This international symposium will bring together international researchers from across the breadth of materials science in order to promote communication for the advancement of interdisciplinary materials science research. The symposium will be held in the campus of the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS), Beijing, China, from lunchtime on Friday 2^nd June to lunchtime on Sunday 4^th June. 
This symposium is co-organized by the Royal Society of Chemistry and the ICCAS, and chaired by Prof Deqing Zhang, Prof Lanqun Mao, Prof. Seth Marder. The journal Materials Horizons (2015 IF=9.095), a flagship journal in this field published by the RSC will also be present and promoted in this symposium.