TOPICS

Members of the Scientific Advisory Board agreed that a broad range of topics would best encourage inter American participation as well as interdisciplinarity, and the following topics, not mutually exclusive, have been agreed upon:

• Advances in Characterization of Materials
• Nanomaterials
• Biomaterials---bioceramics.
• Materials Issues in Catalysis and Environmental Protection
• Polymeric Materials
• Granular Materials---Mining, Metals and Powders
• Simulation and Modelling
• Magnetic, Electronic, Optical Materials
• Hard Coatings