IIT Kanpur Golden Jubilee Celebration

International  Conference on

Carbon Nanotechnology: Potential and Challenges

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA
December 15-17, 2010

INDIAN SOCIETY FOR ADVANCEMENT OF MATERIALS AND PROCESS ENGINEERING KANPUR CHAPTER

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Plenary Speakers/ Invited Speakers/ Invited Young Scientists

Plenary Speakers

Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick

Director, IIT-Patna

India

 

 

 

"Polymer Nanocomposites from Carbon Nanofiber as

Multifunctional Materials"
 

Prof. Eleanor E.B. Campbell
School of Chemistry
Edinburgh University
Scotland
Department of Physics
Konkuk University
Korea
"Growth, manipulation and 
nanoelectromechanical 
properties of carbon 
nanotubes"
 

 

Prof. Sadhan C. Jana

Department of Polymer Engineering

University of Akron

USA

 

 

"Challenges and Opportunities in the Development of Polymer Composites of Carbonaceous Nanofillers"

 

Prof. Esko I. Kauppinen
Department of Applied Physics

Aalto University School of Science and Technology

Finland

 

 

"SWCNT, N-SWCNT and       CNB synthesis and transparent and flexible      thin film electronics applications"

 

 

Dr. Yapa D. S. Rajapakse

Office of Naval Research

USA

 

 

 

"Advances in Nanocomposites and Composites Research at ONR"

 

 


 

Prof. Dr. Jurgen Schreiber
Fraunhofer Institut fur Zerstorungsfreie Prufverfahren
Institutsteil Dresden

Germany

 

"Application of CaNDit and BaNDiT for smart coatings, structural and human health monitoring"

Dr. Kazutomo Suenaga
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Japan

"Atomic defects in low-dimensional 
carbon structures"
 

Prof. Alberto Tagliaferro

Polytechnic of Turin

Italy

 

 

 

"Improvement of polymer characteristics by CNT addition"

 

 

 

 

Invited Speakers

Prof. Hiroki Ago
Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering
Kyushu University
Japan
 
 

"Controlled growth of horizontally aligned carbon nanotubes

and graphene for electronic applications"

 

 

Prof. S. Bandyopadhyay

School of Materials Science and Engineering 

University of New South Wales

Australia

 

 

"Polymer-nanometal-CNT

comoposites"

 

 

 

 

Prof. Deeptangshu S Chaudhary

Department of Chemical Engineering

Curtin University of Technology

Australia

 

 

"Probing CNT based bionanocomposites"

 

 

 

 

Prof. Manish Chhowalla

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Rutgers - The State University of New Jersey

USA

 

 

"Tunable photoluminescence from 
chemically derived graphene oxide"
 
 
 
 
 
Dr. Gyula Eres
Materials Science and Technology Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
USA
"The role of synthesis in 
carbon nanotechnology 
development"
 
 

Prof. Liu Gui-Rong

Director, ACES Center,

Department of Mechanical Engineering

National University of Singapore

Singapore

 

"Nonlocal elasticity theory

and analysis of carbon nanotube"

 

 

 

 

Prof. Ram B. Gupta

Department of Chemical Engineering

Auburn University

USA

 

 

"Supercritical CO2-based

mixing at nanoscale"

 

 

 

Prof. A.S.M.A.  Haseeb

Department of Mechnical Engineering

University of Malaya

Malaysia

 

 

"Nanocomposite based lead

free solder for advanced microelectronic packaging"

 

 

 

Prof. Yasuhiko Hayashi

Department of Frontier Materials

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Japan

 

 

"Ferromagnetic nanowire 
encapsulated inside carbon
nanotubes towards
spintronic application"
 

Prof. Mineo Hiramatsu
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Meijo University

Japan

 

 

"Carbon nanowalls:

synthesis and emerging applications"

 

 

 

 

Prof. Alma Hodzic 

Department of Mechanical Engineering

The University of Sheffield

UK

 

 

 

Prof. Mahesh V. Hosur

Materials Science Engineering

Tuskegee University

USA

 

 

"Polymer matrix/MWCNT nanocomposites"

 

 

Prof. Zheng Hu

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering,

Nanjing University

China

 

 

"Growth mechanism, structural regulation and energy-oriented functionalization of carbon-based nanotubes"

 

 

Prof. Yoong Ahm Kim

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Shinshu University

Japan

 

 

"DNA-wrapped double walled carbon nanotubes: Individualization,

optical characterization,

and applications"

 

 

Dr. Christopher T. Kingston
Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences
National Research Council 
Canada

"Green nanotubes - very high quality single-wall carbon nanotubes from biologically renewable carbon"

 

 

 
Prof.. Akira Koshio
Division of Chemistry for Materials
Mie University
Japan
 
 
"Formation of carbon nanostructures 
hybridized with metals and 
metal compounds inside"
 
 
 

Dr. Mukul Kumar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Meijo University

Japan

 

 

"Camphor-grown carbon nanotubes: from laboratory to industry"

 

 

Prof. I-Nan Lin

Department of Physics

Tamkang University

Tiawan

 

 

"Development and the application of conductive ultra-nanodiamond films"

 

 

 

 

Prof. Weijie Lu

Department of Chemistry

Fisk University

USA

 

 

"Controlled growth of epitaxial graphene and aligned carbon nanotubes on SiC"

 

 

Prof. Takahiro Maruyama 
Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Meijo Univeristy

Japan

 

 

"Carbon nanotube formation mechanism by surface

decomposition of SiC"

 


 

Prof. Mira Mitra 
Department of Aerospace Engineering

IIT-Mumbai

India

 

"Computational modeling for study 
of dynamic and wave characteristics
of carbon nanotubes"
 

Prof. R. Mohan

North Carolina A&T State University

USA

 

 

 

"Mechanical Property Predictions of Epoxy-CNT Composites and Effect of CNT Vacancy Defects"

 

 

 

Prof R Paskaramoorthy

School of Mechanical Engineering

University of the Witwatersrand

South Africa

 

 

 

Prof. S. Ram

Materials Science Centre

Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

India

 

 

"Optical properties of fullerene and composites"

 

 

Prof. Vijaya K. Rangari

Center for Advanced Materials

Tuskegee University

USA

 

 

"Metal and metal oxide coated CNTs their applications in thermoset and thermoplastic polymers"

 

 

Prof. K.S.V. Santhanam
Director, Center for Materials Science 
and Engineering
Department of Chemistry
Rochester Institute of Technology
USA

"Projected usage of carbon nanotube composites in the world of medicine and orthopedics"

 

 

 
Prof. Yoshiyuki Suda
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Toyohashi University of Technology
Japan

 

"Growth and TEM observation
of helical carbon nanofibers, application of helical carbon nanofibers
to field emission display, and application of carbon nanoparticles
to fuel cell and supercapacitor"

Dr. Kazutomo Suenaga
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Japan

"Atomic defects in low-dimensional 
carbon structures"
 

Prof. Shinzo Suzuki
Department of Physics
Kyoto Sangyo University

Japan

 

 

"Dispersion of carbon nanotubes 
made with arc-burning technique 
in nitrogen and other inert gas 
atmosphere"
 
 

Prof. D. K. Tripathy

IIT-Kharagpur

Vice-Chancellor, VSS University of Technology

India

 

 

"Nanocomposites"

 

 

 

 

 

Prof. Hiroyuki Yokoi
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Kumamoto University

Japan

 

 

"Megagauss study of the 
excitonic states in 
single-walled 
carbon nanotubes"
 
 

Invited Young Scientists

Dr. Stefano Bianco
Italian Institute of Technology-IIT@POLITO
Centre for Space Human Robotics
Italy
 
 

"Nanocomposites based on

elastomeric matrix filled

with carbon nanotubes for

biological applications"

 

 

Dr. Castellino Micaela

Carbon Group

(http://www.polito.it/carbongroup )
Department of Physics
Polytechnic of Turin
Italy

"Carbon coatings for medical
applications"
 

Dr. Oleg A. Nerushev

School of Chemistry

Edinburgh University

Scotland

 

"Problems of CNTs synthesis

on Si chips and compatibility

of such techniques with

common silicon technologies"

 

Dr. Shashikant P. Patole

SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology

Sungkyunkwan University

South Korea

"Super growth of carbon

nanotubes using water

assisted chemical vapor

deposition"

Prof. Mohan Raja
King Abdulah Institute for Nanotechnology
King Saud University

Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

"Flexible nanocomposites for supercapacitors"

 

Dr. Manoj K. Singh
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Aveiro

Portugal

 

 

"Graphene based nanomaterial

for biomedical applications"

 

 

 

Dr. Ulka Bhimrao Suryavanshi

Department of Electric and Electronic engineering

Nagoya Institute of Technology

Japan

 

 

"Carbon nanotubes entangled with mesoporous materials"

 

 

Dr. Zhenquan Tan
Joining and Welding Research Institute

Osaka University

Japan

 

 

 

"Arrangement of metal 
nanoparticles on carbon 
nanotubes"

 

 

 

  to be updated..........