Molecular communication is emerging as a disruptive paradigm for information transfer in environments where electromagnetic waves are ineffective or prohibited. This session, Nanomaterials-enabled Molecular Communication, explores how nanomaterials – such as fluorescent nanoparticles, quantum dots, magnetic nanoparticles and responsive polymers – can act as carriers, transducers, and decoders of information. Moving beyond conventional sensing, these systems enable encoding, transport, and retrieval of information through physicochemical processes, including diffusion, reaction, and selective optical readout. The session will bridge nanotechnology, microfluidics, and bio-interfaces, highlighting recent advances in in-vitro and in-vivo platforms, photonic detection strategies, and emerging applications in biomedical devices and secure communication. By reframing nanomaterials as active elements of information systems, this session opens new directions for nanoscale communication technologies.

Targeted topics :

• Nanomaterials as information carriers 

• Molecular communication systems 

• Fluorescent and Magnetic nanoparticles for signaling 

• Microfluidics for controlled molecular transport 

• Reaction–diffusion and transport phenomena in complex media 

• Photonic and array-based detection of chemical information 

• In-vitro and in-vivo platforms for molecular communication

Organizers:
• Valentina Spampinato (University of Catania, Catania, Italy)
• Sonja Jovanović (Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia)
• Maximilian Schäfer (FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg,  Bavaria, Germany)