Materials for Tomorrow is an annual conference where leading actors come together to shape tomorrow’s material solutions. This year, we turn our focus to building materials – the materials that shape our built environment and that will be crucial to how we build sustainably, functionally, and for the long term in a changing world.
Overview
- Date:Starts 26 November 2026, 08:30Ends 27 November 2026, 13:00
- Location:Chalmers Conference Centre, RunAn, Chalmersplatsen 1, Gothenburg
- Language:English
- Last sign up date:15 October 2026
This year’s conference brings together researchers, engineers, architects, industry representatives, public authorities, and decision-makers to explore how new material solutions, emerging technologies, and innovative approaches can contribute to tomorrow’s built environment. Here, fundamental research meets application, and theory meets practice.
Materials for Tomorrow 2026 offers an excellent opportunity, not least for master’s students, to gain deeper insight into how materials science and construction are interconnected – from the atomic scale to completed structures – and to understand the role materials play in societal development. The conference takes place at Chalmers and features several internationally recognized speakers.
Conference Sessions
- Multiscale complexity: from angstrom to meter How material properties are shaped by structures spanning from the atomic level to full-scale constructions.
- Non-equilibrium materials: evolution, aging and degradation Materials in transition – how they evolve, age, and degrade over time.
- Material design under real-world constraints Designing materials for real-world conditions, including climate, production, economic factors, and regulations.
- Hybrids, interphases, emerging materials and properties Hybrid materials, interfaces, and emerging material properties with the potential to transform the building sector. Vill du ha en något mer akademisk ton, eller en mer marknadsföringsinriktad version?
Photo Contest
In concurrence with the conference Materials for Tomorrow the Area of Advance Materials Science organize a materials science photo competition. The idea is to bring forth the beauty that can be found in materials science. The top three candidates are rewarded grand prizes.
Read more: The photo contest offering new perspectives on materials science
Poster session
The conference will feature a poster session and a rapid fire poster presentation with chances of winning a generous poster award. Use the poster abstract template on the conference registration page and send your abstract to materials@chalmers.se, not later than 31 October. The program for Materials for Tomorrow will be presented in June. You can already and submit contributions for both the poster exhibition and the photo competition.
- Associate Professor, Structural Engineering, Architecture and Civil Engineering
- Full Professor, Computational Mechanics and Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering