The 9th Advanced Functional Materials & Devices (AFMD) will be held in Tokyo (Kogakuin University of Technology and Engineering, https://www.kogakuin.ac.jp/english/) from 20-22 August 2020!

The International Advisory and Organizing Committees cordially invite you to attend the symposium and participate in its scientific programs.

Functional materials that are different from traditional structural materials have received a dramatic increase in their demands in research, development and applications. Many new different functional materials have recently been developed and discovered, and some of them have successfully been used in some applications.

The 9th Advanced Functional Materials & Devices (AFMD) aims to assess the current status and to identify future priorities and directions in research, design and applications of different advanced functional materials including but not limited to ferroelectric and ferromagnetic materials, magneto-optical materials, thermoelectric materials, shape-memory materials, fuel-cell and battery materials, and other related advanced functional materials.

AFMD attempts to share in the latest innovations, advances, and future multidisciplinary research and development of functional materials with a primary focus on the connection between fundamental science, engineering applications and commercialization of the materials.

AFMD also provides an opportunity for promoting mutual interaction, information dissemination and exchange, fruitful collaborations on advanced state-of-the-art functional materials research and development. Due to the rapid growth in research and development (R&D) of functional materials in recent years, various advanced and multifunctional devices have been developed and manufactured, which stimulates a wave of design of new devices that fully use the functionality of different types of functional materials.