Symposium E

Fundamentals and science of condense matters, soft and nonlinear materials (including theories and models): liquids, colloids, polymers, foams, gels, granular materials, liquid crystals, electro-optical materials, organic nonlinear materials, lithium based materials (niobate, iodate etc), first principles materials.

Application of soft materials: optofluidic systems, fluid in nonlinear material and lap-on-chip, packaging, liquid crystal in electronics and optics, display devices and nanotechnology

Application of soft materials in bioscience: Wearable electronics and optics, cosmetics, biological materials, additives, sensors and transducers, biomass and energy.

Applications nonlinear materials in optics: elastics and nonelastic media, Optical Kerr effect, Self-focusing, Kerr-lens, modelocking, Self-phase modulation (SPM), Optical Solitons, Cross-phase modulation (XPM),Four –wave mxing (FWM), can also arise from other nonlinearities. Cross-polarized wave generation (XPW), Raman amplification, Optical phase conjugation, Stimulated Brillouin Scattering, Multi-photon absorption, Multiple photonization, Chaos in optical system.

Applications of nonlinear materials: elastic and nonelastic materials, deformation and thermal areas, hype elastic materials, robotics and nanobots.

Other multiphysical phenomena: Polymer materials, biomaterials, biofuels and biomasses, Liquid crystal technology.

• Lujian CHEN, Xiamen University, China
• Mu Ku CHEN, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
• Din Ping DING, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• El Hadj DOGHECHE, Université Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, France
• Zeng HAO, Tampere University, Finland
• Ravi HEGDE, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, INDIA
• Wei HU, Nanjing University, China
• Dangyuan LEI, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
• Dan LUO, Southern University of Science & Technology, China
• Ming Lun TSENG, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
• Shuming WANG, Nanjing University, China