International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference - ILCEC2025

11-15.08.2025 Scandic Rosendahl Hotel, Pyynikintie 13, 33230 Tampere, Finland

About the congress

The International Liquid Crystal Elastomers Conference (ILCEC2025) will be held August 11 – 15, 2025, at Scandic Rosendahl hotel in Tampere, Finland.

ILCEC 2025 will bring together chemists, physicists, and engineers to share both fundamental advances and discuss application opportunities for this exciting class of materials. The conference will focus on recent advances including reconfigurable network chemistries, localization of mechanical properties, advances in theory and simulation, and material physics. Contributions from related topics in stimuli-responsive materials are also welcomed (shape-programmable materials, click chemistry, mechanics of materials). We hope you will consider joining us in Tampere – city of science and culture!

 

Main page image: Jousia Lappi, City of Tampere

Organizers

Arri Priimägi

Professor of Chemistry at Tampere University and a leader of a research group Smart Photonic Materials. Research focuses on functional soft materials with properties controlled by external stimuli. The main area is light-activated materials applicable to various directions such as soft roboticsphotonics and biomaterials science.

 

Hao Zeng

Associate Professor of Soft Matter Robotics at Tampere University and a title of Academy Research Fellow from Academy of Finland. A leader of a research Group Light Robots. The main interest is in developing general research routes for materials robotics that are out of equilibrium, locomotive, interactive, and capable of self-feedback, adaptation, and communication.