Important Notice：Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 11^th International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference (ILCEC2021) will be held online during November 15^th-16^th, 2021. ILCEC 2021 will be free of charge, and no abstract submission is needed. The traditional offline meeting will hopefully resume in 2023.

ILCEC2021 is organized by the Joint Research laboratory of Device Integrated Responsive Materials (DIRM) at South China Normal University in Guangzhou. ILCEC 2021 will bring together chemists, physicists, and engineers to share both fundamental advances and discuss application opportunities for this exciting class of materials. The conference will focus on recent advances in soft actuation systems, reconfigurable networks, advanced fabrication methods, bio-inspired materials, theory and simulation, and material physics. Contributions from related topics in stimuli-responsive materials are also welcomed (shape-programmable materials, optics and photonics, mechanics of materials). We hope you will consider joining us in Guangzhou!