The 23rd International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2016) will be held on July 3rd-8th at the premises of Nara Kasugano International Forum, Nara-city, Japan. 

ISMANAM is a multidisciplinary symposium which promotes international scientific and technological exchange on the aspects related to Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials. 

The ISMANAM symposium series started in 1994 in Grenoble (France). The event was followed by the subsequent symposia organized in Quebec (1995), Rome (1996), Sitges (1997), Wollongong (1998), Dresden (1999), Oxford (2000), Ann Arbor (2001), Seoul (2002), Foz do Iguaçu (2003), Sendai (2004), Paris (2005), Warsaw (2006), Corfu Island (2007), Buenos Aires (2008), Beijing (2009), Zürich (2010), Gijón (2011), Moscow (2012), Turin (2013), Cancun (2014) and Paris (2015).