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Suk-Ho Choi is a professor in the Dept. of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee Univ. (KHU). He received a BS from Seoul National Univ. and MS/Ph.D. from KAIST in Korea. He spent sabbatical years at NIST in USA, Australian National Univ., and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. He worked as a director at the Institute of Natural Sciences at KHU for 10 years, and was appointed as Fellow Professor from 2009. He has established two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional nanostructures such as quantum dots/nanowires/Graphene/2D-related materials, and the other on their applications in optoelectronic devices. He has published over 225 papers.

Dr.Hongqi Sun is the Professor of Chemical Engineering and Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow (2016-2019), at the School of Engineering, Edith Cowan University, Australia. He is the 2019 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science Group).He serves as the Associate Editor of RSC Advances, and Speciality Chief Editor of Frontiers of Nanotechnology. His research interests include novel catalysis (photocatalysis, photo-thermal catalysis, photo-electro-chemical catalysis, and membrane catalysis) and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) over nanostructured materials for the solar-to-chemical conversion and environmental remediation. So far he has published over 200 refereed journal papers and received over 16,600 citations and an h-index of 78 (Data from Google Scholar in November 2020).

Prof. Zhongfan Liu got his Ph.D. at the University of Tokyo in 1990. He is now the BOYA Chair Professor of Peking University in chemistry, the Director of Beijing Graphene Institute, and the Vice President of Chinese Chemical Society. His research interest focuses on low-dimensional carbon materials, including the CVD growth of graphene and single-walled carbon nanotubes and their unique applications. Prof. Liu has published over 630 peer-reviewed articles and over 130 patents. His recent contributions to graphene areas include, superclean graphene, super graphene glass, graphene optical fiber, and photochemical band structure engineering of graphene. The major academic awards he received include, National Natural Science Awards (2008, 2017), Chinese Chemical Society-AkzoNobel Chemical Science Award (2012), Baogang Outstanding Teacher Award (2012), the Lectureship Award of 2016 Colloid and Surface Chemistry Annual Meeting of Chemical Society of Japan, Beijing Municipal Excellent Teacher (2017), and the 2018 ACS Nano Lectureship Award. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2011 and as one of the six outstanding scientists in the Ten-Thousand-Talents Program in 2013. Prof. Liu is the Fellow of the Institute of Physics (the UK, 2004), the Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (the UK, 2014), and the Fellow of TWAS(2015).

Prof. Víctor M. Castaño is a recognized international leader in several areas of applied science and technology. He holds a B.Sc. degree in Engineering Physics and M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Physics from theUniversidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He spent 2 years at IBM´s Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York as a postdoctoral fellow. He has been a lecturer at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Faculties of Chemistry, Sciences, Engineering, Accounting and Administration and Dentistry), Universidad Autonoma de Querétaro (Faculties of Engineering, Medicine, Accounting and Administration, Psychology and Law), the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (Faculty of Physico-Mathematical Sciences), the Universidad Iberoamericana, the Instituto Tecnológico de Querétaro, etc. He was the founding Director of the Center for Applied Physics and Advanced Technology of the UNAM in Juriquilla, Querétaro. Prof. Castaño has published moreover 750 articles in international refereed and indexed journals, 242 articles in conferences proceedings, 22 book chapters, 5 books and 25 patents. It has 678 papers presented at conferences and 51 technical reports to various industries. He has been advisor to over 190 B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. thesis in Mexico, Peru, Argentina, Colombia, the USA, Canada, Spain, and Germany. His work has received over 15,000citations, especially in the last few years, when some of his pioneering contributions have begun to have great repercussion and have led him to receive international awards and recognitions and he is one of the most cited Latinamerican scientists in his area. In this respect, it is important to emphasize the fact that Víctor Castaño is an engineer and scientist of great originality, who dares not only to explore subjects that do not represent the fashion of international science but also has the capacity of having his proposals receiving worldwide attention. He is an Associate Editor of several prestigious international journals and Editor-in-Chief of Recent Patents in nanoMedicine. He is Treasurer, by-election, of the International Council for Materials Education and has been a member of several evaluation commissions in Mexico and abroad (United States, Canada, Spain, Costa Rica, Colombia, Brazil, etc.).Probably the areas where Prof. Castaño is best known is in materials science and biomedicine, where he invented a very extensive line of new materials and technologies for various applications.

Professor Guosheng Shao is the Director of the State Centre for International Cooperation on Designer Low-carbon & Environmental Materials (CDLCEM) at the Zhengzhou University, China. He is also the Founding Director of the Zhengzhou Materials Genome Institute (ZMGI, 2016-), Editor-in-Chief for Energy & Environmental Materials (Wiley, 2018-), and Visiting Professor to the University of Surrey, UK (2018-). He earned his PhD in materials science at the University of Surrey in 1995 and thereupon worked as a research fellow and senior research fellow, until transferring to Brunel University as Reader in Materials in 2005. He joined the University of Bolton as Professor of Materials Modelling & Simulation in 2007, and then established the Institute for Renewable Energy and Environmental Technologies (IREET, 2011) as its founding director, together with the responsibility as Head of Engineering etc. His academic interest is “designer” materials and application devices, which is characterized by multi-scale modelling, advanced characterization techniques esp. TEM, EELS and XPS, and advanced thin-film coating technologies. His current focus is mainly on sustainable (renewable) energy systems and environmental technologies. He is also proactive in bridging academic knowledge with manufacturing, resulting in commercialization of inventions covering mass production of almost defect-free graphene powders and graphene thin films, their applications and processing facilities.

Dr. Katsumi Kaneko studied chemistry at Yokohama National University in Japan and molecular science at the master's program at the University of Tokyo. Dr of Science was awarded by Univ. of Tokyo in 1978. He had been a professor of physical chemistry, Chiba University until March 2010. He moved to Shinshu University in 2010 as a distinguished professor. He published more than 500 papers on international journals. Chemical Society of Japan and American Carbon Society awarded him in 1999 and in 2007(Charles Petinos Award), respectively. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, International Adsorption Society, and Chemical Society of Japan.

Before joining UCI as the Chancellor’s Professor in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MEA), Dr. Madou was Vice President of Advanced Technology at Nanogen in San Diego. He specializes in the application of miniaturization technology to chemical and biological problems (BIO-MEMS). He is the author of several books in this burgeoning field he helped pioneer both in Academia and in Industry. He founded several micromachining companies and has been on the board of many more. Dr. Madou, today, works with research teams in India (IIT Kharagpur), Mexico (Tec de Monterrey), Malaysia (UM) and Germany (KIT). In the recent past he also worked on large projects with teams in South-Korea and Canada. Many of his colleagues became well know in their own right in academia and through successful MEMS start-ups. Madou was the founder of the SRI International’s Microsensor Department, founder and President of Teknekron Sensor Development Corporation (TSDC), Visiting Miller Professor at UC Berkeley and Endowed Chair at the Ohio State University (Professor in Chemistry and Materials Science and Engineering). The third edition of “Fundamentals of Microfabrication,” an introduction to MEMS and NEMS, which has become known as the “bible” of micromachining. Dr. Madou has an h-index of 77 (as of November, 2020) and he is considered the pioneer of two research fields that are now being pursued worldwide i.e. Carbon Micro- and Nanofabrication (C-MEMS and C-NEMS) and Compact Disc Fluidics (CD-Fluidics) for Molecular Diagnostics. These two technologies have resulted in at least 10 start-up companies worldwide. From those founded by Dr. Madou, Enevate, a lithium ion battery company in Irvine, CA) is the largest and best known

Prof. Dr Irina V. Antonovagraduated from the Novosibirsk Technical University in 1979. Since 1981 she has been working at the Institute of Semiconductor Physics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Science and presently sheoccupies a leading researcher position. I.V. Antonova received her Ph. D. in 1990 and in 2009, successfully defended her doctoral dissertation. The scope of current researchand professional activities of I.V. Antonova and her group include chemical functionalization of graphene, fluorinated graphene, graphene-based heterostructures, graphene quantum dots, transport, and recharging phenomena, 2D printed technologies. Presently, Prof. Dr Irina V. Antonova has about340 publications, that have been cited over 1500 times, and her publication H-index is 16 (WoS) or 17(Scopus).

Michele Aresta, Doctor Industrial Chemistry, University of Milan, Milan-IT. Doctor of Engineering Honoris Causa University of Bath, Bath-UK, 2016; Honorary Professor at the Chemical Engineering Faculty, University of Tianjin, China; CEO of “Innovative Catalysis for Carbon Recycling-IC2R Ltd; President of the Scientific Board of the Interuniversity Consortium on Chemical Reactivity and Catalysis, Italy. Former Full Professor of Chemistry University of Bari, IT until 2012; IMM Professor-NUS-SG 2012-2016 andDavid Parkin Professor at the University of Bath, UK 2016-2017; GIAN Professor at the ANNA University, Chennai-India, 2018. His scientific interests are in the fields of Chemistry of Small Molecules (N2, H2, O2, CO, CO2, olefins); Metals in low-negative oxidation state; Reaction mechanisms; Catalysis; Photocatalysis; Utilization of biomass; New bio-sourced monomers for polymeric materials. Author of over 300 papers in peer reviewed international journals and of 12 books on CO2 and Biomass valorization; owner of several patents. Founder and Honorary Chair of ICCDU. Awards: Italian Chemical Society for the “Pioneering work on Carbon Dioxide Activation (and utilization)” 1990; Renoir Award for the dissemination of Science, 1990;Société Française de Chimie, 1995 for Inorganic Chemistry;Tianjin University, Tianjin China, for Green Chemistry 2002. Recognitions from the American Chemical Society for the dissemination of “CO2 Utilization”; Gold medal of the Inorganic Chemistry Division of the Italian Chemical Society, 2016; International award for the contribution to the development of the Chemistry of CO2 2017.

Dr. Roger M. Leblanc received his B. S. in chemistry in 1964 from Université Laval, Canada, and Ph. D. in physical chemistry in1968 from the same university. He was appointed as professor in 1994 and chair of Department of Chemistry at University of Miami from 1994 to 2002 and again from 2013 to present. He was also one of the three editors of Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces from 1998 to 2013. He has published 540 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals. As a professor, he has supervised more than 100 M.S. and Ph.D. students.

Dr. KenLohisaProfessorand Vice Chair oftheDepartmentofStructuralEngineeringatUC SanDiego.Heis the Director oftheActive, Responsive, Multifunctional, andOrdered-materialsResearch (ARMOR) Lab and isthe Associate Director of the UC San Diego, Jacobs School of Engineering, Center for Extreme Events Research (CEER).Heis also an affiliate faculty member of the Materials Science & Engineering Program and the Center for Wearable Sensors. His research interests are in multifunctional and stimuli-responsive materials, tomographic imaging techniques, wearable sensors, active metamaterials, and soft material actuators. His group is particularly interested in research problems related to human performance assessment, stimuli-responsive materials, functional structural materials, and structural health monitoring. Dr. LohreceivedhisB.S. inCivilEngineeringfromJohnsHopkinsUniversityin 2004. Hisgraduatestudieswere attheUniversityofMichigan, wherehecompletedtwoM.S. degrees inStructuralEngineering (2005) andMaterialsScience&Engineering (2008), aswellasaPh.D. inStructuralEngineeringin 2008. He started his Assistant Professor career in January 2009 in the Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering at UC Davis, before joining UC San Diego in January 2016.

Assistant Professor Department of Physics,KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Postdoctoral Research Associate Department of Physics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Matthias Batzill is a full Professor of Physics at the University of South Florida (USF), Tampa USA. He has been a faculty at USF since 2006. Prior, he was a post-doc and visiting Professor at the University of Southern California, LA and Tulane University, New Orleans, USA. He graduated with PhD from University of Newcastle, UK in 1999 and Master’s from University of Goettingen, Germany, in 1996. His current research focuses on 2D Materials properties and modifications by vacuum science techniques, including MBE growth, scanning probe microscopy, and photoemission methods. In his scientific career he published over 130 peer reviewed papers that were cited over 12,000 times with an h-index of 44. In addition to several outstanding research achievement awards from USF, he received an NSF -CAREER award and is a Hans Fischer fellow of the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

Yong Zhang received his B.S. and M.S. from Xiamen University and Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in Physics. He joined National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in 1994 as a postdoc and was a Senior Scientist before he moved to University of North Carolina at Charlotte as Bissell Distinguished Professor with Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 2009. He is an Adjunct Professor of Department of Physics and Optical Science. His research interests include electronic and optical properties of semiconductors and related nanostructures, organic-inorganic hybrid materials, impurity and defects in semiconductors, and novel materials and device architectures for energy and related applications (e.g., photovoltaics, solid-state-lighting, electronic-photonic integrated circuits), using various optical spectroscopy techniques and large-scale first-principles and empirical electronic structure modeling methods. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Filippo Giubileo currently works as Researcher at the Institute for Superconductors, Innovative Materials and Devices (SPIN) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), since 2004.He has the National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics. He has been member of the scientific evaluation panel for the Flag-Era Joint Transnational call on graphene basic research. His research activity deals with electrical properties of 1D and 2D materials and their application as field effect transistors, photodetectors, chemical sensors, field emitters. His expertise includes advanced surface analysis on nanometer scale by scanning probe microscopy/spectroscopy in high magnetic field and variable temperatures, fabrication and characterization of superconducting heterostructures, pairing symmetry and electronic properties in superconductors. FG is listed in the World Top 2% Scientist classification by PlosBiology. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He was Chair-Organiser for 6 international conferences (ISMN08, SM-2010, S4E-2014, GM-2016, TTN-2018, NANO M&D-2019). He serves as member of editorial board for several international journals (Nanomaterials, Nano Express, Journal of Nanomaterials, Chemosensors).

Dr. Chao has served as University Associate Vice Presidents of NCTU for academic affairs (2009-2010) and research and development (2015); the Secretary General, IEEE Taipei Section, 2009-2010; the founding chair of Taipei chapter for the IEEE Sensor Council; Member-at-Large for IEEE Sensors Council, 2012-2014. Dr. Chao received major IEEE awards for this service: The IEEE Large Section Award from IEEE Head Quarter for the outstanding service as the Secretary for 2009-2010, and The IEEE MGA Award from IEEE Region 10 for outstanding service as the Secretary for IEEE Taipei Section, 2009-2010. He was the General Chair of the 2016 ASME ISPS and IoT conference in Santa Clara, CA, USA; chairs and co-chairs of major conferences. For editorial services, he is currently Topical Editors of IEEE Sensors Journal and IEEE IoT Journal. He was the Associate Editors of ASME Journal of Vibration and Acoustics and Journal of Circuit, System and Computer; guest editors of special journal issues. Dr. Chao received the award of the 2020 Best Topical Editor Award, IEEE Sensors Journal. He is a senior member of IEEE and ASME Fellow.

Dr. Pei Kang Shen is a Professor and Director at the Collaborative Innovation Center of Sustainable Energy Materials in Guangxi University, China. Dr. Shen obtained his BSc degree in Electrochemistry at Xiamen University in 1982, and he continuously carried out his research and teaching at the same university for seven years before he became a visiting researcher in the United Kingdom. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry at Essex University in 1992. From then on he has been working at different universities both in UK, Hong Kong and China. Since 2001, he has been the Professor at the Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China). He is the author of over 460 publications in qualified journals like Chem. Rev.; Chem. Soc. Rev.; J. Am. Chem. Soc.; Adv. Mater.; Adv. Funct. Mater.; Energy Environ. Sci.; Adv. Energy Mater., ACS Nano, J. Mater. Chem.; J. Power Sources, including 35 ESI （Highly Cited Papers, 1%） papers and 4 Hot Papers (0.1%) and specialized books (9 in English and Chinese), of 80 patents, and of more than 150 meeting presentations. He is a Highly Cited Scholar in Energy Science in the world for six years (2014-2019). He has organized eight international conferences on Electrochemical Energy Storage and Conversion as a conference Chairman which were promoting the development of electrochemical science in China. He is now working in Guangxi University. He has won the titles of Guangxi Bagui Scholar, National May Day Labor Medal. He pays attention to academic exchanges and cooperation at home and abroad, pays attention to the combination of production, study and research, aims at the needs of the country, and attaches great importance to the industrialization of achievements. A pilot plant with an annual output of 15 tons of graphene has been set up in Nanning High-tech Zone to build the world's first graphene composite asphalt road. His research interests include fuel cells and batteries, electrochemistry of nanomaterials and of nanocomposite functional materials, like graphene powders for different applications and electrochemical engineering. He has also obtained the Second prize in National Natural Science Award of China in 2013 and the First prize in Natural Science Award of Guangdong Province in 2011 and Guangxi Province in 2019.

Dr. Yongsheng Chen is a Professor and Director of the N.E.W. Center for AgTech in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Chen holds a position of an Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University. He earned both his PhD degrees at Nankai University. His research interests include nanotechnology for environmental applications and implications; membrane separation technology for water/wastewater treatment, nutrient recovery, and renewable energy production; and Food-Energy-Water Nexus. Dr. Chen has led more than $ 18 million dollars research projects. He has published over 175 papers that were cited more than 13,900 times with H-Index of 60. He has received many awards, including 2019 Great Teacher Award at Georgia Institute of Technology, 2015 Sigma Xi Best PhD Student Dissertation Advisor Award, and 2014 AEESP Outstanding PhD Student advisor Award.

Ricardo Paupitz is an Associate Professor at the São Paulo State University - UNESP (Brazil). Received his PhD in Physics from São Paulo University - USP (Brazil) in 2002. Spent a sabbatical year at the Applied Physics Department of the Gleb Wataghin Physics Institute of Unicamp in 2010 and a period between 2013 and 2014 as a visiting scholar at the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering Department of Penn State University. His research interests are focused on theoretical condensed matter physics, molecular dynamics simulations, electronic structure calculations and statistical physics. Has published several articles related to the proposition of new low dimensional materials, their mechanical and electronic properties as well as possible technological applications.

Robert Kudrawiec received the M.S. and Ph.D. (Hons.) degrees in physics from the Wrocław University of Science and Technology (WUST), Poland, in 2000 and 2004, respectively, and the D.Sc. (Habilitation) degree in physics from the Institute of Physics, WUST, in 2010. His Ph.D. thesis was devoted to dilute nitrides. During the M.S. and Ph.D. studies, he focused on applications of the modulation spectroscopy to investigate the band structure of low dimensional semiconductor heterostructures. From 2006 to 2007, he was a Post-Doctoral Scholar with Stanford University, Stanford, CA, where his research was centered on the band structure and defects in GaInNAsSb–GaAs materials. From 2012 to 2013, he was a Researcher with the Lawrence National Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, where his activity was focused on novel III–V and II–VI materials dedicated for solar cell applications. Since 2018, he has been a full Professor with the Faculty of Fundamental Problems of Technology, WUST. He has co-authored over 300 publications in refereed journals in his research areas. His current research interests include the application of photoreflectance, contactless electroreflectance, micro-photoluminescence, and time resolved photoluminescence spectroscopies to investigate the optical properties of GaN-based materials and low dimensional structures, and recently van der Waals crystals including graphene, h-BN, monochalcogenides, and dichalcogenides. Since 2017 he is associated with the Polish Center for Technology Development at Wroclaw, where he is working on UV light emitters.

Dr Qiong Cai is a Senior Lecturer in Chemical Engineering at University of Surrey (UK). Prior to joining Surrey, she was a research associate at Imperial College London working on electrochemical energy devices. Her education background includes a PhD degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Edinburgh (UK), MEng degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Tsinghua University (China). Shehas been researching actively at the interface of materials science and electrochemical engineering. Her current research focuses on multi-scale materials modeling and design for energy conversion and storage. She has been involved in five UK research council funded projects worth over £9 million, as PI and Co-I. She has supervised and is supervising 6 postdocs and 8 PhD students as the primary supervisor, and has published more than 60 papers in peer-review journals. She is on the Scientific Board of the H2FC SUPERGEN Hub, the Scientific Board of the Energy Storage SUPERGEN Hub, and a member of the EPRSC peer review college.

Laura Ballerini research focuses on the interactions between neurons and nanomaterials or bioactive-nanodevices. Her scientific strategy is the convergence between biophysics, nanotechnology, chemistry and neurophysiology, potentially leading to a new generation of nanomedicine applications in neurology. After a post doc at UCL, she became associate and then full professor in physiology at the International School for Advanced Studies-SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Dr Estelina Silva is a Researcher at IFIMUP, Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Faculty of Science of the University of Oporto (Portugal). Prior to joining Oporto, she was at the Polytechnical University of Valencia with a Marie-Sklodowska-Curie individual Fellowship, working in direct collaboration with experimental groups on pressure-induced phase transitions of sesquichalcogenides. Her academic background includes a PhD degree from the University of Bath (UK); and a MSc and BSc degrees in Physics (Computational Modelling and Simulation), both from the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Coimbra (Portugal). Her main expertise is employing Density Functional Theory and lattice dynamics to study structural phase transitions under extreme conditions of crystalline materials (i.e. temperature, pressure, electric fields). Her current research focuses on modelling and design of inorganic perovskite and 2D systems (which include graphene-like materials) for energy conversion applications, namely for solar cells and photoelectrochemical cells (water splitting and H2 production).

Regular Member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences Group Leader of GESMAT, Materials and Technologies for Energy, Health and Environment@IPN-CICATA Altamira close to Tampico, Mexico. Strength in developing approaches to prepare and modify graphene based, semiconductor and oxide materials by simple chemical/electrochemical routes. Applications in solar cells (TFSCs, DSSCs, QDSSCs, BHJSCs), microbial and polymer fuel cells, thermoelectrics, supercapacitors, batteries and photocatalytics. Also water remediation, artificial photosynthesis, lubrication, coatings for surface protection and for biofilm avoiding, materials for dosimetry and for cancer treatment lie in our fields of interest. Activities of science spreading including lectures, astronomical observations, divulgation papers Interests in urban development, Smart Cities, pollution tracking.

ChengGuoreceived her Ph.D. in engineering from Shanghai Institute of Technical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020. Now she is a postdoctoral fellow in Zhejiang Laboratory. Her research direction is new Terahertz detectors. In recent years, she has carried out research on new photoelectric devices and micro-nano photonics, focusing on new thermoelectric materials and the Dirac semimetal materials, micro-nano processing, and semiconductor technology. She has published more than 13 papers in Science Advances, Advanced Functional Materials, Advanced Science, and other international academic journals.

Ebrahim Mahmoudi obtained his Ph.D. degree in chemical engineering from the National University of Malaysia (UKM) in 2017 Currently, Dr. Mahmoudi is working as a senior lecturerat National University of Malaysia. Dr. Mahmoudi is doing research in the field of separation and purification using novel polymeric membranes and membrane bioreactors. His research interests are in the area of synthesis and characterization of graphene and graphene-related nanomaterials, and employment of graphene in purification and separation technology, Specifically Novel polymers enhanced using graphene-related materials and their application in various fields including membrane-based separations,waste treatment, Antimicrobial, and Adsorption, using patented graphene coated sand (GSC) and graphene nanocomposites etc. Dr. Mahmoudi is the author of a few bookchapter, more than 30 peer-reviewed publications, 10 conference presentation, 1 published and 1pending patents and winner of more than 10 awards in international competitions. Dr. Mahmoudi is associated with several international journals as editor and reviewerincluding Journal of membrane science, Separation and purification technology, Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, Journal of King Saud University, Journal of Water Process Engineering, and journal of Science and Technology Indonesia.

Associate Professor 1991 - 1996 Senior Lecturer Department of Physics, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel 1978 - 1990 Researcher Institute of Metal Physics, Academy of Sciences, Sverdlovsk , USSR. FELLOWSHIPS Wolfson Fellowship, 1991 Guastello Fellowship, 1992 GRANTS (1993-1996) Diffusion in a random system near resonance ISF (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities) (1999-2002) Extended and Localized States of Charge Carriers in CMR Materials ISF (Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities) (1999-2002) Dynamical instabilities in quantum dots United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

Current position, grades: Russia, Volgograd State University, Director of the Institute of Priority Technologies, professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences University studies: Molecular physics, Solid State Physics, Semiconductor physics, Modern problems of nanoengineering Scientific interest: nanotechnology, nanotubes, carbon nanomaterials, polymer nanocomposites. Experience: Zaporotskova Irina has 506 publications. Since 2008 is the managing editor of the journal "NBI Technologies. " Since 2007 he is the head of Research and Education Center VolSU "Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies". Zaporotskova IV repeatedly participated in conferences, symposiums, forums and academic seminars of national and international level.

Dr. Shu YIN received a B. S. degree in inorganic chemical engineering from the Dalian University of Technology in 1987. He received his M. S. degree in chemical metallurgy from the Institute of Chemical Metallurgy (ICM, latterly Institute of Process and Engineering, IPE), Chinese Academy of Science in 1990, then worked as a research associate for 2 years at ICM. He came to Japan and worked as a research fellow in the Hydrothermal Chemistry Research Laboratory, Kochi University in 1992, then became a research assistant at the Institute for Chemical Reaction Science (ICRS), Tohoku University during 1995-1997. He received a Ph.D. degree in applied chemistry from Tohoku University (research period shortened) in 1999. He has been a research assistant at the ICRS in 1999, then a lecture and associate professor at the Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials (IMRAM), Tohoku University in 2005, and then a full-time professor in 2016. His research interests include morphological control of nanostructured materials, photocatalytic materials, UV/IR-shielding smart window materials, 2D gas sensing materials, hydrothermal/solvothermal process, soft chemical synthesis etc.

J. Madrigal-Melchor obtained his doctoral degree in Physics from Physics Institute of Worthy Autonomous University of Puebla 1998. Currently Dr. Madrigal-Melchor working as research in the Autonomous University of Zacatecas, Mexico. He worked in Physics Faculty in theAutonomous University of Zacatecas from 1998 to 2020, however, from august 2019, he and his colleagues founded the Academic Unit of Science of light and Matter, where currently he works. Dr. Madrigal-Melchor is member of National System of Researchers (SNI) level I, given by CONACyT (National Council of Science and Technology).His research field it is the study of the optical properties of graphene and 2D materials, in particular, the analysis of multilayer structure based in 2D materials, photonic crystals and plasmonic modes. Until now, he have published about 75 papers with 177 cites

Arghya Narayan Banerjee is currently an International Professor in the School of Mechanical and IT Engineering, Yeungnam University (YU), South Korea. He was one of the five WCU Faculty members at YU. After finishing his Ph.D. from Jadavpur University, India, he joined Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA before moving to YU.Arghya is the recipient of Prof. Joseph Wang Young Scientist award, National Scholarship, Govt. of India and CSIR fellowship – an all‐India‐based Young Scientist hunt.He is the member of American Chemical Society, Electrochemical Society, Indian Physical Society, Materials Research Society and Electron Microscopy Society of India, and serving asthe Editor/Associate Editor of several international peer-reviewed journals. Arghya’s research interests are on the fabrication and processing of various nanostructured materials for renewable energy-related applications, which include nanostructured thin films, wide bandgap metal oxides, transparent nano‐electronics, flexible displays, carbon‐based high surface area materials (graphene, carbon nanotube, micro/mesoporous carbon, graphitic carbon etc.) for supercapacitors and hydrogen storage for fuel-cell applications, field emission devices for vacuum microelectronics, transparent thin film junctions for UV‐based solar cells, layered materials for thermoelectric converters, carbon nanomaterials/polymer/metal‐oxide nanocomposites, catalytic/photocatalytic degradation of water‐soluble toxic wastes for environmental remediation, cytotoxity of nanomaterials, micro/nanofluidics, among others. Currently, Arghya has authored/co-authored several books, book chapters, invited review articles and more that 100 peer‐reviewed articles with nearly 3380 citations and has anh-index 29 and i10-index 58 (as of December 2020) to his credit.

Hidekazu Kurebayashi is an Associate Professor in Electronic and Electric Engineering at UCL. He also leads a spintronics group in the London Centre for Nanotechnology. He received his PhD from University of Cambridge (2010), where he held Darwin College Research fellowship (2011), JSPS postdoctoral fellowship (2012) and JST-PRESTO research fellowship (2012-), before moving to UCL in 2013. His main interest is in spin-orbit phenomena and spin-wave physics in low-dimensional and low-symmetry materials in which he believes novel transport effects emerge.

Dr. Junfa Zhu is currently a professor in National Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory (NSRL), University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from USTC in 1999. After several years working in the Institute of Experimental Physics, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz, Austria, Lehrstuhl für Physikalische Chemie II, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany and Department of Chemistry, University of Washington, WA, USA, he returned to USTC and become a professor at NSRL, USTC in 2006 under the support of “Hundred Talent Program” of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interests mainly focus on in-situ studies of surface chemistry, surface and interface structures and properties of functional materials using advanced surface science techniques including synchrotron radiation techniques. He has published more than 330 peer-reviewed papers with more than 12000 citations. His current H-index is 60.

Dr. Hyo-Chang Lee is the research scientist at Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS). He worked at Hanyang University as lecture professor, research professor, and research fellow (2012-2015). During this period, he visited Princeton plasma physics laboratory as a visiting scientist (2013). He joined the division of device solutions (Semiconductor) at Samsung Electronics as a senior researcher (2015-2016). After that, he moved to the KRISS as a research scientist (2016-now). This year he was selected as an distinguished research scientist at KRISS. Also, He is serving as an adjunct professor at Hanyang University. He published SCI papers more than 70 including Appl. Phys. Rev. 5, 011108 (2018). He is a senior member of IEEE and a board member of Korea vacuum society. His current research interests focus on the plasma metrology, source, processing, and nano/bio applications.

Dr. Rui He obtained her B.S. degree from Fudan University in China in 1999. She received her Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics from Columbia University in the City of New York in 2006. After her graduation from Columbia, she joined the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as a postdoc in the Physics Department. In 2009 she returned to Columbia University where she worked as a postdoctoral research scientist. She joined the Physics Department at the University of Northern Iowa as an assistant professor in August 2011 and became an associate professor in 2016. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Texas Tech University as an associate professor in July 2017. Her research interests include the general area of Raman studies of nanostructures, especially 2D materials and their heterostructures

Guoqing Xin joined Wuhan National High Magnetic Field Center at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) as a full professor in 2019. Before that, he was a senior engineer in GlobalFoundries. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA in 2016 and master degree in chemical engineering from Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, in 2011. His research interests include functional assembly of 2D materials, thermal properties of 2D materials and their heterostructures, thermal management of microelectronics and power electronics.

Dr. Fatima is currently a postdoctoral researcher at North Dakota State University, ND USA. She is also serving as an Adjunct Faculty of Physics at Concordia College, Minnesota, USA. She received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of North Dakota, ND USA in 2018. Before coming to the USA, she served as a Faculty of Physics at Dhaka University of Engineering & Technology, Bangladesh. Her research focuses on the investigation of structural, electronic, and optical properties of different C and Si-based nanostructures such as Ir-silicide nanowire, SiNWs, and graphene. To reveal these properties, Dr. Fatima uses both experimental (STM/STS, AFM) and computational (DFT) techniques. One of her articles was featured on the cover of the Journal of Applied Physics. She has received Löwdin Postdoctoral Research Associate Award at 59th Sanibel Symposium in 2019.

Cosimo Gerardi is Head of PV Technology and Industrial Process Design at Enel Green Power. He directs theR&D and Technology Engineeringof Enel PV factory (3SUN) in Catania, Italy,one of the biggest PV factories in Europe. His activities are focused on developing advanced high efficiency solar cells and transferring technology in manufacturing. He has joined Enel Green Power in 2015, after spending many years in STMicroelectronicsas R&D manager in the field of semiconductor micro and nano electronics. He has started his career as a material science researcherin the field of surface physics and study of semiconductor materials for electronics and optoelectronics in a national research center. He is co-author of more than 200 published works including papers, conference proceedings and patents.

Maria Antonia Herrero Chamorro obtained the European PhD degree in the UCLM. Her first postdoctoral stay (granted by JCCM) was performed on the University of Graz (Austria) under the supervision of Prof. O. Kappe with the aim of the achievement of a comprehensive and well-design study of the “microwave effect” (published a JOC paper, highly cited). Her second Postdoctoral stay (granted by JCCM) was performed under the supervision of Prof. M. Prato at the University of Trieste on the design of new nanomaterials for application in medicinal chemistry and/or material science. During this second postdoctoral stay, she maintained an active colaboration with the MSOC Nanochemistry group in the UCLM and once she had ended this postdoctoral stay, she joined this group, which uses microwave radiations for the activation of carbon nanostructures in solvent-free conditions, preparing multifunctional derivatives that can serve as versatile synthons in materials science and biological applications. She has authored over 58 scientific publications (H=25), some book chapters and four scientific patents. She has participated in several international conferences with oral communications and poster presentations. In 2010 she received the award “women for science“ byL'Oreal-UNESCO and in 2011 “Ibn Wafid de Toledo“ Price for young researchers of Castilla-La Mancha. She was selected as “Ramon y Cajal” in 2010. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011. Recently, she obtained funding as principal researcher for the integration of carbon nanomaterials in solar cells and the design of new SERS systems based on CNHs by Iberdrola Fundation and the “Excma. Diputacion de Ciudad Real”, respectively. She is also involved in the prestigious Graphene European Project granted to the MSOC Nanochemistry group. On November of 2018, she was elected as President of the RSEQ of the CLM.

Dr. Nobuyuki ZETTSU is currently a professor in the department of materials chemistry, Shinshu University (JAPAN). He joined Prof. Younan Xia research group as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington after acquiring a Ph. D in polymer science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2004. As an assistant professor at Osaka University, as an associate professor at Nagoya University, He has joined at Shinshu University from 2013 as an associate professor, and then a full-time professor in 2018. He had been named a “Rising star researchers” in Shinshu University at 2017. He has currently been working on the development of positive and negative electrode active materials for lithium-ion, and sodium-ion batteries from the viewpoint of surface functionalization. He has been achieving both C rate capabilities and cyclabilities in high energy density batteries via the development of "atomistic interface bonding technology" consisting of morphological control of active materials, multi-anion surface formation, ultra-thin solid electrolyte coating, and nanomaterials assembly.

Ke-Qiu Chen received his Ph.D degree in the institute of physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. Postdoctoral research fellow at Tsinghua University in 2001 to 2003. In 2003 to 2005, he contributed as an associate professor at the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was promoted to professor in 2005 at Hunan University. He is currently a professor and vice director in school of physics and electronics science at Hunan University. His research focuses on nanoscale transport theory, phonon devices, organic electronic devices, and the thermoelectric conversion in both organic and inorganic materials. He has published over 260 papers.

Yanlin Song is a professor in the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences (ICCAS). He received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry at Peking University in 1996. Then he conducted research as a postdoctoral follow in the Department of Chemistry of Tsinghua University from 1996 to 1998. He has been working at ICCAS since 1998. His research interests include nano-materials and green-printing technology, printed electrics and photonics, fabrication and applications of photonic crystals. He has published more than 360 academic papers in scientific journals, 2 books and 10 chapters, and has been granted more than 100 patents from China, USA, European Union , Japan and Korea, etc. Research Interests: Nanomaterials, Photonic Crystals, Green Printing Technology, Printed Electronics

Rami Ahmad El-Nabulsi holds a PhD in Particle Physics, Mathematical Physics and Modeling from Provence University (currently Aix-Marseille University), France and a diploma of advanced studies in Plasma Physics and Radiation Astrophysics from the same institution. He worked with different worldwide research departments in UK, South Korea, China, Greece, India among others. He is currently the director and head of the Physics Divisions at Athens Institute for Education and Research. He is the author of more than 245 peer-reviewed papers in peer-refereed reputed journals. His research ranges from applied mathematics to theoretical physics including nonlinear dynamical systems, space physics, celestial dynamics, high-energy astrophysics, geophysical flows, physics and chemistry of solids, plasma MHD, magnetic materials, quantum mechanics, quantum field theory and physics at nanoscales among others.

Xiaoyan Zhang is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden. He leads the group of ‘Chemistry on 2D Materials’. His research focuses on combination of functional molecules with 2D materials through covalent and noncovalent approaches. The as-prepared molecules/2D materials hybrid systems are further explored in ad-hoc applications such as energy storage. Through the research, a better understanding of the structure-property-function relationship is studied in detail, especially on how the molecules affect the properties of 2D materials. The research outcome has been published in Nature Nanotech., Nature Commun., J. Am. Chem. Soc., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., Adv. Mater., Nano Lett., ACS Nano, Adv. Energy Mater., Adv. Funct. Mater., Adv. Sci., Small, etc., with a total citation of more than 7000 times (google scholar).

He received his master’s degree and Ph.D. degree at Shandong University in China in 1997 and 2003, respectively. Then he spends two years as a postdoctoral at State Key Laboratory of Polymer Physics and Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2007, he worked at Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research as a visiting scholar in Prof. Hans-Jürgen Butt group. His research interests include organosilicon materials, biomedical polymer materials, and resin Matrix Composites containing Graphene. He also solves the problems and optimizes the conditions during the processing and manufacturing of these materials for their final applications. His works were published in Polymer, Macromol. Rapid Comm., Eur. Polym. J., Carbohyd. Polym., Langmuir and other scientific journals.

Dr. Guodong (David) Zhan is currently a Science Specialist and the Team Leader of Drilling Technology Team at the Exploration & Petroleum Engineering Center - Advanced Research Center, Saudi Aramco. Dr. Zhan is a world-renowned materials scientist and expert in advanced drilling tools/technology. He has over 25 years of experience in industrial R&D and managerial positions, including positions as Chief Engineer and R&D Manager at top oil/gas and semiconductor global companies such asSchlumberger and Applied Materials. Additionally Dr. Zhan has held academic positions at the University of London and the University of Colorado at Boulder, and staff scientist positions at the Japan National Institute for Materials Science and Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Science.

O.E. Glukhovareceived Ph.D. in Vacuum and Plasma Electronics (1997) and Dr. Sc. in Solid State Electronics and Nanoelectronics (2009) from the Saratov State University, Russia. She is a head of Department of Radiotechnique and electrodynamics at Saratov State University and leads the Division of Mathematical modeling in Educational and scientific institution of nanostructures and biosystems at Saratov State University. Her main fields of investigation are: nanoelectronics, molecular modeling of biomaterials and nanostructures, molecular electronics, mechanics of nanostructures, quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics, carbon nanostructures (fullerenes, nanotubes, graphene, graphane). She has published more200 peer-reviewed journal papers and five monographs.

Luca Maurizi´s Master Thesis focused on study of the main reactions leading to porous reduced graphene oxide, a rather novel material produced by thermal activation of graphene oxide when in presence of alkali. Characterization of this material showed the possibility of tuning its pores sizes, also for potential production of membranes for water treatment. He conducted most of his research work at the Department of Chemistry and Bioscience of Aalborg University (Denmark). This work has been recently published in Nanomaterials.In 2020 he was appointed PhD Fellow at the Build Environment Department of Aalborg University in the framework of the MONPLAS project (EU H2020-MSCA-ITN-2019, Marie Sk lodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks). His current research aims to develop new analytical methodologies for micro- and nanoplastics identification and quantification in drinking waters, so to study their degree of diffusion in relation with common distribution networks

ALEXANDER V. ELETSKII Dr Sci Phys&Math, prof. National Research University "Moscow Power Engineering Institute AREAS OF EXPERTISE:-Atomic physics and its applications in various scientific and technological fields Theory of gas discharge phenomena including instabilities, constriction etc. Atomic and molecular collision processes Theory of gas laser phenomena Transport phenomena in gases and low temperature plasmas Laser isotope separation Plasma chemistry processes Carbon nanotubes and other carbon nanostructures Present: KINTECH Lab Ltd: Kinetic stimulations and calculations in gas discharge and electronic systems