Nanotechnology and Material Science

Chen-Kuei Chung

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Title of Talk:
Synthesis of Nanoporous Anodized Aluminum Oxide and Its Application

Biography:
Dr Chen-Kuei Chung received his B.E. and Ph.D. degrees of Materials from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1989 and 1994 respectively. From 1994 to 2002, he worked in Industrial Technology Research Institute for further technology research and development including the process development and integration of MEMS technologies and key components such as inkjet printhead, IR sensor array and biochip. He joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (ME/NCKU) in August, 2002, was promoted to Associate Professor in 2005, and then to full Professor in 2009. He has published more than 125 Int’l Journal Papers, 5 book chapters and more than 100 Int’l Conference Papers and holds more than 35 patents granted. Dr. Chung’s research interests are micro-nano material science and engineering, and fabrication, characterization and process integration of MEMS/NEMS devices for sensor, actuator and LIGA application, especially in the advanced hybrid pulse anodization, characterization and application.

Cecile Reynaud

Université Paris-Saclay, CEA Saclay, France

Title of Talk:
Growth of vertically aligned carbon nanotubes on aluminum foils

Biography:
Cecile Reynaud has her expertise in the synthesis and chemical physics of nanomaterials. Her work has mainly dealt with silicon nanocrystals and aligned carbon nanotubes. She was for 15 years at the head of the Laboratory of Nanometric Assemblies (LEDNA) in the fundamental research division of Saclay CEA center. The LEDNA group follows the "bottom-up" approach of nanosciences. It develops its own synthesis methods and obtains nanostructured materials with well-controlled characteristics. The applications are relevant for energy, health, environmental issues and the development of composite materials. The group also develop the up-scaling of its processes to allow their industrial transfer.

M. Goreti F. Sales

Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal

Title of Talk:
Nanomaterials mimicking antibodies applied to biosensing

Biography:
Goreti Sales has a 6-year degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences and a PhD in Analytical Chemistry, developing scientific activities in the field of nanotechnology, biosensing and materials. She is Adjunct Professor in the School of Engineering of the Polytechnique School of Porto and coordinates the research group BioMark (http://www.biomark.isep.ipp.pt). She runs the Starting Grant 3Ps of the European Research Council, since February 2013, with the purpose of developing fully autonomous devices to monitor cancer biomarkers, by merging Plastic Antibodies, Photovoltaics and Plasmonics. She has an h-index of 20 (Scopus, author ID 7005174717), for 110 indexed publications, with 1152 citations.

Adelaide Greco

Univ. degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli Italia.

Title of Talk:
Preclinical Imaging for a Theranostic Approach using Engineered Nanoparticles in mice models of lymphoma.

Biography:
Professor Greco has more than 15 years of experience in the field of Preclinical Imaging applied to the diagnosis and therapy of mice models of cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. She has got her PhD in the Veterinary University of Naples Federico II where she learned the principles of Radiology in small animal practice. She worked as invited researcher at Marshall University, Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology & Department of Surgery, and Translational Genomic Research Institute Laboratories, Edwards Cancer Center, Huntington, WV, testing nanosystems for drug delivery and therapy in mice models of cancer. Actually she is Professor at the Medical School of Naples Federico II where she worked ad PI in a preclinical Imaging Laboratory hosted at Ceinge Biotecnologie Avanzate, scarl Napoli, italy.

Assunta Marrocchi

University of Perugia

Title of Talk:
Introducing sustainable practices in organic electronics

Biography:
Assunta Marrocchi is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Biology and Biotechnology of the University of Perugia. She earned a PhD in Chemical Sciences at the same Institution. In 2008 she conducted research at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (USA), as visiting scientist. Her research expertise and interests encompass the fields of 1) organic functional materials, with a special emphasis on the sustainable synthesis of photoactive organics for solar cells; 2) biomass sustainable conversion to high added value chemicals.

Marco Giorgetti

University of Bologna

Title of Talk:
Operando characterization of batteries using X-ray absorption and X-ray diffraction

Biography:
Marco Giorgetti is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna and local coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree in Advanced Spectroscopy in Chemistry. He is member of the Peer Review Committee of synchrotron SOLEIL, France. He has coordinated more than 25 projects in synchrotron radiation facilities. Prof. Giorgetti received Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences (1998) in Italy and held a two-years post-doc position at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1998-2000). His main research interest covers the field of the structural characterization of energy materials and solutions by core-level spectroscopy and the applied electrochemistry.

Uttam Kumar Sarkar

Department of Physics, Malda College, Malda-732101, WB, India

Title of Talk:
SERS study of arylazo heterocycles adsorbed on silver nano particles

Biography:
Dr. Sarkar carried out his initial research works in the Department of Spectroscopy, IACS, Jadavpur (Kolkata), India, where Prof. C.V. Raman’s Nobel winning spectrograph is archived. He has been awarded with the University Gold Medal and Prof. S. N. Bose Memorial Medal. He published a number of research papers in journals of high impact factors and delivered invited speech in different International Conferences in India and abroad which include a speech at Stony Brook University, New York, USA. The field of his research is “Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS)”. Dr. Sarkar first observed the “first layer effect” of SERS in silver sol.

O.E. Glukhova

Saratov State University, Russia

Title of Talk:
Novel hybrid carbon nanomaterials for High-Performance Lithium-Ion Batteries

Biography:
O.E. Glukhova, Doctor of science in physics and mathematics, now is a head of Department of Radiotechnique and electrodynamics at Saratov State University and leads the Division of Mathematical modeling in Educational and scientific institution of nanostructures and biosystems at Saratov State University. She received her DSc degree in solid state electronics and nanoelectronics from Saratov State University in 2009. Her main fields of investigation are: nanoelectronics, molecular modeling of biomaterials and nanostructures, molecular electronics, mechanics of nanostructures, quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics, carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, graphane). She has published about 170 peer-reviewed journal papers and four monographs.

Najoua Turki-Kamoun

University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia

Title of Talk:
Investigations on the growth of quaternary nanomaterials

Biography:
She is a full Professor at the Faculty of Sciences of Tunis (FST) University of Tunis El Manar Tunisia. She obtained her PhD thesis in 1992 from FST and the Habilitation (HDR) in Physics in Tunisia (FST) in 2000 and she is a Professor since 2007. Her academic research focuses on Transparent conductive oxides (TCO : ZnO, SnO2, In2O3, TiO2, MoO3, Fe2O3 and Fe3O4), binary semiconductors (In2S3, SnS, CdS, Cu2S, ZnS, PbS and MgS), ternary (CuInS2, In(2-x)GaxS2, P3HT and P3OT) and quaternary compounds (CuIn(1-x)GaxS2 :CIGS and Cu2ZnSnS4 :CZTS) for opto-electronic applications such as photocatalysis, gaz sensors, solar cells, UV and IR detectors. Nanomaterials and thin films are grown by different low cost techniques (spray pyrolysis, chemical bath deposition (CBD), spin coating, electrodeposition and sputtering). She pulished about 100 papers in International Journals with impact factor and supervised more than 20 PhD thesis. Since 1989 she is a researcher in Physics Condensed Matter Laboratory (LPMC) where she was a head (2011-2015). In the period 2013-2014 she occupied the post of General Director of Physico-Chemical Analysis Institute (INRAP) in the Technopole of Sidi Thabet. She was a vice President of AUF COMARES (for MAGHREB : 2013-2015) and she is, since 2013, a representative of the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research on the board of directors of the National Metrology Agency (ANM). Since 2001 she is a Director of Synthesis of nanomaterials and thin film semiconductors for optoelectronic applications, Physics Condensed Matter Laboratory. In 2016 she is elected a TWAS (The World Academy of Science) member. Since 2015 she is elected as ARA (American Romanian Academy) member.

José A. De Toro

Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Title of Talk:
Dense assemblies of magnetic nanoparticles: characterization and applications

Biography:
Jose A. De Toro obtained his Physics M.S. at U. Autónoma de Madrid (1997) and his Ph.D. (2002) at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, where he is currently an associate professor. He was a postdoc Marie Curie fellow at the University of Liverpool (2004) and visiting professor at the University of Cagliari (2016). His main research line focuses on magnetic nanoparticles, with studies on topics such as the collective behavior of dense assemblies or exchange-bias effects in core-shell structured bi-magnetic particles. He has been invited to speak in APS and ICFPM conferences, among others. He is the chairman of a symposium on the substitution of critical raw materials in the coming E-MRS Spring Meeting (2018).

Alexander Bagaturyants

Photochemistry Center RAS Federal State Institution, Russia

Title of Talk:
Theoretical Modeling in Organic Nanophotonics

Biography:
Alexander Bagaturyants is chief researcher at Photochemistry Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was graduated from D.I. Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, Moscow, Russia in 1962, obtained his PhD degree, Dr. Sci. degree, and the academic title of professor in 1968, 1987, and 1992, respectively, all in physical chemistry. His main research interests are in the field of atomistic multiscale simulations of organic functional materials, quantum chemistry, quantum-chemical calculations of excited states in molecules and molecular complexes. Alexander Bagaturyants is the author of more than 200 research papers and two monographs.

Mabrouk

Laboratory of Physics of Materials and Nanomaterials Applied at Environment (LaPhyMNE), Gabes University, Faculty of Sciences in Gabes, 6072, Tunisia

Title of Talk:
Properties of nickel doped In2S3 thin films deposited by spray pyrolysis technique

Biography:
M. Kraini received a Phd Degree in Physics in 2016 from the University of Monastir. Currently, he is a membre at the Laboratory of Physics of Materials and Nanomaterials Applied at Environment, Gabes, Tunisia. His main research interests are the synthesis and characterization of nanoparticles and thin films for a variety of applications.

Poonam Agarwal

Microsystems Lab, School of Computer & System Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India

Title of Talk:
Glucose Sensor Using Microwave Sensing Technique

Biography:
Dr. Poonam Agarwal, did PhD from Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India, in 2011. She worked as Post doctoral researcher at Nanyang Technological University Singapore for one year 2012-2013. Since 2013, she is Assistant Professor at School of Computer & Systems Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi, India. She is DST INSPIRE Faculty awardee by Department of Science & Technology, Government of India through which fellowship and research grant is provided. Her research interest is focused on to explore unconventional low cost micromachining techniques to implement mesoscale devices for applications such as energy harvesting device, microwave biosensor etc.

Ruslan

National technical university “Kharkov polytechnic institute”

Title of Talk:

Biography:
Ruslan Kryvobok is an Deputy Head of Scientific and Research Part, Associate professor of informatics and intellectual property at the National technical university «Kharkov polytechnic institute» in Ukraine. He obtained her Ph.D of Science thesis in “technology of the refractory non-metallic materials” from National technical university «Kharkov polytechnic institute» (Lyon, France) in 2007. He is now member of research group of prof. G. Lisachuk ( Doctor of Sciences, full Professor, Winner of the State Prize of Ukraine in Science and Technology) . He published more than 80 papers, patents and participates in several international conferences in ceramics materials, nanotechnology and other.

Usman Khan

School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), Suwon, 440-746, Republic of Korea.

Title of Talk:
Graphene Tribotronic Transistors for Touch Sensing

Biography:
Usman Khan is a post-doc in School of Advanced Materials Science &Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU), South Korea. Bejor joining SKKU, he received his Ph.D. degree from University of Rome “Tor Vergata”, Italy, in May 2014 and served as a post-doc in the university for one year. His research interests include the design, simulation, fabrication and characterization of 2-D materials based MEMS and NEMS devices for energy harvesting, sensing and actuation.

shima shirani lapari

Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), 81310 Johor Bahru, Johor, Malaysia.

Title of Talk:
Effect of Different Templates on the Synthesis of Mesoporous Sodalite

Biography:
Shima Shirani Lapari was born in Iran, in 1985.She received her B.S. in pure chemistry (1992). She received her M.S. in Inorganic chemistry (2012) and Ph.D. in Chemistry (Synthesized of Catalyst) (2015) from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM- Johor Bahru Campus, Malaysia)..

farzaneh fotoohi

Title of Talk:
IN VITRO EVALUATION FOR CYTOTOXIC ACTIVITY OF THREE FERULA SPECIES

Biography:
I was born on july 8,1988 in Tehran, Iran & also raised in Tehran too. I studied science in highschool . I was graduated of Azad university of Tehran in 2012 in pharmaceutical science. I have worked as a pharmacist in health center pharmacy for 2 years & public pharmacy for 2 years & now I have joined to a cosmacutical import company since last year.

Priyanka Nayar

Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre, Amrawati Road, Wadi, Nagpur-440023, India

Title of Talk:
Preparation of Fe nano-particles and mixed Al-Fe-Ti nano-particles from iron rich industrial rejects for value addition

Biography:
Dr Priyanka Nayar received her Masters and PhD degree in Physics from Guru Nanak Dev University, Amritsar, India in 2005 and 2014 respectively. She worked as a postdoctoral research associate in Nanjing University, China. Recently she is working as a Scientist in a research institute “Jawaharlal Nehru Aluminium Research Development and Design Centre” in Nagpur, India. Her research interests include thin film deposition, nanoparticles synthesis and characterization techniques such as GIXRD, SEM, XRF, NMR, UV-visible spectroscopy etc. Presently She is working on recycling of aluminium industrial wastes into value added products like nanocomposites. Dr. Priyanka is also the author of around 10 research papers in international journals including “Scientific Reports”, “Optical Materials”, “Vaccuum”, “Thin Solid Films” and many more.

Jamboor K Vishwanatha

Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine, UNT Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX

Title of Talk:
Bone Microenvironment Targeted Nanoparticles for Metastatic Prostate Cancer Treatment

Biography:
Dr. Vishwanatha is a Regents Professor and Vice President, and Founding Director of the Texas Center for Health Disparities at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. He is a principal investigator of the National Research Mentoring Network, a NIH Common Fund initiative to provide mentorship, networking and professional development for a diversified biomedical and behavioral workforce. He is also a principal investigator of the NIH Specialized Center of Excellence in Health Disparities. Dr. Vishwanatha received his Ph.D. in biological sciences from the University of South Carolina in 1983. Dr. Vishwanatha’s research is in cancer molecular biology, experimental therapeutics and nanotechnology. His laboratory is investigating genetic markers that predict development of aggressive prostate and breast cancers, and nanotechnology-based therapies for breast and prostate cancers. His research is funded by NIH, DOD and other agencies. Dr. Vishwanatha is actively involved in mentorship and networking programs to diversify the biomedical research workforce, and has mentored numerous undergraduate and graduate students from under represented groups in biomedical sciences. As the founding director of the Texas Center for Health Disparities, a Specialized Center of Excellence funded by the National Institutes of Health, he has directed health disparity research, education and community outreach programs. For the past 12 years, he has organized the annual Texas Conference on Health Disparities that attract national speakers and participants. He serves on the external advisory committees for University of Puerto Rico-Cayey, PR; St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, Texas; Alabama State University, Montgomery, Alabama; and Savannah State University, Savannah, Georgia. He has been an active member of the AAMC GREAT Group, SACNAS and ABRCMS.

Roberto Grau

Laboratorio de Microbiología. Facultad de Bioquímica y Farmacia, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (UNR) y Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET). Rosario, Argentina.

Title of Talk:
Metal nanoparticles as a novel and safe strategy to fight pathogenic spores and antibiotic-resistant microbial biofilms.

Biography:
Roberto Grau completed his PhD from Rosario National University in Argentina and obtained his postdoctoral studies from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI), Department of Experimental Medicine at San Diego, California, USA. He is a Pew Latin American Fellow (San Francisco, USA), a Fulbright International Scholar (WashigntonDC, USA) and the director of the Molecular Microbiology and Environmental Science Laboratory of the National Council of Scientific Research of Argentina (CONICET). Roberto obtained many national and international awards, published more than 30 papers in reputed journals, formed more than seventy profesionals in science and founded and/or catalyzed the creation of half-dozen biotechnological companies.

Terry J. Hendricks

NASA- Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology CANADA

Title of Talk:
On Transitioning Spacecraft Power System Technology to Terrestrial Power Systems for 2020 and Beyond

Biography:
Dr. Hendricks is currently a Technical Group Supervisor, Project Manager, and ASME Fellow in the Power and Sensor Systems Section at NASA–Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, responsible for managing power system projects; and designing spacecraft power systems, solar power systems, nanotechnology in thermal management and thermal energy storage systems critical to NASA missions. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. and Master of Science in Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. He has over 35 years of professional experience in thermal & fluid systems, nanotechnology in energy recovery, conversion and storage systems, terrestrial and spacecraft power systems, and project management. Dr. Hendricks has authored or co-authored more than 85 publications, 2 invited book chapters, holds 9 patents, and is a registered Professional Engineer in California and Texas.

José Miguel Martínez Valle

University of Córdoba (Spain).

Title of Talk:
Effective finite element methods for the dynamic analysis of composite shell structures

Biography:
Jose M. Martinez Valle is Assistant Professor with the Department of Mechanics in the University of Cordoba, Spain. He has received the Ph.D. degree in structural mechanics from the University of Cordoba in 2014. He has coauthored several papers for national and international conferences and journals related to computational mechanics and educational sciences. His research interests include structural mechanics, advanced finite element methods for plates and shells and educational/computer technology. He has done several research stays in the University of Thessaloniki (Greece) at the division of Structural Mechanics, advisor Demosthenes Talaslidis, and The National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) in Santa Fe (Argentina), University of Litoral, advisor: Victor Fachinotti. The last publications in peer reviewed journals (JCR) are: “Noise and Vibration Risk Prevention Virtual Web for Ubiquitous Training”. “IEEE Transactions on Education. Volume:58 Issue:4”. Indexed in JCR. 2015. “Modified Bolle Reissners theory of plates including transverse shear deformations”. “Latin American Journal of Solids and Structures, LAJSS”. Indexed in JCR. 2015. "A New Refined Theory Of Plates With Transverse Shear Deformation For Moderately Thick And Thick Plates”. Latin American Applied Research, LAAR. Indexed in JCR. 2016. “Study Of The Vibrations Of Moderately Thick Doubly Curved Shells Via Efficient 3d Elements”. Latin American Applied Research, LAAR. Indexed in JCR. 2016 “Inverse finite element modeling of shells using the degenerate solid approach”, Computers & Structures, 2015. Indexed in JCR. 2015 “A Refined Theory of Moderately Thick Plates According to Exposition of the Classical Technical Theories, Theoretical Aspects”. Applied Mechanics and Materials. Indexed in SJR. 2014