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Stanisław Wacławek currently works at the Technical University of Liberec (since 2013), where he has also obtained his Ph.D. degree (2017). He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati. His field of interest is nanomaterials in the environment, remediation techniques, and catalysis. He has completed a half-year internship at the SiREM/Geosyntec company and two months internship at the University of Guelph (Guelph, ON, Canada). He is coordinator / manager of several research projects, including the prestigious Czech GAČR jr (from 2020). He also serves as an associate editor of the Journal of Advanced Oxidation Technologies and Ecological Chemistry and Engineering S. He is also an Editorial Board Member of Chemical Engineering Journal and Catalysts journal. Stanisław Wacławek is in 2% of the most-cited scientists in the world according to Scopus (link1 and link2). He is a Publons 2019 awardee: Top reviewers in Environment and Ecology – September 2019 and Top reviewers in Cross-Field – September 2019.

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Title: Biomimetic nanomedicines for cancer immunotherapy

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Dr. Tianqing Liu is a Group Leader and Senior Research Fellow at Western Sydney University. Her current research focus is on the use of bio-inspired materials and nanotechnology to generate multifunctional nanostructures to overcome the current medical barriers in disease diagnosis and therapy. Her research is highly productive, leading to more than 70 original research publications, including 9 first author articles and 22 last/corresponding author articles in leading journals such as ACS NANO, Nano Letters, Biomaterials, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, and Journal of Nanobiotechnology etc. She has been recognised for scientific excellence with several grants, fellowships and awards, including NHMRC Peter Doherty -Australian Biomedical Fellowship in 2016, Women in Technology Rising Star Award in 2015, and a finalist for L'Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science Australian & New Zealand Fellowship in 2019 for her work in developing nanomedicines for disease diagnosis and treatment. She has attracted significant research funding from various competitive funding agencies with a total of more than 2 million AUD. 

Title: Design of aliphatic polycarbonate biomaterials for tissue engineering and drug delivery

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Title: AIE-Based Super-Resolution Imaging

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Title: Biomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Advanced Drug Delivery Systems

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Dr Michael Chen received his MSc and PhD from National University of Singapore, and University of Oxford, respectively. He is currently working in the Institute for Bioengineering in the School of Engineering at The University of Edinburgh as a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering. Dr Chen’s research is focused on biomaterials, biomedical engineering, and the application of nanomaterials in biology and medicine. In these areas, he has been working on physical (microneedle & nanoneedle arrays), chemical (nanomaterials), and biological (microalgae) tools for drug delivery and sensing. He has published ~120 papers in peer-reviewed journals, majority in field top journals such as Advanced Materials, Nature Communications, and Chemical Society Reviews. These publications generated an h-index of 50 and > 6900 citations. Additionally, he has 2 book chapters and 12 granted patents in drug delivery technologies.

Title: Cellulose nanomaterials can current solve global issues

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Dr Teboho Mokhena is a Principal Research Scientist heading Nanominerals unit within Advanced Materials Division (AMD) at MINTEK.  In this position, he oversees different industrial and academic related R&D projects as well as technical and scientific support to different industries, especially nanotechnology based industries. His research is centered around the use of waste materials to generate value-added products, such as biosensors, medical devices, costumed 3D printed devices etc. He has published more than 70 research outputs in the form of articles, and book chapters.

Title: Advanced ZnO Based Piezo-Phototronic Optoelectronics

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Dr. Prof. Wenbo Peng is now an Associate Professor at School of Microelectronics, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree in major of Electronic Science and Technology at 2016 and bachelor degree in major of Microelectronics at 2010 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has been a visiting scholar from Aug 2014 to Jul 2016, in Georgia Institute of Technology, working on the research field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang.

His research direction is focused on advanced low dimensional piezoelectric semiconductor device physics and novel intelligent sensing integrated chips. He has received several fundings from NSFC, Shaanxi Province and Companies. He has authored and co-authored about 50 peer-reviewed papers published on high quality international journals, including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, ACS Nano, etc. He is the Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials. His publications have been cited over 2000 times and google scholar h-index is 25.

Title: Liquid Crystals on Patterned Surfaces

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Prof Cliff Jones, FREng, FInstP, FRSC, FRSA is an EPSRC Fellow for Advanced Manufacturing in the Soft Matter Physics Group at Leeds University working on liquid crystal device physics, from the effects of confinement in droplets and on structured and meta-surfaces, to novel materials and manufacturing methods. This follows a thirty-year career in industrial research, firstly as Technical Leader of the Displays Group at DERA Malvern, and then as Founder and CTO of the spin-out company ZBD Displays Ltd (now Displaydata). He has won numerous awards, including the Katherine Burr Blodgett and Charles Vernon Boys Medals from the Institute of Physics, the Gray Medal and Hilsum Medal and Young Scientist Award from the British Liquid Crystal Society, and the Ernst and Young Science and Technology Entrepreneur of the Year. As well as publishing over 130 papers in the field of liquid crystals, displays and devices, he is a prolific inventor with over 65 granted patent families.

Biography: Prof. Huachao Yang, from Zhejiang University, Member of State Key Laboratory of Clean Energy Utilization. Editorial member of Advances in Applied Sciences, Applied Chemical Engineering, Energy Research, Global Journal of Energy Technology Research Updates etc. His research focuses on the nanoscale mass transport and related energy storage including supercapacitors, batteries and desalination.

Title: Nanomaterials for antibiofilm applications

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Dr Chen is Reader in Biointerface Engineering at Newcastle University, UK. She leads a Biointerface Engineering group with 9-12 researchers. She has received over £9M from a wide range of funding agencies. She is a Principal Editor of Journal of Materials Research, Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing) and Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces. She is also a member of UKRI Talented Panel College. Her research covers nanobiomechanics, antimicrobial surfaces, biofilm control, cell-materials interactions, and computational modelling. Her antimicrobial surface work includes developing multiscale structures on orthopaedic implant materials and other bioinspired surfaces to inhibit biofilm formation. She has published 76 journal papers (incl. Advanced Function Materials, Acta biomaterialia, Nanoscale, PLOS Computational Biology, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces)  and 2 bookchapters, with H-index=31.

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/engineering/staff/profile/jinjuchen.html

Title: FUNCTIONAL SURFACES IN LAB-ON-CHIP SYSTEMS FOR BIOCHEMICAL ANALYSIS

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Francesca Costantini  works as researcher at the Research Institute for Plant Protection and Certification (CREA-DC) Rome and is Adjunct Professor of Macromolecular Structures for the master course of Nanotechnology Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. She obtained her degree in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology in 2003 at the Alma Mater Studiorum-University of Bologna. In 2009 she completed the PhD in Chemical Sciences at University of Twente, The Netherlands, working on the development of Lab-on-Chip systems for (bio)chemical applications. Subsequently, she was postdoctoral researcher at Sapienza University of Rome working on Lab-on-Chip systems for diagnosis in the medical field and for food analysis.

Title: Enhancement of Surface Plasmon Polariton Activity/Scattering for Metaoptics and Sensing

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Dave McIlroy is a Professor of Physics at Oklahoma State University. His research focuses on materials development and analysis , as well as applications. His two primary areas of research are one-dimensional nanostructures, specifically, nanosprings, and nanotextured plasmonic materials.

Title: Stimulus-responsive nanoparticles for cancer treatment

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Professor Nomikou completed her doctorate in Biomedical Sciences at Ulster University in 2008. She was appointed as Lecturer in Targeted Therapeutics at UCL in September 2013, she was then promoted to Associate Professor in October 2019 and to Professor of Advanced Therapeutics in October 2021.

Her current research focuses on the development of translational drug delivery approaches based on formulations/carriers that are responsive to different forms of energy (electromagnetic fields, ultrasound), as well as responsive to the cancerous microenvironment. Her recently published and current funded research has demonstrated the potential of site-specific and minimally-invasive treatments based on low-intensity ultrasound and light, named as sonodynamic and photodynamic/photothermal therapy, respectively.  The potential of these therapeutic approaches to efficiently manage aggressive and advanced-stage cancers has been strongly augmented by novel therapeutic formulations that respond to either externally-applied or tumour-specific stimuli.  Professor Nomikou’s team aims to optimize these therapeutic modalities using nanotechnology for maximizing their potential in the clinic.

Title: Ultrasmall Fluorescent Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanoparticles for Nanomedicine

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Ulrich (Uli) Wiesner studied Chemistry at the University of Mainz, Germany, and UC Irvine, CA. He gained his Ph.D. in 1991 in Physical Chemistry with work at the Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P), Mainz, on holographic information storage in polymer liquid crystals. After a two-year postdoc at E.S.P.C.I. in Paris, France, on local dynamics-mechanical property correlations in polyesters, he returned to the MPI-P in 1993 where he finished his Habilitation in 1998 with work on block copolymers under oscillatory shear and block copolymer ionomers. He joined the Cornell University, NY, Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) faculty in 1999 as a tenured Associate Professor, became a Full Professor in 2005, and since 2008 is the Spencer T. Olin Professor of Engineering. At Cornell, he holds secondary appointments (field membership) in Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering (CBE), Biomedical Engineering (BME), and Chemistry and Chemical Biology (CCB). Since his arrival at Cornell, he has worked at the interface between polymer science and inorganic/solid-state chemistry with the goal to generate multifunctional nanomaterials for applications including energy conversion and storage, clean water, and nanomedicine. Between 2015 and 2016 he was the co-director of the MSKCC-Cornell Center for Translation of Cancer Nanomedicine (MC²TCN), one of six Centers for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence (CCNE) funded by the NCI

(https://www.cancer.gov/sites/ocnr/research/alliance/ccne).

Selected Honors and Awards

2022: Fiona Ip Li ’78 and Donald Li ‘75 Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell University

2020: National Science Foundation Creativity Award

2019: Selected “Ambassadeur pour la Chimie Française”, Institute of Chemistry, CNRS, France

2016: Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the American Chemical Society PMSE Division

2015: Elected PMSE Fellow of the American Chemical Society

2008: National Science Foundation Creativity Award

2005: Mr. & Mrs. Richard F. Tucker’50 Excellence in Teaching Award, Cornell University

2001: IBM Faculty Partnership Award

1999: Carl Duisberg Memorial Award of the German Chemical Society (GDCh)

Technology Commercialization

2016-present:   Cofounder Elucida Oncology, Inc.; effort to commercialize C dots for applications in oncology (http://www.elucidaoncology.com); Director, Co-Chair of Scientific Advisory Board.

2013-present:   Cofounder TeraPore Technologies, Inc.; effort to commercialize block copolymer based ultrafiltration (UF) membranes (https://teraporetech.com).

Title: Room-temperature atomic layer deposition for complex metal oxide coatings

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Fumihiko Hirose Professor, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan. Since joining Yamagata University, Hirose has been involved with studies related to thin film growths and their application to electronic devices. Hirose also contributed to the development of the roomtemperature atomic layer deposition there. Currently, Hirose is interested in the development of thin film transistors with a new sensing function.

Title: Atomic resolution electron tomography and dynamics of nano-objects

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Dirk Van Dyck is emeritus professor of the university of Antwerp. During several years he was Staff member of the EMAT center for electron microscopy at the University of Antwerp with an infrastructure of 7 electron microscopes and 60 scientists. He was founder and director of the Vision lab on image processing with about 30 scientists. He is  worldwide known for his work on electron microscopy and electron diffraction[1], [2] phase reconstruction. [3]. and microtomography.  [4].[5].  He has done pioneering work on the cluster theory, the real space method, the channeling theory. In He has laid the foundations of the focus-variation method for exit wave reconstruction which is now worldwide used for quantitative reconstruction of atomic structures at the sub-Angstrom level [3]. This method has be applied successfully for tomographic reconstruction using synchrotron radiation(holo-tomography) [4]. Recently he developed the big-bang theory for atomic resolution electron tomography [6]. Dirk Van Dyck published about 400 scientific papers and several books. He is also the co-editor of the well known handbook of nanoscopy. According to Google Scholar citations he has more than 14000 citations.  https://scholar.google.be/citations?user=wc2futEAAAAJ&hl=nl

He has been promotor of 35 PhD Theses and holds 115 international  patents.

Since 1989 Dirk Van Dyck is member(consultant) of the IUCR committee on electron crystallography.

In 2002 Dirk Van Dyck received the Francqui Chair from the university of Leuven for his scientific work in electron microsocopy and holography

From 2004 to 2008 Dirk Van Dyck was Vice-Rector for research of the university of Antwerp.

In this function he has been board member of nearly all the Flemish funding agencies for fundamental and applied research (FWO,IWT,VIB,SIM,CATALISTI.

In 2008 he received the honorary doctorate from the university of Lima (Peru)

In 2015 Dirk Van Dyck became honorary member of the Royal microscopical society of England

Dirk Van Dyck is board member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Science and Arts of Belgium and deputy chair of VARIO (Flemish Advisory board for Innovation and Entrepreneurschip).

Since 2016 Dirk Van Dyck is vice-chairman of the advisory council for innovation and entrepreurschip of the Flemish government.

Relevant publications

[1] S. Amelinckx, D. Van Dyck, J. Van Landuyt , G. Van Tendeloo (eds). Handbook of microscopy: applications in materials science, solid-state physics and chemistry, VCH Publishers, Weinheim, 1997.

[2] S. Amelinckx, D. Van Dyck, J. Van Landuyt , G. Van Tendeloo (eds). Electron Microscopy: Principles and fundamentals, VCH Publishers, Weinheim, 1997.

[3]. G. Van Tendeloo, D Van Dyck, S.J.Pennycook. Handbook of Nanoscopy (Volumes 1,2,3) Wiley-VCH 2012.

[4] W. Coene, G. Janssens, M.O. Debeeck, D. Van Dyck. Phase Retrieval through focus variation for ultra-resolution in field-emission transmission electron-microscopy, Physical Review Letters 26 (1992), pp 3743-3746

[5] P. Cloetens, W. Ludwig, J. Baruchel, D. Van Dyck, J. Van Landuyt, J.P. Guigay, M. Schlenker. Holotomography: Quantitative phase tomography with micrometer resolution using hard synchrotron radiation X-rays, , Applied Physics Letters 75, 2912-2914 (1999).

[6] A. Sasov A., D. Van Dyck. Desktop X-ray microscopy and microtomography. - Journal of microscopy, 191(1998), p. 151-159

[7] D. Van Dyck, F.R Chen , J Jinschek: Big-Bang tomography as a new route to atomic resolution tomography. Nature 486, 243–246 (14 June 2012) Outstanding paper award EMS 2012

[8] F.R.Chen, D. Van Dyck, C.Kisielowski: In-line three-dimensional holography of

nanocrystalline objects at atomic resolution. Nat. Com. Vol 7 10603 (2016)

[9]F.R.Chen, D.Van Dyck. C.Kisielowski, L.P.Hansen,B.Barton,S. Helveg. Probing atom dynamics of excited Co-Mo-S nanocrystals in 3D. Nat.Com. Vol 12 , 5007 (2021)

Title: Atomistic simulation of graphitization

Biography:

David Drabold is Edwin and Ruth Kennedy Distinguished Professor of Physics at Ohio University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Institute of Physics, and the Royal Numismatic Society. Drabold has published about 250 works; his current google h-index is 56. He worked with P. A. Fedders as a graduate student, receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from Washington University in 1989. Following term appointments at Notre Dame and Illinois, he joined the faculty of Ohio University in 1993. Drabold was Leverhulme Professor of Chemistry in 2008-2009, has twice been a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, and is a life member at Clare Hall, all in Cambridge. His work has focused on theory of amorphous materials and glasses. He has developed novel computational methods, including work on local orbital density functional and linear scaling quantum methods for diagonalization and simulation. He has pioneered novel methods to compute conduction paths in materials, a hybrid scheme to create atomistic models of amorphous materials jointly using ab initio interactions and experimental information, and a method to create computer models of materials with preferred optical properties. Recently, he collaborated with researchers at Oxford and Cambridge; one outcome was a paper featured on the cover of Nature in January, 2021 on pressure-induced transitions in amorphous materials. A Festschrift was published in his honor in October, 2021 in Phys. Stat. Sol. B. He has directed 21 dissertations, and his students have done notably well after graduation. 

Title: Micro/Nano-system and sensor System

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Dr Jize Yan is an Associate Professor at the University of Southampton. He received his first degree from Tsinghua University in China and his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He has also held positions as a Research Associate, Senior Research Associate and Principal Investigator at the University of Cambridge.

Title: Prussian blue type nano-objects: new opportunities for old materials

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Joulia Larionova is a Professor at the University of Montpellier since 2009, she directed research activities in the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier (ICGM). Her research topic is focused on the development of inorganic and molecular materials at nano- and macro scale with magnetic and optical properties, and porosity for applications in the areas of biology and medicine, and decontamination of radioactive species and gas sorption. 

Title: Nanoparticle ordering effect on dynamics of spherulitic growth and performance of solid - state electrolytes

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Dr. Trifkovic joined the University of Calgary in 2013 after completing her NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Minnesota. Her group focuses on connecting microstructure and rheology of complex fluids and soft matter as well as in-operando monitoring of electrochemical processes, polymer blend coarsening. She serves as an Associate Editor of Physics of Fluids journal. 

Title: Novel (Photo)Electrocatalysts Based on Single Metal Atoms on Carbon Support for Environmental Contaminant Removal

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Xingmao 'Samuel' Ma, Ph.D., P.E. is a TWRI faculty fellow and an associate professor in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering. His research interests span from studying the fate and transport of emerging environmental contaminants such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) and micro/nanoplastics to developing effective treatment technologies for different environmental pollutants. He is actively exploring novel new materials and advanced oxidation/reduction technologies to address the widespread PFAS challenges and other pollution problems in U.S. water and soils.

Dr. Ma is a three-degree environmental engineer and received his Ph.D. from the Missouri University of Science & Technology. He has been an assistant and then associate professor at Southern Illinois University Carbondale before he Joined Texas A&M University as a tenured associate professor.

Title: Iron oxide nanoparticles and nanocomposites: from synthesis to applications

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Yannick Guari is head of the Materials & molecular chemistry at the Institute Charles Gerhardt Montpellier and Director of the Institute Carnot Chimie Balard Cirimat. Since joining the CNRS in 1999 as a permanent researcher, he conducts research on metal-containing nanoparticles and nanocomposites.

Title: A Biosensor System Integrated with Auxillary Devices; Machine Learning and LED

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Minhee Yun joined the faculty as an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering after four years as a senior staff in the device application group at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, CA. While at JPL, he led research efforts in the area of device fabrication based on MEMS technologies, and chemical and biochemical nanowire sensor arrays for life detection on Mars and bio-signature detection of emerging diseases.  His current research interests include the development of nano-electronic devices, and bio-medical devices for early detection of disease signatures using nano-structured materials including conducting polymer, metal nanowires, carbon nanotubes (CNT) and graphene which are defined as smaller than 100 nm in either 1-D or 2-D size.  Nanostructured materials such as nanowire (NW), carbon nanotube (CNT), and graphene offer much promise for advances in bio-medicine and solid state device area due to possible enhanced sensitivity/selectivity and quantum confinement. 

Title: Getting the brain to take its medicine: how aptamers can be used to cross the blood brain barrier

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Dr Shigdar is focused on the development of aptamers, also known as chemical antibodies, for their use in both diagnostic and therapeutic applications. Dr Shigdar's main focus is on the use of aptamers for the treatment of neurological disorders - brain cancers, brain metastases, and neurodegenerative disorders

Title: Nonthermal crystalline forming of ceramic nanoparticles by field emission electron as non-equilibrium excitation reaction field

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Title: Methodology for quantification of trace elements in tears by PIXE: monitoring cobalt toxicity in mice

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Title: Stability of Wetting Films by Control of Surface Forces

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Roe-Hoan Yoon, a University Distinguished Professor in the Virginia Tech Department of Mining and Minerals Engineering and director of the Center of Advanced Separation Technologies, has been named a fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

Title: Rational Design and Precise Regulation of Electrocatalytic Materials for Nitrogen Reduction

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Shaodong Zhou is Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor in College of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Zhejiang University, China. One of his scientific interests is in the design and preparation of catalytic materials for the activation and conversion of energy-related small molecule like methane, nitrogen and oxygen, which continue to be challenging. He has published over 100 papers and filed over 40 patents.

Title: Advanced ZnO Based Piezo-Phototronic Optoelectronics

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Dr. Prof. Wenbo Peng is now an Associate Professor at School of Microelectronics, Xi’an Jiaotong University. He received his PhD degree in major of Electronic Science and Technology at 2016 and bachelor degree in major of Microelectronics at 2010 from Xi’an Jiaotong University. He has been a visiting scholar from Aug 2014 to Jul 2016, in Georgia Institute of Technology, working on the research field of piezotronics and piezo-phototronics under the supervision of Prof. Zhong Lin Wang.

His research direction is focused on advanced low dimensional piezoelectric semiconductor device physics and novel intelligent sensing integrated chips. He has received several fundings from NSFC, Shaanxi Province and Companies. He has authored and co-authored about 50 peer-reviewed papers published on high quality international journals, including Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, Nano Energy, ACS Nano, etc. He is the Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials. His publications have been cited over 2000 times and google scholar h-index is 25.

Title: 3D cell co culture hydrogel in BBB-on-a-chip for permeability evaluation of multi-functionalized gold nanorods against Alzheimer’s disease

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Dr. Mònica Mir graduated in chemistry in 1998, and in 2006, she obtained her doctorate in biotechnology. She carried out a postdoctoral in Max Planck Institute. In 2008, she joined the Institute of Bioengineering of Catalonia as senior researcher while teaching as an Associate Professor at the University of Barcelona. 

Title: Affinity microfluidics meets cell-free systems

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Title: Advanced nanogenerators for energy harvesting and sensing

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Dayan Ban is a Professor of Nanotechnology Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Waterloo. He received a B.Sc. and M.Sc at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China. He received a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 2003. During 2001-2002, he was a visiting scientist at Nortel Networks Optical Components, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Ban was on staff at the Institute for Microstructural Sciences of the National Research Council, Ottawa, from Sept. 2002 to Oct. 2005. He was a visiting scientist at the Research Lab of Electronics at MIT, Boston, US in 2009. Dr. Ban is a senior member of IEEE and a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. His research interests include optoelectronic devices, quantum cascade lasers, energy harvesting devices as well as scanning probe microscopy technique. Dr. Ban has authored or coauthored over 230 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings and has contributed 2 book chapters and 13 patents/patent applications. 

Title: In situ spectroscopy and nanoscale imaging of electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems

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Justin Sambur is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Colorado State University. Justin earned his B.S. degree in 2006 from the State University of New York (SUNY)-Binghamton. His undergraduate honors thesis work under the direction of Dr. David Doetschmann focused on the degradation mechanisms of chemical warfare agents within zeolite pores. Justin traveled west to graduate school and earned his PhD under the direction of Dr. Bruce A. Parkinson at Colorado State University (CSU). Justin studied the photoelectrochemical energy conversion properties of semiconductor nanocrystals and light absorbing polymers on single crystal electrode surfaces. In 2011, Justin traveled back to NY to join Prof. Peng Chen’s lab at Cornell University. Justin’s NSF ACC-F Postdoctoral Fellow work integrated single molecule imaging methods in the area of photoelectrochemistry. Justin returned to CSU in 2016 as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry and the School of Advanced Materials Discovery (SAMD). His research has been recognized with the Royce Murray Young Investigator Award, Air Force Young Investigator Award, NSF CAREER Award, and DOE Early Career Award. Justin was also named a Sloan Research Fellow and a Scialog Fellow in Advanced Energy Storage.

Title: Applications of nanorods and ferroelectricity to liquid crystal displays

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Title: Selective synthesis of high value nanomaterials from acid mine drainage

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Dr Rich Crane is a Senior Lecturer in Sustainable Mining at the University of Exeter, UK. His research focusses on understanding how we can apply novel methods in electrochemistry for a wide range applications including nanoparticle synthesis, waste valorization, water treatment and extractive metallurgy. 

Title: Right first time, every time manufacturing!! But are we there yet? Thermal errors in machine tools

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Dr. Naeem. S. Mian is a Subject Area Leader in Mechanical and Automotive Engineering at the School of Computing and Engineering, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom. Naeem has a diverse knowledge background due to his education history that covered subject areas of Electronics (BEng), Instrumentation and Control (MSc) and Mechanical Engineering (PhD). Due to this, his research interests and expertise covers and blends both mechanical and electrical subject areas. He has expertise in using Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to analyse the effects of varying temperatures and vibrations in machine tools and components in terms of displacement/deformations and stresses. He has research interests in Machine tool Metrology through application of effective practices to improve precision and hence the overall performance of manufacturing machines. He publishes in the areas of machine tool thermal error modelling using FEA, vibration analysis, sensors calibration, data measurement, and uncertainties in data measurements.

Title: An antitumor compound with magnetic activity

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Dr. Ishikawa has been working as independent researcher at Columbia University, Harvard University and Rutgers University since 1991.  Since joining the Yokohama City University, Dr. Ishikawa served as Dean of Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Vice President of the University.  Currently he serves as the President of Physiological Society of Japan.

Title: THE EFFECT OF MOLECULAR WEIGHT AND FIBER DIAMETER ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SINGLE, ELECTROSPUN PCL NANOFIBERS

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      Martin’s research is in biophysics and nano- and biotechnology. He makes use of atomic force and optical microscopy-based techniques to investigate the mechanical and structural properties of blood clots, electrospun fibers, and cells.  He is associate chair of the physics department and president of the International Fibrinogen Research Society. 

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F.P. obtained his PhD in 2012 in "Science and Technology of Materials and Nanosystems". Since 2017 F.P. is a researcher at the University of Turin. F.P. is an expert in the development of innovative diamond-based platforms for applications in the field of biophysics for in vitro sensing. He has coordinated more than 10 national and international projects and published 85 peer-reviewed papers (H-index: 18, >850 citations, Scopus ID: 25825404600).