The conference will underpin the need of collaboration and cooperation of individuals from wide range of professional background. Materials Oceania will bring together a multidisciplinary group of scientists and engineers from all over the world to present their latest findings, exchange their ideas, and so pave the way for further discoveries, which most often happens where disciplines and specialists meet. In fact the development of materials was, is and will be fundamental for all technological applications and in the entire field of applied science targeting the improvement of quality of life for humanity.