Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology

Anton FICAI is a young professor with habilitation involved in both academic and scientific life of the University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest and Academy of Romanian Scientists. His major academic interests are related to the coordination of the teaching activities related to the classes: Chemistry, Chemistry and Characterization of Materials, Composite Materials for Medicine, NaoBioMaterials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery Systems. The research interests are much broader and cover the following topics: tissue engineering; drug delivery systems; multifunctional materials; composite materials; antimicrobial / antitumoral materials; nanoparticles synthesis and characterization; coatings and surface modification; etc. Till now, over 300 scientific papers, from which 270 ISI papers and 18 books or chapters (including 2 edited books) were published along with 28 patent applications (8 of them being already released) and attracting over 3000 citations and a Hirsh index of 30. The international recognition of the R&D activity can be highlighted by the multiple invitations for participate as speaker at international conferences, the position of Editor in Chief of Coatings, several positions of guest editor and member of the editorial boards of different national and international journals as well as the numerous prizes and awards (over 150 medals and special awards).

NaoBioMaterials,

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.

Prof. P. Davide Cozzoli received his MSc degree in Chemistry in 1999 and his PhD in Chemical Sciences in 2004 from the University of Bari, Italy. His PhD project was partially carried out at the University of Hamburg, Germany. From 2004 to 2005 he worked as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bari. In 2005 he joined the National Nanotechnology Laboratory (NNL) of CNR Institute Nano science, Lecce, Italy. As CNR Associate Researcher, he has led the Nano chemistry group of NNL from 2009 to 2014. Since 2015 he holds a permanent position as Associate Professor of Experimental Matter Physics at the University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, and he is head of the Nano chemistry Department of the newly founded CNR Institute of Nanotechnology, Lecce, Italy. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of the peer-reviewed journals Science of Advanced Materials, Journal of Nano engineering and Nano manufacturing, Materials Focus, Journal of Nanomaterials, International Journal of Photoenergy, and Frontiers in Materials, and as editorial board member of Science China Materials, AIMS Materials Science, and General Chemistry. So far, he has published about 118 contributions, edited one book (a second book is under preparation) and two conference proceedings. His scientific work has overall attracted over 7000 citations (H-index=40).

His research is focused on the development of advanced colloidal nanocrystal architectures with controlled structural and topological features for applications in (photo) catalysis, photovoltaics, optoelectronics and biomedicine.

Lanzhou University, China

Nanomaterials

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 professor in 1996, and he has been retired due to the age limit of 67; following academic life of 45 years. He published over 60 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 120 conferences and symposia in international and national level as Plenary Speaker, Keynote Speaker, Invited speaker, speaker or Poster presenter. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last even years (2014 - 2020) over 80 conferences as Speaker, Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by different companies in different countries. Additionally, he retired at the end of November 2019, and contributed with Keynote/Plenary Speeches to 12 Virtual/Webinar Conferences in the first year of his retirement, 2020. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD- theses and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File. Scientific fields of Dr. Adiguzel: 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.

Nanotechnology

Dr. Chithrani did her PhD and postdoctoral studies at university fo Toronto, Canada. She was suppoeterd by many prestigeous scholarships such NSERC, OGS, OGGST, NSERC-PDF, and so forth throughtout her academic carrier. Currently, she is the director of the director of naoscince and technology development labotory at University of Victoria. Dr. Chithrani leverages nanotechnology to create innovations that advance the care of cancer patients. She is using gold nanoparticles as a radiation dose enhancer in cancer therapy. This work is featured on the cover of radiation research journal. This paper won the highest impact paper award in 2018 by COMP (Canadian association of Medical physicist). She has also developed three dimensional tumor models to optimize bio-nano interface in cancer therapy. This work is featured on the cover of Nano-Micro Letters journal. Dr. Chithrani is considered as one of the leaders in the field of nanotechnology and her publications have received over 7500 citations in few years. Dr. Chithrani has earned a strong international reputation for her innovative research through her many review articles, book chapters, and invited presentations. She is an associate editor of many nanotechnology based journals. Her passion is to develop smart nanomaterials to improve exiting cancer therapeutics. She believes that many side effects due to chemotherapy can be reduced by controlled delivery of anticancer drugs using smart nanomaterials.

materials fundamentals studies for process development and contamination studies in clean room and quasi insitu physico-chemical characterisation using vacuum transfer. He actually manages the IMPACT Equipex project “A 300mm quasi insitu advanced characterisation platform combining pARXPS, Raman and ellipsometry using vacuum transfer”, dedicated to studies at the frontier between process development studies and upfront research

Herbert Gleiter received his Ph.D. in Physics. In 1973, Gleiter became Chair Professor of Materials Science and founded in 1988 today’s Leibniz Institute of New Materials at Saarbruecken, Germany. In 1994, he was appointed Member of the Executive Board of the Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany, and 4 years later he became the Founding Director of the Center’s Institute of Nanotechnology. In 2012 the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the University of Nanjing founded the “Herbert Gleiter Institute of Nanoscience” and appointed him as the Institute’s Founding Director.

Nano-glasses: A New Kind of Non-crystalline Solids with New Applications in Technology and Medicine

Gabriela Morón is a Pharmaceutical Chemistry graduate from the Faculty of Science of the Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University. She has won the Prize for Innovation in Pharmaceutical Technology awarded by the Association of National Pharmaceutical Industries from 2015 to 2016. Currently, he works in the Cosmetic Industry as Technical Director and is pursuing a specialization in Lean Six Sigma Black Belt by the University of the Pacific

Pharmaceutical Chemistry

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