Symposia & Co-Chairs
CHARACTERIZATION
A) Investigation of Materials at the Nanoscale using Electrons, X-rays and Neutrons
Yeng Ming Lam (S’pore), Chris Boothroyd (S’pore), Shu Fen Tan (S’pore), Michel Bosman (S’pore), Naoya Shibata (Japan)
B) Surface, Interface and Thin Film Growth
Xuesen Wang (S’pore), Shi Jie Wang (S’pore), Jiong Lu (S’pore)
C) Advanced Applications of Ion Beams: Enabling a New Technology Era
Andrew Bettiol (S’pore), Jeroen van Kan (S’pore), David Jamieson (Australia), Thomas Schenkel (USA)
PHOTONICS MATERIALS
D) Optically Resonant Nanostructures
Arseniy Kuznetsov (S’pore), Boris Luk’yanchuk (Russia), Yuri Kivshar (Australia), Mark Brongersma (USA), Nikolay Zheludev (UK)
E) Colloidal Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Optoelectronics and Photonics
Cuong Dang (S’pore), Hilmi Volkan Demir (S’pore), Maksym Kovalenko (Switzerland)
F) Terahertz Science and Technology
Ranjan Singh (S’pore), Qijie Wang (S’pore), Xiaojun Wu (China), Masayoshi Tonouchi (Japan)
G) Semiconductor Photonics
Weijun Fan (S’pore), C. Jagadish (Australia), Dao Hua Zhang (S’pore), Stephen Sweeney (UK), Kai Chang (China)
H) Biophotonics and Nanomedicine
Ken Tye Yong (Australia), Poenar Daniel Puiu (S’pore), Dangyuan Lei (Hong Kong), Weiping Wu (UK)
ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
I) Brain Inspired Electronics – Materials, Devices and Systems
Jingsheng Chen (S’pore), Benjamin Tee (S’pore), Thirumalai Venky Venkatesan (S’pore), R. Stanley Williams (USA), Ming Liu (China)
J) Magnetic and Spintronics Materials and Devices
S.N. Piramanayagam (S’pore), Anjan Soumyanarayanan (S’pore), Hari Srikanth (USA), Julie Grollier (France), P.S. Anil Kumar (India)
K) Wide Bandgap Electronic Materials
Sudhiranjan Tripathy (S’pore), Anant Agarwal (USA), K. Radhakrishnan (S’pore), Rajendra Singh (India), Xiaohang Li (Saudi Arabia)
BIOMATERIALS
L) Advanced Dendrimer Technologies: International Dendrimer Symposium
Terry Steele (S’pore), Will Li (China), Gigi Chiu Ngar Chee (S’pore), Joao Rodrigues (Portugal), Donald Tomalia (USA), Ling Peng (France)
ENERGY MATERIALS
M) Increasing Energy and Power Densities of Intercalation Batteries
(In Honour of Nobel Laureate Prof Stanley Whittingham)
Pieremanuele Canepa (S’pore), Stefan Adams (S’pore), Arumugam Manthiram (USA), Christian Masquelier (France)
N) Halide Perovskite Materials for Photovoltaics, Lighting and Beyond
Nripan Mathews (S’pore), Subodh Mhaisalkar (S’pore), Annalisa Bruno (S’pore), Annamaria Petrozza (Italy), Henk Bolink (Spain)
O) Emerging Inorganic Materials for Solar Energy Harvesting:
From Theory, Synthesis to Devices
Lydia Wong (S’pore), Frank Osterloh (USA), Jiang Tang (China), Yun Jeong Hwang (South Korea), Joel Tan (S’pore)
P) Advanced Materials for Thermoelectrics
Kedar Hippalgaonkar (S’pore), Sunmi Shin (S’pore), Woochul Kim (South Korea), Takao Mori (Japan)
TECHNOLOGY
Q) Materials and Devices for Harsh and Extreme Environment
Edwin Teo (S’pore), Pulickel Ajayan (USA), Dominique Baillargeat (France), Dunlin Tan (S’pore), Asaf Bolker (Israel)
R1) Next-Generation Nanoimprint Lithography: Products and Applications
Yee Chong Loke (S’pore), Vignesh Suresh (Australia), Jay Guo (USA), Duan Fei (S’pore)
R2) Advances in Nanoprinting
Hong Liu (S’pore), Harald Giessen (Germany), Chee Leng Lay (S’pore)
S) Advances in Additive Manufacturing: Experiments and Modeling from Cutting-edge Fundamental and Applied Research
Guglielmo Vastola (S’pore), Sharon Nai (S’pore), Carolin Körner (Germany), Wing Kam Liu (USA), Wentao Yan (S’pore)
T) Emerging Applications for Membranes – Discovery, Translation and Deployment
Adil Dhalla (S’pore), Tzyy Haur Chong (S’pore), Dibakar Bhattacharyya (USA)
NANOMATERIALS
U) Nano-Ceramics and Nanohybrids for Energy, Water, Environment and Healthcare
John Wang (S’pore), Xu Li (S’pore), Hong Liu (China), Jerome Claverie (Canada), T. Randall Lee (USA)
V) Advanced Materials for X-ray Sensing
Xiaogang Liu (S’pore), Qiushui Chen (China), Osman Bakr (Saudi Arabia), Jinsong Huang (USA)
W) Emerging Trends in Solution Processing of Advanced Functional Nanomaterials for Sustainable Development
K. Byrappa (India), Yanli Zhao (S’pore), Ajayan Vinu (Australia), Sanjay Mathur (Germany), Ognjen Miljanic (USA)
X) Materials for Quantum Information & Computing – Science & Engineering
Kuan Eng Johnson Goh (S’pore), Bent Weber (S’pore), Weibo Gao (S’pore), Giordano Scappucci (The Netherlands), Michael Fuhrer (Australia)
FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS
Y) 2D Materials and Heterostructures
Kah-Wee Ang (S’pore), Dongzhi Chi (S’pore), Lain-Jong Lance Li (Hong Kong), Andrew Wee (S’pore), Zheng Liu (S’pore)
Z) Quantum Materials and Applications
Xiao Renshaw Wang (S’pore), Ariando (S’pore), Hans Hilgenkamp (The Netherlands), Ce-wen Nan (China)
AA) Modeling and Simulation of Material System in All Aspects: From Theory to Application
Hua Li (S’pore), Fangsen Cui (S’pore), Zishun Liu (China), Nimal Rajapakse (Canada), Kek Boon Goh (Malaysia)
BB) Smart Materials for Sensing & Acoustic Transduction
Kui Yao (S’pore), Paul Muralt (Switzerland), Raju V. Ramanujan (S’pore), Jafar Saniie (USA), Yong Sik Ok (Korea)
CC) Advanced Polymer Surfaces, from Advanced Surface Treatment to Dynamic Surfaces to Paint
Alexander van Herk (S’pore), Paul Braun (USA), Tuan Tran (S’pore)
DD) Functional pi-Systems, Materials and Devices
Chunyan Chi (S’pore), Jishan Wu (S’pore), Shigehiro Yamaguchi (Japan), Deqing Zhang (China), Daniel Gryko (Poland)