The International Conference on Innovation by Materials was held on November 22-25, 1993 in the frame of the Leipzig Fair, Germany. The slogan of Conference was #x201C;Intelligent Processing/Smart Materials.#x201D; The Exhibition of New Materials was also held within the same period. Many companies mostly from Germany together with applied institutes and publishers (a total of 53) contributed to this conference. The conference and exhibition were organized by the Research Institute of the German State Company for Chemical Apparatus, Chemical, Technical and Biotechnology (DECHEMA, Frankfurt upon Main)t and the Organizing Committee of the Leipzig Fair. Nearly 200 scientists from Germany, USA, United Kingdom, Belgium, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, France and Russia participated in the conference. Essentially it was a national German conference with participation of about 20 foreign experts. The majority of speakers presented their lectures in German with the remainder given in English. Three kinds of materials were considered: polymers and polymer composites, metals and ceramics. Nineteen plenary and 63 contributed lectures were given.
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