Novel Optical Materials and Applications (NOMA)

Novel Optical Materials and Applications

1. Bioinspired and Soft Optics

Natural structural coloration
Biomimetic materials
Bioinspired optics
Polymeric and organic materials
Liquids and liquid crystals

2. Emerging Multispectral and Tunable Materials

Materials with functionality outside the visible range
Materials for active and passive radiative cooling
Phase-change materials
Stimuli-responsive, reconfigurable, and programmable optical materials

3. Quantum and Nanoscale Photonics and Systems

Materials for quantum applications
Metamaterials and metasurfaces
Plasmonics and polaritonics
Two-dimensional materials
Nanostructured materials

4. Advances in Design and Fabrication

Design of sustainable and recyclable systems
Additive manufacturing and laser-assisted fabrication of transparent materials
Artificially engineered and self-assembled optics
Machine learning for materials applications
Flexible optoelectronics and photonics

5. Advancements in Conventional Optical Materials

Sustainable materials
Nonlinear and laser materials
Fiber optic materials
Fluorescent and luminescent materials
Novel coating