and Structures community of junior and senior researchers from Universities, National Laboratories and industry from around the world has established a catalyzing role in ground-breaking developments in a broad spectrum of emerging technical fields. The rich program of the 2024 GRC, comprised of stimulating lectures, in-depth discussions, poster-sessions, power-hour activities and group social activities, aims at cultivating productive discussions and nucleating new and innovative ideas for technical and scientific breakthroughs in (a) material and structural multifunctionality, shape reconfigurability and adaptivity, (b) discovery and synthesis of hybrid multifunctional materials through theory and recent developments in machine learning and data sciences, (c) computable materials, irregular materials, and materials far from equilibrium, (d) living engineering material systems and active matter, and (e) solid-liquid hybrid multifunctional materials, and materials regeneration and sustainability. The conference will address key scientific issues and bottlenecks in making major advances in these innovative research areas.