NANOMEET2023

Professor Guoxiu Wang is the Director of the Centre for Clean Energy Technology and a Distinguished Professor at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia. He currently holds an ARC Professorial Future Fellowship. Professor Wang is an expert in materials chemistry, electrochemistry, energy storage and conversion, and battery technologies. His research interests include lithium-ion batteries, lithium-air batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage materials, fuel-cells, graphene, and chemical functionalization of graphene. Professor Wang has published more than 360 refereed journal papers with an h-index of 60. His publications have attracted over 13,000 citations (Web of Science).

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 112; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); and is a fellow of over 8 societies.

Chuan-Jian Zhong is professor of Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering at State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. He holds more than 20 US patents with some being licensed towards technological commercialization. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific articles, which have received more than 25,500 citations with an h-index of 88 and i10-index of 260 in Google Scholar Citation Index.

Dr. Manoj Gupta was a former Head of Materials Division of the Mechanical Engineering Department and Director designate of Materials Science and Engineering Initiative at NUS, Singapore. He did his Ph.D. from University of California, Irvine, USA (1992), and postdoctoral research at University of Alberta, Canada (1992). In August 2017 he was highlighted among Top 1% Scientist of the World Position by The Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and among 2.5% among scientists as per Researchgate. To his credit are: (i) Disintegrated Melt Deposition technique and (ii) Hybrid Microwave Sintering technique, an energy efficient solid-state processing method to synthesize alloys/micro/nano-composites. He has published over 650 peer reviewed journal papers and owns two US patents and one Trade Secret. His current h-index is 78 and citations are greater than 22000. He has also co-authored eight books, published by John Wiley, Springer and MRF - USA. He is Editor-in-chief/Editor of twelve international peer reviewed journals. A multiple award winner, he actively collaborate/visit Japan, France, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, China, USA and India as a visiting researcher, professor and chair professor.

Dr. Frank Cheng is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Calgary. He was named the Canadian Distinguished Materials Scientist in 2019.Frank is an internationally recognizedresearcherin Energy Pipeline Technology, specializing in pipeline corrosion and cracking, steel metallurgy, defect assessment, and hydrogen pipelines. He is the author of4 books and 270+ journal papers. The total citations of his publications exceed 13,900, with a H-index of 72. He ranks top 0.08% influential scientists in Materials subject according to the latest release by the University of Stanford/Elsevier. Frank is the recipient of many prestigious awards such as Uhlig Award and Technical Achievement Award from NACE International, Brian Ives Lectureship Award from ASM International, Metal Chemistry Award from Canadian Metallurgy and Materials Society, Distinguished Lecturers Award from CIM, and Medal from International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM).Frank is elected Fellows of NACE, IOM3, ICorr, IAAM and CSCP. He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Pipeline Science and Engineering. Frank obtained his Ph.D. in Materials Engineering at the University of Alberta in 2000.

Dr. Eric Wei-Guang Diau has received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan, in 1991, and has been a faculty member in the Department of Applied Chemistry, National Chiao Tung University since 2001. He was a postdoctoral researcher at Emory University (1993-1995), Queensland University (1995-1996), International Stanford Research Institute (1996-1997) and California Institute of Technology (1997-2001). He is interested in the research of condensed-phase spectroscopic dynamics, especially in the understanding of interfacial electron transfer, light capture energy transfer and light energy conversion kinetic systems. His current research focuses on the development of novel functional materials for photovoltaic and photocatalytic applications such as perovskite solar cells and CO2 reduction. He received “Sun Yat Sen Academic Award” in 2014, “MOST Outstanding Research Award” in 2018 and 2022, “17th Yu-Ziang Science Paper Award” in 2019 and “MOE 65th Academic Award” in 2022. He has published over 226 peer-reviewed SCI papers with H-index 68. He is currently Distinguished Professor at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU).

Dr. Chua Kian Jon is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has been conducting research on renewable energy systems and heat recovery systems since 1997. He has conducted both modelling and experimental works for specific thermal energy systems. He is highly skilled in designing; fabricating; commissioning and testing many sustainable energy systems to provide for heating, cooling and humidity control for both small and large scale applications. He has been elected to several fellowships including Fellow of Royal Society, Fellow of Energy Institute and Fellow of IMechE. He has more than 200 international peer-reviewed journal publications, 6 book chapters and two recent monographs on advances in air conditioning (https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9789811584763 and https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030808426). He was highlighted among the top 1% of scientists in the world by the Universal Scientific Education and Research Network and top 0.5% in the Stanford list of energy researchers. His works has garnered more than 12,000 over citations with a current h‐index of 57. Further, he owns more than 10 patents related to several innovative cooling and dehumidification systems. On a regular basis, he has been invited to deliver many plenary and keynote talks on his research findings. He is the Principal Investigator of several multi-million competitive research grants. Additionally, he has been awarded multiple local, regional, and international awards for his breakthrough research endeavors.

Masaru TANAKA is a professor at Kyushu University. He worked for TERUMO Co. (Leading Medical Devices Company) and designed novel biocompatible polymers and commercialized as medical devices such as catheters, and artificial lung and heart (Global market share No.1). In 2000 he moved to Hokkaido University and in 2007 he moved to Tohoku University. Stents covered with the self-organized porous 3D films are commercially available in the world clinical market (over 250 original patents). He was a Visiting Scientist, at Dept. of New Materials and Biosystems, Max-Planck-Institute (2008-2009). In 2009 he was awarded a full professorship at Yamagata University. He became a leader of Funding Program for Next Generation World-Leading Researchers (NEXT Program, Japan). Since 2015, he has been at Kyushu University as a full Professor. Thus far, he has published over 200 papers in peer reviewed journals (H-index 56) and has received the Award for the Japanese Society for Biomaterials 2021 for his Intermediate Water Concept for the nano-biomaterials discovery.

Professor Vladimir G. Chigrinov is Professor of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology since 1999. He is an Expert in Flat Panel Technology in Russia, recognized by the World Technology Evaluation Centre, 1994, and SID Fellow since 2008. He is an author of 6 books, 31 reviews and book chapters, about 322 journal papers, more than 677 Conference presentations, and 121 patents and patent applications including 38 US patents in the field of liquid crystals since 1974. He got Excellent Research Award of HKUST School of Engineering in 2012. He obtained Gold Medal and The Best Award in the Invention & Innovation Awards 2014 held at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE) 2014, which was hosted in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on 20-22 Feb 2014. He is a Member of EU Academy of Sciences (EUAS) since July 2017. He got A Slottow Owaki Prize of SID in 2018 http://www.ee.ust.hk/ece.php/enews/detail/660. He is 2019 Distinguished Fellow of IETI. Since 2018 he works as Professor in the School of Physics and Optoelectronics Engineering in Foshan University, Foshan, China. 2020-2024 Vice President of Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (IDSAI) Since 2021 distinguished Fellow of Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence. Since March 2022 he is A Fellow of National Academy of Technology for his contributions to Information Electrical and Electronic Research.

Paulo C. DE MORAIS, PhD, was full Professor of Physics at the University of Brasilia (UnB) – Brazil up to 2013, Appointed as UnB’s Emeritus Professor (2014), Appointed as Guest Professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology– China (2011), Visiting Professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) – China (2012-2015), Appointed as Distinguished Professor at Anhui University (AHU) – China (2016-2019), Appointed as Full Professor at Catholic University of Brasília (UCB) – Brazil (2018), Appointed as CNPq-1A Research Fellowship since 2010, 2007 Master Research Prize from UnB, 2008-member of the European ERA NET Nanoscience Committee, Member of the IEEE-Magnetic Society Technical Committee, Senior Member of the IEEE Society, 2012 China’s 1000 Foreign Expert Recipient, and 2012 Academic Excellence Award from Brazilian Professor’s Union. He held two-years (1987-1988) post-doc position with Bell Communications Research – New Jersey, USA and received his Doctoral degree in Solid State Physics (1986) from the Federal University of Minas Gerais – Brazil. He graduated in both Chemistry (1976) and Physics (1977) at UnB.ProfessorMorais is member of the Brazilian Physical Society and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – IEEE. He has served as referee for more than 50 technical journals, takes part of the Editorial Board of more than 15 technical journals and has conducted research on nanomaterials for over 40 years. He has delivered more than 150 Invited Talks all over the World. He is known for his research in preparation, characterization and applications of nanosized materials (magnetic fluid, magnetoliposome, magnetic nanoemulsion, magnetic nanocapsule, magnetic nanofilm, magnetic nanocomposite, nanosized semiconductors, polymeric dots, carbon dots, and graphene quantum dots). With nearly 500 published papers in peer reviewed journals and 15 patents, he has appeared in recent World ranking of top 1% scientists, such as 2020-Stanford and 2022-Research.com.

Vasudevanpillai Biju is a Professor at the Research Institute for Electronic Science and Graduate School of Environmental Science at Hokkaido University. He assumed this position after a research career - as a scientist and a senior scientist in AIST, Japan (2004-2015), a PRESTO researcher of Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST, 2010-2014), a visiting Scientist at the University of Texas at Austin, USA (2007), a postdoctoral fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA (2003-2004), a JSPS postdoctoral fellow in AIST, Japan (2002-2003), and a research scientist at Angstrom Technology Partnership, Japan (2000-2002). He has been a visiting faculty in many universities, including in Japan, the US, and India. He has been a member of the board of studies/faculty evaluation/faculty screening/project screening committees of academic and government bodies in Japan, India, New Zealand, Chili, Taiwan, the European Union, Singapore, etc. Hewas a SPARC fellow of the Science and Engineering Research Board of India and an Erudite Fellow of the Bard of Higher Education, Kerala, India. His research interests include semiconductor nanocrystals and quantum dots, photo-functional molecules, nanobiotechnogy, and single-molecule techniques. His research activities are recognized with various awards by the Ozaki Foundation (Gen-nai Prize and Gen-nai Award), the Japanese Photochemistry Association, the Asian and Oceanian Photochemistry Association, and the Chemical Society of Japan. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2011. He has beenan associate editor of the Elsevier Journal, J. Photochem. Photobiol. C (Impact factor 17.1), and an associate editor of the NPG journal, NPG Asia Materials (IF=10.9).

Prof. Chung is a Jade Mountain Chair professor (玉山學者) at the Graduate Institute of Applied Science and Technology of NTUST, Taiwan. Before joining NTUST, he was a Provost’s Chair Professor at the ChBE dept of NUS in 2011-2021. His research focuses on polymeric membranes for clean water, clear air, clear energy and pharmaceutic separation. In 2005-2008, he worked as a Senior Consultant for Hyflux, led and built its membrane research team. He became a Fellow in the Academy of Engineering Singapore in 2012 and received IChemE (Institute of Chemical Engineers, UK) Underwood Medal for exceptional research in separations and Singapore President’s Technology Award in 2015. He was a highly cited researcher in Chemical Engineering & Materials Science and Engineering by the Elsevier and Shanghai Global Ranking in 2016 and received Distinction Award in Water Reuse and Conservation from International Desalination Association (IDA) in 2016. He was also a highly cited researcher from Clarivate Analytics in 2018 and 2019. He was ranked as No. 7 in Chemical Engineering worldwide by the list of “the top 2% scientists in the world” published by Stanford University in 2020 (http://www.globalauthorid.com/WebPortal/EliteOrder. 2020). His H-index =116 (Scopus) or 135 (Google Scholar); Number of citations > 52633 (Scopus) and > 66,847 (Google Scholar) (March 16, 2022). He is an editorial board member of more than 20 journals including J. Membrane Science, Env. Sci. & Tech., AIChE J, Separation & Purification Tech., I&EC Research, Membranes and many others.

Qiuhe Peng graduated from Department of Astronomy, Nanjing University at 1960 firstly teacher at Peking University for 18 years and then is teaching at Nanjing University. He is mainly engaged in nuclear astrophysics, particle astrophysics and galactic astronomy research. In the field of nuclear astrophysics, He’s researches involve neutron stars (pulsars), the supernova explosion mechanism and the thermonuclear reaction inside the star, the synthesis of heavy elements and interstellar radioactive element such as the origin of celestial 26Al. 225 papers of him have be published.

Soshu Kirihara is a doctor of engineering and a professor of Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University, Japan. In his main investigation “Materials Tectonics as Sustainable Geoengineering” for environmental modifications and resource circulations, multi-dimensional structures were successfully fabricated to modulate energy and materials flows effectively. Ceramic and metal components were fabricated directly by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE) using high power ultraviolet laser lithography. Original stereolithography systems were developed, and new start-up company “SK-Fine” was established through academic-industrial collaboration.

Dr. Berardi is Canada Research Chair in Building Science, Full Professor, and Director of the BeTOP center at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His main research interests are related to the study of innovative solutions and new materials for improving the performance within the built environment. Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record, including 150 peer-reviewed journals, 130 international conference papers, and five books. Dr. Berardi has a body of funded research comprising over $2.5M in government and private sector sponsored research. He has been awarded a CFI-JELF; NSERC Discovery Grant; Early Research Award from the MRI - Ontario; Building Excellence Research and Education Grants from the BC Housing - Homeowner Protection Office; OCE-VIP projects; Ryerson Research Fund for Tools and for Undergraduate Research Experience and several NSERC Engages.

Prof. L Reddy has obtained his PhD degree in Physics from the University of Johannesburg in South Africa. His specialty is in condensed matter physics. Besides studying magnetic properties of materials of bulk materials, his focus is now on luminescent properties of phosphor materials for applications in phototherapy, light emitting devices and display lighting systems. A continuation of magnetic properties at nanoscale level is now being studied with his research team. He has published widely in many peer-reviewed journals and is regularly attending conferences where Keynote or Invited lectures are given around the world of current topics in nanotechnology. He has supervised many MSc and PhD students to completion. In South Africa he is regarded as a NRF rated scientist. He finds studies in nanotechnology to be at the forefront of solutions to modern issues such as in medicine, health, lighting devices and communication technology and solar cells.

Professor Hahn is Regents Professor of the Jeonbuk National University (JBNU), Fellow of the Korea Academy of Science and Technology (KAST), Fellow of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS) and Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). He joined JBNU in 1991, prior to which he worked for LG Metals Research Center for 1988-1991 after he received his Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering from University of Utah in 1988. His research interest is synthesis of metal and metal oxide nanostructures and their applications for solar cells, chemical and biological sensors, and printed elecronics, resulting in over 330 SCI papers (over 15200 citaions, h-index over 63 from Google scholar), 18 patents and two technology transfers. He aslo authored or edited 8 books including Metal Oxide Nanostructures and Their Applications (5 volume sets, 2010, American Scientific Publishers) and Solar Energy Conversion – Principles and Engineering of Hybrid-Organic, Quantum Dots, and Perovskite Solar Cells (in press, 2022, Jerry Standford Publishing). He received MCARE Best Research Award 2019 and Woo SeongIl Materials Award 2018 by KIChE, Asian Energy Technology Award 2017 by International Association of Advanced Materials, Rudolf A. Marcus Award for outstanding research in the area of chemical science in 2016, the American Ceramic Society Global Ambassador Award 2016, the Scientist of the Month Award in 2011 by Korea Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the CBNU’s Best Research Professor Award consecutively in 2008-2010, and Top 100 Scientists Award four times in 2005, 2011, 2014 and 2015 accredited by International Biographical Center, Cambridge, UK.

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Prof. Harri Lipsanen received his PhD from Helsinki University of Technology in 1994. Since 1999 he has been a Professor of Nanotechnology in Aalto University, Finland. He has held several positions as Head of Laboratory and Department during past 20 years. In 2018 he was Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor in the University of Arizona, USA. He studies nanomaterials and nanofabrication for various applications in photonics and nanoelectronics. His current research focus on materials includes graphene and other 2D materials, compound semiconductor nanowires and their heterostructures. The nanofabrication activities extend over many methods such as atomic layer deposition, chemical vapor deposition, metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy, electron beam lithography, self-assembly etc. Prof. Lipsanen has published over 350 peer-reviewed articles.

Prof. Ruggero M. Santilli obtained his Ph. D. in theoretical physics at the University of Torino, Italy in 1965; he then emigrated to the U.S.A. in 1967 where he was on the faculty of the University of Miami, Boston University, MIT, and Harvard University under financial support from NASA, UFOSR and DOE. In 1991 he accepted the position of President and Professor at the Institute for Basic Research in Florida. He is the author of 345 papers published in refereed journals and twenty post Ph. D. monographs in mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology; he is the Editor of a number of scientific journals in mathematics and physics and was awarded twelve U. S. patents. He is internationally known for developing new mathematics (known as Lie-admissible, Lie-isotopic and isodual mathematics) for the construction of hadronic mechanics, chemistry and biology, and for the verification of the 1935 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument that "quantum mechanics is not a complete theory." These discoveries lead to the prediction of new technologies, incompatible with quantum mechanics but fully compatible with hadronic mechanics, which he developed as Chief Scientist at various U. S. publicly traded and private companies. For more details, please see the curriculum http://www.i-b-r.org/Ruggero-Maria-Santilli.htm

Prof. Dr. Hosam Bayoumi Hamuda is working at Óbuda University, Faculty of Light Industry and Environmental Engineering, Institute of Environmental Engineering and Natural Sciences (Budapest, Hungary). He worked as Senior Researcher and Deputy Director of Research Group for Environmental Microbiology of Hungarian Academy of Sciences-Szent István University (Budapest), Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences (Gödöllő). Briefly, He received the degrees of B.Sc. (Chemistry and Botany), M.Sc. (Biological Sciences), University Doctor (Agricultural Sciences: Soil Microbiology) and CSc. in Biological Sciences from Garyounis University, Benghazi, Libya, Gödöllő University of Agricultural Sciences (Szent István) and Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, respectively. Also, he received the PhD in Biological Sciences, Doctor Habilitation Degree in Environmental Sciences as well as the Professor degree from Szent István University (Gödöllő, Hungary). Also he received the University Doctor Degree in Natural Sciences from Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary). Prof. Bayoumi Hamuda was awarded many times from different organisations, e.g., the Society of Hungarian Microbiologists, the Hungarian Professors Council, International Council of Environmental Engineering Education (ICEEE), etc. and he is a member of many Hungarian and International Organisations. Prof. Bayoumi Hamuda was the general secretory (2010-2017) and since 2017 he is the president of ICEEE (Budapest, Hungary) and Member of the International Society of Development and Sustainability (Japan), Society of Hungarian Microbiologists (MMT), Soil Science and Agrochemistry Committee of the Agricultural Sciences Department of IV of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest) and Association of Hungarian Medical Societies (MOTESZ) and others. He was the director of MSc program titled: Microbial Science and Biotechnology (Szent István University, Gödöllő, Hungary) from 2000 to 2008 and director of PhD Programme titled: Agricultural-, Environmental Microbiology and Soil Biotechnology from 2007 to 2015 and now he is a member of the Environmental Sciences Doctor’s School at Szent István University and Doctoral School on Materials Sciences and Technologies at Óbuda University. Prof. Bayoumi Hamuda is as editorial member and reviewer of many international journals, as well as international conference. Prof. Bayoumi Hamuda delivered more than 100 plenary and keynote lectures in international conferences and a member of scientific committee of more than 100 conferences. He is the editor of more than 10 Proceedings Books of International Conferences.

Dr. Anjali Patel, Prof. (Inorganic Chemistry) and former Offg. Head, Department of Chemistry, The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara, Gujarat. Her research interest focuses on Polyoxometalates, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Green Chemistry and nanomaterials. She has 144 papers in international journals including five review articles (Highest impact factor = 48.165), 4 patents, 6 book chapters and 2 books to her credit. She has delivered a number of invited talks as well as keynotes at national and international conferences. She is a member of different committees at National level as well as different societies. She has also visited different countries like USA, UK, China, France, Germany, Italy, Russia and Japan for delivering lectures/seminar at various international conferences/ institutes respectively. she has also been awarded the prestigious Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). Her h-index is 33 with citation of 3567.

Dr. Bonnie L. Gray joined the School of Engineering Science (ENSC) at Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Canada in 2003, where she is now a Full Professor, former ENSC Graduate Program Chair, and an elected member of University Senate. Dr. Gray is an Associate Member of the School of Biomedical Physiology and Kinesiology, and sits on the Advisory Board for the Vancouver Medical Device Development Centre. Dr. Gray has over 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications, including 25 invited and keynote papers. She has 3 issued patents on conductive polymer nanocomposites, and wearable and reconfigurable microfluidics, and 4 invited book chapters. Dr. Gray is a dedicated mentor and the 2014 recipient of the SFU Dean of Graduate Studies Award for Excellence in Supervision. Dr. Gray was the Chapter Chair for the Vancouver IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) from 2007-2017, and organizer of two mini-colloquia in 2012 and 2017. She has chaired the SPIE Conference on Microfluidics, BioMEMS, & Medical Microsystems from 2014-2023; been a member of the program committee for the 2020 and 2021 IEEE MEMS conferences; was a member of the International Advisory Committee for the 2019 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC); Publicity Chair for the 2021 IEEE NMDC; and is a member of the 2023 IEEE NMDC Publicity, Sponsor, and Exhibits Committee. She is also a member of the IEEE Nanotechnology Council Awards Committee. Her current research interests include the development and application of novel materials and fabrication techniques for biomedical, microfluidic, and acoustic devices and systems; development of flexible and wearable microfluidic and biosensor technologies; point-of-care instruments; personalized medicine; chip-based biological cell sorting and trapping methods; and self-sterilizing textiles and PPE.

Prof. Sivasambu Bohm is Royal Society Industry Fellow @ Imperial college London, visiting Professor UNISA South Africa, Prof @ Huzhou University and CSE @ Ceylon Graphite Corp. Professor Bohm is an expert in nanomaterials chemistry, particularly Graphene, h-BN 2D Materials, Decarbonisation technologies, electrochemistry, energy storage technologies. His research interests include lithiumion batteries, lithium-air batteries, sodium-ion batteries, lithium-sulphur batteries, supercapacitors, hydrogen storage materials, fuel-cells (PEM, SOFC.), graphene production and graphene industrial products application. Siva has 25 years of industrial experience in various research fields; New materials & metallurgy, protective coatings, energy storage, Automotive technologies, aerospace and construction materials and industrial applications of Graphene. Dr Bohm published more than 50 patents, 100 scientific publications and more than 10 commercial products for multiple industries, Tata, Arcelor Mittal, Ceylon Graphite, Talga, CAMI, VEMS, TaihuLab. Dr Bohm worked at different academic institutions, including the University of Swansea, TU Delft, The University of Birmingham & India Institute of Technology Bombay. Dr Bohm is a multiple scientific award winner, he actively collaborate/visit China, Sri Lanka, Canada, India, Spain, Germany, Japan, France, USA and south Africa as a visiting fellow, expert and consultant and visiting professor.

In Su Lee received his PhD (2000) from Seoul National University under the supervision of Professor Young Keun Chung. After the work as a senior researcher at LG chemical (2000–2003), the post-doctoral research with Jeffrey Long at UC Berkeley (2003–2005), and the research with Taeghawn Hyeon for Creative Research Initiative Center for Oxide Nano-crystalline Materials at Seoul National University (2005–2006), he worked at Kyung Hee University as an assistant and associate professor (2006–2011). After this, he moved to POSTECH and joined the Department of Chemistry. He is now a professor of Chemistry at POSTECH and also director of Creative Research Initiative Center for Nano-space-Confined Chemical Reactions (NCCR). His current research is focused on studying the spatially confined reactions that occurs within nano-sized solid-state or solution-phase media and developing nanomaterials for the applications in catalysis and biomedical fields.

Professor Raman Singh’s research expertise is in environment-assisted degradation and its mitigation by nanotechnology (e.g., graphene coating) and environment-assisted. His professional distinctions and recognitions include: Editor of a book on Cracking of Welds (CRC Press), Lead Editor of a book on Non-destructive Evaluation of Corrosion (Wiley), Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier and two MDPI journals, leader/chairperson of a few international conferences and regular plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, over 250 peer-reviewed international journal publications, 15 book chapters/books and over 100 reviewed conference publications, and several competitive research grants. He has supervised 50 PhD students.

Dr. Niloufar Raeis-Hosseini (PhD. Alumni Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of IEEE) is an assistant professor at Cranfield University and is affiliated with the Composites and Advanced Material Centre. Niloufar has been awarded her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from POSTECH, with honours and awards. She fulfilled her postdoctoral fellowship by winning professional research funding from the Korean government and joined the Nanoscale Photonics and Integrated Manufacturing lab. She is a former honorary research fellow at Imperial College London (ICL), granting a Newton International fellowship (NIF). She joined a multi-disciplinary research group of Circuits and Systems at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at ICL, associated with Centre for Bio-Inspired Technology and Centre for Processible Electronics. Dr. Raeis-Hosseini is an international expert with more than a decade of fruitful experience in the fabrication, characterization, and analysis of nanoelectronic materials, devices, and systems. She has a very strong profile in nanotechnology and the development of flexible and stretchable nanodevices. Her research interests lie in advancing nanostructured materials for novel applications in nanoelectronics and nanophotonics. She mainly focuses on a new generation of nanoelectronic devices, including nonvolatile memories (NVMs). She is interested in low-power consumed Resistive Switching Random Access Memories (ReRAMs), memristors, and synaptic devices for neuromorphic computing. She has over a decade of successful experience in realizing emerging ReRAMs & memristors, including energy-efficient artificial synapses with their potential applications in artificial intelligence (AI) and pattern recognition.

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Prof. Shachar Richter (Ph.D. in Materials Science and Chemical Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) is the head of the Bioand Molecular Electronics Lab and a faculty member at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Tel Aviv University. After graduation, Prof. Richter was a post-doctorate fellow and was later appointed as an independent staff member (MTS) at Bell Laboratories and Agere Systems (NJ, USA). In 2001 he joined Tel Aviv University, where he established the Nanoelectronics lab at the Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, where he serves as a core member. In 2003 he joined as a faculty member at the School of Chemistry, and in 2013 he moved to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. In 2017 he was a sabbatical professor at Monash University (Australia), and In 2019 he won the "distinguished visiting scientist award" of The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO). His current research interests are jellyfish-based composites for medical and environmental applications, molecular and bioelectronics, bio-nano composites, and novel patterning and processing technologies. Professor Richter is the founder and director of the university's first public asbestos service lab (TAU Analytical) and the founder of Jellyband, a new startup. Among his previous public roles: Director of the Wolfson Applied Materials Research Centre at Tel Aviv University, heading the MSc program in Materials Science and Engineering, serving as the president of the IVS (Israel Vacuum Society focusing on nanotechnology and surface science), and chairing the central chemistry committee of the Standards Institute of Israel, and more.

Dr. Fawang Liu is a Professor in the Applied and computational mathematics discipline at Queensland University of Technology. He received his MSc from Fuzhou University, China in 1982 and his PhD from Trinity College, Ireland in 1991, respectively. Since graduation, he has worked in computational and applied mathematics at Fuzhou University(he was promoted as Associate Professor on 1988), Trinity College Dublin, Xiamen University (First-class Professor), University of Queensland and Queensland University of Technology (from 17 September, 1991).Professor Liu has made important contributions to the fields including numerical methods and theoretical analysis of the fractional differential equations, modelling anomalous transport, computational modelling of the human heart, implement adaptive image enhancement using fractional differential algorithms, a unifying framework for distributed-order fractional models, propagation of electrical signals in the white matter of the human brain, fractional dynamical models for MRI to probe tissue microstructure, parameter estimation for fractional dynamical models arising from biological systems, fractional viscoelastic Non-Newtonian fluids, computational finance,nanofluids for industrial applications, semiconductor device equations, microwave heating problems, gas-solid reactions, singular perturbation problem and saltwater intrusion into aquifer systems. Professor Liuis an international recognised expert and a leading researcher in the field of numerical methods and theoretical analysis for fractional dynamical systems. He has published over 340 papers in these fields. In 2012, Professor Liu won the prestigious Mittag-Leffler Award for his outstanding contributions to the field of Fractional Derivatives and their Applications. He has been award “Outstanding Achievements Recognition Award” by ACEMS in 2019. He has supervised more than 30 PhD students and Master of Philosophy students, and 40 visiting fellows on fractional dynamical models and applications. Professor Liu has been named in the 2014-2021Thomson Reuters lists of Highly Cited Researchers.

Dr. Jie Lian is a Professor of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Dr. Lian’s research mainly focuses on fundamental materials behavior under extreme environments, advanced materials and technologies for nuclear energy systems, and materials for alternative energy and functional applications. He is a member of the editorial board of NPJ Materials Degradation. Lian is a recipient of the National Science Foundation Early Career Award and the inaugural Best Paper Award of Journal American Ceramic Society.

Mukasyan Alexander, Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN USA since 1996. Ph.D. in physics and math (1986) Institute of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Sci. Dc. (1994) Institute of Structural Macrokinetics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Academician of the International Informatization Academy (2001). Member of the Editorial boards for several International Journals; Member of International Advisory Boards of Ceramic World Academy. Medal of Exhibition of Achievements of National Economy (Moscow, 1993); Medal of Russian Academy of Sciences (2001); Medal of Kazakhstan Ministry of Science (2007). Co-author of 5 books and 1 text-book, 33 Chapters in books and invited reviews, more than 300 research publications in archive journals and 36 patents, including 14 patents in the fields of engineering of advanced materials and heterogeneous combustion (see details: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=b8XySnEAAAAJ). The main scientific interest relates to nanotechnology, high energy density materials, joining of refractory and dissimilar materials, as well as catalysis. The most cited publications: Combustion synthesis and nanomaterials, Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 12 (3-4), 44-50, 2008; Solution combustion synthesis of nanoscale materials, Chemical Reviews 116 (23), 14493-14586, 2016; Combustion for Material Synthesis, CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, Boca Raton, London, New York, 2015, 398 p.

Dr. Ting Guo obtained his college degree in China, and his Ph.D. in the U.S.A. He has worked in the field of X-ray spectroscopy and nanoscale science and technology for the past 33 years. He published the first book of X-ray nanochemistry in 2018. His current research interest is to continue to advance the field of X-ray nanochemistry as well as to move the science of X-ray nanochemistry to the applied fields of nanomachinery, nanomedicine, semiconductor industry, and security.

Dr. Michael Campbell is an internationally known expert in Inertial Fusion, Plasma physics, High Energy Density Physics, high power lasers and their applications and advanced energy technologies including Generation IV nuclear fission reactors and biofuels. He has won numerous awards including Department of Energy’s E. O. Lawrence Award, the American Nuclear Society’s Edward Teller Award, the American Physical Society’s John Dawson Award, the Department of Energy’s Excellence in Weapons Research Award, and the Leadership Award of Fusion Power Associates. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optica (formerly OSA). He has published over 250 articles in scientific journals and holds 5 patents. Campbell has worked in various scientific and leadership positions at both federal laboratories, Universities and the private sector including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, General Atomics, Logos Technologies, Sandia National Laboratory, and the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics. He has received his degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, and the University of Western Sydney.

Norbert Hampp complete his first Ph.D. in pharmacy in 1986 and completed his second Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry in 1992. He spent his post-doc time at the Institute of Semiconductor Technology of the FhG. In 1994 he accepted a position at the central research organization of Wacker-Chemicals dedicated to the acquisition of research and technology. Since 1995 he holds a chair as a full professor of physical chemistry at the University of Marburg. He authored more than 250 research papers and 19 patent families. His research is in the biopolymer field as well as laser-nanostructured surfaces.

Joachim Koetz studied chemistry at the Martin-Luther University Halle/Wittenberg and obtained his Ph.D. in Polymer Chemistry under supervision of Burkart Philipp in 1986 from the Institute of Polymer Chemistry of the Academy of Science in Teltow-Seehof (Germany). In 1992 he received habilitation and since 1994 he has been Professor of Colloid Chemistry at the University of Potsdam. His main interests are nanoparticles, polyelectrolytes, liquid crystalline systems and microemulsions. He published more than 200 papers (h-index: 32; including 2 books and above 10 book chapters), 11 patents, and gave more than 120 oral presentations at conferences.

Arvi Freiberg, Professor Emeritus of Tartu University, earned his Ph.D. in solid state physics from the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1976) and the Doctor of Sc. degree from the Latvian Academy of Sciences (1986). His pioneering scientific contributions belong into the fields of ultrafast and spectrally selective spectroscopy of chlorophylls, photobiophysicsof primary processes of photosynthesis, and high-pressure biospectroscopy. He is a founding member of the International Society of Photosynthesis Research and the Estonian Physical Society, and the elected member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Currently he is running the Biophysics Laboratory in the Institute of Physics of Tartu University, also serving as a Vice-President of the Estonian Academy of Sciences.

Professor V.G. Plekhanov has graduated from Tartu State University (Estonia). He obtained Ph.D. (physics and mathematics) 1972 as well as Doctor of Science (physics and mathematics) 1982 – both degrees from Tartu State University. He is author more than ten monographs in different field of physics and informatics. Main interest field: the origin of the mass and nature of the residual strong nuclear interaction as well as science of the materials.

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Christophe Boscher, after obtaining a degree in chemistry at the University of Rennes in France, began his career as an technician in a milk analysis laboratory and after in a cheese cooperative. He then worked as a technician at Sanofi in the pharmaceutical industry. In 1990, he joined the CEA (The French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energy Commission) and worked in the field of PVD (Pulverisation Vapor Deposition) for magnetic materials. He then specialized in Sol-Gel and became in 2016 a research engineer in this specialty. Specifically, he has specialized in antireflective coatings based on silica nanoparticles for laser applications. He is the author or co-author of numerous publications in the field of magnetism and Sol-Gel.

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Zhao Ji, Ph.D. in Engineering, Professor, Doctoral supervisor, The Fellow of International Academy of Engineering and Technology (AET).The Member of the 13th National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He served as Vice President and Managing Vice President of Jilin University and President of Northeastern University. His main academic jobs are Chairman of China’s Mechanical Engineering Education Accreditation Association, Chairman of China’s Mechanical Major Certification Committee, Member of the Discipline Appraisal Group (Mechanical Engineering) of the State Council of China, Chief Expert of the National Key Research and Development Program of China “Key Scientific Issues in Transformative Technologies”. He specializes in Intelligent Precision Manufacturing, who has hosted and undertaken more than 40projects including the National 973 Program, the National “Transformative Technologies” Key Special Program, the National 863 Program, the National Major Science and Technology Special Program, the Key Program and General Program of National Natural Science Foundation of China. Meanwhile, he has published a total of 50 patents and more than 280 academic papers. He has received many awards for science and technology and teaching, including the Second Prize of National Teaching Achievement, the First Prize of Provincial Technological Invention, the First Prize of Provincial Teaching Achievement, etc.

Dejun Li, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Materials Science, Tianjin Normal University, China, received his Bachelor's degree from the Tianjin Normal University in 1984. After he obtained his Ph.D. degree from the Tsinghua University in 1999, he entered Northwestern University, USA as a Postdoctoral in 2001. In 1998 he was appointed to be full Professor. Dr. Li’s research is focused on ion-beam and thin films for materials surface modification of various materials including biomaterials; coatings and nanomaterials for clean energy. The scope of Li’s research ranges from fundamental science, to applied nanotechnology and thin film or ion-beam technology, to emerging engineering issues - with a unifying theme centered upon development and application of novel thin films and nanomaterials for energy systems and modification of various tools and biomaterials. Specifically, his research activities are currently concentrated on developing various PVD and CVD approaches to synthesize low-dimensional thin films and nanomaterials as well as exploring their applications in various tools and model, biomedical hard tissues, and nano-energy materials. He has published more than 200 research articles in thin film and coatings, biomaterials, new energy fields.

Dr. Zai-Fa Zhou is currently a Professor at Southeast University of China. He received his PhD degrees in microelectronics and solid state electronics from Southeast University in 2009. After graduation with the highest honor, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electronic Science and Engineering, Southeast University, and received the New Century Excellent Talents Award by the Ministry of Education in 2011. He was appointed as the deputy director in 2012 and the executive deputy director in 2018 of the Key Laboratory of MEMS of the Ministry of Education. His current researches include modeling and simulation of the micro/nano fabrication processes, in situ extraction of material parameters for MEMS/NEMS, MEMS design methods, etc.. The simulation tools for MEMS fabrication processes developed by Prof. Zhou’s group have been applied in some famous companies, such as Intel Corporation (USA), and Fujitsu Limited (Japan), etc.. Furthermore, a series of on-line test structures of MEMS material parameters have been applied in Wuxi CSMC Semiconductor Co. Ltd., contributing to the success of China's MEMS industry entering the stage of large-scale production. Prof. Zhou has co-authored 2 scientific books, 4 chapters in scientific books, more than 60 peer-reviewed international journal papers, and authorized 32 Chinese invention patents and 6 software copyrights. Prof. Zhou participated in the development of 2 national standards and promoted the application of basic research achievements. He was the winner of the Second Class Prize of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (ranking 2, 2019), the Second Class Prize of the Science and Technology Progress of Jiangsu Province (ranking 2, 2018), the Second Class Prize of the Technology Invention of the Ministry of Education (ranking 2, 2013), the Second Class Prize of the Science and Technology Progress of Jiangsu Province (ranking 2, 2009),etc.. He has also served as TPC member for Asia-Pacific Conference of Transducers and Micro-Nano Technology (APCOT) from 2014, and as referee for several reputable journals in MEMS area such as Journal of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, Applied Physics Letters, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors and Actuators, and IEEE Trans. CAD, etc..

Dr. GuohuaXie obtained his Ph.D. degree from Jilin University (China) in 2011, working on OLED microdisplays. From August 2011, Dr. Xie carried out his postdoctoral research at TU Dresden (Germany), sponsored by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, investigating the stability of OLEDs. From January 2013 to January 2015, Dr. Xie worked for an OLED-based interdisciplinary project to treat skin cancer based on photodynamic therapy at the Organic Semiconductor Center of the University of St Andrews (UK). Since January 2015, he has been serving as an associate professor at the College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences of Wuhan University (China), focusing on the interdisciplinary research of solution-processed organic optoelectronic materials and devices. Dr. Xie has co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed publications with an H-index of 48and contributed to three edited bookchapters on organic optoelectronics. In 2020, Dr. Xie has been admitted as a Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry. Currently, Dr. Xie is a guest editor respectively for “Frontiers in Chemistry”, “Molecules” and “International Journal of Molecular Sciences”. Meanwhile, he also serves as a member of Youth Editorial Board respectively for “Chinese Journal of Luminescence”, “SmartMat” and “The Innovation”.

Prof. Yoav D. Livney [B.Sc. (Suma cum Laude, 1990) Food Engineering & Biotechnology, Technion Israel Institute of Technology; M.S. (1995) Food Engineering, UW Madison, Wisconsin, USA; PhD (2002) Food Engineering & Biotechnology Technion IIT; Post-Doc Food Science, University of Guelph, Canada], Head of the Lab of Biopolymers for Food & Health at the Biotechnology and Food Engineering department, Technion IIT [2004- Lecturer; 2007- Asst. Professor, 2012-20 Assoc. Prof., 2020- Full Professor] is an expert in biopolymers, delivery systems for nutraceuticals and drugs, and alternative proteins. Authored >80 publications, 9 patents, H-index=39, gave >50 invited & keynote talks at international conferences, and mentored 15 M.Sc. and 10 Ph.D. students. Editorial-Board Member in several reputed journals.

Dr. Sui Zhang is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at NUS. She received her Bachelor degree from Fudan University (China) in 2008, and her PhD degree from NUS in 2012. She is an expert in membranes for separations and purifications in relation to water, energy and environment. In particular, her research focuses on understanding and engineering of transport at the nano- and micro-level via 2D materials, microporous materials and surface patterns. She has > 60 journal publications in Science Advances, Nature Communications, PNAS, Advanced Materials, etc. She is now the Young Editorial Board member for Journal of Membrane Science, Advanced Membranes and Chinese Chemical Letters. She has received awards such as Tan Kah Kee Young Inventor’s Award, NUS Engineering Young Researcher Award and AIChE SLS Outstanding Young Faculty Award.

Dr. Hsing-Cheng Hsi received his Bachelor degree (1992) and Master degree (1994) both from the National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He got his PhD degree at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2001. Dr. Hsi is a professor at the Graduate Institute of Environmental Engineering, National Taiwan University. Dr. Hsi’s expertise is in development of novel technology for air pollution control, water treatment and reuse, and soil/sediment remediation. His research interests include (1) synthesis of novel carbonaceous adsorbents and metal oxide/photocatalysts for adsorption and catalytic oxidation or reduction in control of toxic metals (especially mercury), SOx, NOx and VOC presenting in air/flue gases, water and waste water, soil, and sediments;(2) development of novel active capping for remediating contaminated sediment by release inhibition; (3) fabrication of novel carbonaceous material for precious and rare metal recycling from urban wastes;(4) speciation and distribution investigation of heavy metals in soil and sediment, and understanding their environmental and health risk. Dr. Hsi also serves as the member of editorial board, Journal of Hazardous Materials, the associate editor of Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, USA and Journal of Environmental Engineering, American Society of Civil Engineering, USA.

Dr. An-Ya Lo is a professor at the National Chin-Yi University of Technology (NCUT), Taiwan, specializing in mesoporous materials. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2010 from the National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan. With over ten years of research experience, Dr. An-Ya has been actively involved in the development of mesoporous materials. He further expanded his expertise with two years visiting research at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, focusing on photocatalytic CO2 reduction and gas sensing materials. Dr. An-Ya's research primarily revolves around creating novel photocatalytic and electrochemical materials, technologies, and devices for energy conversion and environmental applications. His work includes advancements in areas such as super-capacitors, fuel cells, gas sensing materials, and CO2 photo-reduction technologies.

Dr. Kuan-Wei Lee received the PhD degree from the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, in 2006. He joined the Department of Electronic Engineering at I-Shou University as an assistant professor in 2006, was promoted to associate professor in August 2009, and was promoted to professor in February 2013. Prof. Lee’s main research focuses on metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) technology and its application in GaAs-based electronic devices. He was elected a Distinguished Teaching Instructor by the College of Electrical and Information Engineering at I-Shou University in 2010. He also received the Outstanding Electrical Engineer Award from The Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE) in 2011 and was listed in Marquis 2011-2012, 2016-2017 Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. Meanwhile, Prof. Lee is a guest editor respectively for “Micromachines”, “Crystals”, “Molecules”, “Microelectronics Reliability”, and “Active and Passive Electronic Components”.

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Dr. Unnati Patel is currently a Quality Control Specialist at Avanti Polar Lipids LLC Part of Croda Pharmaceuticals. In her current position she is mainly involved in developing method development of variety of Lipid using various analytical instruments. Her graduate research concentrates on developing targeted nano antibiotics to combat antimicrobial resistance and cancer. We have mainly focused on design, development, and optimization of liposome/lipid nanoparticles, gold nanomaterial synthesis, with surface functionalization using bio-conjugate macromolecules such as peptides/proteins and polymers to create novel-biomaterials for targeted biomedical and drug delivery.

Prof. Dutz received his Diploma Engineer (Dipl.-Ing) in Biomedical Engineering from University of Applied Sciences in Jena/Germany in 2002 and his PhD (Dr.-Ing) from University of Freiberg/Germany in 2007. Prof Dutz is the Chair of Magnetic Nanoparticles Group at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Informatics at Technische Universität Ilmenau in Germany. With a background in Materials Science, Biomedical Engineering, and Electronics his current research interests focus on synthesis, characterization, and application of magnetic nanoparticles for medical applications as well as instrumentation for these techniques, especially magnetic hyperthermia, magnetic drug targeting, and magnetic particle imaging.

Prof. Hiroyuki Shima (H.S) currently works as Head of Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Yamanashi in Japan. H.S received his Ph.D in the Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, Hokkaido University. His main research topics are focused on interdisciplinary physics, including mathematical science and condensed matter theory. He has published more than 120 research publications (peer-reviewed), written 4 books and 4 book chapters in the areas of mathematical physics and nanomaterials.

Dr. Viktor Sverdlov received his Master of Science and PhD degrees in physics from the State University of St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1985 and 1989, respectively. From 1989 to 1999 he worked as a staff research scientist at the V.A. Fock Institute of Physics, St. Petersburg State University. During this time, he visited ICTP (Italy, 1993), the University of Geneva (Switzerland, 1993-1994), the University of Oulu (Finland, 1995), the Helsinki University of Technology (Finland, 1996, 1998), the Free University of Berlin (Germany, 1997), and NORDITA (Denmark, 1998). In 1999, he became a staff research scientist at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He joined the Institute for Microelectronics, Technische Universität Wien, in 2004 and he is currently on a tenure-track position. His scientific interests include device simulations, computational physics, solid-state physics, and nanoelectronics.

Luigi Coppola, Civil Engineer, Associate Professor at University of Bergamo (Italy) – Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences and President of American Concrete Institute Italy Chapter. He has authored more than 300 original papers, and 21 books on admixtures for concrete, alternative low-carbon binders, waste management in concrete production, deterioration, durability and repair of concrete structures, mix-design, deterioration and restoration of historical buildings, corrosion and protection of rebars in reinforced concrete structures. In June 2000 Luigi Coppola was conferred an award for the “Outstanding and sustained contributions to enhance the Durability of Concrete” by the American Concrete Institute (ACI) and the Canadian Institute of Materials, Energy and Transportation (CANMET). Editor and member of many international Journals, he is the chairperson of Thirteenth International Conference on Superplasticizers and other Chemical Admixtures in Concrete – Milan, Italy, July10-13, 2022 and Fifteenth International Conference on Recent Advances in Concrete Technology and Sustainability Issues – Milan, Italy, July 13-15, 2022.

Alan Wang is a principal investigator and Associate Professor at Auckland University. He has more than ten years of research experience in bioengineering informatics and integrated medicine, especially in advancing the role of medical informatics in health care. His research interests include bioengineering, data informatics, neurocomputing, and biomedical statistics and simulation. He has developed medical data analytics methods for mobile health and personalized diagnosis and prognosis based on intelligent computing theories. He has experience analyzing huge cohorts of patient data with applications of early diagnosis, disease understanding, and effective treatment of patients with different disorders. He serves as an Editorial Board Member and an Active Reviewer for several international journals.

Dr. Luis Alberto Lightbourn Rojas, PhD is a civil scientist and research entrepreneur. He is bionanofemtotechnologist, specialist in the areas of Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Mathematics. Currently, he is Owner and Director of the Bioteska Company, as well as owner and president of the Lightbourn Research Institute. Dr. Luis is also a creator and developer of the Enatiomorphic Amphiphilic Colloids and the Totally Tox Free system (TTF 3.0) Ethical and Scientific Guarantee of Food Safety.

Yosef completed his undergraduate studies in Physics and Math (dual major) at the Bar-Ilan university. He then did a Masters and PhD in physics, where he developed applications of statistical mechanics in the field of population genetics and evolutionary biology. He them continued to do post-doctoral fellowship at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard working with Profs. Franziska Michor and Prof. Gad Getz. During this time, he developed methods detecting mutations in reputative regions of the genome and applied his method in many projects. In 2020 he opened his Cancer Genomics Evolution lab at the Faculty of Biotechnology and Food Engineering at the Technion. In his lab Yosef lead a team of researchers that focus on both on understanding early tumorigenic steps, as well as developing methods for analyzing tumors genomic data.

Dr. William Gerson Matias holds a degree in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (1987), a Master's (DEA) in Environmental Toxicology - Université de Metz (1993) and a PhD in Environmental Toxicology - Université de Bordeaux II (1996). He was a Postdoctoral fellow at the Université du Québec à Montreal in Nanotoxicology (2010). He is a Full Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Dep. of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (Brazil). He is currently Superintendent of Projects, Dean of Research. He is also a reviewer of several national and international journals. He has experience in Sanitary and Environmental Engineering, with emphasis on Water Quality and Environmental Toxicology, working mainly on the following topics: Effluent and Natural Water Toxicity, Genotoxicity, Toxicological Risk Analysis, Nanotoxicology and Contaminants of Emerging Concern.

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Prof. Kun-Yu Lai is currently a professor in the Department of Optics and Photonics (DOP) at National Central University (NCU) in Taiwan. Prof. Lai received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University in USA in 2009. After working as the postdoctoral fellow in the Graduate Institute of Photonics and Optoelectronics at National Taiwan University in 2009-2011, he joined the faculty in DOP at NCU. Prof. Lai specializes in the growth/fabrication of novel III-nitride optoelectronic devices, including plasmonic biosensors and LEDs. He has published 53 papers in peer-reviewed SCI journals, with a total citation over 1600 times (H-index: 23). Detailed information on Prof. Lai’s research is available at: http://kylai.cloudweb.com.tw/

Dr. Rabea Al-Kershi is a principal investigator and associate professor at King Khalid University (KKU). His research interests focus on the design, fabrication, and characterization, of magnetic nanoparticles, and polymers nanocomposites and improve their properties as hosts for rare earth elements to face global economic and environmental challenges such as water treatment, energy generation and storage, and gas sensors. He supervised many theses and published many papers in this field. Moreover, He works as a coordinator for the Undergraduate Program in Physics Sciences and expert in quality control and academic development at KKU.

Dr. Al-Ghamdi completed his Ph.D degrees at Cardiff University UK in 2010. Afterword he got position at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Al-Ghamdi research interest includes the design and fabrication of semiconductor devices laser diode and studies the optoelectronic and electrical properties of these devices by measuring their absorption, spontaneous, stimulated emission spectra, ideality factor, barrier height and series resistance. The current research topics include red emitters quantum dot laser diode which used in photodynamic therapy of cancer and also used in the manufacture of dual wavelength sources. Dr. Al-Ghamdi is a member of IEEE and OSA societies.

Asad Alkhader is a specialist on plant nutrition and soil fertility. He is working as an expert researcher at the National Agricultural Research Center (NARC) in Jordan. He is interested on plant nutrient and soil water management research issues. Most of his current research studies are focused on nutrient and water management.

Dr. Dinesh Pratap Singh, an associate professor in Department of Physics, University of Santiago of Chile (USACH), notched up his M.Sc. (2000) and Ph.D. (2007) degree in Physics from Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi India. After post-doctoral studies from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC), Illinois, USA, he joined Department of Physics, USACH, Chile in 2010 as an assistant professor. He has published many articles/reviews (67 articles) and book chapters (9 book chapters) in the refereed journals of high impact and books/encyclopedia published by internationally reputed publishers. He has also one patent related to the growth of record 8 mm size Zn(3-ptz)2 Metal–Organic Framework Single Crystals (CL2019000136). He qualified CSIR-NETJRF (UGC India), D S Kothari post-doctoral fellowship and been awarded by various projects funded by CONICYT - ANID Chile. He is one among ten PIs of a leading project of the country called as Millennium institute of Research in Optics (MIRO) for 10 years (2018-2028) awarded by Millennium Science Initiative- Millenio Instituto (ANID) Chile. He is editorial board member of various international journals such as American Journal of Nano Research and Applications (NANO), Online Journal of Material Science, Universal Journal of Physics Research, Journal of Modern Polymer Chemistry and Materials, Journal of Nanotechnology Research, Journal of Nanoscience Research (JNSR), American Journal of Nanosciences and SCIREA Journal of Chemistry etc. He is a reviewer in various internationally renowned journals like Nature Scientific Reports, Nano Energy, International Journal of Nanomedicine etc. just to name few. Besides he is an external referee for the submitted proposals in one of the major funding agencies for research and development in Chile (ANID, CHILE) and National Research Council (CNCS)” Rome of Romanian organization that supports fundamental research in all fields of science. He is a member of American Physical Society, American Chemical Society, and American Nano Society (since 2011) etc.

César González completed his Ph.D. studies in materials science at the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN, Mexico) in 2017. After that, he did a postdoc at the Orsay Institute of Molecular Sciences at Paris-Saclay University (ISMO, France), where he participated in the development of radio-enhancers based on metallic nanoparticles for the treatment of cancer. He currently works in a temporary research-teaching position at Sorbonne Paris Nord University (France). Currently, his research is focused on the development of new theragnostic nanoparticles for the treatment of cancer.

Élia Roldão holds a PhD in Conservation and Restoration of Heritage - Specialization in Conservation Sciences, from FCT NOVA. Her research career has been guided by the pursuing of development of non-invasive and innovative methods for identification and treatment of photographs. Since 2000 she has done conservation treatments and preventive conservation projects on several Portuguese collections. Since 2019, she has been teaching at FCT NOVA.

Faezeh Fathi is a researcher of REQUIMTE/LAQV, Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Porto. She completed a Bachler in Applied Chemistry (2011); Master on Phytochemistry (2013); Master on Food Quality and Control at the University of Porto, Portugal (recognized degree 2020); PhD in Phytochemistry, at MPDRI, Beheshti University, Iran (2021); and a Joint PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences - Nutrition and Food Chemistry, at the University of Porto in 2021. Her specialization domains are extraction, enrichment, and standardization of food, agriculture and plant by-products, as well as medicinal plants and food sources. Her focus is to formulate high-value products through different encapsulation techniques with special attention to lipid-based carriers and nanotechnology (powder, nanoemulsions, micro/nanosuspensions). Furthermore, cosmetic and skin care products, such as anti-ageing and skin care creams, beauty soft gels, and others, are other research fields. Besides her academic expertise, she worked in the R&D section of the P.T.S Group as researcher, leader of R&D and technical manager for 3 years (2015-2018). She has been working as scientific advisor of a food and cosmetic company since 2015 (Vasha pharma, and P.T.S group) and she was a director of the call centre branch of Parikatan anti-wrinkle cream from 2017-2019, Tehran, Iran.

Dr. Kun Walter Ndamukong is an early career Research Associate in the Department of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Yaoundé I, Cameroon. His area of expertise is in (not limited to) synthesis and characterization of, organic ligands and metal complexes, nanoparticles and nanomaterials for biological and optoelectronics applications, by hot injection thermolysis of single source precursors and deposition of thin films by several CVD based techniques, spin coating and spray pyrolysis. His quest for knowledge has exposed him to several international trainings and conferences. He has co-directed four Masters thesis and has published four research works in peered reviewed journals.

Ons YAHYAOUI obtained her engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing) in industrial chemistry from the National Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology of Tunis (INSAT) in 2020. She is currently in the final year of her thesis at the "Centre de recherche sur les Ions, les MAtériaux et la Photonique" (CIMAP) in Caen, France. Her thesis topic is the development of a high sensitivity polymer that can be integrated into MEMS dosimeters for gamma radiation. During her thesis, she is interested in the synthesis of gold/polymer nanocomposites and in the study of their behaviour under ionising radiation (defect creation mechanisms and radiolysis gas emission).

Thomas Schneiders is a project manager and PhD student at the Institut fuer Textiltechnik of RWTH Aachen University in Aachen, Germany. He has a Master’s degree in Polymer and Textile Technology from the RWTH Aachen University as well and has 5 years of expertise in electrospinning and development of medical textiles and products. His research focus is in machinery, process and product development for electrospinning and the production of polymeric nanofibers. Especially for Tissue Engineering applications and stent coatings.

Sughra Mohamed received her Ph.D. in nanophotonics with a major in tailoring and confinement of light in nanophotonics and quantum systems from the University of Eastern Finland, Finland in 2022. Her research areas include quantum optics, Plasmonic, Photonic crystals, Bound state in continuum, vector beams, bright and dark modes. Her master's thesis examined the nonlinear light-matter interaction in thin films using pump-probe spectroscopy and Z-scan. She was awarded grants from the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation, Saastamoinen Foundation, Jenny and Antti Wihuri Foundation for doctoral students grant, and Corning Women in Optical Communications award.

Professor Omolola Esther Fayemi is an Associate Professor of Analytical Chemistry and a postgraduate coordinator in the Department of Chemistry, North-West University, Mafikeng, South Africa. Her expertise in synthesis, characterization and application of nano-based materials through chemical and green mediated synthesis. She has supervised and co-supervised nine honours, 7 Masters and 4 Doctoral students to completion. She supervises ten postgraduate students (Hons, MSc and PhD candidates). The synthesized nanomaterials are applied in electrochemical sensors for biological and environmental analytes and wound dressing. She has published more than 70 research works in accredited journals, and her research outputs are recorded by Google Scholar and Research Gate.

My full name is Mazaher Yarmohamadi-Vasel. I was born in Hamedan city, Iran, in 1985. I have studied chemistry at Peyameh Noor University, Hamedan, Iran, and received the M.Sc. Degree in Applied chemistry with Dr. Peyman Najafi Moghadam (Professor at Urmia University, Faculty of Chemistry, Department of Organic Chemistry( at Urmia University, Urmia, Iran, in 2013. I am a Ph.D graduated in applied chemistry from Sistan and Baluchestan University, Iran in 2019. The thesis of my Ph.D. degree, supervised by Dr. Ali Reza Modarresi‑Alam and Dr. Meissam Noroozifar, entitled “Preparation of hybrid compounds (organic/inorganic) of various nanostructures of polyaniline and metal oxides and its application in new generation solar cell ". Currently, I am a research assistant at Urmia University under the supervision of Dr. Peyman Najafi Moghada also at Sistan and Baluchestan University under the supervision of Dr. Ali Reza Modarresi-Alam. My English language skills are well (B2 level). My main research interests are in the field of synthesis of semiconductor nanopolymers and semiconductor nanocomposites and design of Organic & Hybrid Solar Cells. Also I am working on design and manufacture of electrochemical measuring equipment at Azar Electrode Co. I have published three papers (ISI) in international journals and have several Internal and conference papers. https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=0BNhxwQAAAAJ&hl=en

Juan José Encinas Cantaro, He was born in Lima, Peru. He is a Mechatronic Engineer. Session Chair and participant of the 4th North American Industrial Engineering and Operations Management Conference-IEOM 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He received a certificate for attendance and presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Automation Engineering and Intelligent Manufacturing-ICIMA 2018 in Penang, Malaysia. He participated in the X International Symposium on Innovation and Technology-ISIT 2019 in Cusco, Peru. Member of the steering and technical committee of the ISIT. He participated as part of the Peru Section of the IEEE in the XXVI International Congress of Electronics, Electricity, Engineering and Computing-INTERCON 2019 in Lima, Peru. He with experience in research, development and innovation in the fields of mechatronics, medical robotics, telemedicine, aerospace engineering and bioengineering. Researcher in programming by IPCEM agents. Lecturer and Consultant in Mechatronic, Spatial and Biomedical Technologies. He is also a consultant in information and communication technologies in the Peruvian government sector.

Prof. Hulda Shaidi Swai, a Nanotechnology Scientist, holds a PhD in Biomaterials, from Queen Mary's College, University of London, UK where she also worked as a Researcher for 9 years. In February 2021 was awarded the Nkwamwe Nkuruma award. A competitive regional award given to female who has excelled in Science. In October 2020 was awarded Oliver Tambo chair in Nanotechnology in relation with Biomedical health and Sustainable agriculture after a very rigorous competition of African Senior Professors. This is a five year program with funding of 1m USD. With good progress the project can be extended up to 15 years. In August 2019 was awarded Head/PI: Incubation Centre namely Data driven innovation incubation Centre (DDI) The Centre address Food and Nutritional Security in the region after a very stiff competition with funding from IUCEA of 250,000USD. In May 2018, Prof. Swai was appointed the President of the African Materials Research Society (AMRS). This was followed by a very successful conference in 2019 held in Arusha Tanzania under her leadership. In 2013 she was appointed as an Extraordinary Professor in University of Pretoria, South Africa. In 2015, Prof. Swai joined NM-AIST and managed to acquire funds (USD 6 Million) from the World Bank for the establishment of the African Centre for Research, Agricultural Advancement, Teaching Excellence and Sustainability(CREATES) in Food and Nutritional Security in Africa which was established at the NM-AIST through the World Bank’s African Centers of Excellence (ACE II) initiative. This was also very competitive. The ACE II initiative aims at building training and research capacity in the region by training and raising a critical mass of specialized and skilled human capital that can use a multidisciplinary approach to ensure a sustainable environment, food, and nutritional security. Prof. Swai is the CREATES Director at NM-AIST. The program aims to strengthening content, delivery, outputs and outreach for the MSc and PhD programs in Life Sciences and other related programs, with particular focus on core thematic areas of Sustainable Agriculture, Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Management; Food and Nutrition Sciences; and Health and Biomedical Sciences. These are also Departmental and CREATES pillars in the School of Life Science and Bioengineering (LiSBE) at NM-AIST. The CREATES program is geared to contribute to food and nutrition security in East Africa and Sub Saharan regions. This is a 5-program launched in the year 2016 and it is worth 6 million USD. Prior to joining NM-AIST, Prof. Swai has worked as a Senior Principal Researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), in South Africa, where she led the Encapsulation and Delivery Research Group for 11 years. In this capacity, she proven her ability to independently formulate and execute research projects and implement scientific research programmes, both in public and private sectors. Prof. Swai also instituted and headed the Department of Science and Technology (DST)/CSIR Pan-African Centre of Excellence in Applied Nanomedicine Research and Training. In this capacity, she won a grant in Research and Training on infectious diseases of poverty worth R 60 million (about US $ 7 million).

R.A. Ilyas is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Chemical and Energy Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Malaysia. He is also a Fellow of International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM), Sweden, Fellow of International Society for Development and Sustainability (ISDS), Japan, a member of Royal Society of Chemistry, UK and Institute of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), UK. He received his Diploma in Forestry at Universiti Putra Malaysia, Bintulu Campus (UPMKB), Sarawak, Malaysia from Mei 2009 to April 2012. In 2012, he was awarded the Public Service Department (JPA) scholarship to pursue his Bachelor's Degree (BSc) in Chemical Engineering at Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM). Upon completing his BSc. programme in 2016, he was again awarded the Graduate Research Fellowship (GRF) by the Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) to undertake a Ph.D. degree in the field of Biocomposite Technology & Design at the Institute of Tropical Forestry and Forest Products (INTROP) UPM. R.A. Ilyas was the recipient of the MVP Doctor of Philosophy Gold Medal Award UPM 2019, for Best Ph.D. Thesis and Top Student Award, INTROP, UPM. He was awarded with Outstanding Reviewer by Carbohydrate Polymers, Elsevier United Kingdom, Top Cited Article 2020-2021 Journal Polymer Composite, Wiley, 2022, and Best Paper Award at various International Conferences. R.A. Ilyas also was listed and awarded Among World’s Top 2% Scientist (Subject-Wise) Citation Impact during the Single Calendar Year 2019, 2020, and 2021 by Stanford University, US, PERINTIS Publication Award 2021 and 2022 by Persatuan Saintis Muslim Malaysia, Emerging Scholar Award by Automotive and Autonomous Systems 2021, Belgium, Young Scientists Network - Academy of Sciences Malaysia (YSN-ASM) 2021, UTM Young Research Award 2021, UTM Publication Award 2021, and UTM Highly Cited Researcher Award 2021. In 2021, he won Gold Award and Special Award (Kreso Glavac (The Republic of Croatia) at the Malaysia Technology Expo (MTE2022), Gold Award dan Special Award at International Borneo Innovation, Exhibition & Competition 2022 (IBIEC2022), and, a Gold Award at New Academia Learning Innovation (NALI2022). His main research interests are (1) Polymer Engineering (Biodegradable Polymers, Biopolymers, Polymer composites, Polymer-gels) and (2) Material Engineering(Natural fiber reinforced polymer composites, Biocomposites, Cellulose materials, Nanocomposites). To date he has authored or co-authored more than 431 publications (published/accepted): 188 Journals Indexed in JCR/ Scopus, 3 non-index Journal, 17 books, 104 book chapters, 78 conference proceedings/seminars, 4 research bulletins, 10 conference papers (abstract published in the book of abstract), 17 Guest Editor of Journal special issues and 10 Editor/ Co-Editor of Conference/Seminar Proceedings on green materials related subjects.

Dr. Nouredidne El Messaoudi, an Associate Researcher at the laboratory of applied chemistry and environment, Faculty of Sciences of Agadir (Ibn Zohr University, Morocco), notched up his M.Sc. (2012) and Ph.D. (20016) degree in Physical Chemistry from Ibn Zohr University, Agadir Morocco. He has a keen research interest and expertise in the green synthesis of nanoparticle and nanocomposite adsorbents from lignocellulosic materials (agricultural solid wastes) for wastewater treatment. Up to January 2023, my research work has been attributed to more than 40 publications, which have been cited more than 610 times with h index=14 (Scholar.google.com). He participated in more than 28 communications (speaker, oral, and poster). He had more than 40 experiences (practical and directed works, supervision of the end of studies projects, organization of scientific activities, internship…) and Reviewer in many international journals.

Ankit Bhardwaj is a final year PhD student at Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester. He has worked as Research Engineer at IMRE, A*STAR, Singapore for 1.5 years in polymer composite department after completing his master’s degree in Nanotechnology from Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. He did his Bachelor in Electronics and Communication Engineering at Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University, India. His research interest includes nanofabrication, 2D materials, angstrom scale 2D capillaries, ion transport and polymer composites.

Dr. Shivangi has completed her PhD on the topic “Nickel-oxide(s) based hybrid for water purification” from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. She is currently looking for a postdoctoral research position and now working as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology, Meerut, India. She has published research articles in reputed journals and also presented many papers at conferences. Her research areas are nanoparticles synthesis, wastewater treatment, and heterogenous catalysis.

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Dr. Rashmita Das received her Ph.D. in Chemistry with a major research direction in polymer synthesis and application in sensor technology from Jadavpur University, Kolkata in 2017. She is a University gold medalist and received Prof. RC Tripathyyoung Scientist award from Orissa Chemical society in 2015. Her research area includes QCM Sensor, Polymer synthesis and application, Carbon quantum dot. Now she is working as a faculty in Chemistry at Vikash group of Institution, Odisha, India.

Dr. Iman Taraghi received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, from Shahrood University of Technology in 2010, Iran. He was a graduate student in the Mechanical Engineering at Semnan University from 2010 until he earned his Ph.D. in 2018, Iran. Moreover, he passed his internship courses in the Institute of Material Science and Engineering at West Pomeranian University of Technology in 2016-2017, Poland. His research interests include novel polymer nanocomposites, biomaterials, synthesis and characterization.

Mr. Guillermo Valdes Mesa was born in Havana, Cuba in 1962, graduated in Physics in 1985, working for the Microelectronics Industry, as head of final control investigations degradation production of electronic components, working for the Electronics Industry, department of reliability, characterization work performed Luma-Chroma plate worker Research Institute of Metrology, work Challenges of Metrology in Cuba in the era of nanotechnology. Work published in the ISO TC 229, ISO TC229 / IEC 113, required for conformity assessment of research and nano-scale productions Tool page. Master of Science.

Dr. Muhammad Tayyab received his Ph.D. in Material Science and Engineering with a major research direction in magnetic optoelectronic materials, China in 2021: He has been working as a postdoc under the supervision of Prof. Deqing Gao at Nanjing Tech University, China. His expertise and interest are in energy generation, Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), Piezoelectric nanogenerators (PENGs), Sensors and actuators, Optoelectronics, Flexible Electronics, and Capacitors.

A/Prof. Dr. Adnan is a pioneer faculty member and an Assistant Professor of Analytical / Material /Environmental Chemistry at the Institute of Chemical Sciences, the University of Swat, Pakistan. Prof. Adnan completed his Ph.D. at the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. He also completed part of his Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York, NY, USA. Prof. Adnan is a research brand at the University of Swat. He was among the first faculty members who carried out a project under Start-up Research Grant Program (SRGP), HEC, Pakistan. He won one of the most prestigious projects on the fabrication of Flexible and Freestanding Li-S Batteries in Pakistan named, the "Local Challenge Fund (LCF)" of the Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan. Adnan group is doing research on alternate energy production; energy storage & water splitting reactions; heterogeneous catalysis; waste to valuable chemicals and fuels; nano-size particle technology; removal of heavy metals, dyes, and other toxicants from aqueous media; method development for the determination of toxicants. Furthermore, Prof. Adnan wants to limit his research renewable energy side.