2025 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit

Symposium SB05-Advances in Bioinspired and Biohybrid Materials—Design, Manufacturing and Applications

The Symposium "Advances in Bioinspired and Biohybrid Materials—Design, Manufacturing and Applications" focuses on the cutting-edge fusion of biology and engineering, specifically on material design and structure of biologically inspired materials and hybrid soft robots. The symposium will cover three full days. The first part of the symposium will focus on bioinspired design and processing, focusing on techniques that range from colloidal assembly to additive manufacturing techniques. The second part of the symposium will focus on bioinspired and biohybrid materials with applications ranging from high-performance structural components to soft robotics.

Experts from diverse disciplines will share their latest findings on materials inspired by animals and plants, as well as soft robots and hybrid materials designed for navigating various complex environments while interacting with their surroundings. The symposium aims at fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, enabling the exchange of groundbreaking concepts at the crossroads of biology, physics and engineering. Encouraging multidisciplinary participation in this MRS symposium, we aspire to advance the field of bioinspired and biohybrid materials. Abstracts will be solicited in the following areas: bioinspired processing and materials; soft-robotics; hybrid materials; and plant-inspired robots.

Topics will include:

Bioinspiration in Materials Design and Applications
Advances in Biological Materials: Characterization and Properties
Bioinspired Manufacturing: Particle and Colloidal Assembly
Additive Manufacturing of Bioinspired Materials
Structural Biologically inspired Materials
Advances in Biohybrid Materials Design and Applications
Mycelia-reinforced Materials
Fruit-inspired materials and devices
Plant-inspired Robotics: materials and applications
Active and adaptive bioinspired materials
Industrial applications of Bioinspired Materials

Invited Speakers:

Francois Barthelat (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Florian Bouville (Imperial College London, England)
Tiffany Cheng (Cornell University, USA)
Horacio Espinosa (Northwestern University, USA)
Jonas Garemark (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Alon Gorodetsky (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Florian Hartmann (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
David Kisailus (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Nicholas Kotov (University of Michigan, USA)
Mirko Kovac (Imperial College London, England)
Hortense La Ferrand (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Marco Lattuada (University of Fribourg, Switzerland)
Fabian Meder (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
Steven Naleway (The University of Utah, USA)
Ritu Raman (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Gilberto Siqueira (Empa—Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
Thomas Speck (Universität Freiburg, Germany)
Victoria Webster-Wood (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Stephan Wolf (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)