Recent Patents on Nanotechnology

Professor Makoto Ogawa has been working on inorganic materials chemistry as a professor of Waseda University. Recently, he moved to Thailand as a full professor of School of Energy Science and Engineering, Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology (VISTEC), which opened in 2015 in Rayong, Thailand and continues his research activity in materials chemistry. One of his main interests is the preparation of nanoporous materials. He is a pioneer to successfully prepare mesoporous silica films in 1994. He has been interested in the host-guest chemistry of nanospace materials. He has been investigating how the spatial distribution of guest species affects the performance of the intercalation compounds of layered silicates and titanates.

Alves is professor, Inst. of Chemistry, State University of Campinas (Unicamp). He obtained his BSc (1974) and PhD (1977). He did postdoctoral work at Laboratory of Infrared and Raman Spectrochemistry of CNRS (France). His research on Raman spectroscopy, solid state chemistry and special glasses for optoelectronics later diversified into nanomaterials synthesis and their interactions with biosystems. He has advised over 50 PhD and MS theses. He has published over 230 peer-reviewed papers, and has been issued 30 patents. He served as President of Brazilian Chemical Society. His honours include: Brazilian Order for Scientific Merit (2002); Technology Innovation Award (2008); Inventor Award - Technology Absorbed by the Market (2011); Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry (2015). He is member of Brazilian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences of São Paulo State and The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).

Dr. Anjali Pal has made original and significant contributions in the arena of science and engineering. Dr. Pal has introduced both treated and untreated laterite soil, a naturally occurring earth’s crust, to remediate arsenic pollution in drinking water. The wonderful results have encouraged her to develop a low cost earthen filter to remove dangerously toxic arsenic (III and V) compounds from water bodies. Dr. Pal extended the idea of photoreaction on different pollutants to develop several analytical methods having high potential. Photoactivation (both UV and Visible) technique made Dr. Pal famous. Her developed methodology and later on photoreactor fabrication brought her a few international awards (Hall of Fame and R & D-100, USA).

The research interest of Hani Abdelhamid is focused broadly on science and technology at the nanoscale and material science to push scientific boundaries in diverse areas of materials science, chemistry, biomedicine, biotechnology, catalysis and laser-based analytical methods. The main thrusts are concentrated on the topics as below: Nanotechnology: synthesis, characterization, and applications. Material Chemistry, synthesis, characterization, and applications. Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs), synthesis, characterization, and applications. Inorganic and structural chemistry.

Dr. Faheem K. Butt is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Physics at University of Education Lahore. Before joining University of Education he was an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow in Technical University Munich, Germany. He completed his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from Centre for Sustainable Nanomaterials, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 2015. He was conferred Ph.D. degree from Beijing Institute of Technology, China in 2014. His research interest is in Energy storage/conversion and Optoelectronics devices. He has published 100+ research articles/book chapters. He provides services as an Editor/reviewer for International Publishers. He has won several International and National research grants and recipient of several National/International awards.

Dr. Natalia V. Kamanina is the Head of the Laboratory for Photo Physics of Media with Nanoobjects at Vavilov State Optical Institute. She has an interest in the areas of investigations on inorganic soft materials of the UV and IR range, coatings, organic conjugated materials, liquid crystals, laser-matter interaction, nanotechnology, fullerenes, and biological objects. She has an experience in nanoparticles doping process of organics, in recording of amplitude-phase thin gratings in thin films as well as in developing of liquid crystal (LC) cells and spatial light modulators; she has an experience in optical limiting effect of laser radiation over visible and infrared spectral ranges, in medical applications of LC structures to orient human blood cell also. She has published more than 200 scientific papers, 5 books and 7 handbooks for the students. In parallel to her scientific activity, she has been lecturing since 2001. Dr. Kamanina is currently working as a Professor of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI.”

Professor Wang Xiaohua received his Ph.D from School of Electrical Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University in June 2006, and he was promoted to Professor in 2013 at the same University. He mainly carries out the research on the condition monitoring and life assessment of electrical equipment, which including sensor technology, signal processing technology and artificial intelligence technology. From Sept 2011 to Sept 2012, he was a visitor scholar at Loughborough University, in UK. In 2017, he was selected as the young scholars in the Yangtze River scholars award program of the Ministry of education (200 per year in China).

Cheng-Fu Yang was the first one to be a distinguished professor of National University of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung, Taiwan. He was a fellow of “The Institution of Engineering and Technology” (IET) in 2015, and the “Chair Inviting Professor” of Jimei University in 2017. He was the Editorial board member of dozen journals and the Guest editor of eight SCI journals. His current researches focus on ceramic-polymer composites, ferroelectric ceramics, dielectric and TCO thin films, silicon-based thin film and CIGS (CIS) solar cells, inorganic optical ceramics, nanotubes, and nanowires. So far, he has published more than 250 SCI journal papers.

Engr. Associate Professor Victor Sunday Aigbodion obtained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering in 2010 from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. He is currently the Head of Department, Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka Nigeria. His research interest is in Advanced Materials, specifically in the area of converting “waste to wealth”. He has published over one hundred and forty (140) research papers in several local and international journals. He has also served as an external assessor to many international bodies among which are the National Center of Science and Technology Evaluation Ministry of Education and Science Astana, Republic of Kazakhstan, just to mention a few.

André Ayral received his Ph.D. from the University of Montpellier (France) in 1988. He first served as research engineer at the French Nuclear Agency. He then joined the Graduate National Higher School of Chemistry of Montpellier as an assistant professor in 1991. Since 2002 he is Professor of Chemistry at University of Montpellier. He is currently coordinator of the Erasmus Mundus Master in "Membrane Engineering" and Vice-President of the Materials Science French Federation. His research interests include synthesis and characterization of inorganic and hybrid porous materials, thin films, and multifunctional membranes.

Dr. Csaba Balázsi is a Scientific Advisor in Centre for Energy Research of Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is co-author in 170 publications (100 in ISI journals), has 9 patents. He is principal investigator or co-PI in several national (OTKA, NKTH, TéT, Eötvös, Bolyai) and international (FP7, NATO, NSF, ESA, H2020, EIT KIC RAW) research grants. He is a member of scientific societies as American Ceramic Society (ACERS), Scientific Society of Silicate Industry - President of Fine Ceramics section (SZTE), European Ceramic Society - Member of Council Board and PEC (ECERS), Bolyai Advisory Board Member - HAS, Hungarian Society of Materials Science - Board Member and Executive Committee Member of Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS).

Dr. Tapas Kr. Bandyopadhyay has completed Ph.D in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur(IIT-Kharagpur). He has been presently working as Assistant Professor at IIT-Kharagpur. He worked with Indian Patent Office and NTPC Ltd before joining IIT-Kharagpur. He has published more than 22 papers in referred journal. He has two Indian Patent (One granted, One applied). He has authored a book on Intellectual Property Right. His research areas of interest include technology-law interface, policy, physical metallurgy of steel etc.

Raj Bawa is president of Bawa Biotech LLC, a biotech/pharma consultancy and patent law firm based in Ashburn, VA, USA that he founded in 2002. He is an inventor, entrepreneur, professor and registered patent agent licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Trained as a biochemist and microbiologist, he has been an active researcher for over two decades. He has extensive expertise in pharmaceutical sciences, biotechnology, nanomedicine, drug delivery and biodefense, FDA regulatory issues, and patent law. He has authored over 100 publications, co-edited four texts and serves on the editorial boards of 17 peer-reviewed journals, including serving as a Special Associate Editor of Nanomedicine (Elsevier) and an Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Interdisciplinary Nanomedicine (Wiley).

Professor Hongbo Shao,Salt-soil Agricultural Center ,Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Sciences,Zhongling Street No.50,Nanjing 210014,China.He got his PHD in Ecology in Chinese Academy of Sciences.Now he has published 300 scientific papers in different academic journals in the world and 3 books.His major interest is plant molecular biology and nanotechnology applications into environment and plant biology.

Charles Brumlik is the founder and managing director of Nanobiz LLC (www.nano-biz.com), an international consulting group that specializes in enabling clients to rapidly develop new products, increase sales of existing products, move into profitable new markets, accelerate channel partnerships and develop strategic alliances. Dr. Brumlik has numerous research papers and patents in nanotechnology and advanced materials with applications in Aerospace, Bio-medical, Chemicals, Cosmetics, Electronics, Energy, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, and Oil & Gas. Examples include membranes, hydrogen storage, electronic materials, nanosilver, sensors, coatings, and the best-selling Prentice Hall molecular models. As a Ph.D. chemist, attorney, and business founder, other papers and presentations focus on cross-border commercialization and intellectual property aspects of science. Dr. Brumlik is also chair of the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Marketing Ȧ Economics Group (www.cmeacs.org).

Dr. G.R. Castro received his MSc. and Ph.D. degrees in Chemistry (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and had Postdoc positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1996-1998, Cambridge, USA) and Tufts University (Boston, US). Later he became Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Tufts University (2001-2006, USA). His present positions are: (a) P.I. (Natl Res Council - CONICET, Argentina), (b) Full Professor, Biotech Area, Department of Chemistry, School of Sciences, National University of La Plata (UNLP, Argentina), and (c) Director of Nanobiomaterials Laboratory and Institute of Applied Biotechnology (CINDEFI, La Plata, Argentina). His scientific production includes 5 patents, and more than 120 papers and book chapters. His areas of interest involve biopolymers, biocatalysis, molecular controlled release and tissue engineering.

Dr. Guanying Chen received his B.S. and Ph.D. degrees in applied physics in 2004 and in optics in 2009, respectively, from Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), China. Since 2012, he has been an adjunct research associate professor at the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and Biophotonics (ILPB), SUNY Buffalo. He received the Top-Notch Young Investigator Award of Department of the Central Committee of China in 2015, Top 100 National Excellent PhD Dissertation Nomination Award of China in 2011, and the Distinguished Young Investigator Career Award of HIT in 2015. He serves as Editor Board member for the SCI journals of Scientific Reports, Nanomaterials, and Crystals, and Guest Editor for Theranostics. His main interest lies in the development of lanthanide-doped nanoparticles and quantum dots for a broad spectrum of biophotonic and photonic applications.

Dr. Das obtained his Doctorate (Ph.D.) degree from the National University of Singapore, Singapore. Dr. Das is currently working in Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences, A*STAR (Agency for Science, Technology and Research), Singapore. Prior to joining A*STAR, he worked in Procter & Gamble Innovation Centers in Singapore and Japan as well as in Sun Pharma Advanced Research Company in India. His primary research areas are Controlled Release Drug Delivery Systems, Nanoencapsulations, Microencapsulations, Skin and Personal Care products development. He has published more than 30 scientific publications, book chapters and patent. He also served as Guest Editor in international journals.

Prof. Dr. Yongjun Feng obtained a doctor degree in Materials Science and Chemistry from Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Currently, Dr. Yongjun Feng is a full professor in Beijing University of Chemical Technology and is one of key members at State Key Laboratory of Chemical Resource Engineering. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers, two chapters, and in a named inventor of 15 issued Chinese patents. He has focused on controllable synthesis and practical applications of two dimensional layered multifunctional materials for polymer, non-precious metal electrocatalysts for oxygen electrode, and porous materials for catalyst support and removal of pollution.

Dr. César Fernández-Sánchez holds a PhD in Chemistry (1999) from the University of Oviedo (Spain). Currently, he is the Head of the Chemical Transducers (gtq.imb-cnm.csic.es/en) at Instituto de Microelectrónica de Barcelona (IMB-CNM; www.imb-cnm.csic.es), CSIC, where he holds a permanent position as a Senior Researcher. He has published over seventy peer-reviewed articles, supervised six PhD Theses, and co-authored seven patents, all of them in the area of analytical electrochemistry and microsystems for biomedical and environmental analysis.

Shunichi Fukuzumi received Ph.D. degree from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1978. After a post-doctoral position in USA, he joined the faculty at Osaka University in 1981. He was promoted to a Full Professor in 1994. He is now a Distinguished Professor at Ewha Womans University and a Professor Emeritus at Osaka University. He has published 1100 papers with over 40,000 citations (h-index: 98). He is a recipient of the Chemical Society of Japan award (2005), Medal with Purple Ribbon from the Emperor (2011), and Richard Smalley Research Award (2017). His research interests are artificial photosynthesis and electron transfer chemistry.

Mohamed Henini obtained his first degree at the University of Oran, Algeria. He went to Nottingham University and was awarded the PhD degree in 1984. Mohamed has over 25 years of experience in Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) growth. His particular speciality is the physics and technology of MBE growth for III-V electronic and optoelectronic devices. He has authored and co-authored over 800 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has an h-index of 45. He is the founder of two international conferences namely, Low Dimensional Structures and Devices (LDSD) and Epitaxial Semiconductors on Patterned Substrates and Novel Index Surfaces (ESPS-NIS). He edited five books which were published by Elsevier and serves on the Editorial Board of several scientific journals.

Alvin Holder is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Old Dominion University (ODU). I have a long-standing interest in health disparity research and minority education programs. My area of research revolves around biological and inorganic chemistry, bioinorganic and inorganic reaction mechanisms, which includes: (i) Synthesis and characterization of supramolecular polypyridyl osmium(II), palladium(II), platinum(II), ruthenium(II), vanadium(IV), and vanadium(V) complexes for bioinorganic studies of DNA recognition and reactions by metallointercalators. I have published more than 55 research papers and have mentored and trained a large number of researchers ranging from more than 80 underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students and six URM graduate students, as well as three postdoctoral fellows.

Professor Hong received his Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from Imperial College, London, U.K. in 1987. He is currently in charge of the Green Energy/Quantum Engineering Lab, and Intelligent Green Vehicle Lab in the Power Mechanical Engineering Department, National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. His research area includes molecular engineering, fuel cell engineering, solar cell/LED, combustion engines, automotive engineering, and bio-photonics which are all based on academic fundamentals of Quantum Mechanics, Molecular Dynamics, Boltzmann Modeling, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and System Dynamics. Apart from academic researches, he has been actively conducting researches with motor companies and various research institutes. He was the general chairman of the AVEC 2006 and APEnergy2016, and organizers/co-organizers of various international conferences. Currently, he serves as a scientific committee member and editors for many organizations and academic journals.

Dr. Michael Z. Hu is a Senior Research Staff Member at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Meanwhile, he is appointed as the Bredesen Center Faculty Professor and CBE Department Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee. He is the Founder Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Nanomaterials. He is a team lead for a Department of Energy (DOE) program that has won a R&D100 Award on advanced membrane technology. Since 1995, Dr. Hu has served as Principal Investigator and Project Team Leader for both fundamental and applied nanomaterials/nanotechnology research programs and multi-disciplinary R&D projects that deploy materials chemistry, colloid & interface sciences, and chemical process engineering for applications in clean renewable efficient energy and nanomaterials-based devices. He enjoys playing guitar-singing, violin, and tennis at his leisure time.

Dr. Christian W. Huck currently holds a position of full professor for analytical chemistry at Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria. Currently, Prof. Huck is also guest professor at Kwansei Gakuin University (Sanda, Hyogo, Japan). He has published more than 300 scientific publications describing new analytical attempts in vibrational spectroscopy (different modes of infrared and Raman) and separation science including mass spectrometry (LC, SPE, CE, CEC, -MS, MALDI). Prof. Huck has received several international awards (e.g., Buechi, Euregio, Swarovski etc) for his contributions over the years.

Nicolae Hurduc was born on 1956 in Romania. Professor of Polymer Chemistry, Supramolecular Chemistry and Molecular Modelling at «Gheorghe Asachi» Technical University of Iasi, Department of Natural and Synthetic Polymers, Dean of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering and Environmental Protection «Cristofor Simionescu», Bd. Dimitrie Mangeron 71, 700050-Iasi, Romania. Research fields: Biomaterials (smart polymers as support for cell cultures); Supramolecular chemistry (liquid crystals, nanostructured azo-polymers); Molecular modeling and polymers properties simulation; Living radical polymerization (ATRP, SET-LRP); Polymer characterization methods (ATG, DSC, NMR, UV/VIS and fluorescence spectroscopy, optical microscopy, surface properties). Scientific articles: 180; Citations (Thomson ISI): 1200; Hirsch Index: 20; Books and book chapters: 6 Patents: 6 (2 French Patents); Conferences and communications: 300.

Dr. S.A. Hussain (M.Sc. 2001 and Ph.D., 2007, Tripura University, India) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Tripura University. His major fields of interest are thin films and nanoscience. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow of K.U. Leuven, Belgium (2007–2008). He was a visiting scientist of Yamaguchi University, Japan (2013, 2018), Osaka University, Japan (2013, 2018), K. U. Leuven, Belgium (2011) and also visited several other countries for research purpose. He received Jagdish Chandra Bose Award 2008–2009,TSCST, Govt. of Tripura; Young Scientist Research Award by DAE, Govt. of India and DST, Govt. of India. He has undertaken several research projects and already 10 students completed their PhD research work under his guidance. He has published more than 104 research papers in international journals and attended several scientific conferences in India and abroad. He is working as editorial board member of Applied Clay Science (Elsevier), Helyon (Elsevier) and several other journals.

Dr. Mazhar is currently serving as Associate Professor in department of chemical Engineering, Dhofar University, Oman. He completed PhD from Kyungpook Nationals university in chemical engineering. He worked in same institute as post doctorate fellow and contract professor for two years. He joined Dhofar University as assistant professor in 2015. His research areas include nanomaterials, biopolymers, biofuels and nano-biopolymer composites development for environmental and medical applications. He has published more than 100 Journal papers and international conferences. Besides he has filed several international patents and contributed chapters to few books of international publishers.

Dr. Jiang obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry from the University of Stuttgart, Germany in 1990. He has published more than 500 scientific articles in international peer-reviewed journals. His publications have been cited more than 11,000 times with H-index=56 (Web of Science), and an inventor of 8 issued Chinese patents. Dr. Jiang is a Fellow of The Institute of Physics (U.K.), an Academician of Asia Pacific Academy of Materials, and several members of the editorial board or advisory boards. His research interests focus on thermodynamics/ kinetics of materials.

Prof. Kamal K. Kar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science is Umang Gupta Chair Professor from July 2014 to till date. He pursued higher studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and Iowa State University, USA before joining as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials science at IIT Kanpur in 2001. He was a BOYSCAST Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA in 2003 (May-December). Prof. Kar has published more than 160 papers in international referred journals, 110 conference papers, 06 books on nanomaterials and their nanocomposites, 30 review articles/book chapters and more than 55 national and international patents.

Ioannis G. Karafyllidis received the Dipl. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. In 1992 he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, as a faculty member, where he is currently a Professor. His current research emphasis is on quantum computing, modeling and simulation of nanoelectronic devices and circuits, and biological networks modelling. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Nanotechnology, a Founding Member of the American Academy of Nanomedicine and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE). Webpage: http://utopia.duth.gr/~ykar

Václav Kašička received degree RNDr. in Physical Chemistry from Charles University, Prague, in 1979, and PhD. degree in Biochemistry from the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, Prague, in 1985. At this latter institute, he is head of the department of Electromigration Methods (www.uochb.cz/kasicka). He is engaged in research and development of electromigration methods and their application to analysis and characterization of (bio)molecules. He published about 160 scientific papers. He is editor of the Journal of Separation Science, chairman of the Chromatography and Electrophoresis Group of the Czech Chemical Society, and secretary of the Steering Committee of the European Society for Separation Science.

Dr. Rocktotpal Konwarh received his M.Sc. in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (2008) and Ph.D. in Chemical Sciences (2013) from Tezpur University. He is currently functioning as an Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Addis Ababa Science and Technology University, Ethiopia. His research involves biomaterials for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, green nanotechnology, nanobiomaterials and biopolymer-nanocomposites for industrial and biomedical applications. His cap of accomplishments includes DST-UKIERI project co-investigatorship and post-doctoral visiting research fellowship (University College London, England) (2015-2016); membership of the Materials Research Society of India and the International Association of Advanced Materials; Young Researcher Award (NITT-SPIE and Optical Society of America Student Chapter) (2013); Young Scientist Award (IARDO, India) (2018), editorial board/review board membership of a few international peer-reviewed journals and authorship of several research and review articles in journals of international repute and a couple of book chapters.

Dr. Leroux obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Materials Science from the Institute of Materials Jean Rouxel, Nantes, France. Since 2010, Dr. Leroux is the manager of the international board of International Symposium on Intercalation Compounds (ISIC). Dr. Leroux is also the director of the Chemical Institute of Clermont-Ferrand (ICCF), France. He has published about 200 scientific publications and is co-inventor of 20 issued patents.

Dr. Jingan Li is a professor of Zhengzhou University, China, and his research filed include: Nanomaterials and biomaterials. So far, he has published more than 40 academic papers on international academic journals as the first author or corresponding author, including ACS Applied Materials & Interface and Journal of Materials Chemistry B. He has been serving as the editorial board member of repute journals, such as Recent Patents on Nanotechnology, Biomed Research International (Lead Guest Editor), Genetics and Molecular Research. He was also honored with repute awards, such as “China-Korea Young Scientist Award”, “IAAM Scientist Award”, “IAAM Medal”, and “Outstanding Reviewer Award” of repute journals.

Jumras Limtrakul is currently President of the Vidyasirimedhi Institute of Science and Technology. After earning his Ph.D. at Innsbruck in 1984, Dr. Limtrakul spent a couple of years doing research at the Institute of Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry at Karlsruhe University in Germany, and then carried out his research on nanotechnology as a Visiting Professor at the University of Bordeaux, France. He is the recipient of many honors and awards, including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Germany, National Outstanding Researcher Award (1998), Thailand Outstanding Scientist Award (2003), NSTDA Chair Professor (2009), and National Outstanding Person of the Year (2010). His research interests are molecular engineering based on theoretical and experimental study for energy materials.

Bingsi Liu，Professor, Department of Chemistry, Tianjin University; 1995-1998，Ph. D. Fudan Univ., 1989-1991，M. Eng. Northeast Univ., 1978-1982. B. Sc. Shandong Univ., China; 2004-2016, worked as short visiting professor in HKU, 2000.10-2002.1, post-doctor, Hong Kong Baptist Univ., 1999-2000, post-doctor, Univ. Laval, Canada.; More than 80 papers are published in Appl. Catal. B, J. Membrane Sci., J. Hazard. Mater., J. Phys. Chem. C, PCCP, etc and 4 patents are granted. Natural Science Prizes (3rd) of Tianjin are granted in 2009 and 2013.

Dr. Chuan-Pu Liu received his PhD degree from Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy in University of Cambridge in 1998. Following that, he took a post-doc researcher at Materials Research Lab in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for two years. He then joined Department of Materials Science and Engineering at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan in 2000. He serves as a distinguished professor at the same department now. He has published about 200 journal papers. His current research interests include semiconductor nanomaterials, TEM atomic scale imaging, nano-devices, piezotronic and thermoelectric devices, lithium ion battery, gas and chemical sensors.

Dr. Ikai Lo is a professor of Physics Department, and Director of Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 80424, Taiwan. He received his BS degree in Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (1980), and Ph.D. degree in Physics, State University of New York at Buffalo, NY, USA (1989). He served as a National Research Council (Washington, D.C.) post-doctoral fellow in Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, Ohio, USA (1989-1993) with an honor of National Research Council (Washington D.C., USA) associateship award. He became a faculty of Physics Department, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan since 1989, and served as Chairman of Physics Department (2000-2002) and Dean of Science (2011-2014).

Dr. Lopez-Lopez is Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics of the University of Granada, Spain. He got his PhD in 2005 in the field of magnetorheological fluids. His research interests include magnetic field-responsive fluids and soft materials (ferrofluids and magnetorheological fluids, gels and elastomers). Within these fields of research he has coauthored almost 100 scientific publications and several patents.

Dr. Satyabrata Mohapatra obtained his Ph.D. from Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar, India. After a postdoc from IUAC, New Delhi, India, visiting scientist from SAINT, South Korea and visiting fellow from CSNSM, Orsay, France he joined Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India where he is now heading the Multifunctional Nanomaterials Laboratory. He is a Member of the National Academy of Sciences, India. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and edited one book. His research is focused on the development of multifunctional hybrid nanostructures, metal oxide and 2D nanomaterial based hybrid plasmonic nanostructures and nanocomposites for applications in photocatalysis, catalysis, gas sensing, SERS, biosensing, antimicrobials and water purification.

Minh Nguyen is a Senior Research Engineer in the Sensors and Electronics Laboratory at HRL Laboratories. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and helped positions in diverse research environment such as Research Assistant Professor at Northwestern University. He has over 10 years of focused experience in developing superlattice–based infrared detectors and imagers, encompassing the areas of device modeling/design, epitaxial growth, device fabrication and testing. Nguyen has been PM/PI for a number of research projects using III-V superlattice material systems for infrared detection and topological quantum computation. He has authored/co-authored six book chapters, more than 80 technical papers with over 2700 citations and an h-index of 32.

Professor Perry obtained her undergraduate and DPhil research degrees in chemistry from the University of Oxford, UK where she also held a junior research fellowship. She has held permanent academic positions at Brunel University and Nottingham Trent University where she is currently a research professor. She has held fellowships/ visiting professorships in Israel (Weizmann Institute), France (Université Pierre et Marie Curie), Germany (KIT) and USA (Suny, Buffalo and Radcliffe Institute, Harvard). She has published 190 research papers and has 2 international patents. Professor Perry is currently on the editorial board for ‘Scientific Reports’ (Nature) and on the editorial advisory board for ‘Recent Patents in Nanotechnology’ (Bentham), and ‘Silicon’ (Springer).

Teng Qiu received his BS in chemistry from Nanjing University, China in 2002 and PhD in condensed matter physics from Nanjing University in 2007. He is currently a full professor of physics at Southeast University, China. In 2010, he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow in the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research in Dresden, Germany. His current research focuses on surface-enhanced spectroscopy. He has authored and co-authored about 100 refereed journal publications.

Prof., Dr. Sci. Hab. Raikher obtained both doctorate (Ph.D.) and habilitation in Condensed Matter Physics from Perm State University, Perm, Russia. Currently he heads Laboratory of Physics and Mechanics of Soft Matter at the Institute of Continuous Media Mechanics of Perm Federal Research Center, Ural Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Perm and also holds a part-time position of Research Professor at Ural Federal University, Ekaterinburg. He is author / co-author of more than 190 scientific papers. Prof. Raikher is a member of Editorial Board of Computational Continuum Mechanics journal (ISSN 1999-6691) and a member of International Steering Committee on Magnetic Fluids.

Prof. Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemistry from the University of Málaga, Spain. Prof. Rodríguez-Castellón is Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Málaga and President of the Inorganic Division of the Royal Society of Chemistry of Spain. He has published more than 450 scientific publications and is a named inventor of 6 patents. He is specialist in Materials Science, Environmental Catalysis and X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy.

Dr. Celso Sant’Anna received his BS in Microbiology and Immunology (2000), MSc in Biophysics (2003) and PhD in Science (2007) from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil. Presently, Celso is researcher from the Directory of Metrology Applied to Life Science (Dimav) of the Brazilian National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Inmetro). He is currently the leader of the microscopy Lab at Dimav/ Inmetro, which the main focus is to develop methods of biometrological analysis in the field of bionanotechnology, including the eco-friendly production, characterization as well as evaluation of nanotoxicity, antimicrobial and antitumoral activity of metallic nanoparticles.

Sachindra Nath Sarangi is a senior member of Institute of Physics, Bhubaneswar, India working as Scientific Officer since 1991. During his last 28 years of research he has many more contribution in the field of Materials science & energy materials, cluster & nanostructured materials and nano-biosystems for biosensor/biomolecular recognition applications, His current research interest is Nano-structured materials for UV sensor applications, nano-biotechnology for medical applications, nanoelectronic devices (memory and SET). He has completed JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, The University of Electro-Communications,1-5-1 Chofugaoka, Chofu-shi, Tokyo 182-8585, Japan. He received his PhD (Physics) degree from Jadavpur University India in 2007. His research interests focus on nanostructured materials for the nanodevice applications. He has authored and co-authored over 75 research papers.

Dr. Pedro A. Serena obtained the Ph.D. in Physics from the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain. Currently Dr. Serena is Researcher at the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM), that belongs to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). He has published more than 90 scientific publications and more than 80 publications related to scientific dissemination, science policies and technology transfer. Currently Dr. Serena is Institutional Coordinator of CSIC for the region of Madrid, and he is the Director of the Theoretical Physics and Mathematics (a joint research center promoted by four academic institutions CSIC-UAM-UCM-UC3M).

Dr. Shah obtained a doctorate (Ph.D.) in Chemical Engineering from Kyungpook National University, Daegu, Republic of Korea. Dr. Shah also holds Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. Dr. Shah did his Post-Doc research at the University of Sheffield, UK. Currently, he is working as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at AWK University Mardan (AWKUM), Pakistan, and is the founding managing editor of the first official journal ‘PJLS’ run by AWKUM. Dr. Shah is the author of more than 30 research papers published in the reputed journals. Dr. Shah is actively involved in research in the field of advanced materials.

Dr. Mohsen Sheikholeslami works in the Department of Mechanical Engineering , Babol Noshirvani University of technology, Iran. His research interests are CFD, Mesoscopic modeling of fluid, Nonlinear Science, Nanofluid, Magnetohydrodynamic, Ferrohydrodynamic and Electrohydrodynamic. He has written several papers and books in various filed of mechanical engineering. According to the reports of Thomson Reuters (Clarivate analysis), he has been selected as a Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher (Top 0.01%) in 2016 and 2017. He is also the first author of the books " Applications of Nanofluid for Heat Transfer Enhancement", "Hydrothermal Analysis in Engineering Using Control Volume Finite Element Method".

Dr. Luciano Paulino Silva is biologist and obtained a Ph.D. degree in Animal Biology from the University of Brasilia. Dr. Silva is currently a Researcher at Embrapa Genetic Resources and Biotechnology working on area of Nanobiotechnology applied to agriculture and biomedical fields developing projects on prospection of biomolecules, development of nanosystems and 3D bioprinting. Dr. Silva has co-authored 125 full-length scientific papers, 2 books, 8 book chapters, and is a named inventor of 9 patents. Dr. Silva is member of the editorial team and serves as reviewer for several mainstream scientific journals. Dr. Silva was awarded with several international prizes.

Dr. Suneel Kumar Srivastava received his post graduate diploma in ‘High pressure technology and technical gas reactions’ and PhD in the field of ‘Solid state chemistry’ from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1979 and 1986, respectively. He is currently Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. His research interests are in the fields of zero, one and two dimensional semiconducting and magnetic nanomaterials for their applications in energy and the environment, polymers and polymer blends and their structure-property relationships. He has guided 16 PhD students and published about 135 research papers in referred journal.

Prof. Reshef Tenne received his PhD in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1976. Following a three years post-doctoral period in Battelle Institute in Geneva he joined the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot in 1979 and was promoted to a professor in 1995. In 1992 he discovered the first kind of inorganic nanotubes made of WS2. His technology which is protected by 35 patents was licensed to several companies. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and Academia Europaea and a recipient of numerous honors and prizes. He is now a Research (Emeritus) Professor in the Weizmann Institute.

Bernd Wicklein got his MSc. in Materials Science from Stuttgart University (Germany) in 2007 and his Doctoral Degree from the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) in 2011. From 2012-2014 he held a postdoctoral position in Prof. Bergström’s group at Stockholm University working on nanocellulose based hybrid and composite materials. In 2014 he has joined Prof. Ruiz-Hitzky’s group at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid to work on nanocellulosic materials for functional and biomedical applications.

Dr. Zemva received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 1989, 1993 and 1996, respectively. He is Professor at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. His current research interests include digital integrated circuits design, signal processing, testing of digital circuitry and battery management systems. He has published more than 100 scientific publications. He is currently the member of the Editorial Board of this journal published by Bentham Science Publishers.

Ying-Jie Zhu is a full Professor at Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received Master degree and Ph. D. from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 1992 and 1994, respectively. He worked as an Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at USTC from 1994 to 1997. From 1997 to 1998 he worked as a Visiting Professor at University of Western Ontario, Canada. From 1998 to 1999 he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at Fritz-Haber Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Germany. He then was a Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Utah and University of Delaware, USA, from 1999 to 2002. In 2002, he was selected by CAS under the Program for Recruiting Overseas Outstanding Talents (Hundred Talents Program). In 2007, he was selected under the Program of Outstanding Leader of Shanghai Subject Chief Scientist. He has published about 280 peer-reviewed journal papers and three book chapters. His papers have been cited about 8400 times. He is an inventor of 40 granted patents.

Mohammad Wasi Ahmad has completed his PhD at the age of 29 years from Kyungpook National University (KNU), South Korea. He was a Post-Doctorate fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering Research, KNU between 2011-2014. He worked as a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of Advanced Medical Technology Cluster for Diagnosis and Prediction, School of Medicine, KNU for one year. Currently, Dr. Ahmad is an Assistant Professor at Dhofar University, Oman. He has successfully published 23 research articles as a principal and co-author in reputed journals that have been cited over 261 times. His publication H-index is 9. He has added two patents to his name. His research activities focus on the synthesis of organic compound for antimicrobial activity and sensor, nanomaterials for biomedical applications and renewable energy.

Dr. J.Gajendiran have been working on ingoranic materials as a assistant professor, department of physics at Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology. One Ph.D research scholar completed under his supervisor in the field of nanomaterials. He has eleven years research experience in the field of magnetic and semiconductor nanomaterials, metal oxide, metal sulfide and ferrite nanocomposite materials by using the hydrothermal, solvothermal, precipitation, sol-gel and sol-gel combustion methods. He has enough expertise in the preparation of the nanomaterials of similar nature by wet chemical synthesis. Moreover, he has remarkable experience in characterization interpretation of nanomaterials like Powder XRD, W-H plot from XRD data, FTIR, TGA, EDX, SEM, HR-SEM, TEM, HR-TEM, SAED, UV, PL, CV, VSM (room temperature, high temperature and low temperature magnetic measurements), dielectric, hemocompatibility and antibacterial analysis. His research activities focus on the semiconductor and magnetic nanomaterials/nanocomposite for optoelectronics, magnetic storage device, electrochemical, biomedical and antibacterial applications.

Esmaeal Ghavanloo is currently Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Shiraz University, Iran. He received B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Shiraz University in 2007, 2009 and 2013, respectively, all in Mechanical Engineering. He is author of more than 65 peer-reviewed articles in the areas of nonlocal elasticity theory, mechanics of nanostructures, nanocomposite material and cellular biomechanics. He is also an active reviewer of several scientific and international journals. He has been awarded the Outstanding Contribution In Reviewing certificate by Elsevier for reviewing services of International Journal of Mechanical Sciences and Applied mathematical Modelling. He has made important contributions to the application of the nonlocal elasticity theory to the nanoscopic structures. His book Computational Continuum Mechanics of Nanoscopic Structures: Nonlocal Elasticity Approaches has been published by the Springer International Publishing in 2019.

Dr. Miguel Ángel Gracia Pinilla is presently serving as an Associate Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México. He completed his M.Sc. in Material physics from UNAM-CICESE, México in 2005. He further received his Ph.D. from Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León in Physics Engineering in 2008. His research interests include synthesis, structural and morphological properties of materials for energy conversion applications (Solar cells and Photocatalysis) study of nanostructured catalysts using electron microscopy (SEM, TEM, HRTEM, STEM) and Raman Spectroscopy. He has contributed his valuable publications in different scientific journals.

Dr. P. Senthil Kumar working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering, SSN College of Engineering, Chennai, India. He has 14 years of teaching and research experience and 1 year of industrial experience. His author’s h-index of 35 along with the Google citations of 5124+. Under his guidance, 09 Ph.D. Scholars have completed and 08 Ph.D. scholars are currently doing their active research in the area of Waste Water Treatment, Environmental Nanotechnology and Alternative Fuels. He published more than 200 research papers in highly reputed International Journals and 100 research papers in National/International Conferences. He also published more than 100 book chapters, publishers: Elsevier, Springer, CRC Press, etc.

Dr. Uttam Kumar Mandal is as an Associate Professor at Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences & Technology, Maharaja Ranjit Singh Punjab Technical University (MRSPTU), Punjab, India. He has 9 years of teaching experience (out of which 5 years in IIUM, Malaysia), 10 years of research experience (out of which two years as Post-doctoral Fellow at University of Geneva, Switzerland). His research interest includes drug delivery, development of transdermal nanoformulations (transfersomes, ethosomes, niosomes), solubility enhancement, modern analytical techniques, bioavailability & bioequivalence. Based on his diverse fields of research experiences, he has published more than sixty research papers in various high impact factor journals.

Dr. Tanveer Saleh has been serving as an Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Mechatronics Engineering at the International Islamic University, Malaysia. Prior to joining IIUM, he worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of British Columbia, Canada. He completed his PhD in 2009 from the National University of Singapore. Dr. Tanveer’s research interest includes Carbon nanostructure (CNTs, VACNTs) and their applications, micro and nano machining, manufacturing automation. During his postdoctoral research at UBC. Dr. Tanveer worked mostly on micro-patterning of Carbon Nanotube Forest also known as Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (VACNTs). He is continuing his research on micro-patterning of VACNTs for sensor fabrication in IIUM.

Dr. Ajay Singh Verma (Ph.D.- Physics), now is an Assistant professor of Physics, Life Member of Indian Physics Association and High Energy Materials Society of India. He got his B Sc in Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, M Sc in Physics (Electronics and Communication), Specialization in Condensed Matter Physics Doctor's degree (Ph.D.) at Dr. Bhim Rao Ambedkar University Agra (India), and completed his Post Doctoral Research at Panjab University Chandigarh (India).

Tao Zhu, male, Ph.D., professor, director of institute of atmospheric environment management and pollution control, China university of mining and technology (Beijing). More than 100 papers have been published in domestic and foreign journals, including more than 30 SCI papers (including Environmental Science ; Technology, Energy, Journal of Hazardous Materials, etc.) and more than 30 EI papers. In the past five years, 30 new patents have been applied for and more than 10 patents have been authorized for invention, of which 6 patented technologies have been popularized and applied. Published 8 books, including 4 monographs.

Changhe Li, Professor, Doctoral supervisor, Famous Teaching Teachers in Shandong Province, Excellent Graduate Guiding Teachers in Shandong Province, Shandong Excellent Inventor, Special Expert of Taishan Scholars. He undertakes three projects of the National Natural Science Foundation, one sub-project of the National 973 Plan, one sub-project of the National Machinery, two key projects of the Shandong Natural Science Foundation and two projects of the Qingdao Science and Technology Development Plan. 153 SCI/EI papers were published by the first author or correspondent, of which more than 50 are Minimum Quantity Lubrication Grinding (MQL) related papers, and 3 are the Highly Cited Papers. Besides, 3 books were published, and 6 invention patents were granted to the United States, South Korea and Australia, and 90 invention patents were granted to China. He has won more than 10 provincial and ministerial awards, such as The Ministry of Education's Second Prize for Technical Invention in Colleges and Universities, Shandong Provincial Second Prize for Technological Invention, The First Prize of Shandong Patent Award, The First Prize of Teaching Achievement in Shandong Province's Colleges and Universities.

Dragana Tomašević Pilipović received his Ph.D. in Environmental Protection Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. She is an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Sciences, University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Her research field revolves around water, soil and sediment analysis, treatment of wastewater and water processes, treatment of sediment and different waste contaminated with toxic metals and effectiveness assessment of applied treatments, and environmental risk assessment. She has published some articles and chapters in well-reputed journals.

Wenxiu Que received his Ph.D. in Electronic Science and Technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China. Currently, he is a Professor at the School of Electronics and Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, P. R. China. Dr. Que has published more than 270 SCI international journal papers, more than 80 international conference papers, 2 books, 8 book chapters, and granted 28 patents. His research interests cover transparent laser ceramics, organic-inorganic hybrid materials for photonic applications, semiconductor compound, and organic thin-film solar cells, organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells, solar-thermal seawater desalination, and sewage purification, photocatalytic water splitting and organics degradation, electrocatalytic water splitting, as well as 2D MXenes for supercapacitors.

Dr Chatchawal Wongchoosuk received a PhD in Physics from the Mahidol University. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Kasetsart University. His research interests and experiences include a) Quantum calculations and molecular dynamic simulation for the nanoscale systems, i.e. Density functional theory (DFT), Semiempirical methods, Density Functional based Tight Binding (DFTB), MD simulation, DFTB/MD, MM, etc. b) Synthesis of nanomaterials, i.e. ZnO nanostructures, Carbon nanotube, SiC nanotube, Graphene, 3D nanostructures etc. c) Fabrication of molecular devices, i.e. Hybrid gas sensors, FET, Printed electronics, Electroluminescence display, Chemiluminescence. d) Electronic Nose, i.e. Desktop E-Nose, Portable E-nose and Networked E-nose. And e) Intelligent Systems, i.e. Smart Farm, Smart Cars, and Smart Home. He has received over 25 research awards. He has served as a reviewer for several scientific journals. He has published several dozens of articles in reputed journals and proceedings as well as book chapters with patents & copyrights.