The focus of this symposium is on materials for dental and orthopedic applications, including emerging metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, and adhesives.

Biological materials science involves the application of materials science and engineering principles to the study of biological materials, including the design, synthesis and fabrication of materials systems from biological lessons. This symposium emphasizes the primacy of biological materials to the development of biomaterials and biomimetic materials.

This symposium will provide a forum to identify critical problems, stimulate new ideas, provide promising solutions, assess possible roadmaps, and discuss fundamental and applied topics related to biological, electronic, and functional thin films and coatings.