Selected Material Related Papers from ICI2016

Dear Colleagues,

The aims and scope of the 2016 International Conference on Inventions is to make researchers focus on patent-based research. This Special Issue will also focus on inventions in materials engineering. Material-related invention is a solution to a specific technological problem and is an improvement on new processes, new materials, and new components, which also could achieve a completely unique function or radical breakthrough. However, there is a very thin line between brilliant innovation and absolute failure, as some of these inventors famously discovered, and also may even face the problems of insufficient funds. Therefore, patent-based research is a form that offers a way to apprehend the ideas and advance projects immediately and rapidly by the successful, practical results of predecessors. We expect the conference to be a platform for successful patent inventors to share their experiences in inventing with all the participants of the conference. At the same time, the conference also aims to gather and show high quality papers concerning the discovery of completely unique functions or results, while even going further in order to advance the frontiers of science and extend the standards of excellence established by inventions to readers.

Topics of the conference include:

• Patent-based inventions in materials engineering
• Inventions in device materials and sensors materials
• Inventions in processes for materials
• Inventions in biotechnology and materials

Prof. Dr. Te-Hua Fang
Prof. Dr. Chien-Hung Liu
Dr. Ming-Tsang Lee
Dr. Tao-Hsing Chen
Guest Editors

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