Smart Materials and Surfaces – SMS 2025 International Conference

29 – 31 October 2025 I Rome, Italy

The 10th edition of the Smart Materials & Surfaces conference, SMS 2025, is a three-day event targeting researchers interested in the design, modification, characterization and applications of Novel Smart Materials, Surfaces and Structures. It covers the most promising areas of the smart and multifunctional materials R&D and report recent advances on creatively modified Materials. The goal of the conference is to provide a global platform for researchers and engineers coming from academia and industry and different regions of the world to present their research results and activities in this emerging research field. The conference will provide opportunities for the delegates to exchange face-to-face their novel ideas and experiences with the international experts during plenary & invited talks, oral presentations and posters sessions.

Some of the conference topics include:

• Advances in Functional and Multifunctional Materials
• Hybrid and composites materials
• Shape Memory Materials: State-of-the-art Research and Applications
• Advances in Inorganic Luminescent Materials and Applications
• Metamaterials and Metadevices
• Electro-active polymers: current capabilities and challenges
• Bioinspired Materials
• Biomimetic bioactive biomaterials – the novel materials of implantable devices
• Stimuli Responsive Materials
• New Materials for sensors and actuators: Sensing the Future with New Materials
• Progress in Wearable/Wireless and Implantable Body Sensor Networks for Healthcare Applications
• Intelligent Materials for Textiles
• Smart Materials & Micro/Nanosystems
• Graphene and Other Emerging 2D-layered Nanomaterials

This 10th edition of the Smart Materials and Surfaces conference is held jointly with Sensors 2025, NanoMed 2025, and European Graphene Forum 2025.

Important Deadlines

• Abstract submission deadline:  23 May 2025
• Early bird registration deadline: 18 June 2025
• Registration deadline: 19 September, 2025
• Conference and journal papers submission deadline: 12 December 2025

Find more information about the conference here.