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Held every three years, the International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM) is an international conference series for the global crystallographic texture community. ICOTOM is dedicated to the goal of promoting all aspects of texture research and applications in all kinds of crystalline materials, from metals to rocks to polymers. In particular the development of experimental and theoretical tools for texture research, the improvement of prediction of texture and anisotropy and utilization of texture in relevant areas are objectives of the texture community of ICOTOM.

The scope of the traditional texture community is broadening to include a variety of disciplines of modern materials science and technology. New techniques such as advanced stereologies, serial sectioning technologies and direct 3D characterization are changing the texture field in exciting ways.