Description: Multifunctionality is a term generally used to describe the ability of certain materials to integrate structural utility with other non-structural functionality, such as sensing/actuation, shape memory or self-healing. The symposium will comprise three sessions; Session 1 focuses on active composites concepts: novel materials processing, characterization and modeling; Session 2 focuses on shape memory response: constitutive modeling and experimental behavior; and Session 3 focuses on transport phenomena at the micro and nanoscale (mass, charge, thermal). Papers will be solicited with recent advances in the areas of synthesis and processing of nanostructured and multifunctional materials, experimental characterization and constitutive modeling of multifunctional materials and structures, and transport phenomena in nanostructured materials, microstructured materials and microfluidic systems.