Peixuan Guo

RNA as a stretchable negative polymer and Lego block to build controllable 3D and 4D nanostructures for material and biomedical applications

Kuei-Hsien Chen

Title: Nano-engineering of GeTe for high performance thermoelectric applications

Biography:

Dr. Kuei-Hsien Chen obtained his BS degree from Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University in 1981 and his MS and Ph.D. degrees from Applied Science, Harvard University in 1989. He joined the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica in 1993 after a three-year research scientist experience at General Electric CRD. He is currently the Distinguished Research Fellow and Director of the Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (IAMS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Dr. Chen works on the synthesis and applications of advanced materials, particularly their energy applications including electrocatalysis, thermoelectricity, and solar fuels. 450 referred papers, 97 International conference Invited/Keynote/Plenary talks, 10 book chapters, and 16 patents; Total citation: 19000+; H-index: 71; Average citation: 30. Among all the publications, 11 of them has been listed by Thomson Reuters Essential Science Indicators as highly cited papers. A detailed bibliography for Dr. Chen can be found in

 https://labs.iams.sinica.edu.tw/project/chenkh   

Orlando Auciello

Science and technology of multifunctional/low cost ultranano-crystalline diamond (UNCD^TM) coatings and applications to new generation of external and implantable medical devices

Prof. Dr. Vladimir Fomin

Title: Topological transitions in 3D superconductor nanoarchitectures 

Biography: 

Ph.D. from the Moldova State University (1978). Dr. habil. from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (1990). Since 1991 Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Moldova State University (Chi?in?u, Republic of Moldova). Since 2009 Research Professor at the Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (Germany). Awards: State Prize of Moldova 1987. Diploma of a Scientific Discovery (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 1999). Medal “Academician P. L. Kapitsa” (Academy of Natural Sciences of Russia, 2000). Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (2007). Scientific interests: theory of self-rolled nanoarchitectures, topological effects in quantum rings and curved 3D micro- and nanoarchitectures, phase boundaries and vortex matter in micro- and nanoarchitectures, superconducting properties of metallic nanograins, phonons, vibrational excitations and polaronic effects in nanostructures, topological states of light and spin-orbit coupling in microcavities, optical properties of quantum dots, thermoelectric properties of semiconductor nanostructures.

Kenton H. Whitmire

Single-source precursors for advanced materials synthesis

Ananth Venkatesan

Dr. Ananth Venkatesan obtained his PhD in Physics under Prof Sergey Kravchenko at Northeastern University, Boston. His thesis work was on measuring magnetization of strongly correlated 2D electrons. Since his PhD and second Post-Doc at Univ of Nottingham he has been working on a variety of mesoscopic devices. His research group at IISER, Mohali, India works on a variety of mesoscopic devices at low temperatures. Special focus is on low temperature dissipation phenomena in metallic nanomechanical resonators and novel 2D electron devices. The present work was published in Nano Lett. 2021, 21, 7, 2975–2981. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00109

Bruce A. Shapiro, Ph.D

Dr. Bruce A. Shapiro is a Senior Investigator and head of the RNA Structure and Design Section within the Center for Cancer Research, RNA Biology Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, NIH.   Dr. Shapiro directs research on computational and experimental RNA structure prediction and analysis and has pioneered research in the emerging field of RNA nanobiology. His work has led to several novel RNA folding and analysis algorithms, experimental techniques and discoveries in RNA biology. His interests include RNA nanobiology, nucleic acid structure prediction and analysis, the relationships between RNA structure and function, thus fostering a synergy between computational and experimental techniques. His laboratory also designs and characterizes delivery agents for the nanoparticles. He has demonstrated that computationally designed novel RNA-based nanostructures are able to self-assemble and be delivered to cell culture and mouse models to control gene expression and show potential for use in RNA-based therapeutics. He has numerous publications as well as pending and issued patents.

Wenwan Zhong

Title: Analysis of microRNAs enclosed in extracellular vesicles (EVs) assisted with novel nanostructures

Biography:

Dr. Wenwan Zhong is a Professor of Chemistry at University of California, Riverside. She obtained her B.S. from University of Science and Technology of China, and Ph.D. from Iowa State University. Her research is devoted to developing innovative analytical techniques to advance our understanding on how biomolecules function and to improve disease diagnosis and treatment. Her group combines synthetic receptors, functional nucleic acids, and nanomaterials, with analytical techniques like flow cytometry, open-channel separation, optical spectroscopy, and mass spectrometry, for the discovery and analysis of biomarkers. Her group is also interested in developing analytical techniques for the study of nano-bio interface.

Maia Mombrú Frutos

Title:  Detection of white light in bismuth based semiconductor thin films

Biography: 

MSc. Maia Mombrú Frutos obtained her BSc (Chemistry) from Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay; and her MSc. Nanoscience and Funcional Nanomaterials from the University of Bristol, UK (through a Chevening Scholarship). She is currently finishing her PhD (Chemistry) at Universidad de la República, where she also teaches undergrad and postgrad courses in Materials Science, Nanotechnology, and Radiochemistry. Her PhD research deals with the study of novel chalcohalides, especially their synthesis in nanostructured form through mild conditions, and their technological applications, such as X-ray detectors and solar cells. Her area of interests are crystal growth, nanomaterials, electron microscopy, and radiation-matter interaction. She is also involved in several outreach activities to promote STEM to the public.

Gerhard Klimeck

Gerhard Klimeck is the Reilly Director of the Center for Predictive Materials and Devices (c-PRIMED) and the Network for Computational Nanotechnology (NCN) and a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He was previously with NASA/JPL and Texas Instruments leading the Nanoelectronic Modeling Tool development (NEMO). His work is documented in over 525 peer-reviewed journal and proceedings articles resulting in over 19,000 citations and a citation h-index of 68 on Google Scholar. He is a fellow of the IEEE, American Physical Society (APS), Institute of Physics (IOP), American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung (Germany). Together with physicist Michelle Simmons of the University of New South Wales, he "devised a way to make a single-atom transistor", which ranked #29 top invention of 2013 by Discover Magazine. In 2020 the nanoHUB team was awarded a R&D 100 award for “nanoHUB: Democratizing Learning and Research”.

Prabhat Ranjan

TItle: Structure and electronic properties of Au_nPt (n=1-8) nanoalloy clusters: A DFT study

Biography: 

Dr Prabhat Ranjan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechatronics at Manipal University Jaipur, India. His research interests include computational material science, material modeling, compound semiconductor, solar cells, smart materials and Density Functional Theory. He has published a number of research articles in international peer-reviewed journals of high repute. He has participated in numerous summer schools, workshops and conferences. He has received prestigious Material Design Fellowship in the year 2014 from Imperial College of London, UK. In the year, he has also received DAAD Fellowship from Germany to participate in the 5^th MCS 2014 at University of Oldenburg. For his dedication and efforts towards research and teaching, Manipal University Jaipur has awarded him with the prestigious Manipal University Jaipur- President Award in the the year 2015 and President Gold Medal for Excellence in Research in the year 2019. He has authored more than 20 book chapters and more than 5 research edited books. 

Shaker A. Mousa, PhD, MBA, FACC, FACB, FAHA, FNAI

Title: Impact of Nanobiotechnology on the future of Medicines: The Road toward precision Medicines –Case Studies

Biography: 

Dr. Mousa is a tenured professor of Pharmacology at Albany College of Pharmacy, founder, executive VP and chair of PRI at Albany, NY. Dr. Mousa is founder of several spin-off Pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies focusing on the treatment of various blood, vascular disorders, hematological and Oncological diseases. He held a senior scientist and a research fellow at DuPont Pharmaceuticals and DuPont Merck for two decades. Awarded the 2017 Kuwait Foundation for Advancement in Sciences (KFAS) Laureate for Applied Sciences in Medicine. Elected and inducted in 2018, a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (FNAI). In 2020, Dr. Mousa ranked by Stanford ranking to be among the top 1% of globally impactful scientist. His current googles scholar citation ~32,000; h-index 90; and i10-Index 500. Dr. Mousa’s work reported in over 1,000 peer-reviewed publications and holds over 400 US & International Patents. Dr. Mousa has contributed to the discovery and development of many FDA approved products and clinical candidates.

Xiao-ming Tao

Xiao-ming Tao is a Chair Professor and the founding director of the Research Centre for Smart Wearable Technology, Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has a BEng in textile engineering and Ph.D. in textile physics. Prof. Tao is known internationally for her pioneering work on smart textiles and fiber-based electronics and photonics. She is a recipient of the Honorary Fellowship of the Textile Institute and the Founder’s Award from the Fiber Society of USA, the highest individual award in the field of textiles and fiber sciences. She is a recipient of ‘The 12th Guanghua Engineering Science and Technology Award’, the highest award in the engineering field in China.

Biswajit Saha

Title: Design and development of flexible strain sensors for smart devices

Biography: 

Dr Biswajit Saha is an Assistant Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at the National Institute of Technology –Rourkela, India. He received his PhD from collectively Nanyang Technological University (NTU) - Singapore and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - USA. Before joining the present position, Dr Saha worked as a contract Assistant Professor at Seoul National University - South Korea and a scientist at Procter & Gamble – Japan. His research interests are in designing of smart-materials/architectures for advanced applications. Dr Saha has developed smart-material-based wearable sensors capable of measuring body movements and physical condition. In addition, he has developed bio-sensors for spontaneous detection of the pathogen in an aqueous medium. He has authored book chapters and articles published in reputed journals.

Jeffrey J Weimer

Title: Toward uniform, monolayer films of nanoparticles via Langmuir deposition 

Biography: 

Dr. Weimer obtained his BS (Chemical Engineering) from the Pennsylvania State University and his PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He pursued a post-doctorate in surface physics at the TU-München, worked in the Laboratory for Surface Science & Technology at the University of Maine, and was a research fellow at the Fritz-Haber Institute in Berlin. He currently lectures in physical chemistry, chemical engineering transport processes, and materials science. His research interests are in functionalizing surfaces, creating well-structured films of nanoparticles using Langmuir deposition methods, and characterizing surface chemistry or structure with spectroscopies and scanning probe microscopy. He has published works on the interactions between molecules adsorbed on metals, x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, the nature of bio-coating surfaces, silanization of metals or glasses, and Langmuir methods to prepare nanoparticle films.  

Swetha Chandrasekaran

James J Hickman

James J. Hickman is the Founding Director of the NanoScience Technology Center and a Professor of Nanoscience Technology, Chemistry, Biomolecular Science, Material Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Central Florida. Previously, he was the Hunter Endowed Chair in the Bioengineering Department at Clemson University. Dr. Hickman has a Ph.D. from MIT in Chemistry. For the past thirty years, he has been studying the interaction of biological species with modified surfaces, first in industry and in then in academia. He has worked at NSF and DARPA in the area of biological computation. He is also the founder and current Chief Scientist of a biotechnology company, Hesperos, that is focusing on cell-based systems for drug discovery and toxicity. He has 159 publications and 20 book chapters, in addition to 29 issued patents. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biomedical Engineers (2004), the American Vacuum Society (2007) International Academy of Nanobiotechnology (2019) and the National Academy of Inventors (2020). 

Stephen E. Saddow

Dr. Stephen E. Saddow received his doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1993 and is currently Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor in the Department of Medical Engineering at the University of South Florida (USF), Tampa, FL. He also is currently Collaborating Scientist at the Italian Synchrotron Light Source (Elettra, Beamline BEAR); and a Guest Researcher at the National Cancer Institute. He was elected Fellow of the AIMBE for seminal contributions to the field of Silicon Carbide (SiC) Biomedical Technology, significantly advancing in vivo biomedical devices and systems. Dr. Saddow is a Senior Member of the IEEE and National Academy of Inventors and holds more than 15 Patents, mostly on SiC biomedical device technology.

Liangmin (Leon) Zhang

Title: Third Order Optical Nonlinear Properties of Self-Assembled Gold Nanoparticle and Dielectric Thin Films

Biography: Dr. Liangmin Zhang obtained his BS in Physics from Qufu Normal University and his PhD in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics from Shandong University in China. He completed his postdoctoral research at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Thereafter, he worked at Virginia Tech and Arkansas State University. He is currently an associate professor of Physics at California State University-Stanislaus

Shengzhong (Frank) Liu

Yaqiao Wu

Biography: 

Dr. Yaqiao Wu is a Research Professor in the Micron School of Materials Science & Engineering at Boise State University (BSU) and the Center for Advanced Energy Studies (CAES). He is the Director of the Microscopy and Characterization Suite (MaCS) at CAES. He received his Ph.D. degree at Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2000 (joint-trained at National Institute of Materials Science, Japan). Before joined BSU, Dr. Wu was with the Ames Laboratory of USDOE. Dr. Wu’s expertise is in nanoscale structural and chemistry characterization achieved by the combination of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atom probe tomography (APT) techniques, to establish critical connections between structure, chemistry and behavior at nanometric to atomic level. He has studied a large range of various material systems from nanostructured magnetic materials, semiconductors, ceramics, quasicrystals and nuclear materials. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Jie Xiao

Title: Modulation of the spatial distribution of crystallizable emulsifiers in Pickering double emulsions

Biography: 

Prof. Xiao’s research program focuses on the development of functional delivery systems that are specifically designed for the purpose of maximizing health effects, according to the limiting factors of dietary bioactive ingredients. Elucidation of the structural-functionality relationship as well as the health benifiting enhancement mechanisms, and the applications of basic theories in fields of functional foods and active packaging. Prof. Xiao is the leader of the Guangdong Introducing Innovative and Enterpreneurial Teams, the Guangdong Zhujiang Young Scholar, and the deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Functional Food. Published over 60 SCI papers in the past five years including 3 highly cited papers.

Andrew T. S. Wee

Andrew Wee is a Class of ’62 Professor of Physics, and Vice President (University and Global Relations) at the National University of Singapore (NUS). His research interests are in surface and nanoscale science, scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and synchrotron radiation studies of the molecule-substrate interface, graphene and related 2D materials. He was a Commonwealth Fellow as well as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he received his received his DPhil (1990). He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Physics (1994) as well as a Masters degree from the University of Cambridge. He is an Associate Editor of the journal ACS Nano, and serves or has served on several other journal editorial boards.

Jun Wu

Title: Flexible electronics for intelligent systems

Biography: 

Dr Jun Wu received his MSc and PhD degree from Southeast University, China. From 2010 to 2012, he was a Visiting Scholar at University of California in Los Angeles, USA. He worked at Singapore-MIT Alliance as a Research Fellow from January 2013 to July 2013. Since 2014, he joined Southeast University and served as Vice Dean, School of Electronic Science and Engineering.

Dr Wu’s main research interests involve stretchable sensors and flexible hybrid electronic systems, aiming to provide potential solutions for body area network. He mainly explores human-based applications including human-machine interfaces, human behavior monitoring and analysis, health monitoring, smart home, and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) based on flexible sensors and electronic systems. Dr. Wu had published more than 50 high-quality papers in international journals and conference. Besides, he served as reviewers for many international journals, such as, Advanced Materials, Advanced Intelligent Systems, ACS Nano, Applied Physics Letters, Small, Organic Electronics, Optics Letters, and Scientific Reports etc

Eui-Hyeok Yang

Dr. EH Yang is a Professor of the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stevens Institute of Technology. The first to receive a MEMS Ph.D. in South Korea, he joined Stevens in 2006 following tenure as a senior member of the engineering staff at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he was awarded, among other honors, the Lew Allen Award for Excellence in 2003. Through the Stevens Micro Device Laboratory, he facilitated student research and hands-on education in emerging nanotechnologies and spearheaded Stevens' first undergraduate nanotechnology research training program. Dr. Yang has secured more than 35 federal grants and contracts totaling approximately $8.5 million, including funding from the National Science Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, National Reconnaissance Office, US Army, and NASA. Dr. Yang's professional service credits include editorial board positions for several journals, including Scientific Reports and IEEE Sensors Journal. Dr. Yang was a featured Track Plenary Speaker at ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in 2018. He received the Award for Research Excellence at Stevens in 2019 and the IEEE Technical Achievement Award (Advanced Career) from the IEEE Sensors Council in 2020. Dr. Yang is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He is also a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

Peter Blümler

Title: Magnetic Guiding with Permanent Magnets

Biography: 

Dr. Peter Blümler studied chemistry and medicine at the University of Mainz, Germany. He completed his Ph.D. in 1993 with Prof. Spiess at the MPI for Polymer Research. After one year of postdoctoral studies at IBM Almaden in San Jose, USA, he joined Prof. B. Blümich at the RWTH Aachen. In 1999 he was appointed senior lecturer of physics at the University of Kent at Canterbury, UK. In 2001 he rejoined the group of Prof. Spiess and in 2004 he was headhunted by Prof. Ulrich Schurr, Research Center in Jülich. Since 2009 he is a senior scientist at the institute of physics at the University of Mainz. His research is focussed on magnetic resonance (hyperpolarization, permanent magnet designs, mobile instrumentation, magnetometry). He has published more than 100 research articles and 12 patents

Elton J. G. Santos

Dr Santos received his PhD in 2011 from the Danish Technical University with a European Honour. Then, he moved to Harvard University as a John A. Paulson Postdoctoral Fellow to undertake research on energy materials and method developments. He moved to Stanford University in 2013 as an assistant scientist to investigate novel functional devices. Dr Santos started his research group in 2015 at Queen’s University (QUB) in the UK as a full Lecturer. At QUB, he took a leading role on the research of two-dimensional materials and energy efficient processes with several high-impact contributions. Dr Santos is one of the recipients of the 2020 Charles Hatchett Award for his investigations on Nb-based catalysts. He moved in 2020 to The University of Edinburgh as a Reader in Theoretical and Computational Condensed Matter Physics. He is part of the Higgs Centre for Theoretical Physics within the School of Physics and Astronomy. He is an EPSRC Fellow on 2D magnetic materials.  

Abir De Sarkar

Title: 2D materials for self-powered flexible piezo-spintronic devices: ab initio insights 

Biography: 

Prof. Abir De Sarkar is with the Institute of Nano Science and Technology, India since March 2014.  In the broad area of Computational Nanoscience, Prof. De Sarkar pursues research on nanomaterials for different kinds of energy conversion and futuristic electronics. He completed his Ph.D. from the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata, India in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Badal C. Khanra. Then, Prof. De Sarkar had his first and last postdoctoral stints at the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max-Planck Society, Berlin, Germany and Uppsala University, Sweden in the group of Prof. Karsten Reuter & Prof. Matthias Scheffler, and Prof. Rajeev Ahuja. In between, he has worked with Prof. Christian Joachim of CEMES-CNRS, France. He has been recipient of the President of India, medal for the year 2000 and CNR Rao award for excellence in Nanoresearch for the year 2018.

Michael Chorny

Dr. Chorny's research focuses on the development of new, targeted delivery approaches for treating proliferative diseases. Over the past several years he has worked on the design of different formulation strategies for targeted delivery of small-molecular antiproliferative agents, biotherapeutics, and cells.

Over the past several years, Dr. Chorny and his colleagues at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania have developed new approaches for producing biodegradable nanocarriers and for examining their drug release behavior, disassembly patterns, intracellular fate, biodistribution, as well as therapeutic and adverse effects.

One of Dr. Chorny's current research projects involves understanding how nanoparticle (NP)-mediated delivery to solid tumors can be controlled and improved by using rationally designed, in situ activatable co-drugs. New NP/co-drug formulations developed using this knowledge may lead to a better therapy for aggressive cancers that resist conventional treatments.

In addition, he has an active project on cardiovascular disease that investigates site-specific schemes designed to increase arterial uptake and extend the local presence of a cell type-selective prohealing agent (estradiol). The goal of the research is to develop a flexible and safer alternative to existing approaches for treating post-angioplasty restenosis.

The approach being studied by Dr. Chorny involves formulating in situ activatable macromolecular prodrugs to achieve controlled drug release and stable anchorage within the injured arterial wall for inhibiting intimal hyperplasia and stimulating endothelium growth in stented arteries.

Le Thi Mai Hoa

Title: Fabrication and characterization of  nanofiltration membrances prepared from functionalized multiwalled carbon nanotube/ poly(vinyl alcohol)

Biography: 

Jun Huang

Suman Bera

Title: Facets Modulation in Light Emitting CsPbBr₃ Perovskite Nanocrystals

Biography: 

Dr. Suman Bera obtained his BSc (Chemistry) from the University of Calcutta and MSc (Chemistry) from Indian Institute Technology, Madras and his PhD (Material Science) from the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science. His PhD research was focused on the synthesis and application of Sb and Bi-based semiconducting nanostructures. He is currently working as CSIR Research Associate at the Indian Association for Cultivation of Science on project entitled ‘Perovskite Polyhedral Nanocrystals and Their Heterostructures’. He has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.

Stela Canulescu

Dr. Stela Canulescu obtained his BSc (Physics) from the University of Bucharest and her PhD from the ETH Zurich. She is currently Head of the Photovoltaic Materials and Systems group at the Department of Photonics Engineering, technical University of Denmark. Her areas of interest are thin film kesterite solar cells and 2D materials. She has published various papers in peer-reviewed journals, such as Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces and ACS Nano.

Dr. Mingxu You

Biography: 

Dr. Mingxu You is the principal investigator of the lab.  He joined the University of Massachusetts at Amherst as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry in September 2016.  He is now also a faculty member of Institute for Applied Life Sciences,  Chemistry-Biology Interface Program, Molecular & Cellular Biology Graduate Program, Center for Biological Physics, Center for Clinical and Translational Sciences, and Center for Autonomous Materials at UMass.

Mingxu grew up in Heilongjiang, China.  He received his B.S. degree in Chemistry from Peking University in 2008, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University of Florida in 2012.  During his doctoral study under the direction of Prof. Weihong Tan, Mingxu focused on developing DNA-based devices for cancer diagnosis, targeted drug delivery, and cell membrane biophysical studies.  Prior to join UMass, he pursued his postdoctoral research with Prof. Samie R. Jaffrey at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, interested in developing RNA-based fluorescent sensors for imaging metabolites and signaling molecules in live cells.

Dr. You has co-authored over 70 journal articles and 3 book chapters.  Most of his work has been published in top journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Chemistry, PNAS, JACS, Angewandte Chemie, Nano Lett, ACS Nano, Anal Chem, and Chem Sci.  His work has been highly recognized with over 5,000 citations.  In addition, he has given over 30 invited seminars in top universities and research institutes in the U.S. and China.

Rina (Irena) Tannenbaum

Dr. Tannenbaum is originally from Israel where she received a B.Sc. in chemistry and physics from the Hebrew University, an M.Sc. in physical chemistry from the Weizmann Institute of Science. and a D.Sc in chemical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich. She is a full professor in the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering and a member of the Stony Brook Cancer Center at Stony Brook University in New York. To date she has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles, reviews and refereed conference proceedings. She is the recipient of numerous awards such as the best paper award in the 1st International Conference on Applied Physics (2003), the Sigma Xi best thesis advisor award (2004), the MRS Fall 2006 Meeting outstanding paper award (2007), 1st prize in the SAIC best paper competition (2007, 2010 and 2012) and best paper award in the 6th Symposium of Frontiers in Polymers (2019). She is a member of the Advisory Board of several professional journals, on the steering and program committees of numerous professional meetings and a frequent keynote and plenary speaker at national and international conferences. Dr. Tannenbaum’s areas of interest are soft condensed matter and complex fluids, biomedical applications of Raman spectroscopy, nanocomposites from renewable resources, biomaterials for bone implants and tissue engineering, bio-adhesion, nanofluids, bio-nanostructures and nanoplatforms for cancer diagnostic and targeted drug delivery.

Rahimah Othman

Title: Organic-solvent mutual interaction as a tool to engineer in tailoring functional pharmaceutical particles

Biography: 

Dr. Rahimah Othman obtained her MSc (Chemical & Process Engineer) from the Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and her PhD (Chemical Engineering) from the Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Her PhD research was based on the production of functional pharmaceutical nano/micro-particles by solvent displacement method using advanced micro-engineered dispersion devices. She is currently working as a senior lecturer at the Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Malaysia. Her area of interest is in functional engineered nano/ microparticles formation, drug delivery, clinical and health sciences pharmaceutical. she has published various papers in Scopus and high-indexed journals.

Fanny Caputo

Researcher at SINTEF (Norway) since 2019, and previously working in CEA France. Her main interest lies in the physical-chemical assessment of nanomaterials and nanopharmaceuticals for safety and quality assessment and in the standardization of characterization methods for regulatory purposes. She is the chair of the safety and characterization WG of the Nanomedicine European Technology platform and active member of the ASTM E 56 where she is contributing to the first standard test methods on MD-AF4 for testing of liposomal products.

Michael Sheetz, Ph.D.,

Title: Mechanosensitivity of Tumor Cells 

Biography:

Dr. Michael Sheetz recently moved to Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department at Univ. of Texas Medical Branch where he will organize a Mechanomedicine Program.  He was the Founding Director of the Mechanobiology Institute at National University of Singapore (2009-2019) and his lab’s recent work has defined the molecular mechanisms of rigidity sensing and matrix control of cell growth. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Lasker and Wiley Prizes for Biomedical Sciences for work done on in vitro motility assays and the discovery of kinesin. He has had appointments at Columbia University (Biological Sciences) (2000-2019), as Chair of Cell Biology at Duke University Medical Center (1990-2000), Washington University Medical School (Physiology) (1985-1990) and University of Connecticut Health Center (Physiology) (1975-1985). 

Kaiyang Zeng

Dr. Kaiyang Zeng is currently Associate Professor and deputy head (Graduate programme) of Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore (NUS). He obtained his BSc (Ceramic Materials) from Hunan University, China and his PhD (Materials Science and Engineering) from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. He was previously worked at the Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE), Singapore as senior research scientist before joint NUS in 2004. He currently lectures numbers of courses at NUS, including “Fracture and Fatigue of Materials” for Graduate Students, and “Fundamental of Materials Science and Engineering” for undergraduate students. At NUS, his main research area includes development of Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM) based techniques, multifield coupling of advanced materials, deep-date analysis for SPM images, and in-situ SPM characterization of advanced functional materials. He has published more than 200 papers in peer reviewed international journals.

Paul A. Jelliss

Title: A Novel Method for Generating H₂ by Activation of the μAl-Water System Using Aluminum Nanoparticles

Biography:

Dr. Jelliss obtained his BSc (Chemistry) and his PhD (Chemistry) from the University of Bristol. His PhD research was based on the synthesis, characterization, and reactions of gold carborane complexes. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at St Louis University, having joined the faculty in 2000. Although he maintains interests in organometallic chemistry, for the last decade he has carried out extensive research with reactive metal nanoparticles.

Danling Wang

Dr. Danling Wang is an Assistant Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North Dakota State University. She is the principle investigator of NEWS (Nano-Electronic Wearable Sensors) lab. She earned dual Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington and Optical Physics from Peking University. Her research focuses on investigation of nanomaterial based sensor devices for applications in explosive detector in industry and military, breath analyzer for early stage disease diagnosis. Since 2016, Dr. Wang and her team have published more than 15 peer-reviewed journal papers, more than 10 invited conference presentation. The research of breath acetone sensor has gained lots of attention and secured more than 200,000 grants within 4 years

Ahmed Raza Khan

Title: Tuneable Optoelectronic Properties of WS₂ by Local Strain Engineering and Folding

Biography:

Ahmed Raza Khan did his PhD from Australian National University. He is working as postdoctoral researcher in School of Engineering, Australian National University. His research interests include linear and nonlinear optics, strain-engineering of nano- materials and non-conventional machining process. He has published many papers, including in high impact journals like ACS Nano, Science Advances, Materials today, and Nano Letters, etc.

Paul A. Jelliss

Dr. Jelliss obtained his BSc (Chemistry) and his PhD (Chemistry) from the University of Bristol. His PhD research was based on the synthesis, characterization, and reactions of gold carborane complexes. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at St Louis University, having joined the faculty in 2000. Although he maintains interests in organometallic chemistry, for the last decade he has carried out extensive research with reactive metal nanoparticles

Shao Chang Huang

Title: Adopting SCS without SOS for Improving ESD robustness and eSOA behaviors of Large Array Devices

Biography:

Shao-Chang Huang received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 1994 and 1996, respectively. He studied for Ph. D in the Institute of Electrical and Control Engineering, National Chiao Tung University since 2006 and received the Ph. D degree in 2011. His researches are interested in ESD protections, Latch-up immunities, General-Purpose I/O library circuit designs, larger array device characteristics and other related fields.

He ever worked in ITRI/ ERSO, UMC, IBM at Fishkill park, N.Y., HBA, TSMC, NOVATEK, eMemory, iMQ and Fiti. Now, he is working in Vanguard International Semiconductor Corporation (VIS). He is the author or coauthor of more than 40 papers published in journals or conferences, and he holds more than 50 patents.

Anupama Kaul

Title: Multi-body Interactions in Monolayer WSe2 Grown Using a Salt-assisted Chemical Vapor Deposition Process For Optical Devices

Biography:

Dr. Anupama B. Kaul is the PACCAR Professor of Engineering at the University of North Texas (UNT) and serves as Director of the Nanoscale Materials and Devices Laboratory and the PACCAR Technology Institute. Her funded research as PI and/or Co-PI has originated through the support of agencies such as the ONR, AFOSR, ARO, NSF, NRO and NASA, as well as industry. Prior to UNT, Dr. Kaul was Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies in the College of Engineering and held the AT&T Distinguished Professorship in ECE at the University of Texas, El Paso. Dr. Kaul has served as a Program Director at NSF in the ECCS Division, where she was on rotation as an IPA from JPL, Caltech. She serves on the External Advisory Board of Penn State University’s Two-dimensional (2D) Crystal Consortium (2DCC) – MIP. She was also Chair and PI of the NSF US EU Workshop on 2D Layered Materials and Devices held in 2015 with the European Union (EU) Graphene Flagship Program. Dr. Kaul is the recipient of the NSF’s Director’s Award for Program Management Excellence, the NASA Service Award, a NASA Team Technical Accomplishment Award, multiple NASA Patent Awards and numerous NASA Technology Brief Awards for her research. She was selected to be a participant at the US National Academy of Engineering (NAE) 2012 Frontiers of Engineering (FOE) Symposium, and in 2014 she was invited to participate in the bi-lateral Indo-US FOE, also organized by the US NAE. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of a number of journals and is a Fellow of the class of 2016 ELATE’s executive leadership development program (Drexel University). Dr. Kaul obtained her M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in MSE with minors in ECE and Physics where she was advised by Professor Theodore Van Duzer (ECE), an NAE member, and Professor Timothy D. Sands (co-advisor, MSE) who is the current President of Virginia Tech.

Zhu Liu

Title: Laser synthesis of nanomaterials for energy applications

Biography: 

Dr Zhu Liu is a Professor on Materials Science and Engineering at The University of Manchester, UK. Her main research interests are laser surface modification for high performance materials and micro/nano engineering using lasers. In recent years, her group has carried out extensive research in laser synthesis of nanomaterials for energy applications. Their work pioneers in the research of laser processing for perovskite solar cells. They have also developed a novel laser synthesis route to fabricate single-atom catalysts, and non-precious alloy catalysts for oxygen electrocatalysis and metal-air batteries.

Wonbong Choi

Engineering of two-dimensional nanomaterials for practical applications

Shivani Dhall

Title: Role of Electron Beam-Induced Deposition (EBID) Technique in joining of Broken carbon materials

Biography: 

Dr. Shivani Dhall has been working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, D.A.V. College,  Jalandhar, since July 2018. Previously, she worked as a NPDF in Department of Physics, IITD. During her PhD, she worked in CEN, Electrical Department, IIT Bombay. She got best INUP  project award from IIT Bombay in 2015. In 2018, she awarded with CSIR Nehru and DS Kothari Fellowships. In 2019, She received TARE project under DST for continue her research work. She is  working on carbon materials, nanoparticles and their device fabrication using lithography technique for gas sensing, photo-sensor and interconnected applications. She is reviewer of many SCI journals. She has 21 SCI Journals publications.

Satyanarayana Samireddi

TItle: Nonprecious ferrocene-CoN4 macrocycle derived heterobimetallic electrocatalysts as cathode materials for PEM fuel cells

Biography:  

Dr. Satyanarayana Samireddi obtained his MSc (Chemistry) from IIT Roorkee-India and his PhD (Chemistry) from National Tsing Hua University-Taiwan. He previously worked for Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences - Academia Sinica and Centre for Condensed Matter Sciences -National Taiwan University, Taiwan as postdoctoral research fellow. He is currently working as a scientific researcher at CSIR-Central Electrochemical Research Institute, India. His research work is based on developing nonprecious electrocatalysts for hydrogen fuel cells and hydrogen generation. Some of his past work was published in high impact peer reviewed journals.

Roger M. Leblanc

Carbon Dots as Versatile Drug Nanocarriers in Modern Medicine

Yew Mun Hung

Title: Tunable Wettability of Graphene Nanostructures in Two-Phase Heat Transfer Applications

Biography: 

Dr. Yew Mun Hung received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, University of Multimedia, Malaysia in 2010. He is currently an Associate Professor, and the Head of Mechanical Engineering degree program at Monash University Malaysia. He teaches heat transfer and thermodynamics. His main research areas focus on micro/nano-scale heat transfer, electronics cooling and interfacial phenomena of graphene-based materials. He was a Visiting Scholar in the Center for Nano and Micro Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China, in 2015 and a Visiting Professor in the CAS Center for Excellence in Complex System Mechanics, University of Science and Technology of China, in 2019. He has published numerous top-quality international journal papers and conference papers.

Andrew Tsourkas

Enhanced penetration of magnetic nanoparticles into tumors using non-linear magnetic fields 

Muhammad Omar Motamid Shaikh

Title: Zwitterion functionalized Cu2O-Au core-satellite nanohybrid for highly specific and enzymeless electrochemical creatinine biosensing

Biography: 

Muhammad Omar Shaikh currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Sustainability Science and Engineering at Tunghai University. He completed his BEng and MEng in Materials Science and Engineering from Imperial College London and his Ph.D. in Mechatronic Science and Engineering from the Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology. His current research interests revolve around developing micro and nano sensing technologies including biosensors for pointof-care diagnostics, tactile sensors for robotics, gas sensors and wearable energy harvesters for self-powered sensing applications. He also previously served as the Chief Technology Officer for BiTAPE Logistics, a university spin-off company developing a smart flexible tape for improving logistic services using Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) and Blockchain technology. 

You Qiang

Advanced Magnetic Separation Nanotechnology for Nuclear Waste RecycleAdvanced Magnetic Separation Nanotechnology for Nuclear Waste Recycle

Prastika Krisma Jiwanti

Title: Boron-doped diamond electrode for electrochemical sensor of pharmaceutical drugs

Biography: 

Dr. Prastika Krisma Jiwanti obtained her BSc (Chemistry) from the Universitas Indonesia and her PhD (Chemistry) from the Keio University. Her PhD research was the utilization of boron-doped diamond electrode modified with metal nanoparticles for carbon dioxide electrochemical reduction. She is currently an assistant professor at Faculty of Advanced Technology and Multidiscipline, Nanotechnology Engineering department. Her area of interest is diamond material, electrochemistry, sensor and biosensor, and carbon-based material. 

Jieshan Qiu

Biography: 

Dr. Jieshan Qiu, Cheung-Kong Distinguished Professor of Carbon Science and Chemical Engineering, and Dean of Chemical Engineering College at Beijing University of Chemical Technology, China. He is an internationally recognized research and thought leader in chemical engineering and carbon science. His research encompasses both fundamental and applied aspects of carbon materials and science, with a focus on the methodologies of producing carbon materials for energy storage and conversion, catalysis, and environment protection. He has published 800⁺ papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Mater., Adv. Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Energy Mater., Energy Environ. Sci., PNAS, Nature Commun., Nano Energy, ACS Nano, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Chem. Soc. Rev., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Joule, Matter, Chem, Sci. Adv., etc., with citations 41’000⁺ times and h-index of 98 (web of sci.), and his work has been featured on 65 covers of high profile journals. He has been invited to give 140⁺ plenary/invited/keynote talks in conferences and at universities and research institutes. He has filed 140⁺ Chinese and International patents, of which some have been successfully commercialized in China. He has won 20⁺ prestigious awards and prizes including the 1^st class award for fundamental research and industrialization technologies awarded by the Education Ministry of China. Currently, he is the Associate Editor of CIESC Journal, and Battery Energy by Wiley, and on the advisory boards of other journals, including Chemical Engineering Science, Science China Materials, and Energy Technology, etc. He is a Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researcher from 2018 to 2021 in a row, and an Elsevier Highly Cited Chinese Researchers from 2019 to 2021 in the field of chemical engineering, and Top 1% highly cited Chinese authors in the field of energy & sustainability in 2019 by the Royal Society of Chemistry. He has served as Associate Editor of three international journals for years, including: Carbon, FlatChem and ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering.

Dmitri Simberg

Title: Dynamics of accumulation of liposomes in the skin 

Biography: 

Dr. Simberg received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. His thesis in the laboratory of Dr. Chezy Barenholz was on biochemical and biophysical mechanisms of lipofection using cationic lipids in vitro and in vivo. He did a 2-year postdoctoral study on tumor targeting of iron oxide nanoparticles in the laboratory of Dr. Erkki Ruoslahti at the Burnham Institute, La Jolla in California, and a 1-year postdoctoral research at the Department of Radiology, University of California San Diego. In 2013, Dr. Simberg joined the faculty of the Skaggs School of Pharmacy, University of Colorado. Dr. Simberg is the corresponding author or coauthor of over 75 research papers, reviews, perspectives and book chapters, and his research has been continuosly funded by the National Institutes of Health. His current research interests are focused on the development of nanoparticles and cells for drug delivery and imaging, mechanisms of complement activation by nanomedicines, and mechanisms of accumulation of nano carriers in the skin and tumors.

Pierfrancesco Riccardi

Biography: 

Pierfrancesco Riccardi: Researcher in experimental physics at the physics department of University of Calabria. His current research interests are in ion-solids interactions, electron spectroscopy of surfaces and nanomaterials. Recently he started an intense activity in science education, public outreach and public engagement

Karen Lozano

TBA

Sayani Majumdar

Title: Ferroelectric Memories for Neuromorphic Computing and Adaptive Sensing

Biography:

Dr. Sayani Majumdar is a Senior Scientist in Microelectronics and Quantum Technologies at the VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Adjunct Professor (Docent) at the University of Turku. She received her Ph.D. in 2006 from Jadavpur University, India and worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Åbo Akademi University, University of Turku and in Aalto University as Academy of Finland research fellow. She worked as a visiting scientist at the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research. Her current research focuses on CMOS and flexible substrate compatible heterostructures for neuromorphic computing and adaptive sensing.

Haixue Yan

Ultrahigh field-induced strain in lead-free ceramics

Shi-Wei Chu

Title: Super-linear and sub-linear optical responses in meta-atoms

Biography: 

Dr. Shi-Wei Chu received his PhD from National Taiwan University (NTU), and joined NTU Physics in 2006, promoted to associate professor and full professor in 2010 and 2014, respectively. He had served as the Deputy Director (2019-2021) in the Center of Teaching and Learning Development of NTU. Now he serves as the Vice Dean of NTU D.School, the Deputy Director of the NTU Molecular Imaging Center, as well as the Associate Director for Innovative Imaging Technologies in NTHU Brain Research Center. He is currently on the Board of Directors in the Taiwan Physical Society, and on the Editorial Board of Biophysical Reports. His research interest lies in developing novel optical microscopic tools for nanophotonics and biomedical applications. He received the Exploration Research Award of Pan Wen Yuan Foundation (2010), Young Scholars’ Creativity Award of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2015), Outstanding young scholar research project award from the Ministry of Science and Technology (2016-2020), and the MOST Future Technology Award (2020). Furthermore, he is devoted to teaching/mentoring, and his supervised students had received more than 60 paper awards. His efforts were recognized by the NTU Excellent Teaching Award (2009-2012, 2020-2022), Outstanding Teaching Award (2013), and Excellent Mentor Award (2015). 

Victor Law

Nanostructure formation within signal-mode and multi-mode microwave applicators

Johannes P Maree

Title: Zero waste and pigment from mine water

Biography: 

Prof J P Maree received his M.Sc. in chemistry (Univ OFS, 1975), B.Com. (UNISA, 1080), Ph.D. (Chemistry, Univ of OFS, 1988).  He worked at CSIR from 1976 to 2007 and Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) in the position Rand Water Chair in Water Utilization from 2007 to 2015 when he retired. After his career at CSIR and TUT he founded the company ROC Water Technologies where the focus is on the processing of mining wastes with the aim to recover drinking water and saleable products such pigment, calcium carbonate, magnesium hydroxide and sodium sulphate. On 1 August 2018 he also received and appointed as Professor: Water and Sanitation at University of Limpopo.

J. Ruben Morones-Ramirez

TBA

Yan Su

Title: Nanofluid Cooling Modeled by a Non-dimensional Lattice Boltzmann Method

Biography: 

Dr. Su is currently an associate Professor of Electromechanical Engineering in University of Macau. She received his PhD degree from the Department of Mechanical Engineering from University of Minnesota in 2006.  In year 2000 and 2003, she obtained her Bachelor of Thermal Engineering from Tsinghua University, and Master of Mechanical Engineering from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, respectively. Dr. Su’s research interests include Thermal Dispersion in Porous Medium, Renewable Energy Systems, Oscillating Flows, and Indoor Air Quality. She also serves as the director of the solar energy laboratory of University of Macau and associate editors of Journal of Heat Transfer (ASME) and Case Studies in Thermal Engineering (Elsevier).

Swetha Chandrasekaran

Direct Ink Writing of Carbon and Graphene aerogels 

Dipak Maity

Title: Superparamagnetic Nanoplatforms in Cancer Theranostics

Biography: 

Dr Dipak Maity obtained his M.Tech. (Materials Science) from Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur and PhD (Materials Science and Engineering) from the National University of Singapore (NUS). He is currently working as an Associate Professor in the School of Health Sciences & Technology and Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies (UPES). Previously he worked at the Institute of Chemical Technology (ICT) Mumbai, and at the Shiv Nadar University.

He has more than 20 years of research expertise in Nanomaterials/Nanomedicine and Cancer Theranostics. His main research interest lies in “Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles for Biomedical Application”, especially in synthesizing superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) with different robust surfactants and their co-encapsulation with chemotherapeutic drugs inside biodegradable polymers-based drug delivery systems to study their effects as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) contrast agents, and magnetic hyperthermia agents for Cancer Theranostics.

Koichi Okamoto

Title: Novel Plasmonic Metamaterials for Flexible Tuning of Optical Properties using Random Metal Nanohemisphere on Mirror

Biography: 

Prof. Okamoto received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, in 1998. From 1998–2000, he was a Researcher at the Venture Business Laboratory of Kyoto University. From1998–2000, he was a Research Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). From 2001–2005, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar of Electrical Engineering at California Institute of Technology, where he was a Senior Research Fellow of Physics from 2005 to 2007. From 2007–2011, he was a Research Associate Professor of Electronic Science and Engineering at Kyoto University. From 2011–2018, he was an Associate Professor of Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering at Kyushu University. Since 2018, he is a Professor of Department of Physics and Electronics at Osaka Prefecture University. His current research interests include developing new optical materials and devices based on nanophotonics and plasmonics. 

Sahrim Ahmad

Title: Mechanical, Thermal and Electrical Properties of Polylactic Acid/Liquid Natural Rubber/Graphene Platelets Nanocomposites in the Light of Different Graphene Platelets Functionalization Routes

Biography: 

Professor Dr Sahrim Ahmad obtained his PhD from University of Loughborough, United Kingdom in 1988. He  is an expert in the field of magnetic, nanocomposites and advanced materials. He has completed more than 50 research projects and consultancy work as a leader and co-researcher. His work on novel radar absorbing materials (RAM) subjected to transverse electromagnetic (TEM) has been successfully developed. His team managed to produce products that offered proper characteristics for handling, flexibility and lightweight, meeting requirement for various applications.   He has published more than 250 papers in various journals related to polymer, composites, materials and supervised more than 60 PhD students. Dr Sahrim was former Dean of Faculty Science of Technology and Editor In Chief of Journal Sains Malaysiana (ISI/WOS). Currently he is the Fellow  Academy of Science Malaysia. Fellow Academy Profeesor Malaysia and Fellow of Malaysia Solid Science Society.

Kirill A. Afonin

Immunomodulation with nucleic acid nanoparticles (NANPs)    

Ayse Cagil Kandemir

Title: Biocompatible Polymer  Micro/Nano Composite Fabrication via two-level Mechanical Reinforcement

Biography: 

Dr. Ayse Cagil Kandemir received her bachelor's (2004-2008) and master's degrees (2008-2011) from METU Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Department (Ankara/Turkey). She started her academic career as a research assistant in the same department. She conducted her doctoral studies in the Materials Science Department of ETH Zurich (Zurich/Switzerland) between 2011-2016. She worked as a research assistant in ETH Zurich for four years. Her research interests include composite and nanocomposite materials, biopolymer/biocomposites, surface science/thin films, atomic force microscopy/lithography. Since June 2018, she has been a faculty member at TEDU Mechanical Engineering Department.

James Chapman

A (Super) Bug's Life: Next Generation Antimicrobial Stimuli Responsive Ninja-Particles 

Tingshu Hu

Simple Effective Power Management Circuit for Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Surajudeen Sikiru

Title: Electromagnetic adsorption and Polarization Mechanism on reservoir sandstone with nanofluid interaction for oil mobility 

Biography: 

Dr. Surajudeen Sikiru Olalekan, his presently Postdoctoral Researcher Fellow under the institute of Teknologi PETRONAS Malaysia. He worked as a research officer at fundamental and applied science Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS under the advance electromagnetic center and institute of a Hydrocarbon recovery center from 2017 to 2018. He obtained his Doctor of Philosophy in Applied Science at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS Malaysia. He completed his master’s in computer science and Engineering major in Solar Radiation and Renewable energy at Management and Science University Malaysia, and he obtained his Bachelor of Technology in Pure and Applied Physics at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology Ogbomoso Nigeria. He was appointed as a graduate research assistant for the period of his Ph.D. studies, due to his track record for delivery the highest standards of tuition and research. He was awarded twice Graduate merit award in 2020 and 2021 has the best publication in Q1 and high impact factor journals. He was also awarded Graduate on time (GOT) in 2021 for completing his Ph. D within three years. His areas of expertise are Electromagnetic (Experimental and Numerical Modeling), Enhanced oil recovery, hydrocarbon prediction using electromagnetic waves, Nanotechnology, Molecular dynamics Simulation, Materials Characterization, Sustainable Energy, Material Simulation, Magnetic and Dielectric Nanoparticles, Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes, Solar radiation, and renewable energy application. Serving as the first author on more than ten high-impact factor journals indexed in ISI/Scopus and co-author of many more. He has been a reviewer for some reputable journals and conference proceedings, a guest editor for an international journal of membrane science and technology for a special issue, and an editorial board member. He was equipped with the necessary skills to become an independent researcher and team player.

Faith H N Howard

Title: Bacterially derived nanomagnets enhance immunotherapy tumour targetingTitle: Bacterially derived nanomagnets enhance immunotherapy tumour targeting

Biography: 

Dr. Howard obtained her BSc (Hons) in Biology from the University of Manchester, UK and her PhD (Nephrology) from the University of Sheffield, UK. Her PhD research was focused on cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors for the treatment of chronic kidney disease. She has previously worked in the biotech industry for the development of novel vaccines and contract research in the AMR field. She currently lectures invasive surgery techniques for Home Office Licensing at the University of Sheffield. Her areas of interest are therapeutic nanocarriers and complementary delivery strategies to improve systemic circulatory longevity and targeted delivery to disseminated neoplasms. She has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.

Hong Wei Xian

Title: Hybrid Nanocoolant for Enhanced Heat Transfer Performance in Vehicle Cooling System

Biography: 

Dr. Hong Wei Xian obtained his Bachelor degree (Mechanical Engineering) from the Universiti Malaysia Pahang and his PhD (Nanotechnology) from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His PhD research was based on the heat transfer performance of hybrid nanocoolant in vehicle cooling system. He is now working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. His area of interest is heat transfer, fluid mechanics and optimization. He has published various papers of nanofluids in Q1 journals.

Nigel Davies

Title: Subcutaneous Administration of mRNA LNPs to Achieve Systemic Exposures of Protein

Biography: 

On joining AstraZeneca in 2008, Nigel had “CMC” responsibilities for a number of projects spanning Phase 1 to life-cycle management, having particular involvement in bioequivalence/biowaiver strategies and regulatory submissions for several now approved products including Vimovo, Nexium OTC, Kombi/Komboglyze, Forxiga, Xigduo/Xigduo XR and QTERN..

Since transitioning to the Advanced Drug Delivery group in the Innovative Medicine Early Development function in 2014, Nigel has pioneered AstraZeneca’s efforts into the delivery of mRNA therapeutics as well as oral delivery of macromolecules resulting in a number of assets progressing from early pre-clinical evaluation to clinical testing.

Before joining AstraZeneca, Nigel had almost 20 years tenure in academia at Universities in New Zealand and Australia leading research groups focusing on developing novel delivery systems for macromolecules. Over the years in academia, Nigel secured >US$2.5 million in competitive research grants (as principle or co-investigator), supervised (to completion) 19 post-graduate students and authored/co-authored 2 book chapters and >70 peer-reviewed journal articles.

Nigel strives to combine his research and drug development experience to identify and develop novel systems and strategies (both internal and via external collaborations) to overcome the challenges associated with the delivery of macromolecules in order to advance AstraZeneca’s New Modalities portfolio.

He Ma

Title: Flexible vanadium dioxide film for intelligent devices

Biography:

He Ma, Associate Professor at Beijing University of Technology. He is mainly engaged in the research of VO2 thin film materials and devices. He has published >50 SCI indexed papers and authorized 15 invention patents.

Rongming Wang

Title: Atom-resolved Structure evolution of Nanocrystals 

Biography:

Dr. Rongming obtained his bachelor and master’s Degrees in Physics from Peking University and his Ph. D. in Materials Science from Beijing Institute of Aeronautical Materials, China. In 2004-2005, he was a visiting scholar in University of California, Berkeley. Then he joined Beihang University as a Professor in physics. Currently, he is a professor in University of Science and Technology Beijing, Director of Beijing Key Laboratory for Magneto-Photoelectrical Composite and Interface Science and Team Leader for Advanced Functional Material, Beijing Advanced Innovation Center of Materials Genome Engineering. His research interests include design, fabrication, interface modulation, characterization, and physicochemical properties of advanced materials.

Jean Duhamel

Li-Chyong Chen

Title: Recent Trends in Artificial Photosynthesis: Atomic Design and Surface Probing of Selective Two-dimensional Nano-photocatalysts

Biography: Dr. Li-Chyong Chen received her B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1981, and Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Harvard University (1989); afterwards, she worked at the Materials Research Center in General Electric Corporate R&D, Schenectady, New York (1989– 1994), before she joined the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS), NTU. Li-Chyong was the Director of CCMS (2012-2018) and is now the Director of the Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials (AI-Mat) since 2018. AI-Mat is a featured research center by the Sprout Project under the Ministry of Education in Taiwan. Li-Chyong’s group is specialized in low-dimensional nanomaterials and their applications for optoelectronics, energy and sensing. Till date she has 16 patents, 16 book chapters/review articles and over 440 papers, with > 18,700 citations and an Hindex of 71 (updated May 6, 2022, in ISI WOS). Selective honors: Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials; a Fellow of both the Physical Society and Vacuum Society in Taiwan, and the Materials Research Society (MRS) in USA; Honorary Doctor, Linköping University in Sweden; Distinguished Visiting Research Fellow, Royal Academy of Engineering in UK; a Laureate of the 22nd Khwarizmi International Award in Iran; Acharya Vinova International Award in Materials Science and Technology in India; twice the Outstanding Research Award by the Ministry of Science and Technology, Outstanding Scholar Foundation Award, Ho Chin-Tui Outstanding Scholar Award in Materials Science, Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science, the Ministry of Education Academic Award and Y. Z. Hsu Scientific Chair Professor. Professional services: LiChyong has organized a number of international symposia and was appointed as one of the four meeting chairs for the MRS Fall Meeting 2009. She was a member of the Board of Directors for MRS in 2017-2019 and served for the Commission on Structure and Dynamics of Condensed Matter in International Union of Pure and Applied Physics in 2018-2021. Currently, she is also on the Board of Trustees of the National Synchrotron Radiation Research Center (since 2018) and the Science Education Advisory Board of the Ministry of Education (since 2017) in Taiwan. LiChyong has been appointed as a Series Editor for the book series on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology by the World Scientific Publisher since 2015, and served the Editorial Advisory Board for Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences by Taylor and Francis since 2004.

Hang Ping

Biography:

Dr. Hang Ping obtained his doctor degree (Materials Processing Engineering) from Wuhan University of Technology (WHUT). He is currently an associated professor in the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Technology for Materials Synthesis and Processing in WHUT. His area of interest is confinement controlled the synthesis of new structures and new functions.

Michael N. Leuenberger

Chi Hwan Lee

Oliver Felix

Dr. Olivier Félix completed in 1999 his PhD degree in Chemistry at Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg, France). After a post?doctoral fellowship at University of Twente (Enschede, Netherlands), he has integrated in 2000 the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) as researcher in the team of Professor G. Decher at Institut Charles Sadron (Strasbourg, France). His research activities focus on the fabrication of multifunctional multimaterial coatings/films using the so?called Layer?by?Layer (LbL) technique. Since 2010 he has developed a new research activity based on the assembly of hybrid nanostructured materials with exceptional mechanical properties and interesting optical properties. In the meantime, he has contributed to the development of a new and versatile method, grazing incidence spraying (GIS), for the controlled in-plane alignment of anisotropic objects at solid interfaces. The latter combined with the LbL?assembly technique is used to prepare bio?inspired nanocomposites with complex superstructures.

Wai-Lun Chan

Dr. Chan obtained his BSc degree (Physics/Materials Science) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD degree (Materials Science) from Brown University. After two postdoctoral trainings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Chan started his independent research group at the University of Kansas (KU). Currently, he is an associate professor at KU. Dr. Chan is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (2014), and the MRS graduate student award (2006). His current research interest is on understanding the electron and exciton dynamics in a range of materials such as organic semiconductors, 2D materials, and hybrid halide perovskites.

Yi-Lung Mo

Dr. Y.L. Mo, F.ASCE, F.ACI, F.Humboldt, F.IAAM, is John and Rebecca Moores Professor at the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Houston (UH), Houston, Texas. Dr. Mo’s technical interests are multi-resolution distributed analytical simulations, nano-scale material and large-scale infrastructure testing, and field investigations of the response of complex structures, on which he has more than 500 research publications, including 274 referred journal papers, many conference, keynote and prestige lectures, research reports, books and book chapters, magazine articles and earthquake field mission reports. In the past several years, Dr. Mo has focused on smart material research, especially application of carbon nanofiber material for sustainable resilience of civil infrastructure subjected to multi-hazards.

Hung-Jen Wu

Dr. Chan obtained his BSc degree (Physics/Materials Science) from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his PhD degree (Materials Science) from Brown University. After two postdoctoral trainings at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Texas at Austin, Dr. Chan started his independent research group at the University of Kansas (KU). Currently, he is an associate professor at KU. Dr. Chan is a recipient of the National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (2014), and the MRS graduate student award (2006). His current research interest is on understanding the electron and exciton dynamics in a range of materials such as organic semiconductors, 2D materials, and hybrid halide perovskites.

Anna Pyayt

Dr. Anna Pyayt is an Associate Professor at the University of South Florida. She is the head of the Innovative Biomedical Instruments and Systems (IBIS) lab. Dr. Pyayt joined USF after being an NSF Computer Innovation Fellow and Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. She earned her dual Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Nanotechnology from the University of Washington. Some of her research was published in Nature Photonics and Nature Nanotechnology, highlighted in Science and Nature. She designed and developed many innovative systems and instruments including Telescopic Pixel display technology that was created in collaboration with Microsoft Research. She was also the first scientist to demonstrate a novel optical interconnect between a photonic and multiple plasmonic waveguides enabling fabrication of new Biomedical nano-chips (published in Nature Nanotechnology). Her project on Mobile ELISA point-of-care system for biomedical testing was chosen by Elsevier among thousands of papers for international news coverage.

Jifeng Liu

Title: Towards Tunable 2D Photonic Surfaces Based on Optical Slot-Antenna Cavity (SAC)

Biography: 

Dr. Jifeng Liu received the B.S. and M. S. degrees in materials science and engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, and the Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently an Associate Professor and the Materials Science and Engineering Program Lead at the Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College. His major research field is photonic materials and devices, including integrated photonics for ultralow energy photonic datalinks as well as nanomaterials and nanostructures for photodetectors, image sensors, modulators and solar energy harvesting. He has authored or coauthored more than 90 peer-reviewed journal papers, more than 60 conferences papers, and six book chapters, which have been cited over 11,000 times according to Google Scholar. Dr. Liu has also been granted 15 U.S. patents related to nanophotonic materials and devices. He is a recipient of NSF CAREER Award, a Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Mathews L. Paret

Dr. Mathews L. Paret is an Associate Professor of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida. For the past many years, he has been conducting research on nanomaterials to manage strains of Xanthomonas, Pseudomonas and Ralstonia infecting tomatoes and cucurbits. Spectral sensing and artificial intelligence are newer areas of his work.; development of diagnostic assays, understanding genetic diversity of strains/isolates, and sustainable management approaches for bacterial, fungal and viral pathogens affecting vegetables and ornamentals in the U.S and internationally are established areas of work. He is a recipient of Hewitt Award and Jane Award of the American Phytopathological Society, Global Fellow of the University of Florida, and Specialist of the Year of the Florida Association of County Agricultural Agents. 

I. Conejos-Sánchez

Polypeptide-based Conjugates as Versatile Therapeutics

Jiban Jyoti Panda

BBB Traversing Peptide/Amino Acid Nanotherapeutics for Combating Neural Disorders

Wei Deng

Application of mitochondrially targeted nanoconstructs to neo-adjuvant X-ray-induced photodynamic therapy for rectal cancer

Nallani Satyanaryana

NANOMATERAILS  FOR ENERGY DEVICE APPLICATIONS: SPECIAL EMPHASIS ON LITHIUM BATTERIES

Satish Kumar Dubey

Optical nanoantenna: design, fabrication, and applications

Peter D. Dahlberg

Cryogenic Correlative Single-Particle Photoluminescence Spectroscopy and Electron Tomography for Investigation of Nanomaterial

Neda Ojaghlou

Hydration of submerged graphene

Giuseppe Emanuele Lio

HYPER RESOLUTE PHOTOPOLYMERIZATION: FROM PLASMONICS  ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TO FLAT OPTICS APPLICATIONS

Yu-Hao Deng

Dr. Yu-Hao Deng obtained his PhD (Condensed matter physics) from Peking University. His research interests are mainly focused on perovskite material growth, optoelectronic devices and characterization techniques (TEM). He has published various papers in Advanced Materials, Physical review letters, Journal of Microscopy and Applied Microscopy et al. 

Congli Sun

Oxygen release heterogeneity from cation migration kinetics in layered lithium cathodes

Indrajit Shown

Dr. Indrajit Shown obtained his M. Sc and Ph.D. (Applied Chemistry) from The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda (India). He previously worked for Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences (Academia Sinica) and Centre for Condensed Matter Sciences (National Taiwan University), Taiwan as post-doctoral research fellow. Currently, he is an Assistant Professor at Amrita Centre for Nanosciences and Molecular Medicine, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham (India). His research interests involve the development of various nanomaterials for advanced green energy applications such as photocatalysis (CO2 reduction to hydrocarbons), electrocatalysis (ORR and HER), bio-fuels and energy storage. He has published various papers in high impact peer reviewed journals.

Man Zhang

Miss Man Zhang is a research assistant in Queen Mary University of London. Her research work focuses on ferroelectrics, dielectrics and photocatalysts. She has been studying the dielectric behaviour of ferroelectric material at broad band frequencies and the influence of ferroelectricity on photocatalytic behaviour. She has 7 publications in Adv Energy Materials, ACS photonics, Materials and design, Acta Materialia, et al.  

Vi Khanh Truong

Magnetic Liquid Metals: Stimuli-responsive antimicrobial treatment

Seoung-Ki Lee

Solution based Selective Synthesis of 2D Heterostructure

Tokeer Ahmad

Advanced Nanomaterials for Multifunctional Properties and Applications

S.M. Shivaprasad

Morphology induced multi-functionality of GaN Nanowall network.

Gurumurthy.B.Ramaiah

Application of Nano-materials on Textile substrates to enchance their functional Properties

Kamal K. Taha

Dr. Kamal K. Taha obtained his BSc and MSc (Chemistry) from the University of Khartoum and his PhD (Physical Chemistry) from the University of Bangalore. He is previously worked for the University of Juba and University of Bahri as university staff member. His PhD research was based on material science through materials synthesis, characterization and applications. Now he is doing extensive research in nanomaterials and their photocatalytic and energy applications.

Aqsa Arshad

Dr. Aqsa Arshad has obtained her PhD (Physics) from International Islamic University PK and Durham University, Durham, UK. She has been visiting researcher at world class Science and Technology facility council, ISIS neutron and muon source, Oxford, UK. Her PhD research work was based on the photocatalytic and biomedical applications of nanoscale materials. Her current research work is on nanomagnetism and supercapacitors. She currently lectures physics, and nanotechnology at Department of Physics, International Islamic University, Pakistan. Her area of interest is 2D materials particularly graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, MXenes etc. She has published 20 papers in peer reviewed journals, attended various international conferences and webinars.

Marco Raabe

Dr. Marco Raabe obtained both his BSc (Biochemistry) and MSc (Biochemistry) from Ulm University. For his PhD (Chemistry) he moved to the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research. His PhD research was based on the functionalization and application of fluorescent nanodiamonds as imaging tools. During his postdoctoral research he worked on intracellular nanoscale sensing using nanodiamonds.  Recently, he was awarded with a postdoctoral fellowship of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). Furthermore, since December 2020 he is a member of the Humboldt Foundation. Currently, he is working at the Kyoto University in the group of Professor Itaru Hamachi as a JSPS&Humboldt Fellow. His area of interest is the engineering of the cell-surface to equip cells with new functions and to create living materials. He has published various papers in peer reviewed journals including NanoLetters, Small, Advanced Therapeutics, and ChemMedChem

Shohreh Hemmati, PhD

Dr. Shohreh Hemmati is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering at Oklahoma State University (OSU). She was a Postdoc at Purdue University before joining OSU in 2018. Dr. Hemmati received her Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2016 from the University of New Hampshire. She obtained an M.S. in Energy Engineering in 2009 from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran, Iran), and from 2009-2012, she worked for the Sharif Energy Research Institute as a Research Scientist. She received her B.S. in Chemical Engineering in 2006 from Arak University (Arak, Iran). Dr. Hemmati’s research interests are on green nanotechnology and nanomanufacturing. More specifically, she is working on metal nanostructures synthesis, with focuses on their green and sustainable synthesis using the millifluidic techniques to be integrated with artificial intelligence (AI) for the ultimate goal of precise control over their size and morphology. Dr. Hemmati’s research is mostly funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF).

Sergei Vlassov

Dr. Vlassov obtained his BSc (material science, best thesis award), MSc (applied physics) and PhD (material science, 2011) from the University of Tartu, Estonia. His PhD research was dedicated to the nanoscale interactions and mechanical properties of nanostructures. Then he worked for two years as a PostDoc at Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia. At the moment Dr. Vlassov is an associate professor the University of Tartu, Estonia. His main area of research is related to experimental investigation of nanoscale phenomena and characterization of nanostructures. His h-index in Google Scholar is 18 with 85 records and 836 citations in total.

Haozhe Wang

Dr. Haozhe Wang obtained his Bachelor's degree in Materials Science and Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and his Ph.D. degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is currently working as a Postdoctoral Associate at MIT. Dr. Wang's research is about nanoscale materials and their applications in advanced electronics. Dr. Wang has published various papers in prestigious journals such as Matter, Nature Communications, ACS Nano, etc. He is a recipient of the MIT Quantum Hackathon Creativity Award, the MIT Ho-Ching and Han-Ching Fund award.

Tanushree H. Choudhury

Tanushree H. Choudhury received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. In 2021 she joined the Department of Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay as an Assistant Professor. Prior to that she was in the 2D Crystal Consortium- Materials Innovation Platform at Pennsylvania State where she worked on wafer scale growth of epitaxial TMDs using metal organic chemical vapor deposition. Her research focuses on understanding fundamental mechanisms of crystal growth and epitaxy of TMDs and the effect of defects on nucleation of TMDs.

Nikunjkumar R. Visaveliya

Title: Polymer Supported Functional Particles for Fluorescence Labeling and SERS Sensing Applications

Biography: 

Dr. Nikunjkumar R. Visaveliya studied Chemistry at Sardar Patel University in India. He obtained his doctoral degree from the Technical University of Ilmenau, Germany where he performed research on microfluidic syntheses of multifunctional polymer and composite nano/microparticles for sensing and labeling applications. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at the City College of New York, USA. His research interests are microfluidics and interfacial/functional nanomaterials for biomedical, energy, catalysis, sensing, and labeling applications.

Angela Wittmann

Dr. Angela Wittmann received her BSc in Physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) and a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge (UK) in 2019. She is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) in the group of Prof. Geoffrey Beach at the Materials Research Laboratory. Her research explores the control of the spin degree of freedom and spin dynamics in unconventional condensed matter materials such as organic semiconductors and antiferromagnets. Using different experimental techniques, including magneto-transport measurements and x-ray imaging, she aims to tackle the challenges posed by today’s vast amount of data by developing novel ultrafast and robust spin-based memory technologies

Ugutz Unzueta

Title: Engineering multivalent protein nanomaterials controlled thought divalent cations

Biography: Dr. Unzueta obtained his PhD on Biotechnology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2013. He is currently a senior researcher at Sant Pau Biomedical Research Institute in Barcelona and an associated professor at the department of Genetics and Microbiology at UAB. He is also member of the Spanish network on Nanomedicine CIBER-BBN. His current research interest is based on the design and generation of self-assembling protein nanomaterials and their biomedical applications in targeted nanomedicines of cancer. He has published more than 70 articles in the field. 

Jing Liu

Dr. Liu obtained the BS (Physics) from Nanjing University, MS (Optics) from Chinese Academy of Science, and the PhD (Biological Engineering) from Purdue University. His PhD research was developing nonlinear microscopes for the label-free imaging of single molecules in the nanoscale. He has been focusing on the nanoscale light-matter interactions for decade. His current research focus is to develop scalable and modulated quantum photon sources for quantum communication and bioimaging.

Xiaogan Liang

Title: Analogue Ionically-Coupled Multi-Terminal Memristors Based on Plasma-Treated MoS₂ Layers
Biography: 

Dr. Xiaogan Liang is currently working as an Associate Professor at The Mechanical Engineering Department of University of Michigan (UM). Before joining UM, Dr. Liang was a Staff Scientist working at The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His current research interests are focused on nanofabrication, nanomanufacturing and microsystem integration, nanoelectronics and optoelectronics based on low-dimensional nanostructures, biosensors, and flyer/microdrone sensors. Dr. Liang has coauthored 70 journal publications and >50 conference presentations, has given >30 invited presentations, and has 8 US patents. Dr. Liang is the recipient of NSF CAREER Award, and he is the member of Sigma Xi, IEEE, and ASME. Dr. Liang obtained a BS in Physics from Peking University, a MS in Condensed Matter Physics from Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Ignacio Mínguez-Bacho

Title: Interface and heterojunction engineering in Sb2S3 solar cells

Biography: 

Dr. Ignacio Mínguez Bacho obtained his Ph. D. in physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid in 2012 working at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM, Spain) on nanostructured systems. He then performed postdoctoral research on hybrid solar cells at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and now applies his expertise in nanostructuring semiconductors to photovoltaics at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg. He has secured independent funding from the FAU’s Emerging Talents Initiative and the European Commission’s Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Actions. His areas of interest are antimony chalcogenides and nanostructured materials applied in energy conversion technologies.

Aijun Du

Aijun Du received PhD from Fudan University of China. Previously he had worked in Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology for 10 years. Currently he is a full Professor at Queensland University of Technology. His research lies at the interface of Physics, Chemistry and Materials Science Engineering, focusing on the development of novel nanomaterials for energy, environment, and electronics applications using advanced modelling approaches. He received Australian Research Council Queen-Elizabeth II and Future Fellowship awards. He has published over 300 refereed journal papers and is 2020 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher

Huamin Li

Title: Boron nitride decoration for metal contacts of 2D semiconductors

Biography: 

Dr. Huamin Li is an Assistant Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering, the University at Buffalo. He is an IEEE Senior Member and Editorial Board Member of IEEE Access and Nano Express. His expertise lies in 2D nanomaterials engineering and their nanoelectronic applications

Hon Fai CHAN

Title: Modulation of macrophages by bioactive glass/sodium alginate hydrogel is crucial in skin regeneration enhancement

Biography: 

Prof. CHAN Hon Fai is an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine and School of Biomedical Sciences at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).  He received his B.Eng. from The University of Hong Kong.  He then pursued his M.S. and Ph.D. degree at Duke University. During his Ph.D. training, he focused on developing several microfluidic technologies to perform 3D spheroid culture of mesenchymal stem cells and hepatocytes, and investigated the effect of supplementing extracellular matrix cues on spheroid functions.  In 2016, Hon Fai joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral associate.  There he conducted organ-on-a-chip research and develop biomechanics-guided folded hydrogel to recapitulate morphogenesis of mucosal folding which is observed in many hollow or tubular organs in human body

Sabiha Fatima

Title: Selenium nanoparticles promote osteogenesis by Foxo3a mediated regulation of redox homeostasis via JNK pathway

Biography: 

Dr. Sabiha Fatima obtained her MSc (Biochemistry) and PhD (Biochemistry) from Aligarh Muslim University, India. She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the college of Applied Medical Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her research work encompasses the toxicity assessments of environmental chemicals, and anticancer drug with special emphasis on the molecular mechanism and signaling pathways involved in cell death. Her current research interest focuses on the use of nanoparticle in the field of biomedical research and to understand its role on the cellular and molecular mechanism in treating diseases.

Jeonyoon Lee

Nanoengineered Advanced Composites for Enhanced Mechanical and Multifunctional Performance with a Focus on Self-manufacturing

Benoit Lessard

Benoît H. Lessard is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical & Biological Engineering at University of Ottawa. Recipient of 2018 Ontario Early Researcher Award, 2015 Charles Polanyi Prize in Chemistry and 2018 J. Mater. Chem. C Emerging Researcher. Since 2008, Prof. Lessard has published 97 peer reviewed journal articles, 14 patent applications, 1 book chapter and presented his work over 90 times at international and national conferences. Prof. Lessard is co-founder of Ekidna Sensing inc, which is a spinoff company based on cannabinoid sensors. Prior to joining uOttawa, Prof. Lessard was NSERC Banting Fellow at the University of Toronto on organic electronics and obtained his PhD (2012) from McGill University in Polymer reaction engineering. 

Naveen Kumar Reddy Bogireddy

Dr. Naveen Kumar Reddy Bogireddy obtained his Masters in Nano Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) University, India and his PhD (Applied Sciences and Engineering) from the Autonomous State University of Morelos (UAEM), Mexico. He is previously worked in MeRITs Engineering college as assistant professor, Andhra Pradesh, India. His PhD research was based on the heterogeneous catalytic reduction of several industrial organic contaminants with major focus on developing new reusable and eco-friendly catalysts which were tested in the catalysis and sensing applications. He currently doing post doc at condensed matter physics, Institute of Physics, The National Autonomous University of México (UNAM), México. His area of interest is nanomaterials for Energy and Environmental Applications. He has published various papers in peer reviewed journals including Chemical Engineering Journal, Journal of Hazardous Materials, Catalysis Today etc.

Shubhangi Shukla

Title: Functional alkoxysilane mediated synthesis of Palladium nanoparticles and their role as Metal Enhanced Fluorescence or Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer platforms

Biography: 

Dr. Shubhangi Shukla obtained his BSc (Chemistry) from the Isabella Thoburn College, University of Lucknow, India and his PhD (Applied Chemistry) from the Indian Institute of Technology (BHU). She previously worked as a Lecturer at an Engineering and Pharmacy College in India. His PhD research was based on the application of Palladium Nanoparticles for the electroanalytical and chemical applications in fluorescence, catalysis, hydrogen evolution. She currently works as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar, at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA. She has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.

Jonathan Quinson

Surfactant-free syntheses of colloidal nanoparticles: ideal candidates for improved catalysts and beyond

Sungjae Cho

Thickness-Controlled Black Phosphorus Tunnel Field-Effect Transistor for Low Power Switches

Shaokun Chong

Nickel-iron binary composition boosts Prussian blue based cathode for superior K-ion storage

Carina B. Maliakkal

Controlling the nucleation and growth of atomic layers in nanowires

Andrea Ridolfi

The effects of membrane composition and rigidity on the interaction of gold nanoparticles with lipid interfaces

Haider Butt

Dr. Haider Butt did his M.Phil. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge in 2008, followed by a PhD in Nanophotonics in 2012. In 2013, he was appointed as a Lecturer of Nanotechnology at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Birmingham, UK. He was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2016 and was appointed as the Senior Admissions Tutor for Mechanical Engineering in 2017. He joined Khalifa University as an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering in 2019. He has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles in prestigious journals including Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Biotechnology Advances, Light Science and Applications, and ACS Nano. He has earned international recognition for his research and leadership in optical sensors where he has contributions to nanoscale devices by conceiving novel holographic lithography methods to produce optical transducers. Dr. Butt is a Chartered Engineer by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, UK. He is a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and holds life fellowships of Cambridge Philosophical Society, Hughes Hall College, (University of Cambridge), and Wolfson College (University of Cambridge). He is an acting co-editor of the Sensors journal

Ilaria Ottonelli

Ilaria Ottonelli was born in northern Italy, and moved to Modena, Emilia Romagna, where she graduated in Medicinal Chemistry at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. During her thesis, she spent six months abroad studying at Ulm University, Germany, where she gained experience with animal models and learned how to manipulate animal tissues for imaging purposes. She graduated in 2018 with top honors and entered the PhD Program of Clinical and Experimental Medicine in the laboratory of Dr. Giovanni Tosi in 2019. As a PhD student, Ilaria Ottonelli’s research is focused on the optimization of polymeric nanoparticles loaded with different therapeutic molecules. She actively collaborates with different laboratories in Europe to test therapeutic efficacy of her results in vitro and in vivo, focusing on retinal delivery, blood-brain barrier targeting, neurodegenerative diseases, and trafficking of nanoparticles via tunneling nanotubes.

Kaisi Liu

Miss. Kaisi Liu is from China. She obtained a master's degree from Jilin University and she is currently studying in Huazhong University of Science and Technology. Her current interests foused on two-dimension porous materials. Now she has preliminarily studied some synthetic methods of 2D materials, including salt-templated method and molten salt method. She published one papers in ACS Catalysis.

Li-sha Zhang

Li-sha Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has a BEng in textile engineering, a MEng in textile materials and a Ph.D. in textile engineering. She’s research interest is wearable electronic systems, including flexible thermoelectric generators, and contact resistance at the interface between thermoelectric and electrode materials

Hiromu Hamasaki

Dr. Hiromu Hamasaki obtained his PhD (Engineering) from the University of Tokyo in 2019. Currently, he is a postdoctoral fellow at Osaka university, Japan. His area of interest is carbon nanotubes, heat transfer and electron microscopy.

Dinesh Singh

Graphene-based composites for an efficient and durable supercapacitor

Vishnu Priya Murali

Dr. Vishnu Priya Murali obtained her BS (Biomedical Engineering) from Sathyabama University, India, and her PhD (Biomedical Engineering) from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. She is currently working as a researcher at Florida State University, Florida, USA. Her research is focused on developing biodegradable polymeric scaffolds for bone tissue regeneration and drug delivery applications. She has worked on projects funded by the NIH and DOD and on several collaborative projects with Germany and Korea. She is a member of several American and Indian biomaterials societies like the Society for Biomaterials and Biomedical Engineering Society and has published various book chapters and papers in peer reviewed journals

Md Tawabur Rahman

Dr. Md Tawabur Rahman obtained his both BSc and MSc (Electrical Engineering) from the Khulna University of Engineering & Technology and his PhD (Electrical Engineering) from the South Dakota State University. His PhD research was based on two-dimensional nanomaterials and electrochemical sensors for the detection of heavy metals. His area of interest is electrochemical and chemical sensors for human health, environment, and agricultural applications. She has published various papers in peer reviewed journals.

Tolou Shokuhfar

Rhyme Setshedi

Dr Rhyme Setshedi is a Materials Scientist specializing in Structural Characterization techniques such as Small Angle Scattering, Microscopy and Topography. He obtained his PhD in 2016 from the University of Cape Town, and he has now been working as a Senior
Physics Lecturer at the North West University - Mafikeng Campus (South Africa) since 2019. Before that, he worked for the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (South Africa) for 10 years, and the Saudi Electric Services Polytechnic (Saudi Arabia) for 4 years. He has been part of various Scientific Research Projects with international collaborations such as with the De-Beers diamond growers, PST Sensors, European Synchrotron Radiation Facility and many more, which formed the basis of many of his publications.

Mehrnoosh Damircheli

Title: Optimum design of V-shaped Cantilever for Multifrequency AFM 

Biography: 

Dr. Damircheli obtained her BSc (Mechanical engineering) from the Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman and her Ph.D. (Mechanical engineering) from the Islamic Azad University, Science And Research Branch/ Tehran/Iran. She worked as a Visiting Researcher at Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid, CSIC /Madrid/Spain in 2014. She currently is an assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and lectures Microstructure and Mechanical properties, Dynamic system and Vibration, Material lab, and Mechanical measurement. Her area of interest is Nano additive manufacturing, Nanorobots, Atomic force microscopy, dynamic, and vibration analysis, FEM, and Nanocomposite. She has published various papers in peer-reviewed journals.

Syed Haroon Khalid

Title: Glimepiride Nanoemulgel: An innovative carrier with improved antidiabetic effect

Biography:

Dr. Syed Haroon Khalid has completed his PhD from Universiti Sains Malaysia, Malaysia in 2015. He is the Assistant Professor of Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has over 60 publications and six book chapters. His publication H-index is 10. He has been serving as the external reviewer to Higher Education Commission, Pakistan and a member of American Chemical Society (ACS).

Alae Eddine Lakraychi

Title: Organic Electrode Materials for Rechargeable Batteries: Progress and Challenges from a Molecular Engineering Perspective

Biography: 

Dr. Alae Eddine Lakraychi obtained his BSc (chemistry) and PhD (materials science) from the University of Picardy Jules Verne (France) under the supervision of Dr. Franck Dolhem and Dr. Matthieu Becuwe. After completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium) in Dr. Alexandru Vlad’s group, he joined the University of Houston as a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Yan Yao’s group. His current research focuses on developing innovative organic materials for energy storage and harvesting applications.

Mona Khafaji

Gold-Based Hybrid Nanostructures: Promising Nanomaterials for Combinational Cancer Therapy

Tarun Parangi

Titania Nanoparticles as modified Photocatalyst for Environmental Applications 

Sonnathi Neeleshwar

Dr S Neeleshwar, is currently working as a Faculty in Physics at University School of Basic & Applied Science (USBAS), Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, INDIA.   He had completed his Doctor of Philosophy in Physics from Osmania University in 2001.  After that he joined as Post-Doctoral Fellow at Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. During his post-doctoral fellow period, he received one of the prestigious award cum fellowship Academia Sinica Fellow.  His current research specializations are mainly nano materials, thermoelectric materials, high temperature superconductors and magnetic materials. He has published around 48 International Journals such as Nature Advance Material, Physical Review B (Rapid Communication), Chemistry of Materials, Applied Physics Letter etc. He has completed two national major research projects from BRNS and IUAC couple of international collaborative research projects also.

Sajid Asghar

Title: Design of antifungal drug loaded anisotropic structures for improved efficacy of drug

Biography: 

Dr. Sajid Asghar obtained his PhD (Pharmaceutics) from the China Pharmaceutical University. His PhD work was focused on the design of anticancer nanoparticles for targeted drug delivery. He has been working as a faculty member at Government College University Faisalabad, Pakistan for last 12 years. His research interests include design of various drug delivery systems and their evaluation for improved efficacy of drugs and decreased side effects. He has won research projects for the design of drug loaded lipid nanoparticles, lipid-polymer composites, and microemulsions. He pays special attention to the use of natural components such as proteins, lipids, and polysaccharides as biomaterials and drug carriers. He has published up to 60 papers in peer reviewed journals.

Soney C George

Dr.Soney C George has received his  PhD from Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam Kerela in 1999. He  is  currently working as the Dean of Research and Director of the Amal Jyothi Centre for Nanoscience and Technology, Kerala, India. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, and a recipient of “best researcher of the year” award in 2018 from APJ Abdul Kalam Technological University, Thiruvananthapuram, India. He has also received awards such as best faculty award from the Indian Society for Technical Education, best citation award from the International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, a fast-track award of young scientists by Department of Science & Technology, India, and an Indian young scientist award instituted by the Indian Science Congress Association. He did his postdoctoral studies at the University of Blaise Pascal, France, and Inha University, South Korea. He has published and presented almost 200 publications in journals and at conferences. His major research fields are polymer nanocomposites, polymer membranes, polymer tribology, pervaporation, and supercapcitors. He has guided eight PhD scholars and 97 student projects.