IESMMM 2025

Welcome Message 2^nd International Experts Summit on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (IESMMM2025)

 Title: Find your Magnet ! Not in the right environment to innovate in Magnetism and Magnetic Materials ? MOVE !

Without a doubt, research in magnetic materials over the past several decades has revolutionized society.  Whether new sensors, exceptional batteries or fantastic medicine, research in magnetic materials has exploded ! Gone are the days when a magnet was just a magnet. We know so much more about magnets today to change any application area.

But, is this enough ? Do we know enough ? Are we really creating the best magnets for energy, power, or medicine ? No ! Most importantly, are we doing enough to translate such revolutionary research in magnetic materials into real products ? What is happening to all of this great research ? Are companies not paying enough attention to this wonderful research ? Are Universities not doing enough to license academic research or start new companies ? What about federal funding agencies ? Are they supporting the commercialization of such new advances in magnets enough ? And, more personally, are you in the right environment to commercialize your breakthroughs in cardiovascular research ?

Well, in my own experience, above all else, it takes a supportive positive, magnetic, environment to commercialize new research. It takes a proper mind set to translate lab research into real commercial products. It takes determination and fortitude to see it through. You need to surround yourself by the right people – and if you are currently not around a supportive optimistic magnetic environment, leave ! Leave the University you are at - I did ! Leave that company and start your own ! Once I found a truly supportive environment (not just one concerned about funding), I was able to not only start a company based on my magnetic research for human health, but commercialize my over 25 years of University research into medical devices now in over 30,000 patients with no implant failures. No infection. No chronic inflammation. No implant failures. My most successful product is a nanotextured magnetic biomaterial (originally developed through over 20 years of hard academic research) which has never failed in humans to date. An improvement to magnets. An improvement to health. An improvement to life expectancy.

So I encourage everyone to find that right magnetic environment. Life is too short and your research is too important. 

Attend the 2^nd International Experts Summit on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials (IESMMM2025)  ! Meet the right people ! Be energized by optimism ! Surround yourself with positivity. Surround yourself with magnets ! At IESMMM2025, we will not only discuss the next magnetic breakthrough, but more importantly, we will discuss how to commercialize it ! Positively !

I look forward to seeing everyone to spread the positivity ! Be magnetic !

Sincerely,

Thomas J. Webster, Ph.D.
H-index: 128
Fellow, AANM, AIMBE, BMES, FSBE, IIAM, IJN, NAI, and RSM
Nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2024)