AMN11 will include technical symposia organised around the following themes, broadly including all aspects of nanotechnology and advanced materials science.

Recyclable and reconfigurable materials

• Advanced materials for the circular economy
• Biological systems to support recycling
• Recovering valuable materials from waste
• Critical materials in our waste streams
• Optimising materials use in a resource constrained world
• Enhanced industrial processes for sustainability

Biological materials and bio-nanotechnology

• Soft materials 
• Engineered materials for biological applications 
• Advanced materials as biointerfaces 
• Materials for nanomedicine  
• (Bio)optoelectronic materials 
• Nano biomaterials

Sustainable Resource Use

• Using Mātauranga Māori to enhance sustainable resource use
• Designing out persistent organic pollutants
• Considering the green credentials of new materials discovery and development
• Advanced materials for wastewater/pollutant treatment

Materials for Zero Carbon Systems and Energy technology 

• Materials for batteries and energy storage systems
• Hydrogen production, storage and utilisation
• Materials discovery using machine learning
• Carbon capture and conversion
• Modelling and measurement of host-guest interactions for surfaces and porous materials
• Light harvesting/photovoltaic devices
• Integration and implementation
• Modelling and theory of materials
  

Materials for Low Energy Tech and Future Computing

• ML and AI aspects for future computing
• High performance and quantum computing need hardware development 
• Cooler computing devices
• Advanced heat sink materials
• Beyond CMOS? Beyond Boolean logic?
• Ising machines
• Atomtronics
• Electrocaloric and magnetocaloric materials
• Semiconductors for IOT, sensing and quantum computing
• Neuromorphic, unconventional and physical computing
  

Photonics, spectroscopy and materials characterisation

• In-situ and operando materials characterisation
• Synchrotron and neutron source methods and instrumentation
  
• Spectroscopy - developments and applications
• Photonics
• Quantum optics
• Modelling and Theory

Science outside the lab

• Challenges and opportunities of commercialising fundamental science
• Citizen science
• The virtuous cycle of fundamental science and commercialisation (dollars, inspiration and talent)
• The commercial drivers of a green transition based on advanced materials
• Interface between academia and industry