Symposium C-1: "Ecomaterials"
Co-operated as the 6th International Conference on Ecomaterials
Co-organized by Ecomaterials Forum, SNTT, Japan

Scope
Ecomaterials will be the important basis of the coming sustainable society. The socio-economical shift to the recycling-based society and the shift to the low emission society demand new development of materials which are benign to the environment. The first symposium on Ecomaterials was held just 10 years ago in IU-MRS. Since then, ecmaterials has been developed in various field of materials such as hazardous substance free materials, recyclable materials, green materials, higher resource productivity materials etc., and these results have been discussed in 5 international conferences on ecomaterials. The symposium will succeed to the previous series of Ecomaterial conferences, and will develop into the practical phase of the development of ecomaterial with many contributed papers and invited papers for the following categories.

Topics
* Materials of green environmental profile
* Materials of higher resource productivity
* Materials without hazardous substances
* Materials for the environment
* Nano-materials' technology for the environment
* Materials for Eco-design and Life-cycle Engineering
* Recycled Materials
* RecyclingProcess and system
* Social technology for recycling-based society
* Others

Chairpersons
Dr. Kohmei Halada^1,2)
Director-General of Ecomaterials Center, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan
E-mai: Halada.Kohmei@nims.go.jp
Prof. Osamu Umezawa
Yokohama National University, Japan
Prof. Dr. Timothy G.Gutowski
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, U.S.A.
Dr. Franz George Simon
Federal Inst. for Materials Research and Testing, Germany
Prof. Dingquan Xiao
Sichuan Union University, China
Dr. Myung Keun Han
Korea Institute of Industrial Technology (KITECH), Korea
Dr. Bruno De Benedetti
Polytecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr. Mikio Kobayashi
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan

Local Organizing Committee
Ecomaterials Forum Japan, The Society of Non-Traditional Technology
Tranomon Sakuradadori Bldg.7F
1-2-10 Toranomon, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-001, Japan
+81-3-3503-4681 FAX +81-3-3597-0535 E-mail: mitoh@sntt.or.jp

Welcome party of Ecomaterial Symposium is held on the evening of 7th October, and satellite meetings related on Ecomaterials are planed on 6th and 7th October, preceding the main Ecomaterials conference from 8th to 10th. Details can be announced by Ecomaterials Forum.