Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials

Zofia Niemczura is the Metallurgical Engineer granted with PhD and DSc degrees in Physical Metallurgy from Technical University, Poznan, PL, and from Academy of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH), Krakow, Pl. As the professor at TU Poznan she was focused on microstructure-property relationship, phase transformation in steels, heat resistant alloys, and failure analysis, which resulted in 36 publications, and 2 books. She worked later as the researcher and visiting professor in University of IL. at Chicago and ultimately accepted a researcher position in Arcelor Mittal LLC Global R&D, East Chicago, USA. Her main technical focus in recent years was: heat resistant alloys deterioration mechanism and prevention, tool steel, alloy selection and evaluation, failure analysis of manufacturing equipment, and defects in steel sheets. She has been granted of two USA patents, she published student textbook on Mechanical Metallurgy for UIC students plus several additional papers in the journals and conference proceedings. She is also recipient of various recognition during her carrier in Poland and in USA.

Rajendra Singh is D. Houser Banks professor in the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Center for Nanoelectronics at Clemson University. During Oil embargo of 1973, he decided to do his PhD dissertation in the area of Silicon solar Cells. With proven success in operations, project/program leadership, R&D, product/process commercialization, and start-ups, Dr. Singh is a leading semiconductor and photovoltaics (PV) expert with over 37 years of industrial and academic experience. From solar cells to low power electronics, he has led the work on semiconductor and photovoltaic device materials and processing by manufacturable innovation and defining critical path. His current research interest is to provide global leadership in phasing out alternating current based grid by PV generated local direct current based power networks. He is fellow of IEEE, SPIE, ASM and AAAS. Dr. Singh has received a number of international awards. Photovoltaics World (October 2010) selected him as one of the 10 Global “Champions of Photovoltaic Technology”. Dr. Singh is 2014 recipient of the SPIE Technology Achievement Award On April 17, 2014 he was honored by US President Barack Obama as a White House “Champion of Change for Solar Deployment” for his leadership in advancing solar energy with PV technology. Rajendra Singh is D. Houser Banks professor in the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of Center for Nanoelectronics at Clemson University. During Oil embargo of 1973, he decided to do his PhD dissertation in the area of Silicon solar Cells. With proven success in operations, project/program leadership, R&D, product/process commercialization, and start-ups, Dr. Singh is a leading semiconductor and photovoltaics (PV) expert with over 37 years of industrial and academic experience. From solar cells to low power electronics, he has led the work on semiconductor and photovoltaic device materials and processing by manufacturable innovation and defining critical path. His current research interest is to provide global leadership in phasing out alternating current based grid by PV generated local direct current based power networks. He is fellow of IEEE, SPIE, ASM and AAAS. Dr. Singh has received a number of international awards. Photovoltaics World (October 2010) selected him as one of the 10 Global “Champions of Photovoltaic Technology”. Dr. Singh is 2014 recipient of the SPIE Technology Achievement Award On April 17, 2014 he was honored by US President Barack Obama as a White House “Champion of Change for Solar Deployment” for his leadership in advancing solar energy with PV technology.

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Dr. Sarker, the President, CEO and CTO of Waste Technologies, LLC (WTL) since 2013, is the sole owner of the company. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST), Manchester, UK. He also has a Masters and a Bachelors degree, both in Chemistry, from the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Dr. Sarker has been the Vice President of Research & Development for NSR since 2005 where he invented the technology which makes up US Patent # 8,927,797 B2 “Method for converting waste plastics to lower – molecular weight hydrocarbons, particularly hydrocarbon fuel materials and the hydrocarbon material produced thereby.” An additional 5 patents are pending. This work has garnered numerous awards both nationally and internationally. In addition to having published more than 110 research articles he acts as Editor-in Chief for 15 renowned international journals; World Research Journal of Physical Chemistry, International Journal of Chemical Research, and the World Research Journal of Environment and Waste Management and Editor of 155 and 175 of peer reviewer of national and international journals. Dr, Sarker wrote 6 books including chapters on Waste Plastic to Fuel. Dr. Sarker is a distinguished member of the following associations, Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), UK, Member of Institute Physics (MInstP), UK, American Chemical Society (ACS), American Physical Society (APS), American Institute of Chemical Engineering (AIChE), International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC), Advanced Photon Sources User Group (APS), Chicago, Canadian Society for Chemistry (CSC), Chemical Institute of Canada (CIC), American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), CleanTech Forum International, Connecticut Technology Council, Alliance for Clean Energy of New York (ACENY), Society of Automobile Engineering (SAE) International, Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE), Vermont Renewable Energy, Sierra Club, Greenpeace International, Bangladesh Chemical Society (Life Member), Dhaka, Bangladesh, Canadian Institute for Neutron Scattering (CINS) and many more. In addition, Dr. Sarker was elected President of Association of Energy Engineers (AEE)-CT Chapter in August, 2012-14 and advisor board member of CT Green Building Council (CTGBC) since 2013. Dr. Sarker also heads a humanitarian effort in Bangladesh; The Moinuddin and Anjuman Foundation, Inc., (www.moinandanjufoundation.com) which helps provide essentials for the poor and underprivileged in Bangladesh and around the Globe.

Guy DACULSI completed his Ph.D degree in Biological Sciences, University of Nantes in 1979. Guy DACULSI is Research Director Inserm exceptional class (DRE) at the University of Nantes. He is associated with the International Society of Ceramics in Medicine as a president (2007-2009) and Secretary General since 2009. He is also the board member of the International Union of Societies for Biomaterials Science and Engineering Committee since June 2012. In 1978, he was the Award Winner INAVA International Group for Scientific Research in Dentistry and Stomatology (GIRSO).

Alternative materials calcified tissues, especially calcium phosphate synthesis,new biomaterials and new surgical technologies, gene therapy etc.

Dr. Elena Cerro-Prada received her PhD in Physics from Autónoma University of Madrid (UAM). She lectured at the University of Birmingham, UK, and worked at CERN, among other research and academic positions. Dr Cerro-Prada currently serves as Professor and Head of the Physics Department in the School of Civil Engineering at the Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Dr. Cerro -Prada has contributed greatly to the understanding of cementitious materials microstructure by nano-characterization and modification with nanoparticles. She is currently involved in the development of titanium dioxide nanoparticles to provide cement-based materials with photocatalytic properties, as well as computational nanotechnology for smart cementitious materials.

Nanotechnology for construction materials

Since January 2002, Dr. Matthew E. Edwards has held the position of Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics at Alabama A&M University, Normal, AL and served as Dean, of the School of Arts and Sciences, from 2007 to 2011, a period of 4.5 years. Previous academic positions held by Dr. Edwards prior to 2002 include associate professorships at Spelman College, in Atlanta, GA and Fayetteville State University, in Fayetteville, NC, and he was a visiting associate professor and adjunct faculty member for ten years at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, PA, and an assistant professor of physics at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, in Pine Bluff, AR. Three summer faculty research positions that he held were at the ROME Air Force Research Lab, ROME NY, in 1996, NASA Langley Research Laboratories, Hampton, VA, in 1983, and the Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC, in 1982. Dr. Edwards is a Condensed Matter Physicist with research expertise in (1) materials of electrooptics, (2) pyroelectric/resistivity/dielectric properties of crystals and nano-particles doped organic thin films, (3) the production of large organic thin films, (4) solitons wave theory, and (5) STEM Education research and problem solving. Dr. Edwards has more than 40 publications* (please see the below message). Also, he has guided four students to advanced degrees: three to the Ph.D., and one to the master’s degree, and has served on more than 12 other dissertations and theses committees. Presently, he is guiding two Ph.D. and two master’s degree students. Also, he sits on the Board of Directors of one science journal publication and one for science education. Dr. Edwards (a scholar/researcher in the physical sciences) holds the Ph.D. and Master’s degree in physics from Howard University, received in 1977 and 1975, respectively, and a B.S degree in engineering physics from North Carolina A&T State University, in 1969. His additional formal studies include: (1) physics courses at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 1987, (2) certificate course of the American Chemical Society on Surfactants, Micelles, Liposomes, Liquid Crystals, Emulsions and Microemulsions, at Clarkson College, Potsdam, NY, in 1998. (3) Faculty summer certificate course in materials science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa AL, in 2000, and (4) certificate course in “managing technical professionals and organizations at MIT, Boston, MA, in 2009. Dr. Edwards as principal investigator (PI) has also received several minorities-targeted grants from NIH, and one minorities-targeted grant each from NASA and two from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the one summer faculty-targeted grant from the Air Force Office Of Scientific Research. As PI or Co-PI, Dr. Edwards has had several other grants as well. At AAMU, Dr. Edwards founded the Annual STEM Day, in 2006. Also, he founded in 2009 the IDC-HSHD&M (the Interdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Health Disparities, and Materials), which, as a center, has assisted more than 16 young faculty members and others to develop their research programs.

Dr. Edwards is a Condensed Matter Physicist with research expertise in (1) materials of electrooptics, (2) pyroelectric/resistivity/dielectric properties of crystals and nano-particles doped organic thin films, (3) the production of large organic thin films, (4) solitons wave theory, and (5) STEM Education research and problem solving.

Prof. Hideo Miura has received his PhD from Tohoku University, Japan. He had worked for Hitachi Ltd., Japan for 20 years as a Chief Researcher of mechanical reliability of various products and moved to Tohoku University in 2003. He is the director of Fracture and Reliability Research Institute. His main research topic now is prediction and prevention of fracture of advanced functional materials and devices. He has published more than 200 technical papers in the field of mechanical reliability of various materials and thin-film devices, and has been serving as an organizer of international conferences.

Prediction and prevention of fracture of advanced functional materials and devices

Cengiz Ozkan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California, Riverside since 2009. He was an Associate Professor from 2006 to 2009 and an Assistant Professor from 2001-2006. Between 2000-2001, he was a consulting professor at Stanford University. He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Stanford University in 1997. His advisors were W. Nix and H. Gao. He organized and chaired 14 scientific and international conferences; He has more than 200 technical publications including journal papers, conference proceedings and book chapters; over 50 patent disclosures, has given more than 100 presentations worldwide and is the recipient of more than 30 honors and awards. His important contributions include: the first time growth of hierarchical three dimensional graphene nanostructures; development of a unique high-throughput metrology method for large-area CVD grown graphene sheets; doping and functionalization of CVD grown and pristine graphene layers; study of digital data transmission in graphene and InSb materials; memory devices based on inorganic/organic nanocomposites, novel lithium-ion batteries based on nano-silicon from beach sand and silicon dioxide nanotubes; fast charging lithium-ion batteries based on silicon decorated three dimensional nano-carbon architectures; and high performance supercapacitors based on three dimensional graphene foam architectures.

Dr. Ozkan’s areas of expertise include nanomaterials for energy storage; synthesis and processing including graphene, III-V and II-VI materials; novel battery and supercapacitor architectures; nanoelectronics; biochemical sensors; and nanopatterning for beyond CMOS.

Dr Jun DING obtained his Diplom Physics from University of Wuppertal in 1986, and PhD degree from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany in 1990. He has been working on magnetic and nanostructured materials for more than 25 years. He is currently working as Professor at Department of Materials Science & Engineering, National University of Singapore. He has published over 350 journal papers with a total citation > 9000 and H-Index = 52.

Professor Lixin Xue, Chief Scientist of Ningbo Institute of Industrial Technologies, Chinese Academy of Sciences (NIMTE, CAS), has published over 80 scientific papers and 150 patents including 33 PCT Patents. Dr. Xue has served as reviewers for various international Journals including Journal of Materials Chemistry, Journal of Membrane Science, Desalination and Separation and Purification Technology. He is also a member of the “Thousand Talent Program” of Chinese Government.

His research interest is focused on the areas of fabricating functional polymer membranes and exploring their applications in the fields of green energy generation and storage, energy conservation and environment protection.

Dr Abbas Amini is an associate lecturer, a registered member of Western Sydney University graduate supervisory board at the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, and the member of Work Health and Safety Committee of the same university. Before joining the Western Sydney University, he had conducted research with other Australian universities and CSIRO, at Monash University, Deakin University, and the University of Melbourne. His fine outcomes have been presented in high impact factor journals, e.g., Nature publication group, and a book published in 2016. Abbas started his teaching, industrial and scientific journey from obtaining an associate’s degree in mathematics, BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering, and PhD in both nanotechnology and mechanical engineering from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He has also updated himself by several Australian and Canadian nationally recognized professional certificates and diplomas, e.g., FULT (Foundations of University Learning and Teaching from Western Sydney University), TAE, WHS, CNC etc., since then. With his intense schedule, he has been extensively involved in teaching for many years, and worked in industry, e.g., Magna Powertrain, Toronto, Canada, as a professional engineer and industrial designer for a period of six years. Dr Amini is a member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), an active reviewer for and editor of several ISI journals, and a committee member of 14 international conferences to-date, including the co-chair of 8th International Conference of ICCAE 2016, Melbourne, Australia, Mar. 3-4, 2016. Dr Amini is supervising four PhD candidates at present, and is open for scientific and funding collaborations

Dr Amini's research focus in particular covers a wide range of multidisciplinary aspects: biomedical materials, bioplastics, shape memory alloys, water treatment, drug delivery systems, piezoelectric materials, graphene, graphane, CNTs, biodegradable polymeric nano-composites, TiO2, ZnO, environmental sustainability and water efficiency, experimental analysis, multi-scale (nano to macro) modelling of multi-physics phenomena, indentation methods, 3D printing, phase transition, mechanics of materials, fabrication of modern composites, manufacturing, offshore naval structures, and ship design. Key words: Bionanotechnology; Biodegradabple polymers; 3D printing; Biomedical materails; Shape memory alloys; Bio-applications of carbon-base materials

Nezar H. Khdary obtained his PhD from the University of Southampton, UK 2005. He is a member of Royal Society of chemistry (MRSC,CChem), American Chemical Society, The New York Academy of Sciences, Saudi Chemical Society and Saudi Computer Society,. In 2012 he nominated an assistant professor visitor at Northwestern University. Currently Dr. Khdary is associate professor at King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology) KACST, Saudi Arabia.

His interest in nanoparticles synthesis, modification and applications, public health and computer graphic software.

Edgar Escultura completed PhD, University of Wisconsin, 1970; academic career interrupted 16 years plus 11 years to return with the solution of the gravitational n-body problem (Nonlinear Analysis: Theory, Methods and Applications (NA; TMA) 38(8), 1997); published over 60 papers in reputable journals including counterexample to Fermat’s last theorem (Nonlinear Studies, 5(2), 1998), proof of Goldbach’s conjecture (Neural, Parallel and Scientific Computation (NPSC), 17(2009)), grand unified theory (GUT) (NA:TMA, 69(3), 2008)), constructivist new real number system (NPSC, 17(2009)), 1998)), mathematics of GUT (NA:TMA, 71(2009)), qualitative model of atom (Nonlinear Analysis: Real World Applications, 11(2009)); an editor, Science Domain International.

Professor Xuanhui Qu is the Cheung Kong Scholars Program Professor in Materials and the Dean of Institute for Advanced Materials and Technology at University of Science and Technology Beijing. Dr. Qu received his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Central South University in 1981, 1984 and 1992 respectively. During 1986 to 1988, he was studying and working as a visiting scientist at The University of British Columbia (Canada). He is the standing committee member of Chinese Materials Research Society and the President of Powder Metallurgy Branch of Chinese Society for Metals. He is the editor-in-chief and vice-editor-in-chief of “Powder Metallurgy Technology” and “Powder Metallurgy Industry” respectively, and serves as the member on the editorial board of over ten journals. Professor Qu's publication list exceeds 420 articles covering advanced particulate materials and powder metallurgy processing. He has co-authored 5 books and got over 100 patents.

Powder Metallurgy, Composites, Energy Materials, Nanomaterials, Numerical Modeling and Simulation

Hyung Hee Cho received the Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA in 1992. Since 1995, he is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Yonsei University, Seoul, KOEAR and he is currently a president of University-Industry Foundation. His major research interests include heat transfer and thermal management for high temperature devices and he has published more than 150 papers in reputed journals. Based on his renowned reputation, he has been appointed as an Underwood Distinguished Professor at Yonsei University. He is also a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a general member of the National Academy of Engineering of Korea.

Xiaoliang Wei is a staff scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States. His research experience includes electrochemical energy conversion and storage, dielectric energy storage, and surface morphology studies of self-assembled monolayers. The current focus of his work is to develop novel component materials for various aqueous and non-aqueous redox flow batteries. Dr. Wei has authored and co-authored more than 30 journal publications, 6 patent applications, and 1 book chapter. Dr. Wei received his PhD degree in chemistry from Brown University in 2009, and his BS degree in materials science & engineering from University of Science and Technology of China in 2003.

Dr. Yuanzhi ZHU is the Beijing Great Wall Scholars Program Professor in Materials Science and Engineering at North China University of Technology. Prior to this, he was a Professor at Wuhan University of Science and Technology. Before he moved to Wuhan, he had worked in Hunan University and Lianyuan Iron & Steel Company for 5 and 6 years, respectively. During 2010.9-2011.9, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. He obtained his B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Central South University. He was also awarded “1000 talents of Beijing” Scholarship. Professor ZHU has published 120 articles covering advanced material characterization and processing.

Novel material characterization, Materials processing, powder metallurgy, porous mateirals

Dr. Zhi Sun has completed his PhD in 2011 from KU Leuven. He is currently a Senior Researcher at Delft University of Technology. His main research interests include metal recycling from urban mines and industrial waste and materials design for recycling. He has published more than 40 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of Journal of Powder Metallurgy and Mining and American Journal of Environmental Engineering and Science.

Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff received his BA in Physics with Education from Universiti Putra Malaysia, his MSc. in Applied Physics from Universiti Malaya, and his PhD in Physics from Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil. After graduation in 2011, he joined the faculty in the Department of Information Display at the Kyung Hee University as a post-doctoral fellow studying organic photovoltaic (OPV), organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs), and quantum-dots light emitting diodes (QLEDs). In 2012, he was promoted as a Research Professor at Kyung Hee University and continues working on OPV and OLEDs as well as QLEDs. In 2012, he became the group leader responsible for the development of high efficiency OPV joint program between South Korea and Japan. In early 2015, he was selected as a Guest Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne, where he works closely with Professor Md. Khaja Nazeeruddin on perovskite solar cells. He has published more than 60 articles in these fields and being invited to various seminars and conferences. He also contributed 4 book chapters and edited 2 books on graphene under Wiley-VCH Verlag; i) Graphene-based Energy Devices and ii) Graphene Optoelectronic: Synthesis, Characterizations, Properties, and Applications. In addition, we is also one of the technical organizing committees for the 3rd Conference on New Advances in Condensed Matter Physics (NACMP 2016, February 28-March 1), Beijing, China. Furthermore, he was also an Editor-in-Chief of Theme Collection in Nanoscale (Graphene-based Energy Devices) (Royal Society of Chemistry).

His research interests include electronic properties of organic semiconductor thin films, charge transport properties, device physics, organic and inorganic-based light emitting devices, organic photovoltaic and organic transistors.

CHARLES A. WEATHERFORD Ph.D. is an Associate Vice President for Research, Professor of Physics, and Director of the Center for Plasma Science and Technology at Florida A&M University
EDUCATION: B.S. in Physics, 1969, Louisiana State University; Ph.D. in Physics, 1974, Louisiana State University, major area; Atomic and Molecular Physics, minor area; Solid State Physics
AWARDS: 1999 Professional Excellence Award-Florida A&M U. (FAMU); 2000 Service Award- FAMU; 2007 Elected Fellow of the National Society of Black Physicists; 2010 Researcher of the Year at FAMU
EMPLOYMENT RECORD: 1974-1977: Postdoctoral Fellow, FAMU; 1978-Present: Assistant-, Associate-, Full-Professor, FAMU; Chairperson of Physics: 1989-1999, 2005-October 2013, FAMU; October 2013-Present--Associate Vice President for Research, FAMU; Sabbatical Goddard Space Flight Center; Summers at: IBM-Almaden, NASA-Goddard, NASA-Ames, DOE Lawrence-Livermore, DOE Argonne; 2010-present--Director of the Center for Plasma Science and Technology, FAMU
Ph.D.’s Directed: Dr. Eddie Red (2005), Lawrence-Berkeley Laboratory, Morehouse; Dr. Daniel Gebremedhin (2013), FAMU Center for Plasma Science and Technology
PATENTS: Patent Disclosure 2015: “Field-Assisted Muon-Catalyzed Fusion”, Charles A. Weatherford

Simulation of laser-plasma interactions, quantum control, genetic algorithms, electron-molecule and photon-molecule interactions, fusion energy, materials science and density functional theory including orbital-free density functional theory.