The National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST), Berhampur, India and Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA jointly organized the International Workshop on Advanced Materials (IWAM-2017) during December 19-21, 2017, to bring together multidisciplinary materials scientists and engineers from academia and industries to present, discuss and debate the current scientific and technological issues relating to advanced materials.

The workshop visualizes giving an exposure to its participants on different aspects of advanced materials through a set of invited lectures by experts in the field, and through contributed oral and poster presentations. Besides, there will be ample opportunity for the participants to have informal discussions on topics of mutual interest with the aim of developing future collaboration.