Recent advances in nanoscience and nanotechnology have open up myriad opportunities for applications and commercialization.
Nanotechnology’s ability to manipulate atoms and molecules enables us to create nanoscale materials and novel device structures with fundamentally new properties and unprecedented functions. Nanotechnology is anticipated to dramatically change every aspect of our lives. Among the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of nanoscience, nanochemistry, nanobiology, and nanobiomedicine are the areas attracting wide attention. These areas not only represent novel and unique chemical strategies to make unprecedented functional nanomaterials, but also can deliver better health and longer life spans through related diagnosis and therapy.
This conference aims to provide a forum for researchers, scientists and engineers from different countries worldwide, who are actively involved in the research on nanoscience and nanotechnology, in particular nanobiology, nanobiomedicine, and nanochemistry relating to biosensing, implantable biomedical devices, catalysis and energy issues to disseminate their latest research results and development achievements. In addition to the exciting scientific and technological themes, the conference offers a platform to promote and encourage interaction among researchers for cross-fertilization of ideas and collaboration. The program will consist of a series of invited, contributed oral, and poster presentations.
Program Outline:
Nanomaterials, nanoscience and nanotechnology for:
Biological, biomedical, chemical, gas sensing, and diagnosis
Biomedical devices implantable in humans
Drug design and delivery, toxicology
Cell and molecular biology
Chemistry and catalysts
Bioenergy
Solar energy, fuel cell, battery
Functionalization, surface modification, and chemistry of nanomaterials
Processing and characterization of nanomaterials
Multiscale modeling and computation in the above areas
Plenary / Invited Speakers confirmed to date include:
Robert J. Hamers, University of Wisconsin, USA
Anne Andrews, Pennsylvania State University, USA
Nicholas Kotov, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
Hsian-Rong Tseng, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Jimmy Xu, Brown University, USA
Martin Eickhoff, WSI, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Jose Antonio Garrido, WSI, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Anita Lloyd Spetz, Linkoeping University, Sweden
Hiroshi Kawarada, Waseda University, Japan
Fong Yau Li, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Christoph Nebel, AIST, Japan