Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became a professor in 1996, and he has already been working as a professor. He published over 60 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as a participant, invited speakers or keynote speakers with contributions. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities.

Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, electron diffraction, x-ray diffraction, and crystallography.

Tongue He has completed his Ph.D. at the age of 39 years from Nanjing University and postdoctoral studies from Southeast University School of Biological Science and Medical Engineering. He is the director of Hunan Key Laboratory of Biomedical Nanomaterials and Devices at the Hunan University of Technology. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a co-editor-in-chief of Materials Express

Biomedical Engineering; Biological Physics; Nanotechnology; Nanomaterials

Natalya Rapoport, Ph.D., D.Sc. has completed her PhD from the Karpov Institute of Physical Chemistry and D.Sc. degree from the Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. In 1990 she immigrated into the United States at the invitation of the University of Utah where she held a position of a Research Professor. She is currently a Research Professor Emerita at the Department of Bioengineering, the University of Utah. She has been awarded a number of prestigous awards and several patents in the nanomaterial field. She published more than 100 papers in high-rank journals and served as an editorial board member of reputable journals.

Dr. Rapoport is interested in researching targeted drug delivery using stimuli-responsive nanoparticles as an application of nanomedicine.

Dr. Michael Nastasi is the Director of the Nebraska Center for Energy Sciences Research at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is also the Elmer Koch Professor of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. Mike’s personal research interests include ion-solid interactions, irradiation induced phase transformations, nanomaterials for extreme irradiation environments, ion irradiation and plasma modification of materials, ion beam analysis of materials, synthesis and properties of high strength nanolayered composites, and surface mechanical properties. He has co-authored more than 550 refereed publications, authored the books entitled Ion-Solid Interactions: Fundamentals and Applications, published by Cambridge University Press in 1996, Ion Implantation and Synthesis of Materials, published by Springer-Verlag in 2006, and Ion Beam Analysis: Fundamentals and Applications, published by CRC Press in 2015, and edited several volumes including the MRS best seller, the Handbook of Modern Ion Beam Materials Analysis.

Research interests include ion-solid interactions, irradiation induced phase transformations, nanomaterials for extreme irradiation environments, ion irradiation and plasma modification of materials, ion beam analysis of materials, synthesis and properties of high strength nanolayered composites, and surface mechanical properties.

Jolanda Spadavecchia is a senior researcher. Her research activities are focused on the realization of nanoparticles and biosensors. In particular, she is interested in the processes responsible for the bioconjugation of protein, macromolecules or DNA oligonucleotides onto gold nanoparticles and substrates for the creation of optical biosensors. She is currently involved in the synthesis of Polymeric nanoparticles and the development of Nano-hybrid materials for Nanomedicine. Actually she has an active collaboration with Berlin and Louvre Museum in order to establish the mechanism responsible of the AuNP formation at the surface of ancient ivory objects from different archaeological and historical contexts.

synthesis of Polymeric nanoparticles and the development of Nano-hybrid materials for Nanomedicine. Actually she has an active collaboration with Berlin and Louvre Museum in order to establish the mechanism responsible of the AuNP formation at the surface of ancient ivory objects from different archaeological and historical contexts

Han-Yong Jeon is a professor of geosynthetics/technical organic materials of Inha University, Incheon, Korea(South). He was the 32nd President of Korean Fiber Society (2014~2015) and 6th President of Korean Geosynthetics Society and a Council Member of International Geosynthetics Society, 2008~2012. Also, he is an Executive Editorial Board of “Fibers and Polymers”. He has published more than 895 Proceedings in domestic and international conferences. He wrote 21 text books including 'GEOSYNTHETICS’ and also published 150 papers in domestic & international journals. He has awards of Marquis Who'sWho-Science and Engineering(USA) in 2003~2018 and Top 100 Scientists in the World( 2005/2011/2013) of IBC(International Biographical Centre, UK). Also, he got the 33rd Academy Award of Korean Fiber Society in 2006 and “Excellent Paper Award of 2012” by The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies.

organic materials research

Francesca Nanni has completed his PhD in Materials Engineering from the University of Rome Tor Vergata. She is currently associate professor at the faculty of Enigneering at the University of Rome Tor Vergata, memer of INSTM, and of ECNP (The European Center for Nanostructured Polymers). She has published more than 70 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Nanomaterials in industrial applications

Dr. (Ms) T.Theivasanthi of Kalasalingam University doing research in nanomaterials / nanotechnology.serving as Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals; lead editor in JNNN special issue (SAGE Publications, UK.World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection.

silver, copper, lead, nanopowder, XRD, semiconductor, superparamagnetism, Electrolysis, graphene, bio-sensors, nano-biofertilizers, fertility, microbial fuel cells, nanocellulose, metal-polymer nanocomposites, solar cells, neutrino detection, satellite.

Mrinal Pal working as a Scientist at Sensor & Actuator division at CGCRI, India

Nanostructure semiconductor gas sensors Gas sensor towards human breath analysis for monitoring health Multiferroic and magnetic nanocomposites Spintornics materials Glass, Glass-ceramic Inorganic-organic hybrid nanocomposites Light harvesting using inorganic nanostructured materials

Dr. Dimitris Drikakis is Professor of Engineering Science and Executive Dean (Engineering) and Associate Principal and at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (till June 2017). Since July 2017, and in addition to his continued Professorial role, Dimitris has taken on new leadership roles as Executive Director of Global University Partnerships (US and Far East), Executive Director of the Strathclyde Space Institute and, furthermore as Co-Director of a new Institute of Autonomous Systems and Robotics.

Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), Fluid mechanics (particularly compressible flows), and Micro/nanoscale processes at fluid-solid interfaces.

Gerd Kaupp obtained his PhD at the age of 24 from the University of Würzburg. His postdoctoral studies were at the Universities of Ames, Iowa, Lausanne Switzerland, and Freiburg Germany. He was appointed chemistry full professor at the University of Oldenburg in 1982, from where he retired at the age limit. He served as guest professor for several international universities. He published more than 300 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as editorial board member.

His expertise is in waste-free benign syntheses and productions, solid-state chemistry, reactive milling, mechanochemistry, AFM, SNOM, nano-scratching, nano-indentation, and standardization in nanomechanics.

Dr. Chaitanya U. Kshirsagar received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in electrical and computer engineering (ECE) from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a dissertation on modeling and fabrication of low power devices and circuits using low-dimensional materials. He obtained the degree of Master of Science in ECE from University of California Santa Barbara with a dissertation on electronic transport properties in graphene, and the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in electronics and telecommunication from the Government Engineering College, Aurangabad. He also has industry internship and collaborative research experience involving leading technology companies like IBM, Agilent Technologies, and Global Foundries. His technical expertise is focused on semiconductor device design, fabrication, simulation, modeling and characterization. Currently he is working as a research scientist at Peregrine Semiconductor. His work has been cited in wide range of fields such as nanoelectronics, microelectromechanical devices, semiconductor devices, applied physics, measurement science, photonics, smart materials, sensors, computational electronics and circuit design. He serves as a reviewer for various Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Institute of Physics (AIP), and Institute of Physics (IOP) journals. He is member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), full member of Sigma Xi-The Scientific Research Society, and member of American Chemical Society (ACS).

Semiconductor device design, fabrication, simulation, modeling and characterization.

Prof. Han-Yong Jeon, geosynthetics/technical organic materials researcher and he was the 32nd President of Korean Fiber Society (2014~2015). He has published more than 843 papers in domestic and international conferences. He wrote 20 texts including 'GEOSYNTHETICS’ and also published 132 papers in domestic & international journals. He has awards of Marquis Who'sWho - Science and Engineering in 2003~2017 and also, he got the 33rd Academy Award of Korean Fiber Society in 2006 and “Excellent Paper Award of 2012” by The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies.

Manufacturing, Application and Evaluation of Technical Organic Materials Manufacturing, Evaluation, Standardization & Regulation of Geosynthetics Polymeric Geocomposites.

Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, a Graduate Research Faculty Advisor in the Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and the Director of the Nanotribology Laboratory for Information Storage & MEMS/NEMS (NLIM) at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. B.E. 1970, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India; MS 1971, Massachusetts Institute of Techology, Cambridge; MS 1973, University of Colorado, Boulder; PhD 1976, University of Colorado, Boulder Dr. Bhushan holds two M.S., a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering/mechanics, an MBA, and three semi-honorary and honorary doctorates. He received his Doctor Honouris Causa from Metal-Polymer Research Institute of National Acad. of Sci., Gomel, Belarus in 2000; and Doctor of Technical Sciences Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland in 1996. He has organized various international conferences and workshops. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and international fellowships. He is a member of various professional societies, including the International Academy of Engineering (Russia).

Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.

Dr. Georges Akhras is a Professor of Civil/Mechanical Engineering at the Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Ontario. He joined RMC in 1987. He is a member of many technical and professional associations. Dr. Akhras is also President of Cansmart, the Canadian Smart Materials and Structures Group.

His current interests include structural behaviour, computational mechanics, numerical modelling, knowledge engineering expert systems, composite materials, smart materials and structures and engineering education, and he has published many papers on those subjects.

Dr S.Joseph Antony is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Particle Science and Engineering, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, U.K.His research expertise is in the area of nano and micromechanics, multi-scale modelling and experimental mechanics of materials in both discrete and continuum form. Joseph has published over 100 papers in several reputed international journals and conference proceedings.He actively participates in the activities of particle technology community in U.K and abroad. He holds membership in several international professional bodies and serves in technical committees in his area of research. Currently, he serves as a member of peer reviewers in his area of research for several international journals. He is the lead editor of the book on Advances in Granular Materials: Fundamentals and Applications, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London (2004). He has won many awards, including the prestigious M.I.T Young Research Fellowship for Exemplary Research in Computational Mechanics and the Certificate of Merit as an Example of Outstanding Achievements in U.K Particle Science and Technology in 2002, PTSG, IChemE, U.K, He has served as a guest editor for the Jl. Granular Matter and the lead editor of the book ‘Granular Materials: Fundamentals and Applications’, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London in 2004. Presently Joseph serves as an editorial board member of several journals in the area of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology. His research sponsors include EPSRC, Royal Society, DTI, ICI, BNFL, P&G, Pfizer, Borax Hosakawa Micron, Bridon International Ltd, Merck Sharp & Dohme and DuPont (U.K).

Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Fecht is a Director EUREKA Cluster Office Metallurgy Europe, Ulm - Brussels. He has been a Senior Scientist, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology KIT, Institute for Nanotechnology.He was a Chaired Professor of Materials Science (C-4) Director Institute of Metals Research Technical University Berlin, Germany during 1993 – 1997.He served as a Professor of Metal Physics (C 3) Augsburg University, Germany He worked as a Senior Research Associate, Department of Materials Science California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, U.S.A during 1987 – 1990.He was a Post doctoral Research Associate Department of Material Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, U.S.A. from 1984 – 1987.

Characterization of materials in electrical engineering Optimization of the microstructural, electrical, chemical, mechanical and tribological properties of functional materials and layer structures Development of high performance materials of microelectronics, microsystem technology and sensor technology, which are also suitable for extreme ambient conditions Material research under space conditions Corrosion and wear resistant thin layers Metallic glasses Nanocrystalline materials Internal interfaces (grain boundaries, phase boundaries) Modeling and simulation of material properties and composite structures Nanocrystalline Phosphors (AG Mr.) Magneto-resistive sensors (AG master) Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics (AG Mr.) Magnetic nanoparticles (AG Mr.)

Professor Lau received his Bachelor and Master degrees of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University, Australia) in 1996 and 1997, respectively. Within that period, he also worked for General Aviation Maintenance Pty Ltd, Australia, as an Engineer Trainee, and for the Corporative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures (CRC-ACS) Australia, as a Research Assistant designing a repair scheme for composite performs. Afterward, he received his Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001. Thereafter, he was appointed Assistant Professor in 2002 and promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 2005 and 2010, respectively. In 2015, he was appointed as Alex Wong/Gigi Wong Professor in Product Design Engineering and Associate Dean (Industrial Relation) in the Faculty of Engineering, PolyU. Currently, he is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Research Performance and Development) of Swinburne University of Technology, Australia to look after its future research and ranking strategies. Professor Lau has received numerous research and teaching awards since 2002. His research articles have been frequently cited by his peers. He has received over 12,000 citations with the h-index of 53 (google scholar citations) to date. Several of his papers have also been ranked as the top 1 % most cited papers in WoS. Last year, he has been elected as Fellow of the European Academy of Science and Arts. He has also been elected as International Vice President of The Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) and appointed as Independent Non-executive Director of Kingsflair International (Holdings) Limited.

Nanomaterials; Nanostructured Materials; Construction Materials; Nanostructured Materials

Lavinia BALAN obtained the PhD degree from the University Henry Poincaré in Nancy, France, in 2005. Her PhD was devoted to the elaboration of an original material for the anode of Li-ion batteries. After a post doctorate in Orleans and then in Mulhouse, she joined the Department of Photochemistry (DPG) of Mulhouse in 2006 as a CNRS Senior Researcher. She opened a new field of research in this laboratory, viz. the photo-assisted synthesis of metal nanoparticles and metal-polymer nanocomposite materials. Since December 2009, L. Balan joined the Institute of Materials Science of Mulhouse (IS2M)-CNRS. She has published more than 100 scientific publications, 4 book chapters and 5 patents. Dr. L. Balan has been serving as an editorial board member for few scientific journals.

Her lines of research are concerned with photochemical synthesis of metal/polymer nanocomposites and design, customization and characterization of metal nanoparticles and nanocrystals (quantum dots) suited for advanced applications in the fields of optic, photonics, plasmonics, imaging or biology.

Professor Dr. Nasrallah M. Deraz is Professor of Advanced Nanomaterials Chemistry and Catalysis at National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt. He received B. Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Chemistry (Solid State, Surface Chemistry and Catalysis) in 1990, 1996 and 1999, respectively, from College of science, Zagazig University, Egypt. However, he received B. Law in 2005 from College of Laws, Zagazig University, Egypt. He joined Physical Chemistry Department, Laboratory of Surface Chemistry and Catalysis, National Research Centre, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt, since 1992 till now. He was awarded a Post- doctoral fellowship in 2004 to Institute of Materials Science, Structure Research, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany. He joined Chemistry Department, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, since 2009 till 2013.

Professor Deraz's research focuses on various aspects of solid state, surface chemistry and catalysis. One topic of research is solid-state chemistry and nano-structured materials. The second topic is surface chemistry and heterogeneous catalysis. The third topic is science and technology of advanced nano-materials.

Received his Ph. D from McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada in 2008. After graduation he worked as post doctoral fellow in the same group. In October 2009, he joined the photonic group and the institute of optical sciences at the University of Toronto where he works as a research fellow. In September 2011, he joined the Department of Physics, the American university in Cairo (AUC). He authored more than 175 technical papers in highly ranked journals and conferences. He also hold 2 patents, a book, and book chapter in these areas. Dr. Swillam is an editor in few international Journals He is also member of the editorial board of many conferences He is also a senior member of the IEEE Photonic society since 2010. He is the founder and the advisor of the optical society of America and SPIE chapters at the AUC and the vice president of the Egyptian Unit.

Design optimization and fabrication of active and passive nanophotonic and plasmonic devices and systems, silicon photonics, optical interconnects, integrated on- chip optical systems, lab on chip, nano-antenna, metamaterials, and solar cells. The main applications include biomedical systems, energy harvesting, and telecommunications.

Dr. Sirikanjana Thongmee now is an professor of Physics, She was in Physics Department Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University. She got her B.Sc in Physics at Prince of Songkla University, M. Sc. in Chemical Physics at Mahidol University and Ph.D. (Materials Science) at National University of Singapore. Dr. Sirikanjana Thongmee got the Thesis Presentation Award, Mahidol University, Thailand, 1999 and Outstanding Research of the Year 2nd Class Award, Office of the National Research Council of Thailand, Thailand, 2003. Currently Dr. Sirikanjana Thongmee’s researches focus on the metal doped ZnO for spintronics and gas sensors applications, magnetic nanomaterials, graphene oxide for different applications and activated carbon from agricultural waste

Dr.Sirikanjana Thongmee’s researches focus on the metal doped ZnO for spintronics and gas sensors applications, magnetic nanomaterials, graphene oxide for different applications and activated carbon from agricultural waste.

Auciello graduated with M.S. (1973) and Ph.D (1976) degrees in Physics from the Physics Institute “Dr. Balseiro” (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina). Electronic Engineering at the University of Córdoba-Argentina (1964-1970). Auciello was Potdoc at MacMaster University-Canada (1976-1979), Researcher at the University of Toronto-Canada (1979-1984), Associate Professor at North Carolina State University (1985-1988), Senior Research Scientist at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina (1988-1996), Senior Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory (1996-2005), and Distinguished Argonne Fellow (2005-2012). He is an Adjunct Professor at University of Colorado-Colorado Springs and Michigan State University.Auciello is directing basic and applied research programs on different fields, involving multi-component/multifunctional oxide thin films and application to systems and devices (ferroelectric memories, resistive change memories, nanoscale CMOS devices, photovoltaic energy generation / storage devices, high-frequency devices, piezoelectric thin films for MEMS/NEMS sensors and actuators); and nanocarbon thin films (ultrananocrystalline diamond (UNCD) and graphene films) and applications to industrial, electronics, MEMS/NEMS, and implantable medical devices). The UNCD film technology is now commercialized for industrial components and systems by Advanced Diamond Technologies (ADT), a Company founded by Auciello and Carlisle, spun-off from Argonne in 2003 (Profitable in 2014), and by Original Biomedical Implants (OBI-USA), a Company founded by Auciello and Gurman (MD) in 2013, for and OBI-Mexico (company co-founded by O. Auciello and J.L. Rubio (Mexico), January 2016) commercializing a new generation of UNCD-coated implantable medical devices and medical treatments based on nanotechnology.Auciello has edited 20 books on various topics, published about 500 articles in the fields described above, holds 20 patents, and organized, chaired, and lectured at numerous national and international conferences. He is associate editor of Appl. Phys. Lett., Integrated Ferroelectrics, and editor of two book series on thin films and applications to devices (Academic Press). He was member the Materials Research Society (MRS) Board of Directors (2000-2003), Co-Chair MRS International Relations Committee, Vice President of the MRS in 2012, President in 2013, and Past President in 2014. He has numerous Awards, including seven R&D 100 Awards, 2003 Hispanic Engineering National Achievement Award, 2006 Federation of National Laboratories Award, 2008 University of Chicago Distinguished Performance Award, Dr. “Honoris Causa”-Universidad Nacional de Córdoba-Argentina, and Fellow of the AAAS and MRS.

Science and technology of complex oxide thin films and application to key technologies: • Novel TiO2/Al2O3 superlattices, exhibiting giant dielectric constant (up to k=1000), low leakage current (10-7-10-9 A/cm2) and low losses (≤ tangδ = 0.04), based on new physics underlined by the Maxwell-Wagner relaxation mechanism, which enables a new generation of microchip embedded capacitors for microchips implantable in the human body, the next generation of gates for nanoscale CMOS devices, and super-capacitors for energy storage systems. • Novel BiFeO3/SrTiO3/ BiFeO3 nanolaminates (BSB-NL) have recently been shown to exhibit two orders of magnitude lower leakage current than stochiometric BFO layers, i.e., from 10-5 A/cm2 to 10-7 A/cm2. The BSB-NL also shows very high piezoelectric response, which is ~ 5 times higher than that of the pure BFO with the same thickness. The strained state of the BFO layers concurrently with the chemical and crystallographic state of the interfaces between the BFO and STO layers contribute to the very high values of piezoresponse and very low leakage current observed in the BSB-NLs. BSB-NL are being integrated with the ultrananoacrystalline diamond (UNCD) films described below to develop a new generation of implantable biosensors and piezo-actuated MEMS drug delivery devices.

Emil Chibowski was born in 1943. He received his M.Sc. degree in chemistry in 1967 at Maria Curie-Sklodowska University (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland and was employed at the Department of Physical Chemistry, UMCS. In 1973 he obtained Ph.D. degree in chemistry. In 1981 Dr. Chibowski received the habilitated doctor degree in physical chemistry (D.Sc.) and in 1987-1989 he was vice-director of the Institute of Chemistry at Mat.-Phys.-Chem. Faculty in UMCS. In 1989 Emil Chibowski obtained scientific degree ‘professor of chemistry’. Since 1993 until 2012 he was a head of the Department of Physical Chemistry, later renamed as the Chair of Physical Chemistry.

At the beginning he investigated problems of mineral ore beneficiation, especially the electrical double layer and electrokinetic phenomena occurring at the mineral/solution interfaces. Later apart the electrochemical phenomena he also started to investigate wetting properties of solid (mineral) surfaces and their surface free energy in aspects of practical wetting phenomena taking place in various systems. He found a relationship between changes of zeta potential and surface free energy of given solid surface. The relationship between electokinetic potential (zeta potential) and solid surface free energy was a novel approach unknown earlier in the literature. Professor Emil Chibowski until now continues his researches in the Department of Interfacial Phenomena. Generally, he focuses his investigations on the interfacial phenomena occurring at solid/liquid, liquid/gas and liquid/liquid interfaces, involving electrochemical phenomena, intermolecular and interfacial interaction, wettability and adhesion, contact angles and contact angle hysteresis, surface free surface energy and its components of solids, stability of dispersed systems, emulsion stability, influence of the external radio-frequency and magnetic electric fields on the properties of dispersed systems, effects of solid surface plasma treatment, and superhydrophobic surfaces. Lately one of the interest of Professor Emil Chibowski are investigations of lipid, phospholipids and sterols Langmuir films and Langmuir-Blodgett films deposited on a solid substrate, mostly in aspect of their surface free energy and the surfaces topography. Such films mimic natural biological membranes and are widely investigated in many laboratories.

Hisham Essawy has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Cairo University and postdoctoral studies from Universities and research institutes in Germany, USA and France. He is currently a full-professor at the Department of Polymer Science, National Research Centre-Egypt. He has published more than 55 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as a reviewer for many specialized Journals in the field of Polymer Science and Nanotechnology

Polymer Science and Nanotechnology.

Dr. O.L. Shanmugasundaram is working as Professor in the Department of Textile Technology at K.S.Rangasamy College of Technology, India. He received his Diploma in Textile Processing in the year 1996 from Erode Institute of Technology, India. He obtained his B.Tech. degree in Textile Technology in 2000 from Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, India.. He received his M.Tech. degree in Textile Technology in the year 2005 from Alagappa College of Technology, Anna University, Chennai and Ph.D. in Medical Textiles from Anna University in the year 2011.He published 21 research papers in peer reviewed Journals. He has to his credit 14 papers presented in International Conferences and 4 others in National Conferences. His areas of interest are Medical Textiles, Textile Chemical Processing Technical Textiles and Fibre Science & Technology. He had 14 years of teaching, research and admin experience in an engineering college. He is acting as an editorial board member and reviewer in refereed journals, organizing committee member and scientific committee member in International and National Conferences.

Medical Textiles, Textile Chemical Processing Technical Textiles and Fibre Science & Technology.

Prof. Dr. techn. Murthy CHAVALI Yadav, since Nov. 2013 working as PROFESSOR of Analytical Chemistry and Nanotechnology, Department of Sciences and Humanities, VFSTR University. Additionally he was also assigned as DEAN (International Relations) to look after inter-university/research laboratory MoUs /Agreements/ Collaborations with international research groups in academia, industries; DIRECTOR-Centre for International Affairs & DIRECTOR-Centre of Excellence for Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, Processing and Characterization (CoExAMMPC) to serve the needs of the University under one roof. He received his M.Sc. (Tech.) in Chemistry (1994) from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and Ph.D. Tech., (2000) from Technische Universität Wien, Austria in Analytical Chemistry and also served as a postdoctoral scientist in different countries. His research interests are optical waveguide technology, IR sensors, LIF, chip-based chemical and biochemical sensors (µ & η), development and application of spectroscopic techniques for the study of nanomaterials. His present research focuses on synthesis and fabrication of various organic, inorganic nanostructured materials, composites and nanosensor array technology, broadly, nanotechnology applications for gas and liquid sensors.

Analytical Chemistry, Nanomateirals, Nanosensors, Hybrids, Polymer Composites

Ms. Shabana P. S. Shaikh has completed his PhD at the age of 26 years from RTM Nagpur University, Nagpur India and postdoctoral studies from Fuel cell Institute, National University of Malaysia, Malayisa. She has total eperience of teaching and research of almost 10 years. She is currently doing her third post-doctorate from SP Pune university in the field of Materials science. She has published total 9 first author papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an reviewer in several high impact reputed journal.

(i) Nanotechnology: synthesis of metal composites nano-particles and their application (ii) Solid Oxide Fuel Cell: Synthesis and analysis of electrode, electrolyte component and symmetric cell. (iii) Polymer Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC): Synthesis and analysis of electrode, electrolyte component and symmetric cell. (iv) Method development for synthesis of component of fuel cell in laboratory. (v) Testing/Analysis using four probe DC conductivity and Electrochemical Impedance Analyzer, X-ray Diffractor, Elemental diffraction studies (EDS), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope. (vi) Synthesis and characterization of cermet based anode materials for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell, Nanomaterials, Nanocomposite, Electrolyte, and smart materials using different chemical synthesis technique. (vii) Energy materials –Nanocomposite for fuel cell technology (viii) Pulse Laser Deposition techniques, thin films synthesis and analysis

Prof. Dr. Edward Y. Chang received his B.S. degree from Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1977, and his Ph.D. degree from Materials Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN in 1985. Dr. Chang was with Unisys Corporation GaAs Component Group, Eagan, MN, 1985 to 1988 and Comsat Labs Microelectronic Group from 1988 to 1992. He worked on the GaAs MMIC programs on both groups. He joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1992. In 1994, he helped set up the first GaAs MMIC production line in Taiwan, and become president of Hexawave Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1995. He returned to the teaching position at NCTU in 1999. Dr. Chang is currently the Dean of Research and Development and professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Dept of Elecrical Engineering at NCTU. He is also the director of Diamond Lab and the director of NCTU-TSMC research center. His research interests include new device and process technologies for Compound Semiconductors for wireless communication and high power electronic applications.. Dr. Chang is a senior member and a DL(Distinguished Lecturer) of the IEEE Electronic Device Society. Currently his research activities include InP, GaAs based compound materials and devices (HEMT, HBT) for wireless communication and sub-milimeterwave imaging applications. GaN based materials (MBE, MOCVD) and High frequency&High power electronic (HEMT) applications. III-V/ Si integration (Ge, SiGe, GaAs, InP) for logic applications. Advanced package (Flip chip) for high frequency and power applications. Dr. Chang has received quite a few honors from Taiwan and abroad, including two times Outstanding. Research Award and Distinguished Contribution for Technical Transfer to Industry, both from National Science Council, Taiwan. National Award for Academic Contribution to Industry and Industry and Economy Contribution Award, both from Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. Distinguished Electrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering. He is also Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE, Fellow of Taiwanese Materials Society, and Fellow of IEEE.

His research interests include new device and process technologies for Compound Semiconductors for wireless communication and high power electronic applications.. Dr. Chang is a senior member and a DL(Distinguished Lecturer) of the IEEE Electronic Device Society. Currently his research activities include InP, GaAs based compound materials and devices (HEMT, HBT) for wireless communication and sub-milimeterwave imaging applications. GaN based materials (MBE, MOCVD) and High frequency&High power electronic (HEMT) applications. III-V/ Si integration (Ge, SiGe, GaAs, InP) for logic applications. Advanced package (Flip chip) for high frequency and power applications.

Dr S.Joseph Antony is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Particle Science and Engineering, School of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Leeds, U.K.His research expertise is in the area of nano and micromechanics, multi-scale modelling and experimental mechanics of materials in both discrete and continuum form. Joseph has published over 100 papers in several reputed international journals and conference proceedings.He actively participates in the activities of particle technology community in U.K and abroad. He holds membership in several international professional bodies and serves in technical committees in his area of research. Currently, he serves as a member of peer reviewers in his area of research for several international journals. He is the lead editor of the book on Advances in Granular Materials: Fundamentals and Applications, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London (2004). He has won many awards, including the prestigious M.I.T Young Research Fellowship for Exemplary Research in Computational Mechanics and the Certificate of Merit as an Example of Outstanding Achievements in U.K Particle Science and Technology in 2002, PTSG, IChemE, U.K, He has served as a guest editor for the Jl. Granular Matter and the lead editor of the book ‘Granular Materials: Fundamentals and Applications’, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry, London in 2004. Presently Joseph serves as an editorial board member of several journals in the area of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology. His research sponsors include EPSRC, Royal Society, DTI, ICI, BNFL, P&G, Pfizer, Borax Hosakawa Micron, Bridon International Ltd, Merck Sharp & Dohme and DuPont (U.K).

Nanoparticles, Nanotechnology

Dr. Dongsheng Mao joined Applied Nanotech, Inc. in 2001 and is highly experienced in nano-enabled R&D, product development, and commercialization. He is currently the Vice President of Engineering for Applied Nanotech, Inc where he is also involved in management responsibilities and business development. He has 25 years’ experience in advanced materials including 20+ years’ experience in nanomaterials and nanotechnology. He has successfully managed a number of R&D projects. A number of high performance products were already put to the market place based on his effort. Dr. Mao has over 50 scientific publications. He is an inventor of co-inventor of over 40 granted US and PCT patents with more patents pending.

His research interests are composites, fiber reinforced composites, nanocomposites, nanomaterials, electric materials and devices, metallic inks and pastes, thin films, solar energy, etc.

Dr. Mohammad Qasaimeh is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering at NYU Abu Dhabi (NYUAD). He established the Advanced Microfluidics and Microdevices Laboratory (AMMLab) at NYUAD in September 2014, and his current research interests include developing microfluidic and MEMS devices for biomedical applications and point of care diagnostics. Prior to joining NYUAD, he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Medical School. Dr. Qasaimeh completed his PhD degree in Biomedical Engineering in 2013 from McGill University, where he received several prestigious fellowships and awards including the NSERC Postdoctoral Fellowship, the Alexander Graham Bell Graduate Scholarship (CGSD3), and the FQRNT Students-Researchers Stars Award. Dr. Qasaimeh research has been published in several peer-reviewed journals including Nature Communications, PLOS Biology, Lab on a Chip, and Biomedical Microdevies.

Dr. Mary Mehrnoosh Eshaghian-Wilner has over 26 years of research experience in various areas within the field of Computer Engineering. Additionally, she has worked in the area of patent law for several years. She has published numerous scientific papers, including two books, and has handled the prosecution and infringement analysis of many complex U.S. and international patents. Dr. Eshaghian-Wilner currently is a Professor of Engineering Practice at the Electrical Engineering-Systems Department at the University of Southern California (USC), and since 2004 has been an Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Prior to joining UCLA, she was a tenured full Professor and Department Head at the Computer Engineering Department of Rochester Institute of Technology. Professor Eshaghian-Wilner received her B.S. degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering (1985), M.S. degree in Computer Engineering (1985), her Engineers degree in Electrical Engineering (1988), and her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering (1988), all from USC. She holds a J.D. degree from the Northwestern California School of Law, and has graduated Cum Laude with an LL.M. degree from the Thomas Jefferson School of Law. She is admitted to the State Bar of California and the Washington, D.C. Bar, and is registered as a Patent Attorney with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Professor Eshaghian-Wilner is best known for her pioneering contributions to three areas of Optical Computing, Heterogeneous Computing, and Nanoscale Computing. In the area of Optical Computing, she produced one of the first theses that dealt with the computational aspects of optical interconnects for VLSI chips. The OMC model was developed by Professor Eshaghian-Wilner as part of her Ph.D. work, and since then, many architectures and algorithms have been designed by on that model. In the area of Heterogeneous Computing, Professor Eshaghian-Wilner is the editor of the field's first book, "Heterogeneous Computing," and she is the co- founder of the IEEE Heterogeneous Computing Workshop. The NSF-funded Cluster-M model was developed by her team, as one of the first paradigms for executing heterogeneous applications to systems. The Cluster-M mapping is still the fastest known algorithm for mapping arbitrary task graphs onto arbitrary system graphs. In the area of Nanoscale Computing, one of Professor Eshaghian-Wilner's most notable results involves the design of highly interconnected multiprocessor chips with spin waves that possess an unprecedented degree of interconnectivity that was not possible previously with electrical VLSI interconnects. These designs have a great potential to be used as part of miniature implantable devices for biomedical applications and nanomedicine. Professor Eshaghian-Wilner serves on the editorial board of Journal of Nanomedicine and Nanotechnology, and is a founding series co-editor of "Nature Inspired Computing" for Wiley & Sons. She has edited the first book of this series, "Bio-inspired and Nanoscale Integrated Computing". Professor Eshaghian-Wilner's most recent area of research is in Technology Law. She is investigating how various forms of emerging technologies may be impacted by, and come into conflict with, U.S. and international policies and laws. For example, Pervasive (heterogeneous/ubiquitous) computing and nanotechnology are two emerging technologies in which she an extensive scientific background. While these two technologies are entirely different from each other, they both are seemingly invisible, one in terms of interconnectivity and the other in terms of size. They can therefore introduce continuously magnifying challenges to policies and laws that protect rights and property. Professor Eshaghian-Wilner has founded and/or chaired numerous IEEE conferences and organizations, including the IEEE Women in Engineering affinity division of the Coastal Los Angeles Section. She is the recipient of several prestigious grants and honors including a teaching award for being voted as the best teacher by her engineering students. Professor Eshaghian-Wilner is a nominee for the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring.

• Computing Architectures and Interconnects: Bio-inspired and Nanoscale Computing, MEMS, Optical Interconnects, VLSI and Reconfigurable chips • Computing Networks and Algorithms: Heterogeneous/Cluster/Grid/Cloud Computing, Mapping and Scheduling paradigms/algorithms/tools • Biomedical Applications: Nanomedicine, Bioinformatics, Sequence Alignment, Image-Processing, Computer Vision • Technology Law: Technology Transfer, Intellectual Property, Patent Reform, Digital Rights, Cyber Law/Crimes, Internet Privacy

Ramesh K. Agarwal is the William Palm Professor of Engineering and the director of Aerospace Research and Education Center at Washington University in St. Louis. From 1994 to 2001, he was the Sam Bloomfield Distinguished Professor and Executive Director of the National Institute for Aviation Research at Wichita State University in Kansas. From 1978 to 1994, he worked in various scientific and managerial positions at McDonnell Douglas Research Laboratories in St. Louis. He became the Program Director and McDonnell Douglas Fellow in 1990. Dr. Agarwal received Ph.D. in Aeronautical Sciences from Stanford University in 1975, M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 1969 and B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 1968. Over a period of 35+ years, Professor Agarwal has worked in various areas of Computational Science and Engineering - Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Computational Materials Science, Computational Electromagnetics (CEM), and Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization. He is the author and coauthor of over 400 publications. He has also worked in Nanotechnology and Renewable Energy, in particular in nanoparticles properties, synthesis, and their applications in drug delivery and their health effects, and energetic materials for solar energy applications. He has given many plenary, keynote and invited lectures at various national and international conferences worldwide. Professor Agarwal continues to serve on many academic, government, and industrial advisory committees. Dr. Agarwal is a Fellow sixteen societies including the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS), American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), American Physical Society (APS), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Royal Aeronautical Society and American society for Engineering Education (ASEE). He has received many prestigious honors and national/international awards from various professional societies and organizations for his research contributions.

Dr Jose Luis Menendez is a tenured scientist working for the Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Research Center from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (CINN-CSIC). He obtained his PhD degree in 2001 after a thesis on the dimensionality effects of optical and magneto-optical properties of Fe based systems. After a post-doc stay (2002-2004) at the Institut d’Electronique Fondamentale (IEF-CNRS) working on magnetic domain wall propagation in magnetic nanostructures, he started working in the field of transparent ceramics at INCAR-CSIC, mostly spark plasma sintered. Since 2009 he works at CINN-CSIC in the study of the magnetic, optical and magneto-optical properties of ceramics and ceramic nanocomposites. In this time, he has published more than 50 articles in SCI journals, coauthored two book chapters on the spark plasma sintering technique and led several national and European research projects.

Research interests: Ceramic nanocomposites, nanostructured materials, spark plasma sintering, dielectric and optical properties, magneto-optics.

Dr. Daniel Choi received his B.S. in Metallurgical Engineering from Seoul National University (South Korea) and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UCLA. Dr. Choi was a staff member for three years at the Aerospace Corporation and a task manager Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)/NASA for nine years, leading a number of space-related projects such as Phoenix and Mars Science Laboratory project. He was an associate professor and director of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) program at University of Idaho (USA). Currently, he is Department Head of the Mechanical and Materials Engineering in the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also a Science Team for UAE Emirates Mars Mission Program.

Dr. Solhe F. Alshahateet is Associate Professor of Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry graduated in 2003 from the University of New South Wales / Australia. He works at Mutah University since 2007. He received many awards such as Australian Research Council and Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education scholarships. He was engaged in many projects from local and international funding agencies. Dr. Alshahateet attended many conferences worldwide. He published more than 70 articles mostly in international journals dealing with crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry involving industrial applications. In addition, he is working as a referee and editorial board member for many international specialized journals. Highlights of his research have been in the area of synthesis and characterization of semiconducting materials, organic materials for and industrial applications (functional materials) such as pharmaceutical industry. After completing his PhD (2002) at the UNSW, he undertook research in new synthesis chemistry as a Research Fellow at UNSW for about one year. Since then he had undertaken research into synthesis of new organic materials at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences ICES, Singapore. He had research visitor appointments at the University of New South Wales (Australia) and at the University of South Florida (USA).

 Heterocyclic chemistry; synthesis and applications  Polymorphism, salts, co-crystals, hydrates and solvates of pharmaceutical solids  Design and develop crystalline molecular complexes of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)  Design, synthesis and supramolecularity of new hosts and co-crystal formers  Experience in the area of physical organic chemistry such as adsorption of organic functionalities and heavy metals on synthesized organic surfaces; kinetic, thermodynamic; environmental studies and applications.  Drugs reformulation  Chemical X-ray Crystallography  Synthesis and structure of new organic inclusion compounds (host-guest chemistry)  Solvent free synthesis (Green Chemistry)

Dr.ElZein, is the director of Research and Consultation Center (RCC) at the University of Business and Technology (UBT) – Jeddah Saudi Arabia. She was a Research Scientist at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), and previously a faculty member at Dar AL Hekma University, KSA and an associate researcher at IEMN, Lille, France. Dr. El Zein Graduated from the Lebanese University with a master of Engineering in Electrical & Electronics Engineering withdistinction. She got her PhD in from the University of Lille 1 –France in Nanotechnology with high distinction. She is a senior member of IEEE, member of ACS, MRS, SPIE, ECS and Lebanese Engineering syndicate. She has been selected as Solar Pioneer by MESIA during WFES 2015 in Abu Dhabi. She is a reviewer in many international, peer-reviewed journals, the chair or co-chair and on the committee of different international conferences, she published in many international journals and had one filed patent.

Her recent research interests include working on nanostructures for third generation solar cells, energy harvesting and energy storage. She recently gained 2 grants from King AbdulAziz City for science and technology (KACST), to support her research on Nanostructures for Photovoltaic applications, where she is mentoring a PhD student and collaborating with many international research centers. The main objective of her research is to develop an eco-green with high efficiency and long durability Solar cells. In addition to this, she is exploring new materials such as kesterite, perovskite and protein to be used as light absorber for Solid state sensitized solar cells

Prof. Dr. Edward Y. Chang received his B.S. degree from Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan in 1977, and his Ph.D. degree from Materials Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota Minneapolis, MN in 1985. Dr. Chang was with Unisys Corporation GaAs Component Group, Eagan, MN, 1985 to 1988 and Comsat Labs Microelectronic Group from 1988 to 1992. He worked on the GaAs MMIC programs on both groups. He joined National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1992. In 1994, he helped set up the first GaAs MMIC production line in Taiwan, and become president of Hexawave Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan, in 1995. He returned to the teaching position at NCTU in 1999. Dr. Chang is currently the Dean of Research and Development and professor of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Dept of Elecrical Engineering at NCTU. He is also the director of Diamond Lab and the director of NCTU-TSMC research center. Dr. Chang has received quite a few honors from Taiwan and abroad, including two times Outstanding. Research Award and Distinguished Contribution for Technical Transfer to Industry, both from National Science Council, Taiwan. National Award for Academic Contribution to Industry and Industry and Economy Contribution Award, both from Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan. Distinguished Electrical Engineering Professor Award from Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering. He is also Distinguished Lecturer of IEEE, Fellow of Taiwanese Materials Society, and Fellow of IEEE.

His research interests include new device and process technologies for Compound Semiconductors for wireless communication and high power electronic applications.. Dr. Chang is a senior member and a DL(Distinguished Lecturer) of the IEEE Electronic Device Society. Currently his research activities include InP, GaAs based compound materials and devices (HEMT, HBT) for wireless communication and sub-milimeterwave imaging applications. GaN based materials (MBE, MOCVD) and High frequency&High power electronic (HEMT) applications. III-V/ Si integration (Ge, SiGe, GaAs, InP) for logic applications. Advanced package (Flip chip) for high frequency and power applications.

Mohammad Mehdi Rashidi is born in Hamedan, Iran in 1972. He received his B.Sc. degree in Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran in 1995. He also received his M.Sc. and Ph.D degrees from Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran in 1997 and 2002, respectively. His research focuses on Heat and Mass Transfer, Wind Tunnel, Thermodynamics, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Nonlinear Analysis, Engineering Mathematics, Exergy and Second Law Analysis, Numerical and Experimental Investigations of Nanofluids Flow for Increasing Heat Transfer and Study of Magnetohydrodynamic Viscous Flow.He is a professor of Mechanical Engineering at Tongji University, Shanghai, China. He has published two books: Advanced Engineering Mathematics with Applied Examples of MATHEMATICA Software (2007) (320 pages) (in Persian), and Mathematical Modelling of Nonlinear Flows of Micropolar Fluids (Germany, Lambert Academic Press, 2011). His works have been published in the Plos One, Energy, Computers and Fluids, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation and several other peer-reviewed international journals. He has published over 230 (160 of them are indexed in Scopus) journal articles and 45 conference papers. He was an invited professor in Génie Mécanique, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada J1K 2R (From Sep 2010-Feb 2012), Universite Paris Ouest, France (For Sep 2011) and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (For Aug 2012). His RG Score in Researchgate Website = 48.71, Total Impact Points = 285.99. He is the most popular professor at Tongji university (with 11500 followers). He is the editor of Fifty (55) International Journals, some of them are as follow: Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Fluid Mechanics (ISI), Associate Editor of Journal of King Saud University-Engineering Sciences (Elsevier), Caspian Journal of Applied Sciences Research (ISI), Scientific Research and Essays (indexed in SCOPUS), Walailak Journal of Science and Technology (indexed in SCOPUS) and Modern Applied Science (indexed in SCOPUS). Professor Rashidi is a very active reviewer, He is the 4th reviewer in the world (He has reviewed for 180 refereed journals) such as Plos One, International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Computers and Fluids, Energy, International journal of thermal science, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Applied Mathematical Modelling, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, etc. He is selected as an outstanding reviewer for many international journals.

Masamichi Yoshimura is the Professor and group leader of Surface Science laboratory at Toyota Technological Institute Nagoya Japan. He is well-known for his research on nanotechnology and surface science. He has developed high performance nanomaterials for batteries and other energy devices. He is the fellow of Surface Science Society of Japan and editor for various internal journals including Japanese Journal of Applied Physics. He was the president of surface science society. He has done pioneering research in the field of scanning probe microscopy high tech carbon materials. He has published over 200 papers in the international journals and delivered numerous invited and keynote lectures. He has BS, MS, and PhD in applied physics and all from University of Tokyo Japan. He was visiting scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory USA for one year and Associate Professor at Hiroshima University prior to joining Toyota Institute Nagoya.

Dr Rakesh Joshi is lecturer at the School of Materials Science and Engineering. He completed his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi in the area of functional nanomaterials. Prior to joining UNSW he was a Marie Curie International Fellow at the University of Manchester. Dr Joshi is in the editorial board of many journals and he is a RACI Chartered Chemist. Dr Joshi has developed experimental methods to prepare Graphene, Carbon Nanotubes and Semiconductors for various applications. Dr Joshi’s breakthrough work on Graphene Oxide membranes is amongst the most influential contributions to this area (R. K. Joshi et al, Science 2014).

His research interest includes: 2D Materials (Graphene & Metal Chalcogenides); Nanomaterials; Semico nductor Thin Films; Sustainable Materials.

Dr. Dongfang Yang is a Sr. Research Officer at the National Research Council Canada. He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Guelph in Canada in 1995. His research interests include laser materials processing, pulsed laser and e-beam deposition of thin film, new materials development for energy devices, chemical and optical sensors, and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. He has authored 2 book chapters, 1 patent, 45 scientific articles in peer reviewed journals, and 15 papers in conference proceedings. He is currently serving as Member of Editorial Board for journal “The Research & Reviews in Electrochemistry”; “International Journal on Advances in Networks and Services”; “Current Chemical Research” and “Journal of Biochips & Tissue chips” as well as Member of Editorial Advisory Board for the journal “Sensors & Transducers”. He has also held the Adjunct Professorship at the Department of Chemistry, Lakehead University in Canada since 2006.

Laser Materials Processing

Dr. Biplab Paul got his Ph. D. in 2011 from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, where he initiated a new line of research in the area of thermoelectric. In 2011 Dr. Paul joined Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain, where he led another research line in the area of thermal rectification for practica realization of thermal diode. Presently, Dr. Paul is working in Linköping University, Sweden since 2012. His extensive studies in Linköping University has created a new research line in the area of flexible thermoelectric.

Prof. Han-Yong Jeon, male, geosynthetics/technical organic materials researcher, graduated from textile engineering department, Hanyang University in 1979. He worked for Hyejeon College, 1982-1990 and Howon University, 1990-1992, Chonnam National University, 1992-2005 and now works for Inha University. Since 1998, he is the director of Geosynthetics Institute (USA)-Korea Directory. From 2008-2012, he worked in International Geosynthetics Society as Council member (2006~2012) and he was the 6th president of Korean Geosynthetics Society (2011~2013). Also, he is members of ASTM D35 and ISO TC221 on geosynthetics from 1998. Now he is the current 32nd President of Korean Fiber Society (2014~2015). He has published more than 782 papers in domestic and international conferences. He wrote 17 texts including \'GEOSYNTHETICS’ and also published 107 papers in domestic & international journals. He has awards of Marquis Who\'sWho - Science and Engineering in 2003~2014 and Top 100 Scientists in the World: 2005/2011 of IBC (International Biographical Centre, UK). Also, he got the 33rd Academy Award of Korean Fiber Society in 2006 and “Excellent Paper Award of 2012” by The Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies.

Manufacturing, Application and Evaluation of Technical Organic Materials Manufacturing, Evaluation, Standardization & Regulation of Geosynthetics Polymeric Geocomposites.

Mau Chien DANG received his MSc and PhD in Materials Science from the National Polytechnic Institute in Grenoble (Grenoble INP), France in 1991 and 1994. In 1996 and 2007, he received his Master’s in Management from the University Pierre Mendes France and the Diploma of Habilitation for Research Direction (DHDR) in Materials and Process Engineering from the Grenoble INP. From 1996 to 2004 he was Head of Dept. of Materials Science Fundamentals, Vice-Dean of Faculty of Material Technology, HCM City University of Technology. Since 2005 he has been Associate Professor. In 2004 he created the Laboratory for Nanotechnology (LNT), VNU-HCM, of which he has been Director since then. He is a member of several national level research bodies and councils. He has authored or co-authored more than 50 publications in peer-reviewed journals and five patents.

Dr. Hui-Ming Cheng is Professor and Director of Advanced Carbon Research Division of Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His research activities focus on the synthesis, properties and applications of carbon nanotubes, graphene, energy storage materials, photocatalytic semiconducting materials, and high-performance bulk carbon materials. He has published over 480 papers with an H index of 85 and is recognized as one of the Highly Cited Researchers in both materials science and chemistry fields by Thomson Reuters. He has received several international and national awards, including the 2nd class National Natural Science Prize, the Charles E. Pettinos Award, the Felcht Award, and the Prize for Scientific and Technological Progress of Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation. He has given more than 80 plenary/keynote/invited talks in international conferences and symposia, and was the Editor of Carbon from 2000 to 2015, Editor-in-Chief of New Carbon Materials from 1998 to 2015, and in now the Editor-in-Chief of Energy Storage Materials. He is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Cavus Falamaki has did his PhD in Chemical Engineering 1992-1996, at Amirkabir University of Technology,Tehran, Iran. And in between 1995-1996 has done his PhD as Exchange Student at Federal Polytechnique of Zurich (ETH),Zurich, Switzerland. He is currently working as an Associate Professor (since 2007) at the Department of Chemical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology. He has also served the Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran. Also worked as Associate Professor (2006-2007) with the Ceramics Department, Materials and Energy Research Center, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran. He was a Assistant Professor (1997- 2006) at the Ceramics Department, Materials and Energy Research Center, Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran. Has taught the Characterization of Nanomaterials, Chemical Engineering Department, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, since 2012. Also taught Advanced Reactor Design, Chemical Engineering Department at Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, since 2009. Taught Nanofilters and Nanocatalysts, Ceramics Department, Materials and Energy Research Center, Tehran, Iran, 2005-08. He has also received many awards among which Winner of the 2nd Festival of Iran Biotechnology (Biotech 2013), Top Three Products, The Iranian Biotechnology Development Initiative, Presidency, 2013, Tehran, Iran. Silver Award, Cyber International Genius Inventor Fare 2011, Seoul, Korea.Top Ten National Researchers in Nanotechnology, The Iranian Nanotechnology Initiative, Presidency, 2007, Tehran, Iran. Distinguished Researcher, Materials and Energy Research Center , Ministry of Science, Research and Technology, Tehran, Iran, 2006 are awarded for his excellence in the related fields.