40^th Global Nanotechnology Congress

Col. Dalvinder Singh Grewal; Ph.D. (Management, English, Computer Sc.), MSc (Tech), MBA, MA (Eng.), LLB, DIM, ADIM, PGDHRM, PGCTE, PGDTE is an established Educational Administrator, Business Executive & Writer. He is ex- Director of Principal, Guru Nanak Dev Engg College, Ludhiana; Founder Principal, C.T College of Engg, Jalandhar; Chairman (Electronics), J.M.I.T Radour, Yamunanagar; Registrar, Sant Longowal Inst of Engg & Techy; President (HRD), Trident Group; Director, I.I.M.T; ex-Director Principal, Bhai Maha Singh College of Engg, Muktsar; Adviser, Sri Sukhmani Group of Instns, Chandigarh and ex Dean, R & D Desh Bhagat Univ, Mandi Gobindgarh. He is now Prof Emeritus, Eternal University, Baru Sahib and research guide for PTU and DBU. He has published 78 Books including: Fundamentals of Nanotechnology; Introduction to Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnology, Scientific Vision of Guru Nanak; Word-The Master, Global Travels of Guru Nanak and Origin and Development of Universe among others. He has published are over 278 papers and 1100 articles and guided 18 PhD/M.Tech students. He served Indian Armed Forces for 32 years and retired as Colonel. His Awards include International Leadership Award, ABI (USA) 1999, Man of the Year 2000, Bharat Excellence Award, Best Achiever Award in Education by Government of Punjab, Life Tine Achievement Award by World Poetry Conference, Rising Personalities of India Award with Gold Medal and Super Duper (Best Prof Award) Desh Bhagat Univ. His Name is included in World’s Who and South Asia Pacific Who’s Who; Address 1925 Basant Avenue, Ludhiana 141013, India. Col. Dalvinder Singh Grewal; Ph.D. (Management, English, Computer Sc.), MSc (Tech), MBA, MA (Eng.), LLB, DIM, ADIM, PGDHRM, PGCTE, PGDTE is an established Educational Administrator, Business Executive & Writer. He is ex- Director of Principal, Guru Nanak Dev Engg College, Ludhiana; Founder Principal, C.T College of Engg, Jalandhar; Chairman (Electronics), J.M.I.T Radour, Yamunanagar; Registrar, Sant Longowal Inst of Engg & Techy; President (HRD), Trident Group; Director, I.I.M.T; ex-Director Principal, Bhai Maha Singh College of Engg, Muktsar; Adviser, Sri Sukhmani Group of Instns, Chandigarh and ex Dean, R & D Desh Bhagat Univ, Mandi Gobindgarh. He is now Prof Emeritus, Eternal University, Baru Sahib and research guide for PTU and DBU. He has published 78 Books including: Fundamentals of Nanotechnology; Introduction to Nanoelectronics; Nanotechnology, Scientific Vision of Guru Nanak; Word-The Master, Global Travels of Guru Nanak and Origin and Development of Universe among others. He has published are over 278 papers and 1100 articles and guided 18 PhD/M.Tech students. He served Indian Armed Forces for 32 years and retired as Colonel. His Awards include International Leadership Award, ABI (USA) 1999, Man of the Year 2000, Bharat Excellence Award, Best Achiever Award in Education by Government of Punjab, Life Tine Achievement Award by World Poetry Conference, Rising Personalities of India Award with Gold Medal and Super Duper (Best Prof Award) Desh Bhagat Univ. His Name is included in World’s Who and South Asia Pacific Who’s Who; Address 1925 Basant Avenue, Ludhiana 141013, India.

Nanotechnology, Nanoelectronics

Dr. Rajesh R Wakaskar has received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in 2015. Currently, he is working as a Formulation Scientist at Insys Therapeutics. His current profile encompasses providing support in Pre-formulation and Formulation Development, Clinical supplies manufacture, API and Drug Product Stability and writing CMC sections of the IND and NDA that are submitted to the FDA for review and approval of pharmaceutical products. His graduate project involved the development of shell cross-linked polymeric micelles (nanocarriers) for the delivery of poorly water soluble anti-cancer agents such as Combretastatin A4 (CA4) to improve the existing solubility, efficacy, bioavailability of this drug, and subsequently, overall therapy of breast cancer. Based on his research, he has been awarded several honors in various podia and poster presentations at various conferences and is an author of high impact research articles in reputed journals. Currently, he’s serving as an expert reviewer for various Journals such as Journal of Drug Delivery, Science and Technology, Clinical Pharmacology & Biopharmaceutics Journal, Cardiovascular Pharmacology, Advances in Pharmacoepidemiology & Drug Safety, Journal of Applied Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Journal of Molecular Biomarkers and Diagnosis.

Developing and improving upon the existing concepts of drug delivery. Providing specific insights into the development of nanotechnology, both as a therapeutic and diagnostic tool. Aiding the successful transition of bench-scale science to clinical development of therapeutic products.

Dr. A. Heidari, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Chemistry. He has got his Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees form California South University (CSU), Irvine, California, USA. Furthermore, he has double postdocs in Project Management and also in Nanochemistry and Molecular Structure Theory. His research interests are Biophysical Chemistry, Nanochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Biomolecular and Vibrational Spectroscopy, Molecular Modeling and Structure, Theoretical, Computational and Mathematical Chemistry, Ab initio and Density Functional Methods. He has participated at more than fifty reputed international conferences, seminars, congresses, symposiums and forums around the world as yet. Also, he possesses many published articles in Science Citation Index (SCI)/International Scientific Index (ISI) Journals. It should be noted that he has visited many universities or scientific and academic research institutes in different countries such as United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Netherlands, Russia, France, Swiss, Germany, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, South Korea, China, etc. as research fellow, sabbatical and volunteer researcher or visitor heretofore. He has a history of several years of teaching for college students and various disciplines and trends in different universities. Moreover, he has been a senior advisor in various industry and factories. He is expert in many computer programs and programming languages. Hitherto, he has authored more than ten books in Chemistry. Syne, he has been awarded more than three hundreds reputed international awards, prizes, scholarships and honors. Heretofore, he has multiple editorial duties in many reputed international journals. Hitherward, he is a member of more than one hundred reputed international academic–scientific–research institutes around the world.

Biophysical Chemistry Biomolecular Spectroscopy Quantum Chemistry Nanochemistry Theoretical Chemistry Mathematical Chemistry Computational Chemistry Vibrational Spectroscopy Molecular Modelling Ab initio & Density Functional Methods Molecular Structure

Davide Barreca got his MsC degree in Chemistry (110/110 cum laude) in 1996 and his PhD at Padova University in 2000. In 2001 he became a CNR Researcher. He is a Senior Researcher since 2002, and has the Habilitation to Full Professorship - SSD 03/B1 and SSD 03/B2. His activity on multi-functional metal-oxide nanosystems is documented by more than 260 papers, 5 patents and many invited talks. He received various awards, such as the Vincenzo Caglioti–Accademia dei Lincei Prize-2008 and the SAPIO Junior Prize-2010. He was/is local responsible in national and EU projects, and is member of the International EUROCVD Board. He is/was tutor of MsC/PhD theses and responsible for PhD/Post-Doc formation. Since 1999 he has been contract professor for Degree/PhD/Material School courses. He is European Editor of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology/Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Letters and Referee for ISI journals and research projects. He was member of Scientific/Organizing Congress Committees, such as EUROCVD17 (Austria, 2009), ICACC (USA, 2013), and CIMTEC (Italy, 2014)

Molecular Science

Eight years of research experience (including doctoral research) in the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for applications in plant science, energy, cancer treatment and imaging and sensor technology.

o Synthesis and functionalisation of nanomaterials o Study on effects of engineered nanomaterials on plant growth and development o Study on effects of engineered nanoparticles on various physiological and metabolic functions of plants o Nano drug development for cancer treatment o Nanoformulations for plant growth o Utilization of electron microscopic techniques for the characterization of nanomaterials and imaging of biological tissues o Use of fluorescent nanomaterials as bioimaging agents and imaging with confocal microscopy and fluorescent microscopes. o Maintain and update working knowledge of applicable state-of- the art laboratory instrumentation preferable electron microscopy and mass spectrometry. o Nano drug delivery systems o Utilization of nanoparticles for transformation technologies o Nano based control of plant pathogens o Biotechnological tools for crop improvement o Plant-Microbe interactions

Dr. Neha Chawla received a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering at Florida International University. She has M.S. in Materials Science and Engineering from Florida International University and her B.Eng. in Production Engineering from Mumbai University in India. She is currently working as a Research Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include the development of advanced materials for energy storage and their applications.

Lithium batteries, novel battery technologies, electrochemical characterizations, catalysts, material synthesis and characterizations, electroanalytical chemistry, nanomaterials, energy storage and conversion materials, solid/ polymer electrolytes, safety, thermodynamics, Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy, Battery Cell Electrochemistry, Lithium-ion batteries, Lithium-air batteries, lithium-sulfur batteries, battery cathodes, electrolytes, battery materials, Material science, Robotics

Vojislav Mitic in 1995 has completed his PhD from University of Nis (Serbia). He is a Full Professor at University of Belgrade and Nis. In1995-2006, he was the Director of Electronic Industry Corporation, Serbia – Ei. He has published more than 200 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an Editorial Board Member of repute. He is a Scientific Adviser at the Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, member of World Academy of Ceramics and President of Serbian Ceramics Society.

Research interest, Sintering process, Fractals, Materials microstructure analysis, Ceramic materials, Neural networks and graph theory.

Oveis Pourmehran is a Ph.D. researcher in the School of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia. He is working on Targeted Drug delivery using acoustics fields. He is a Biomedical and Mechanical Engineer with specializing in experimental and computational Fluid analysis and has strong knowledge of, Acoustics Aerosol Delivery, Magnetic Drug Targeting, Fluid Mechanics especially Respiratory fluid mechanics and Nanofluids and applying computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation in a wide range of mechanical and biomedical engineering projects. He has published several high-quality papers in prestigious ISI-indexed journals.

Biomechanics; Fluid Mechanics; Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD); Direct Computational Acoustics (DCA); Magnetic Drug Targeting (MDT); Acoustically Aerosolized Drug Delivery; Aerosol Deposition in Human Respiratory System; Heat Transfer; Nano-fluids; Optimization; Analytical Methods; Nonlinear Mechanics; Approximation Solution.

Mr.Balaji Ramachandran from India, holding 70+ Research Publication in Scopus Indexed Journals, Operating as Reviewer at Publon London Journal, DRDO-DSJ journal Reviewer (Ministry of Defence), Govt. Funding Project All over India Level 3rd Place Winner (NAFEM & Defence) I-TEC Conclave 2020, Locust Killing Machine Project Innovator and Principle Investigator- Recognized by Govt. of India & Rajasthan State Government, VIBGYOR ePress- International Journal of NanoParticals and Nanotechnology (ISSN 2631- 5084) England – Reviewer Moreover a operating in a Editorial Board of International Journal of Advance Scientific Research and Engineering Trends, INDIA BOOK OF RECORD Awarded ‘Youngest Scientific Research Reviewer and Editor’ following with that ASIA BOOK OF RECORD Approved ‘Grand Master’ in Scientific Research and Many more records in his carrier. He have contributed his work as an Organising Committee Member, Editor, Reviewer, Research, Engineer and in Many other dynamic position, and serves for the country and being a recognition of India.

Composite Materials, Biocomposite Natural fiber composites, Impact Dynamics Sandwich Structures, Additive manufacturing Powder Metallurgy, Surface Engineering Biofuels and Pollution Controls

Dr Azam Ali holds (BSc (hons.) & MSc) in Chemistry (Dhaka, Bangladesh) and PhD degree in Polymer & Materials Science and Engineering (USM) in the year 2000. He worked as a postdoctoral/research fellow in a numerous institutes e.g. POSTECH (South Korea) and University of North Carolina, Charlotte, UNCC (USA). Prior to his present position, he worked over 10 years in New Zealand Govt. research organisation (AgResearch) as a senior scientist, and leads biomaterials and medical devices research team at Lincoln, Christchurch, New Zealand. He is recognised as an international biomaterial scientist, have been working over 21 years in biomaterials areas, who has published more than 42 peer-reviewed articles and one book chapter. At present he holds 18 international patents and patent specifications. Dr. Azam is working as a senior lecturer and Director, Bioengineering program, and leads Biomaterials, Bioengineering and Regenerative Medicine research team in the Department of Applied Sciences, the University of Otago (Dunedin). He specialises in biomaterials (including biologic tissues), Bioengineering design, developing medical devices/technologies and nanoscience & nanotechnology. The innovative technology pioneered by Dr Azam uses low value protein sources from the New Zealand wool industry to create novel medical devices (e.g. wound care, bone implants, soft tissues, and bioabsorbable suture). Three of his chronic/diabetics wound care medical products have been commercialised and are manufactured in New Zealand for use as dressings (matrix), hydrogel, foam, particularly for chronic wounds management. They have already granted all regulatory (ISO 13485, FDA, TUV, TGA) approval and currently commercialised over 17 countries including in the USA, EU, AU & NZ. He was awarded the Bayer Year of the Innovators Awards 2010 (namely New Zealand Innovator Awards) or his significant science contribution to the Health and Science sectors.

Materials and Biomaterials (including biologic materials) Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Additive manufacturing (3D printing) & Electro(nano)spinning technology, Bioengineering and Medical devices/technology, Nanosciences and Technology: Functional and nanostructure biomaterials, Formulations (bioactives, drugs, etc.), microencapsulation and control released technology

Prof. Ji is leading the lightweight alloys and structures group consisting of 4 PhD students and 5 post-doctoral researchers. He has authored over 130 publications, over 30 presentations (12 invited talk and plenary lectures) in international conferences/workshops. He has been involved in 6 technical and organising committee in international conferences. Prof. Ji has 23 registered patents in WO, EU, UK, and CN on aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys, casting processes including semisolid process, high pressure die casting, low pressure die casting, centrifugal casting, sand casting and metallurgical equipment. He is the PI of 3 EPSRC, 7 Innovate UK and 6 UK&EU projects directly supported from Industry, as well as Co-I of 3 EPSRC and 3 Innovate UK projects, 1 NATEP project, 2 APC projects. Prof. Ji received the only innovation award from CMF UK in 2017 for his contribution in developing high strength and ductile aluminium alloys. He is technical committee member in several organisations, including NFE035 Light Metals and Their Alloys, BSI international, UK; ISO/TC 079/SC07 ‘Aluminium and cast aluminium alloys’; ISO/TC 079/SC06 ‘Wrought aluminium and aluminium alloys’; ISO/TC 079/SC05 ‘Magnesium and alloys of cast or wrought magnesium’.

• Novel aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys from alloy design, constituent control and manufacturing process, to the microstructure and mechanical properties of materials • Solidification and microstructural evolution of metallic materials • Lightweight structures from design to manufacturing • Recycling of aluminium alloys and magnesium alloys

Postdoc Research Fellow, in Prof. Andrey V. Dobrynin Group, Department of Chemistry, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Chapel Hill, NC. Ph.D. in Material Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University Dissertation title: “Study on the phase behavior of a single polymer chain and its transport kinetics in channel”. M.S. in Material Chemical Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Tianjin University. Thesis title: “Force field development and application of coarse-grained molecular dynamics”.

Primary research goal is to obtain a deeper understanding about the multiscale bulk/interfacial properties of the soft matter system including polymers, foams, colloids etc. using computational techniques, particularly in • Thermodynamic transition & kinetic behavior of polymer system with complex topology or sequences • Self-assembly mechanisms of the amphiphilic molecules especially on the self-assembly pathway and the formation of metastable structure • The equilibrium and non-equilibrium property of associated polymer system • Complex polymer reactions • Advanced manufacturing • Interfacial property of polymer material with reaction • Material degradation • Ionizable polymers

Dr. Dimitris S. Argyropoulos is a Professor and Finland Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. The work of his group focuses on the organic chemistry of wood components and the development of new chemistry for transforming the carbon present in our trees toward producing valuable chemicals, materials and energy. Dr. Argyropoulos received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from McGill University in Montreal, Canada where he also served as a PAPRICAN professor with the Chemistry department. His teaching is primarily related to wood chemistry, biomaterial characterization, carbohydrate, lignin and polymer chemistry. Dr. Argyropoulos is a Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science and a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chemistry. In addition to being a member to a number of professional societies (ACS, TAPPI, PAPTAC), Dr. Argyropoulos serves the editorial boards of five scientific journals as well the board of the International Lignin Institute and a number of International Scientific committees. He has also served as the Division Chair, and Secretary of the Cellulose and Renewable Materials of the American Chemical Society.

Recent research in his group emerges from a significant finding that wood can be dissolved in Ionic Liquids, allowing for the creation of a variety of novel processing platforms for producing new materials, chemicals and energy. In addition, his group develops new methods based on organic chemistry, NMR spectroscopy and catalysis to modulate, direct and understand the transformations of wood biopolymers during industrial transformations such pulping, bleaching and bio-processing.

Dr. Wang obtained his Master and Ph. D. degree in 1982 and 1985, respectively, in physical metallurgy at Polytechnic University of New York, and then worked as a PDF at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1989, he joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto and became a full professor there in 1996. To date, he has supervised more than 70 Ph. D. and Mater students, authored/co-authored more than 200 papers including 120 in refereed journals. He is the recipient of several prestigious awards and has 4 US and Canadian patens. Dr. Wang has been serving in various international/national professional committees. He has also served as the co-editor and editorial board member for several international journals

Plastic deformation, cyclic deformation, fatigue and fracture of various materials from single crystals, to materials for manufacturing, to nano-grained materials.

Harry Ruda is Director of the Centre for Advanced Nanotechnology, the Stanley Meek Chair in Nanotechnology, and Professor of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto. The Centre is Canada’s first nanotechnology centre. From 1984 to 1989 he was a senior scientist at 3M Corporation, developing some of the first models for electronic transport and optical properties of wide bandgap II-VI semiconductors, while being a key member of the blue laser team. From 1982 to 1984 he developed one of the first theories for electron transport in selectively doped two dimensional electron gas heterostructures while working as an IBM postdoctoral fellow. From 1979 to 1982 he worked on optical and transport properties of II-VI based infrared detector materials and obtained his PhD from MIT in 1982. Professor Ruda has published over 220 publications in international refereed journals (with over 2,200 SCI citations), has co-authored 4 books and has 14 patents.

Research interests focus on the fabrication and modeling of quantum functional nanostructures with applications in the fields of nanoelectronics and nanophotonics.

Dr. Donglei (Emma) Fan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin since January 2010. She received her bachelors degree in chemistry from the Department of Intensive Instruction, an honor program for gifted youth, in Nanjing University (NJU) in 1999, masters (2003) and doctorate (2007) degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University (JHU). She also obtained another masters degree in Electrical Engineering from JHU in 2005. Between 2007 and 2009, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at JHU. Dr. Fan has received several scholarships, such as a NSF Fellowship at the California Institute of Technology Summer Program, Postdoctoral Fellowship in JHU, Scholarship for Excellency several times from NJU, and early admission to NJU with Freshman Scholarship waived of National College Examination. Dr. Fans research aims at creating unique methods to bridge the fabrication of nanomaterials with their applications in electronics, biology, MEMS/NEMS, and energy devices. Extensive researches on nanomaterials have revealed that they often exhibit unique electronic, mechanical, optical and magnetic properties. In most cases, these properties are far superior to those of the bulk materials due to the Quantum Confinement Effect and large surface areas. However, the applications of nanomaterials are still largely hindered by the difficulties in manipulation and integration of them into useful devices. Dr. Fan invented a powerful and non-destructive technique, called "Electric Tweezers", for the manipulation of nanoentities in suspension by electric fields. The manipulation includes transport and rotation that can lead to separation, concentration, joining and assembly etc. This work has spurred a series of publications on major journals including Nature Nanotechnology, Physical Review Letters, Applied Physics Letters, as well as two pending patents. Her work was widely reported by the academic news media such as Nano Today, MRS Bulletin, PhysOrg.com, APS news, World Gold Council, and had been selected multiple times by Virtual Journals of Nanoscale Science and Technology. Dr. Fan has given over ten invited talks including SPIE meeting, Washington University in St. Louis, University of California at Berkeley, Stanford University, Palo Alto Research Laboratory and the University of Texas at Austin. In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, hiking, and reading.

Nanomaterials design and synthesis; nano-biotechnolgy.

Dr. Tsai, Hung-Yin has done Engineering from National Tsing Hua University in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He joined Industrial Technology Research Institute as a researcher since 1999. In 2003, he was promoted to a manager in charge of nanoengineering department and received the Innovative Technology Award by Ministry of Economic Affairs at the national level. In 2004, he changed a new role to take charge in diamond Dr. Tsai received his B.S. and Ph. D. degrees in Power Mechanical film department. From 2005 to 2008, he worked for National Taiwan Ocean University as an assistant professor and then got promotion as an associate professor.

Nano/Micro Fabrication, Brittle Materials Processing, Diamond Film Deposition and its Application, Advanced Manufacturing, Micro Bio Fuel Cell, Patent Analysis.

Professor Xueliang (Andy) Sun is a Canada Research Chair and Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. Dr. Sun received his Ph.D. in Materials Chemistry under direction of Prof. George Thompson in 1999 at the University of Manchester, UK, followed by work as a postdoctoral fellow under direction of Prof. Keith Mitchell at the University of British Columbia, Canada and as a Research Associate under direction of Prof. Jean-Pol Dodelet at l’Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS), Canada.

His current research interests are associated with synthesis of nanomaterials for electrochemical energy storage and conversion. His focus is on design and synthesis of various one-dimensional nanostructures such as nanotubes and nanowires as well as their composites with nanoparticles and thin films as electrocatalysis and catalyst support in fuel cells and as anode and cathodes in Lithium ion batteries and Li-Air batteries.

Andrea Hamilton is a Research Fellow in the school of Engineering at University of Edinburgh, UK since 2005. She received her PhD in Materials Science from University of Edinburgh in 2005 and BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Design Engineering from University of Glasgow in 2000. She has been a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (USA), University of Oxford (UK), University of New Brunswick (CA), University of Cyprus (CY), National Museums of Scotland and a Visiting Professor at University of Cergy-Pontoise (FR). She is Deputy Director of the Materials Science Research Laboratories, University of Edinburgh and has successfully obtained funding from UK research councils (EPSRC and NERC).

Rock mechanics and rock weathering, synchrotron X-ray diffraction, geochemistry, sulphate and carbonate mineralogy, modelling reactive transport through porous materials, cementitious materials, atomic force microscopy, organic-inorganic interface, nanoparticle synthesis, colloid chemistry, crystal growth in confined environments, deterioration of historic materials and non-destructive analysis, Raman spectroscopy and group theory.