Topics of interest include:

• Composition, processing, structure, and property of smart materials, including ferroic (ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, and ferroelastic), piezoelectric, electrostrictive, photostrictive, and magnetostrictive materials.
• Design, fabrication, characterization and theoretical analysis of smart materials, metamaterials and related structures for sensing and transduction functions, particularly including acoustic transduction.
• Acoustic metamaterials, smart materials, and related structures and technologies for enhancing sound and ultrasound generation, transmission, or absorption, and their applications.
• Ultrasonic sensors and transducers, and their applications for non-destructive testing, structural health monitoring, ultrasonic and photoacoustic imaging.
• Technologies of sensing and energy conversion, including energy harvesting, energy autonomous sensing, enabled by smart materials.
• Signal and energy conversion functions among electrical, mechanical, acoustic, thermal, optical, and magnetic (such as electromechanical, electroacoustic, laser ultrasonic, photoacoustic, viscoelastic, magnetoacoustic effect), and their applications.
• Emerging sensing and acoustic concepts, and future challenges.
• Applications in healthcare, advanced manufacturing, environmental sustainability, transportation, internet of Things (IoT), safety and security.