Guest Editorial: Composites in medicine (Special Issue for the Symposium on Composites in Medicine at ACCM-5)

摘要

The 5th Asian-Australian Conference on Composite Materials (ACCM-5) was held in Hong Kong on November 27-30, 2006. In parallel with the European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM) series, ACCM series of conferences draw biennially researchers from major countries/territories in Asia and Australia and have been providing a forum for presenting most recent achievements and advances in composite science and technology, and for discussing and identifying key and emerging issues for future pursuits. Leading experts in the composites field from Europe and North America are invited to give plenary or keynote talks in ACCM conferences and research groups in as well as outside Asia and Australia come to participate in the conferences. Like ECCM conferences, it has been a tradition to organise thematic symposia in ACCM conferences.