Sustainable Materials and Technologies

SM&T acknowledges the interdisciplinary nature of scientific research on sustainable development and covers a broad and wide scope. It provides a scientific platform for physicists, mathematicians, chemists, material scientists, engineers, biophysicists, biomedical engineers, tissue engineers and other technical experts to contribute innovative works and combine their different disciplines in Sustainability Science and Technology related to: • Resource-efficiency optimization (e.g., minimize amount of precious metals in product design) • Innovative approaches with breakthrough performance for CO2 capture and utilization • Material recycling and materials recovery from complex products • Material substitution to enable lower-impact production and/or use (e.g., composites) • Lifecycle analyses of sustainable technologies • Energy sources for the long term • Advanced manufacturing processes with reduced energy, water, and materials footprint • Theory and Simulation for Energy and Environmental Systems • Emerging materials for efficient sustainable energy and environment devices • New concept and technology for sustainable energy and environmental devices and systems • Sustainable fuel generations through efficient photo-/thermo-/electro-/chemo-catalysis • Theory and Simulation of Advanced Materials for Sustainable Applications • Sustainable biomaterials and/or sustainable technologies for biomedical applications • Sustainable biomaterials and/or sustainable technologies for the design of antimicrobial treatments • Life-cycle and techno-economics analysis of sustainable technologies