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The objective of this conference is to bring together researchers working in this new and exciting area of Active/Smart Materials. The conference aims at, discovering the prospects and potential application of smart materials technology in the marketplace. Besides invited talks by distinguished scientists around the world, it would provide an opportunity to young researchers and students to present their work. The proceedings of this conference will be published in the “Journal of Materials and Manufacturing Process, USA and Journal of Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures, USA”.
The conference will be held during January 7-9,2009 at Thiagarajar College of Engineering Madurai.

Conference Topics

· Active Materials
· Shape Memory Alloys
· Sensors and Actuators
· Smart Composites
· Piezoelectric Materials
· Electrostrictive and Magnetostrictive Materials
· Electro-and Magneto Rheological Fluids
· Energy Harvesting Materials
· Ferroelectric Materials
· Carbon Nano Tube
· Magnetic Quantum Dots
· Density Functional Theory
· Quantum Monte Carlo Simulation
· Finite Element Method