List of Confirmed Plenary Speakers YUCOMAT 2011

FIRST PLENARY SESSION

Dr. Jackie Ying, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, The Nanos, Singapore
“Nanostructure Processing of Advanced Biomaterials and Biosystems”

Dr. Ulrich Dahmen, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
“Using the TEAM Microscope to Investigate the atomic structure of Particles, Defects and Interfaces in Materials”

Dr. Alex Zettl, Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley and Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
“Characterization and application of graphene and nanostructured boron nitride”

Professor Bharat Bhushan, Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
“Biomimetics: Lessons from Nature”

Professor Robert Sinclair, Stanford University, USA
“An Up-date on Facilities for Nanocharacterization”

Professor Velimir Radmilović, University of Belgrade, Serbia
“M2O3(ZnO)n Nanowires for Thermoelectric Applications”

SECOND PLENARY SESSION

Professor Mamoru Senna, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan
"CHANGE IN THE CHEMICAL AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES OF OXIDE NANOPARTICLES BY SOLID STATE REACTIONS AT THE BOUNDARIES TO ORGANIC CRYSTALS"

ProfessorLászló Forró, LaboratoryofPhysicsofComplexMatter, EcolePolytechniqueFédéraledeLausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
“Infrared study of soft condensed matter”

ProfessorDavorPavuna, DepartmentofPhysics, PH (Ecublens), ÉcolePolytechniqueFédéraledeLausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
”Doping, Strains and Electric Field Effect on Superconductivity in Ultra-Thin Cuprate Films”

Prof. Eric Stach, School of Materials Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN,, and Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, NY, USA
“Understanding the mechanisms of carbon nanotube growth termination using real time environmental transmission electron microscopy”

Professor Danilo Suvorov, AdvancedMaterialsDepartment, JozefStefanInstitute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“High-K, High-Q microwave dielectrics: What is the compromise today?”

Professor Eduardo Saiz, Imperial College, UK
“Kinetics of High-Temperature Spreading”

Professor Erdmann Spiecker, Erlangen University, Germany
“Materials Transport and Crystallization during the Al induced layer exchange (ALILE) process”

Dr. Ralph Kraehnert, Technical University of Berlin, Department of Chemistry, Berlin, Germany
“NUCLEATION AND GROWTH OF COLLOIDAL NANOPARTICLES
STUDIED BY COUPLED IN-SITU SPECTROSCOPIC METHODS”

THIRD PLENARY SESSION

ProfessorRobertHull, DepartmentofMaterialsScienceandEngineering, SchoolofEngineering, MaterialsResearchCenter, RensselaerPolytechnicInstitute, Troy, NY, USA
“Assembly of Hierarchically Scaled Semiconductor Nanostructures”

Professor Wolfgang Jaeger, Institute of Materials Science, Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany EU
“Interface and Defect Phenomena of Semiconductor Oxide Nanostructures”

Professor Simon Ringer, University of Sydney, Australia
“Exploring the Architecture of Solid Solutions with Atom Probe Microscopy: A Pathway towards Remarkable New Materials Properties”

Professor James Wittig, Vanderbilt University, USA
“THE FUTURE OF MAGNETIC DATA STORAGE”

Dr. A. Fraile Rodríguez, DepartamentFísicaFonamental, UniversityofBarcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
“SIZE-DEPENDENT MAGNETIC PROPERTIES OF SINGLE IRON-BASED NANOPARTICLES PROBED BY X-RAY SPECTROMICROSCOPY”

Dr. Kyung-Ho Shin, KIST, Korea
“Magnetism and Magnetic Materials for Nonvolatile Memory”

Dr. Vassili Fedotov, University of Southampton, UK
"Toroidal metamaterials"

FORTH PLENARY SESSION

Professor Rostislav A. Andrievskiy, Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Chernogolovka, Moscow Region, Russia
“BEHAVIOR OF RADIATION EFFECTS IN NANOMATERIALS”

Professor Eui Tae Kim, Seoul National University, Korea
“Synthesis and Photocatalytic Characteristics of Carbon-TiO2 Hybrid Nanowires and Nanobelts”

Dr. Alexei A. Kornyshev, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
“The revolutionary RTILs - Room temperature ionic liquids at electrified interfaces: from understanding to applications”

Professor Jan Dutkiewicz, Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences and Arts, Poland
"Silver and aluminum base nanocomposites prepared from ball milled powders"

Dr. Joanna Michalska, FEMS Lecturer Award for Excellence in MSE 2010, Department of Materials Science, Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland
“MICROBIAL ASPECTS IN CORROSION STUDIES”