Nature produces a wide range of materials with fascinating properties that are often taken as a source of inspiration to produce new manmade materials with superior properties. This international conference will focus on the fabrication and characterization of materials made by nature and feature examples that demonstrate how we can learn from nature to build bio-inspired materials. It aims at providing a venue for bringing research on the characterization of natural materials and investigation of the mechanisms by which they are produced together research performed on the fabrication of biomimetic materials.