2015 Plenary Speakers
Prof. Donal Bradley is the Lee-Lucas Professor of Experimental Physics, Director of the Centre for Plastic Electronics and Vice-Provost (Research) at Imperial College London. He is a co-inventor of conjugated polymer electroluminescence (1989) and a co-founder of Cambridge Display Technology Ltd (1992). He also co-founded Molecular Vision Ltd (2001) and sits on the Board of Solar Press (UK) Ltd. He is a named co-inventor for 25 patent families. Professor Bradley has published 563 ISI journal papers with > 48,800 citations (h-index = 95) and is a 2014 ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science. His contributions have been recognized by the award of a CBE (2010), Fellowship of the Royal Society (2004) and many prizes including the Royal Society Bakerian Lecture (2010), the Institute of Engineering and Technology Faraday Medal (2010), the Institute of Physics Faraday Medal (2009), The European Latsis Prize for Nanoengineering (2005), The Society for Information Display Jan Rachman Prize (2005) and the EU Descartes Prize (2003). |
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Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis was born in Thessaloniki, Greece in 1957. After obtaining a B. Sc from Aristotle University in Greece, he received his Ph D. in chemistry from the University of Iowa in 1984. He was a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Michigan and Northwestern University from 1985 to 1987 and is currently the Charles E. and Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern University. Mercouri moved to Northwestern in the fall of 2006 from Michigan State University where he was a University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry since 1987.His Research Interests are: Inorganic chemistry, solid state and coordination chemistry of chalcogenide compounds. Design of new materials, exploratory synthesis, thermoelectric materials, nanostructured materials, intermetallics, mesoporous semiconductors, phase-change materials, conducting polymers, intercalation chemistry applications of new materials. He has an h-index of 80, having thus far published some 548 ISI listed publications with > 25000 citations (ISI Web of Knowledge). |
Prof. Donal Bradley, Imperial College, UK2015 Keynote Speakers
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Prof. Donal Bradley, Imperial College, UK "Polymer Photonic Nano-structuring and Patterning" |
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Prof. Wolfgang Brütting, Augsburg University, Germany "Reducing energy losses in small-molecule organic photovoltaic cells" |
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Prof. Milan Damnjanović, NanoLab Group, Dept. of Physics, University of Belgrade, Serbia "Controllable magnetic phases in 13C nanotubes" |
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Prof. Abdalla Darwish, Physics and Pre-Engineering Dept., Dillard University, USA "Nanocomposite polymer-inorganic upconversion phosphor films made by the multiple-beam pulsed laser deposition method for photonic applications" |
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Prof. Antonio Facchetti, Dept. of Chemistry and the Materials Research Center, Northwestern Uni., USA "Polymeric Semiconductors for Printed Circuits and Energy Storage" |
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Prof. George Hadziioannou, LCPO, CNRS, France |
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Prof. Mercouri Kanatzidis, Northwestern University, USA "Understanding perovskites and their solar cells" |
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Prof. Efthimios Kaxiras, Department of Physics and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA "Properties of 2D layered heterostructures: theory and applications" |
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Prof. Bernard Kippelen, Georgia Institute of Technology, Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics, USA "Organic Electronics: the Endless Frontier" |
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Prof. Guy Le Lay, Aix-Marseille Université, France "Silicene and germanene: emergent synthetic graphene-like electronic materials" |
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Prof. George Malliaras, EMSE, France |
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Prof. Thomas Russell, Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA "Understanding Morphology Evolution and Device Performance" |
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Prof. Ravi Silva, University of Surrey, UK "Nano-Engineered Hybrid Carbon Nanotube Organic heterojunctions for Improved Photovoltaic Performance" |
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Prof. Sekitani Tsuyoshi, The Institute of Scientific and Industrial Research, Osaka University, Japan "Imperceptible sheet-type active matrix sensors for cyber–physical systems" |
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Ass. Prof. Alejandro Lopez Briseno, Polymer Science and Engineering, Uni. of Massachusetts, USA "Oligothiophenes as Model Systems for Investigating Relationships in Polymer Semiconductors" |
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Dr. Arnold Gillner, Fraunhofer-Institut für Lasertechnik ILT, Germany "High speed multi beam laser processing for flexible electronics" |
NANOTEXNOLOGY 2015 Invited Speakers (Preliminary list, updated daily)
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Prof. Elias Aifantis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece "Gradient Nanomechanics Across Scales and Disciplines: From Nanotechnology and Nanoenergy to Nanoneurology" |
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Prof. Thomas Anthopoulos, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Dept. of Physics, Imperial College London, UK "Advanced materials and patterning paradigms for plastic electronics, energy generation & harvesting systems" |
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Prof. Nicola Baldini, University of Bologna and Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli, Italy "Acid tumor microenvironment as a target for nanotherapies" |
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Prof. Philippe Barthélémy, University of Bordeaux & INSERM, France "Nucleoside-lipids as novel hybrid materials for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications" |
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Prof. Yvan Bonnassieux, Ecole polytechnique, LPICM, France |
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Prof. Mariano Campoy-Quiles, ICMAB, Spain "On the origin of light absorption in organic semiconductors" |
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Prof. Albano Cavaleiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal "Stability of Ag-containing nanocomposite coatings" |
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Prof. Arutiun Ehiasarian, Materials & Engineering Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK "High Power Impulse Magnetron Sputtering" |
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Prof. Yanglong Hou, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, China "High Performance Electrodes for Advanced Energy Storage Systems: Lithium Ion Battery and Supercapacitors" |
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Prof. Papken Hovsepian, Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research, HIPIMS Research Centre, Sheffield Hallam University, UK "Wear mechanism of nanostructured Mo-W doped Carbon coatings in dry and boundary lubrication conditions" |
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Prof. Dimitris Ioannou, George Mason University, USA "On the Physical Origin of the Memory Mechanism in Floating Body Memory Cells" |
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Prof. Kyriakos Komvopoulos, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California Berkeley, USA "Cell Membrane-Cytoskeleton Elasticity" |
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Prof. Gerasimos Konstantatos, The Institute of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Spain "Colloidal Quantum Dot Optoelectronics: Photodetectors and Solar Cells" |
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Prof. Djuro Koruga, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering University of Belgrade, Serbia "Water based Nanomedicine: Unthinkable ideas today, received wisdom tomorrow" |
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Prof. Gus Kousoulas, Louisiana State University-Tulane NIH Center for Biomedical Research, USA |
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Prof. Jerzy Leszek, Wroclaw Medical University, Poland "Nanotechnology for Alzheimer's deasease detection" |
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Prof. Aihua Liu, Qingdao Inst. of BioEnergy and Bioprocess Technology, China "Bio-mimetic Nanostructures Self-assembled from Genetically Engineered Phage or Fusion Proteins: Towards Applications in Biosensing and Biomedicine" |
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Prof. Michel Meunier, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada "Plasmonics enhanced ultrafast laser nanosurgery of living cells" |
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Prof. Yannis Missirlis, Lab of Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, University of Patras, Greece "Mechano-epigenetics" |
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Prof. Thimios Mitsiadis, University of Zurich, Switzerland "Stem cell niches and their innervation: use of microfluidic devices" |
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Prof. K. S. Narayan, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, India "Non-Fullerene based Heterojuction Films for Organic Photovoltaics and Retinal interface" |
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Prof. George A. Papadantonakis, Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA "When Good Cells Go Bad: the Role of p53" |
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Prof. Jiri Pfleger, Inst. of Macromolecular Chemistry AS CR, Czech Rep. "Exciton relaxation dynamics in poly(3-hexylthiophene) thin films with plasmonic nanoparticles" |
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Prof. Franco Rustichelli, Department Di.S.C.O., Polytechnical University of Marches, Italy "From Synchrotron Radiation to the most recent breakthrougs in Clinical Regenerative Dentistry" |
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Prof. Jesus Santamaria, Dept. of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, University of Zaragosa & Aragon Nanoscience Institute, Spain |
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Prof. Panagiotis Selviaridis, Dept. of Neurosurgery AHEPA Hospital, AUTh, Greece |
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Prof. Raman Singh, Dept. of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering and Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Monash University, Australia "Graphene Coating for Remarkable Corrosion Resistance: Current State and Challenges" |
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Prof. Masaru Tanaka, Dept. of Biochemical Engineering, Yamagata University, Japan |
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Prof. Katsuya Teshima, Department of Environmental Science and Technology, Shinshu Universiy, Japan "Flux method as new approaches to material fabrication and interface design for lithium ion rechargeable batteries" |
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Prof. Jacek Ulanski, Lodz University of Technology, Department of Molecular Physics, Poland "Relationship between morphology and charge carrier transport in ultrathin layers of conjugated polymers" |
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Prof. Geert Van Steenberge, Center for Microsystems Technology (CMST), Ghent University - IMEC, Belgium "Laser processing for large area polymer photonic applications" |
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Prof. Panagiotis Vasilopoulos, Concordia University, Canada "Polarized spin and valley transport across ferromagnetic silicene junctions" |
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Prof. Li-Min Wu, Dept. of Materials Science, Advanced Coatings Research Center of Ministry of Education of China, Fudan University, China "Hollow Colloidal Spheres and Their Self-assembly and Properties" |
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Prof. Yusheng Zhao, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA "High P-T nanoMechanics and Diamond Deformations" |
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Assoc. Prof. Katerina Aifantis, Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, USA |
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Assoc. Prof. Giovanna Orsini, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy "In vivo administration of dental epithelial stem cells in mouse incisor" |
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Assoc. Prof. Roisin Owens, Ecole des Mines de St. Etienne, France "Multi parameter monitoring of live cells using organic electronics" |
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Assoc. Prof. Ioannis Vizirianakis, Lab of Pharmacology, Dept. of Pharmaceutical Sciences, AUTh, Greece "Toward balancing cellular toxicity and selectivity upon developing innovative bifunctional anticancer therapeutics" |
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Assoc. Prof. Ting Xu, Dept. Chemistry & Material Sciences and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
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Assoc. Prof. Feng Yan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong "High performance biosensors based on solution-gated flexible transistors with functionalized gate electrodes" |
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Ass. Prof. Aram Amassian, Organic Electronics and Photovoltaics (OEPV) Lab, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia "Solution Processing of Light Absorbers for Emerging Photovoltaics: Organic Bulk Heterojunction and Perovskite Photovoltaics" "Two-Step Nucleation and Its Potential to Enable High Performance Large-Area Organic Electronics" |
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Ass. Prof. Sandra Carvalho, University of Minho, Portugal "MC3T3-E1 cell response of PVD-grown antibacterial thin films on piezoelectric PVDF Substrates for sensor applications" |
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Ass. Prof. Maria Chatzinikolaidou, Dept. of Materials Science and Technology, University of Crete & IESL-FORTH, Greece "Microfluidics in biomaterials for bone tissue engineering" |
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Ass. Prof. Konstantinos Papagelis, Dept. of Materials Science, University of Patras, Greece "Mechanical performance of a prototype graphene-based touch panel display" |
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Ass. Prof. Marco Polini, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy "Loss mechanisms in graphene plasmonics" |
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Ass. Prof. Maria Stefanidou, Laboratory of Building Materials, Civil engineering Department AUTH, Greece "Correlating mechanical properties in cement mortars in macro and nano scale" |
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Ass. Prof. Leonidas Tsetseris, Dept. of Physics, NTUA, Greece "Emerging electronic materials: insights from first-principles studies" |
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Dr. Nadja Adamovic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria "Custom Designed Thin Film PV Modules" |
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Dr. Sabine Amberg-Schwab, Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Germany "Barrier coatings based on hybrid polymers (ORMOCER®s) with extended shelf life, controlled quality, environmentally friendly" |
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Dr. Yuliy Bludov, University of Minho, Portugal "Linear and nonlinear graphene plasmonics" |
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Dr. Christine Boeffel, Fraunhofer IAP, Germany "Influence of substrate and barrier stack technology on the barrier performance" |
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Dr. Francesco Bonaccorso, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Graphene Labs, Italy |
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Dr. Margaret Brennan Fournet, Dept. of Bioelectronics Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, CMP-EMSE, France "Biomolecular detection via plasmonic nanoplates integrated with OECTs" |
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Dr. Athanasios Chatzisotiriou, Laboratory of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece "Nanotechnology in Neurosurgery" |
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Dr. Vassilios Constantoudis, Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, NCSR Demokritos, Greece "Hybrid nanometrology" |
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Dr. M. Lucia Curri, CNR IPCF, Italy "Nanocomposite Materials for Photocatalytic Degradation of Pollutants" |
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Dr. Konstantinos Daskalakis, Imperial College London, UK "Organic polariton condensates in all-dielectric microcavities: Polariton interactions and coherence properties" |
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Dr. George Deligeorgis, FORTH - IESL, Greece "Graphene ballistic high frequency integrated circuits" |
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Dr. May Falk, BASF SE, Germany "OLED Research at BASF: Simulation and Device Results" |
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Dr. Ilise Feitshans, Institute for Work and Health University of Lausanne, Switzerland |
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Dr. Oliver Fenwick, ISI, University of Strasbourg, France "Asymmetrically functionalised electrodes for organic electronics" |
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Dr. Konstantinos Fostiropoulos, Institute for Heterogeneous Material Systems, HZB, Germany "All-dry processed high efficient perovskite photovoltaic devices" |
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Dr. Emmanouil Glynos, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Michigan, USA "Glass Transition Behavior of Thin Polymer Films: The Effect of Molecular Architecture" |
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Dr. Frank Güell, University of Barcelona, Spain "Spatially controlled growth of highly crystalline ZnO nanowires by an inkjet-printing catalyst-free method" |
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Dr. Silvia Janietz, Dept. of Polymers and Electronics, Fraunhofer IAP, Germany "Smart chemical strategies for high performance polymers in organic devices" |
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Dr. Isaac Ojea Jimenez, Joint Research Centre, Institute of Health and Consumer Protection, Italy "Luminescent engineered nanomaterials for combined therapy and bio-labelling applications" |
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Dr. Mihaela Kusko, National Institute for Research and Development in Microtechnologies, Romania "Reliable nanostructured silicon based substrates for detection and diagnosis in molecular medicine" |
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Dr. Emmanuel Kymakis, Technological Educational Institute (T.E.I) of Crete, Greece "Solution processable graphene derivatives and related 2D crystals for high efficient organic and perovskite solar cells" |
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Dr. Julianna Lisziewicz, eMMUNITY, Hungary "Characterization of DNA/polymer Nanoparticles and Application for Cancer Immunotherapy" |
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Dr. Massimo Longo, Laboratorio MDM, IMM-CNR, Italy "Synthesis and functional analysis of Ge- and In-based nanowires for phase change memories" |
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Dr. Maria Magliulo, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy "Organic electronics biosensors for point of care applications" |
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Dr. Martyn A. McLachlan, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Materials, Imperial College London, UK "Nanostructured oxide electrodes for improved organic photovoltaics and organic light emitting diodes" |
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Dr. Christoph Merschjann, FU Berlin & Institute of Methods for Material Development at HZB, Germany "Ultrafast optical spectroscopy unveils charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride: dimensionality, mobility and functionality" |
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Dr. Nico Meyer, Coatema Coating Machinery GmbH, Germany "Flexible & Large-Area Organic Electronics: Equipment Solutions to transfer Processes from Lab to Fab" |
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Dr. Sergio Moya, CIC biomaGUNE, Spain "Design of hybid poly (lactide co glycolic) nanoparticles and in vivo fate studies for the assessment of nanoparticle degradation" |
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Dr. John Parthenios, FORTH/ ICE-HT, Greece "Strain Engineering in two dimensional atomic crystals" |
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Dr. Alain Penicaud, Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal - CNRS Université de Bordeaux, France "Fully exfoliated graphenide solutions, Few Layer Graphene from Food Waste and Applications" |
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Dr. David Peyrade, MicroTech for Health, LTM CEA - LETI, France "Microfluidic colloidal technologies:From ICT to health applications" |
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Dr. Daniel Popa, Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, UK "Ultrafast photonics with graphene and related materials" |
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Dr. Francesca Re, Dept. of Health Sciences University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy "The potential use of multi-functional nanoliposomes in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease" |
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Dr. Tobias Sauermann, Belectric OPV Gmbh., Germany "Stability of OPV and Current Application Showcases" |
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Dr. Ahmad Shahzada, ABENGOA Research, Spain "Novel hole transporters for perovskite pigmented Solar Cells" |
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Dr. Edsger Smits, Holst Centre / TNO, The Netherlands "Photonic processes in printed electronics" |
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Dr. Andreas Sperlich, University of Würzburg, Germany "Spin-Sensitive Probing of Charge Transfer and Triplet States in Organic Solar Cells" |
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Dr. Barbara Stadlober, Joanneum Research - Materials, Austria "Advanced micro- and nanomanufacturing of large area organic electronics and functional surfaces" |
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Dr. Roland Steim, Empa, Switzerland "Electrode materials and barrier foils for organic electronics – an overview on the R&D activities within the EU funded project TREASORES" |
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Dr. Thomas Stergiopoulos, Dept. of Physics, University of Oxford, UK "How fast-controlled perovskite crystallization kinetics reduce the recombination in thin film solar cells" |
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Dr. Jacek Szczytko, Institute of Experimental Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Poland "Dressed states of polaritons in microcavities - nanoengineering of quasiparticles" |
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Dr. Felice Torrisi, Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK "Large-scale Manufacturing of Graphene and Related Materials Inks for Flexible (Opto)electronics" |
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Dr. Monika Voigt, ZAE BAyern Regenerative Energies, Germany "Towards the development of printed semitransparent OPV modules" |
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Dr. George Volonakis, Dept. of Materials, University of Oxford, UK "Perovskite/Graphene interfaces: A first-principles study" |
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Dr. Michael Zenou, Orbotech Ltd., Israel "Digital Printing of 3D metal micro-objects by laser transfer methods" |
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Mr. Andreas Falk, BioNanonet, Austria "Safety strategy for market implementation in nanotechnologies" |
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Mr. Paolo Gasco, Nanovector, Italy |
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Ms Andrea Glawe, KROENERT GmbH & Co KG, Germany "Challenging developments for advanced R2R printing application for organic electronics" |
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Ms Athina Ikonomidou, Business Development & Tech Transfer Consultant, Greece "SME Instrument and Fast Track to Innovation funding tools" |
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Ms. Arhondula Papapanagiotou, LLM -Attorney at Law, Greece "IPRs for Business success" |
