Dear friends and colleagues：

ASAM (Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials) is a biennial international academic conference with a focus in the field of advanced materials.

The first Asian Symposium on Advanced Materials: Chemistry, Physics & Biomedicine of Functional and Novel Materials (ASAM-1), which was held at Far Eastern National University, Vladivostok, Russia on Oct.1-4, 2007, was very successful, with active participation of scientists from several Asian countries as well as Russia. The symposium showcased a number of research topics such as fundamental science of materials, materials on energy science, materials on environmental science, materials on biomedical science and multidisciplinary materials, and also offered a forum for interdisciplinary discussion between scientists and engineers from Asian universities, academic institutes and industry. From the success of the event, the participants expressed great desire to organize this symposium on a regular basis.

In keeping with the spirit of the first symposium in 2007, the second symposium was held on October 11-14, 2009 at Fudan University, China. The third symposium was held on September 19-22, 2011 at Kyushu University, Japan. The fourth symposium was held on October 22-25, 2013 at National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taiwan. The fifth symposium was held on November 1-4, 2015  at the Sangnam International House, Busan, Korea. The Sixth symposium was held on September 27-30,2017 at Hoa Binh Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam. Now, we are happy to have the seventh symposium (ASAM-7) at the Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, Beijing, China in 2019.

It is our sincere hope that we will be able to welcome your active participation in this symposium. We are looking forward to meeting with you at Beijing, China.

Dongyuan Zhao

Chairperson of the ASAM-7

Fudan University, China

Yijian Jiang

Co-chairperson of the ASAM-7

Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

Xiuguo Cui

Co-chairperson of the ASAM-7

Beijing Institute of Petrochemical Technology, China

All papers will be peer reviewed to publish the complete paper in EI Journal: Advances in Materials Research. Some selected papers will be published in SCI Journal: Composite Inerfaces  or Journal of Renewable Materials.