Over the years cellular materials have found their way into numerous applications as functional and construction materials, ranging from tasks in energy and thermal management to biomedical applications and catalytic conversion, just to name a few. CellMAT 2024 will therefore place a particular focus on application-relevant work. In addition, fundamental aspects of cellular materials will, of course, a broad area.

International experts will give keynote/invited lectures about applications in biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, energy conversion, mechanical engineering, chemical systems, and environmental purposes. In this conference, digitalization and data handling of cellular materials is included, and, even if our community relays on experiments and simulation, we feel that this new topic is a must to be implemented.

As a special agenda item a seminar for young researchers will be held on Tuesday, 26 November, a day before the conference starts. Master students and PhD students are cordially invited to attend this seminar; two interactive talks will be given by experts dealing with preparation strategies and with cellular structure characterization; the attendees are encouraged to discuss their specific issues and challenges with cellular matter. And: best three posters will be awarded during the conference.

Topics

General Topics

• General processing
• Functionalization and Surface modification
• Structure, chemical and physical properties characterization and simulation
• Standardization
• Digitalization

Application-related Topics

• Additive manufacturing
• Energy and thermal management
• Materials for catalysis, sorption and raw material production
• (Bio)medical devices and life science
• Automotive, aerospace and transportation
• Geoploymers and refractory materials
• Joining and machining
• Sustainability and recycling
• Mechanical Engineering and Design