The Wood Nanotechnoloy Conference will be held on September 2 - 5, 2018 at the Congressi Stefano Franscini (CSF). Monte Verita, Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland. The conference should bring together researchers from different research fields, such as wood science, materials science and materials chemistry, who are interested in utilizing the renewable resource wood as a scaffold or template for the design of novel sustainable materials. We intend to facilitate more interdisciplinary research activities and to stimulate new breakthroughs in the field of wood materials.

The specific focus for the Wood Nanotechnology Conference is laid on:

• Methods to use wood as a scaffold or a template to develop hierarchically structured materials with improved material properties and novel functionalities.
• Characterization techniques for the in-depth analysis of such modified materials with high spatial resolution.
• Performance analysis of modified wood materials with regard to added functionality or property improvements.