15-12-10

9:00 - 10:30

Inaugural Function             15th December, 2010 

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

9:00: Invocation

9:10: Inauguration of Conference (lighting of lamp)

9:15: Presentation of Bouquet to the Dignitaries

9:20: Welcome Speech by Dr. Kamal K. Kar, Chairman of Conference-India 

9:22: Background of ISAMPE by Dr. S. Sankaran, President of ISAMPE

9:25: Address by Dr. Mukul Kumar, Chairman of Conference-Japan

9:27: Address by Dr. Ram Mohan, Chairman of Conference-USA

9:30: Address by Prof. S.G. Dhande, Director IIT Kanpur

9:35: Address by Chief Guest

15-12-10

10:30 - 11:00

High Tea

Venue: Outreach Lobby

 15th December, 2010

15-12-10

11:00 - 12:00

Session 2: Carbon Nanotechnology-Nanocomposites    15th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair: Prof. Ashutosh Sharma, IIT-Kanpur, India               

Plenary Talk: "Carbon in its various forms as novel performance enhancers in rubber nanocomposites"

Speaker: Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick, Director, IIT-Patna, India

Session 3: Carbon Nanotechnology-Synthesis and Applications    15th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chairs: Prof. Eleanor E.B. Campbell, School of Chemistry, Edinburgh University, Scotland, Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Korea and Dr. Arvind Saxena, Defence Materials & Stores Research & Development Establishment (DMSRDE), India

15-12-10

12:00 - 12:25

Invited talk: "Carbon nanowalls: Synthesis and emerging applications"

Speaker: Prof. Mineo Hiramatsu

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Meijo University, Japan

15-12-10

12:25 - 12:50

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

Speaker: Prof. Zheng Hu

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Nanjing University, China

15-12-10

12:50 - 13:15

Invited Talk: "Polymer matrix/MWCNT nanocomposites: Challenges and opportunities as materials for structural applications"

Speaker: Prof. Mahesh V. Hosur

Materials Science Engineering

Tuskegee University, USA

15-12-10

13:15 - 14:00

Lunch

Venue: Adjacent to Outreach and SAC

15-12-10

14:00 - 15:00

Session 4: Carbon Nanotechnology-Nanocomposites    15th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair: Prof. Anil K. Bhowmick, Director IIT-Kanpur, India

Plenary talk: "Advances in nanocomposites and composites research at office of naval research"

Speaker: Dr. Yapa D. S. Rajapakse

Office of Naval Research, USA

Session 5: Carbon Nanotechnology                           15th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chairs: Prof. K.S.V. Santhanam, Department of Chemistry, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA and Prof. Mira Mitra, Department of Aerospace Engineering, IIT-Mumbai, India

15-12-10

15:00 - 15:25

Invited talk: "Development and the application of conductive ultra-nanodiamond films"

Speaker: Prof. I-Nan Lin

Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tiawan

15-12-10

15:25 - 15:50

Invited talk: "Mechanical property predictions of epoxy-CNT composites and effect of CNT vacancy defects"

Speaker: Prof. Ram Mohan

North Carolina A&T State University, USA

15-12-10

15:50 - 16:15

Invited talk: "Camphor-grown carbon nanotubes: From laboratory to industry"

Speaker: Dr. Mukul Kumar
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Meijo University, Japan

15-12-10

16:15 - 17:00

Tea

Session 6: Poster Session (16:15 to 17:00 hrs)

Venue: Outreach Lobby

Judges:

001: "Fabrication of carbon nano rods/needles using PLD technique"

A.Kushwaha and R.K.Thareja

Department of Physics, IIT Guwahati, Department of Physics, IIT Kanpur, India

002: "Synthesis of carbon nano materials using cheap and harmless carbon source -phenol formaldehyde resin"

Jyoti Prakash, D. Sathiyamoorthy, J. Bahadur, D. Sen, S. Mazumder, and Bhaskar Paul

Powder Metallurgy Division, Solid State Physics Division, Material Processing Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai-400085, India

003: "Study of single walled nanotubes (SWCNT) synthesis in CVD using Au nanoparticles as catalyst"

Yasui Takanari, Sandip Purane, and Funaki

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Nagaoka University of Technology

1603-1 Kamitomioka-machi Nagaoka 940-2188 Niigata, Japan

004:"Introduction of ferromagnetic ordering in carbon nanotubes due to defects and deformations"

Brahmananda Chakraborty, Pradip Das, P. Modak,  K.S Hazra, Neha Kulshrestha, Jagannathan_, D. K. Avasthi, D. S. Misra and S. Banerjee

Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India

Institute of Materials Science, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India

Inter–University Center for the Accelerators, New Delhi, Department of Atomic Energy, Mumbai, India

005: "Performance and reliability analysis of mixed CNT bundle Vs SWCNT bundle as IC interconnects"

Nisha Kuruvilla and J.P. Raina

Department of Electronics, College of Engineering, Chengannur, Kerala, India

Center of Nanotechnology Research, VIT University, Vellore, Tamilnadu, India

006: "Scalable spray coating of carbon nanotubes on hyperbranched polymer nanofibers"

Santosh Kumar Yadav, Hye Jin Yoo, Hyun Hee Kim and Jae Whan Cho

Department of Textile Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea

007: "Carbon Dating – Ages Unvieled"                                                

Akshay Singh

Information Technology, Jaipur Engineering College, Jaipur, India

008: "Surface modification of single wall carbon nanotube sheets (Bucky paper) through plasma treatment for the improvement in their field emission"

Reeti Bajpai, Soumyendu Roy, Neha Kulshrestha, Kiran Hazra, Dipti Mohapatra, Lokendra Jain and D. S. Misra

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India

009: "A review on potential health risks associated with carbon nanostructures"

Adarsh B.Vasista

Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan-573201, Karnataka, India

010: "Effect of functionality on amination of multi-walled carbon nanotubes"

Priyanka Singh, Bhushan Gadgil, I. Srikanth, and Suresh Gokhale

Physical and Materials Chemistry Division, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India

Ceramic Matrix Composite Division, Advanced Systems Laboratory, Hyderabad 500058, India

011: "Synthesis of helical carbon nanotubes and their field emission characteristics"

R.Kamalakannan, Kalpataru Panda, B.Sundaravel, V.Thomas Paul, M.Kamruddin, A.K.Tyagi

Materials Science Group and Metallurgy and Materials Group, Indira Gandhi centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, India

012: "Synthesis of graphene/graphite oxide and it’s applications in nanoelectronics"

V. Kranthi Kumar, P. Dinesh Kumar,  P. S. Venkateswaran and Dushendra Babu

Anna University, Chennai, India

013: "Electronic properties of ultrananocrystalline diamond surfaces"

Kalpataru Panda, B. Sundaravel, P. Magudapathy, B.K. Panigrahi, K.G.M. Nair, I-Nan Lin

Materials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603 102, India.

Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tamsui 251, Taiwan, R.O.C

014: "Correlation functions and nonequilibrium electronic transport for gas flow over a DNA functionalized carbon nanotube"

P. Poonam and Nivedita Deo

Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India

015: "Preparation of carbon nanotubes from leaves of mentha arvensis by CVD: An environment-friendly nanotechnology method"

Avinash Sethi, Mahima Sharma, YK Vijay, Sumita Kachhwaha^, SL Kothari

Centre for Converging Technologies, Botany Department, and Physics Department, University of Rajasthan, JLN Marg, Jaipur, 302015, India

016: "Fabrication of coaxial fibrils of multiwall carbon nanotube/polypyrrole"

Ravi Bhatia, V. Prasad and Reghu Menon

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India

017: "Electron transport in aligned and randomized multiwall carbon nanotubes"

Ravi Bhatia, V. Prasad and Reghu Menon

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India

018: "Structural and photoluminescence properties of ZnO (core)/graphite (shell) nanowires"

I. Sameera and V. Prasad

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore-560012, India

019: "Evaluation of carbon to carbon nanotubes conversion on Co, Fe and Fe-Co catalysts"

Kashinath N. Patil, Sanjay M. Mahajani and Chetan S. Solanki

Department of Energy Science and Engineering and Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400 076, India

020: "Realization of PZT thin films directly on diamond substrates without any buffer layer"

Maneesh Chandran, Brajesh Tiwari, S.S Bhattacharya, M.S. Ramachandra Rao

NFMTC, Department of Physics, IIT Madras, Chenai-36, India

021: "Nanocrystalline diamond films on Cu substrates using hot filament CVD"

Sriram Vijayan, Maneesh Chandran, C.R. Kumaran, M Kamaraj and M.S. Ramachandra Rao

Department of Metallurgical &Materials Engineering, Department of Physics, Nano Functional Materials Technology Centre and Materials Science Research Centre,  Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai – 600 036, India

022: "Surface patterning and growth of carbon nanotubes using iron-oleate complex"

Alok Kumar Srivastava, K. Mukhopadhyay and Ashutosh Sharma

NanoScience & Technology Division, Defence Materials and Stores R&D Establishment(DRDO),G.T. Road, Kanpur, India

Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India

023: "Synthesis and characterization of carbon-nitrogen(C-N) nanotubes using tri-ethylamine (TEA)-ferrocene as a precursor"

Ram Manohar Yadav
Department of Physics, VSSD(PG) College Kanpur, India

024: "Synthesis of PAN/MWCNT nanocomposites: Study of electrical conductivity"

Ajaya K Pradhan and Sarat K Swain

Department of Chemistry, North Orissa University, Takatpur, Baripada-757003, India

025: "Effect of carbon black and fly ash fillers on mechanical properties of composites"

R.Satheesh Raja, K.Manisekar, and V.Manikandan

Department of Mechanical Engineering, PET Engineering College, Vallioor-627117, India

Centre for Manufacturing Sciences, National Engineering College, Kovilpatti-628503, India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, SVCET, Puliangudi-627855, India

026: "Effects of calcium carbonate nanoparticles on the thermal and optical properties of poly methyl methacrylate and polystyrene"

Manoj Kumar Pal, Beena Singh, Anupam Singh and Jaiswar Gautam

Department of Chemistry, Hindustan College, Farah, Mathura, India

Department of Chemistry, IBS, Dr. B. R. Ambedkar University, Agra, India

027: "Synthesis and characterization of polystyrene nanoparticles functionalized graphene/carbon nanotube hybrid composite"

Archana S. Patole, Shashikant P. Patole, Ji-Beom Yoo, Jeong-Ho An and Tae-Ho Kim

Department of Polymer Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440–746, Republic of Korea

SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology (SAINT), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, 440–746, Republic of Korea

028: "Carbon nano tubes and related structures – synthesis & application from DRDO view point"

Kingsuk Mukhopadhyay and K.U. Bhaskar Rao

Defence Materials & Stores Research & Development Establishment (DMSRDE)

DMSRDE Post Office: G. T. Road, Kanpur 208013; State Uttar Pradesh; India

029: "Interfacial evaluation and mechanical failure study of carbon fibre reinforced epoxy based composites for the structural application

Arunkumar K., Akash Mohanty, V. K. Srivastava

School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Vellore, 632014; India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi, 221005; India

15-12-10

17:00 - 18:00

Session 7: Carbon Nanotechnology-Nanocomposites    15th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chairs: Dr. Yapa D. S. Rajapakse, Office of Naval Research, USA

and Prof. Ram B. Gupta, Department of Chemical Engineering, Auburn University, USA

Plenary talk: "Challenges and opportunities in the development of polymer composites of carbonaceous nanofillers"

Speaker: Prof. Sadhan C. Jana

Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, USA

15-12-10

18:00 - 19:30

Cultural Programme

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

15-12-10

19:30

Dinner

Venue: Adjacent to Outreach and SAC

16th December, 2010

Session 8: Carbon Nanotechnology    16th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chairs: Prof. Ram Mohan, North Carolina A&T State University, USA

and Prof. D. Sathiyamoorthy, Powder Metallurgy Division, and Professor of Homi Bhabha National Institute, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, India

16-12-10

9:00 - 9:25

Invited talk: "Supercritical CO₂-based mixing at nanoscale"

Speaker: Prof. Ram B. Gupta

Department of Chemical Engineering

Auburn University, USA

16-12-10

9:25 - 9:50

Invited Talk: Synthesis and characterization of CNTs from calcined petroleum coke by thermal plasma route

Speaker: P.S. Mukherjee

Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR) –BHUBANESWAR-751013, (Orissa), India

16-12-10

9:50 - 10:15

Invited talk: "Surfactant-free, cross linked PVA/SWCNT nanocomposite thin film materials: Fabrication and characterization"

Speaker: Prof. S. Bandyopadhyay

School of Materials Science and Engineering 

University of New South Wales, Australia

16-12-10

10:15 - 10:40

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

Speaker: Prof. Mira Mitra

Department of Aerospace Engineering

IIT-Mumbai, India

16-12-10

10:40 - 11:05

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

Speaker: Prof. Vijaya K. Rangari

Center for Advanced Materials

Tuskegee University, USA

16-12-10

11:05 - 11:15

Tea

Venue: Outreach Lobby

16-12-10

11:15 - 12:15

Session 9: Carbon Nanotechnology              16th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair: Prof. Sadhan C. Jana, Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron, USA

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

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Juergen Schreiber

Fraunhofer Institut für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren
Institutsteil Dresden, Germany

Session 10: Carbon Nanotechnology                             16th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair:Prof. S. Bandyopadhyay, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia

16-12-10

12:15 - 12:40

Invited talk: "Projected usage of carbon nanotubes in orthopedics"

Speaker: Prof. K.S.V. Santhanam

Department of Chemistry

Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

16-12-10

12:40 - 13:05

Invited Talk: "Formation mechanism and property of carbon nanotubes grown by decomposition of SiC surface"

Speaker: Prof. Takahiro Maruyama

Department of Materials Science and Engineering

Meijo Univeristy, Japan

16-12-10

13:05 - 13:25

Invited talk:"Super growth of carbon nanotubes using water assisted chemical vapor deposition"

Invited Speaker: Dr. Shashikant P. Patole

SKKU Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology

Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

16-12-10

13:25 - 14:00

Lunch

Venue: Adjacent to Outreach and SAC

Session 11: Carbon Nanotechnology                                            16th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chairs: Prof. Mahesh V. Hosur, Materials Science Engineering, Tuskegee University, USA and Prof. I-Nan Lin, Department of Physics, Tamkang University, Tiawan

16-12-10

14:00 - 14:25

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

Speaker: Prof. Shinzo Suzuki
Department of Physics
Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

16-12-10

14:25 - 14:50

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

Speaker: Prof. Hiroyuki Yokoi
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
Kumamoto University, Japan

16-12-10

14:50 - 15:15

Invited talk: "Synthesis of helical carbon nanofibers and their electronics application"
Speaker: Prof. Yoshiyuki Suda

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

16-12-10

15:15 - 15:35

Invited talk: "Graphene based nanomaterial for biomedical applications"

Speaker: Dr. Manoj K. Singh

Department of Mechanical Engineering

University of Aveiro, Portugal

16-12-10

15:35 - 15:50

Contributed Talk: "Carbon micro/nano spring forest by CCVD method"

Speaker: Dr. Kingsuk Mukhopadhyay

Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE) India

16-12-10

15:50 - 16:05

Conrtributed Talk: "Nonequilibrium green’s function approach to study the effect of gas flow on electronic transport in a DNA functionalized carbon nanotube"

Prof. Nivedita Deo

Department of Physics and Astrophysics, University of Delhi, India

Session 12: Carbon Nanotechnology                                            16th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Seminar Room

Session Chairs: Prof. Zheng Hu, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

Nanjing University, China and Dr. B. Sundaravel, Materials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, India

16-12-10

14:00 - 14:25

Invited Talk: "Ferromagnetic nanowire encapsulated inside carbon nanotubes towards spintronic application"

Speaker: Prof. Yasuhiko Hayashi

Department of Frontier Materials

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

16-12-10

14:25 - 14:50

Invited talk: "Carbon biomaterials research and development: Present and future perspectives"

Speaker: Prof. N.M.Ramaswamy

Biotechnology Centre, Anna University of Technology Coimbatore,

Coimbatore – 641047, India

16-12-10

14:50 - 15:15

Invited Talk: "Nanocomposites based on elastomeric matrix filled with carbon nanotubes for biological applications"

Speaker: Dr. Stefano Bianco

Italian Institute of Technology-IIT@POLITO

Centre for Space Human Robotics, Italy

16-12-10

15:15 - 15:40

Invited Talk: "DNA-wrapped double walled carbon nanotubes: Individualization,

optical characterization, and applications"

Speaker: Prof. Yoong Ahm Kim

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Shinshu University, Japan

16-12-10

15:40 - 16:00

Contributed Talk: "Electronic properties of carbon and boron nitride based nanomaterials"

Speaker: Prof. Sugata Mukherjee

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences

Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700098, India

16-12-10

16:05 - 17:00

Tea

Session 13: Poster Session (16:00 to 17:00 hrs)

Venue: Outreach Lobby

Judges:

032: "Synthesis and properties of click coupled multi-walled carbon nanotubes with hyperbranched polymers"

Santosh Kumar Yadav, Jae Whan Cho

Department of Textile Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea

033: "Modeling of junction between metal (Au, Pt) and cyclic organic molecules"

S. Engles, V. K. Lamba, C. Arora, and D. Engles

Banasthali University, Jaipur, India

HCTM Kaithal, 3VICT Meerut, 4GNDU Amritsar, India

034:"Calculation of carrier density & effective mass in CNT for modeling its electronic properties"

V. K. Lamba, M.Verma, S. Dhariwal, D. Kaler, D. Engles

HCTM Kaithal, 2CEC, Chandigarh, 3GNDU Amritsar, India

035: Modeling of carbon-nanotube interconnects for VLSI circuit simulations and a comparison with Cu interconnects

Vipin Gupta

036: "Carbon nanotube antenna for future communication applications"

Sunil S. Kumar Raj, JNTU Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh, India

M. N. Swathi Bhanumathi, Swarnandhra Institute of Engineering and Technology, India

037: "Ab-initio  electronic structure calculations of graphene, graphite and hexagonal boron nitride"

Thaneshwor P. Kaloni and Sugata Mukherjee

S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block JD, Sector III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700098, India

038: "Nanorobots in HIV diagnosis and treatment: Scope and potential"

Nadella Naresh, K. Surendranath and KK Pulicherla

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Physics, Department of Biotechnology

R.V.R & J. C. College of Engineering, Chowdavaram, Guntur-19, A.P., India

039: "Effect of substrate temperature on pulsed laser deposited diamond like carbon thin films"

Indrajeet Kumar and Alika Khare

Department of Physics

Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Guwahati ,781039, India

040: "Development of carbon composite with SiC coating for high temperature nuclear applications"

Ramani Venugopalan, Jyoti Prakash, N.  Jitendra, C. G. S. Pillai, D. Sathiyamoorthy and A. K. Tyagi

Powder Metallurgy Division, Chemistry Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre,  Mumbai-400085, India

041: "Study on dry slide wear behaviour of carbon fabric reinforced composites"

P. Arivalagan

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tamilnadu College of Engineering, Karumathampatty

Coimbatore-641659, India

042: "Synthesis and charaterization of nanostructured PbS"

W. B. Gurnule and R. H. Gupta  

Department of Chemistry, Kamla Nehru Mahavidyalaya, Nagpur-440 009, India

Department of Chemistry, K.Z.S. Science College, Kalmeshwar, Nagpur, India

043: "Synthesis and structural and properties of Sr-Cu-Mn hexaferrite particles"

 Pratiksha Patel and R.B.Jotania

Department of Physics, University School of sciences, Gujarat University

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India

044:"Bio-Molecules, Nano-particle and Earthquake Prediction"

Awadhesh Kumar Singh and  Narendra Singh

Maharaja Agrasen Institute Technology, Rohini, Delhi-110086, India

Gaya College, Magadh University, Gaya, India

045: "Structural and physical properties of Ba-Mg M type hexaferrite particles using sol-gel auto-combustion route in presence of surfactants"

S.R. Paladiya, C.C. Chauhan and R.B. Jotania

Indus Institute of Technology & Engineering, Rancharda via Thaltej, Ahmedabad - 382 115, Gujarat, India

046: "Effects of fiber volume on the physical and mechanical properties of sisal/natural rubber composites"

A. Danladi, E. G. Kolawole,  K. A. Bello and A. R. B. Ibrahim

Department of textile Science and Technology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria. Nigeria

047: "Electrochemical-assisted immobilization of anticancer drug Doxorubicin within carbon nanotube modified electrode"

Puchakayala Swetha, Annamalai Senthil Kumar, Sri Krishna Yasaswi Maddirala and Murugesh Shiva Shankar

Environmental and Analytical Chemistry Division,  School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore 632 014, India

Pharmaceutical Chemistry Division,  School of Advanced Sciences, Vellore Institute of Technology University, Vellore 632 014, India

048:"Modified carbon nanotube and nafion composite as electro-active matrix for immobilization of cholesterol oxidase on gold electrode for bioelectrode fabrication"

Madhuri Das and Pranab Goswami

Centre for Energy, Department of Biotechnology,Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati,Guwahati 781039, India

049: "Carbon Nano Tube: Introduction and in vivo toxicity effects on biological systems"

Nabeel Ahmad, Sanjiv Kumar Maheshwari, Intezar Mahdi and Anupam Shrivastav

Department of Biotechnology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering & Technology, I.F.T.M. Campus, Lodhipur Rajput Delhi Road Moradabad 244 102, India

050:"A reliable technique of device fabrication for electrical measurements on individual carbon nanotubes"

Neha Kulshrestha, Kiran Shankar Hazra, Soumyendu Roy, Reeti Bajpai, Deepti Ranjan

Mohapatra, Lokendra Jain and D. S. Misra

Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai-400076, India

051: "Carbon micro-flowers"

Kingsuk Mukhopadhyay and K. U. Bhasker Rao

Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment (DMSRDE)

DMSRDE Post Office – G. T. Road, Kanpur 208013; State Uttar Pradesh; India

052:"Synthesis of  nano structured carbon nitride from silk sericin"

Subrata Roy, P. Mathiazhagan, M. Prashantha and K. Ramesh

Central Silk Technological Research Institute, Bangalore – 560068, India.

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore – 560012, India

053: "Study of electronic properties of metal-semiconducting CNT
(Pristine and Si doped) structure

Ravi Nigam,   Suhail Habeeb,  and  Anish Priyadarshi

Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, IEC College of Engineering and Technology, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India,
Department of  Physics,  Jamia Millia Islamia , New Delhi, India,
Carlsys Technologies Private Limited, New Delhi, India

054: "Numerical evaluation of effective material properties of the multi shaped carbon fibre reinforced composite materials- A study at the interface"

C. Manikandan, Akash Mohanty, and V. K. Srivastava

School of Mechanical and Building Sciences, VIT University, Vellore, 632014, India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, IT-BHU, Varanasi, 221005, India

055: "Studies on dry sliding wear behaviour of carbon Fabric reinforced composites with fly ash cenospheres

P. Arivalagan, G.Chandramohan, B. Suresha and N.Palaniappan

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Tamilnadu College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India

Karpagam College of Engineering, Coimbatore, India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, The National Institute of Engineering, Mysore- 570 008, India

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Park College of Engineering and Teknology, Coimbatore, India

056: "Vibration characteristics of delaminated pretwisted cross-ply composite conical shells"
Sudip Dey and Amit Karmakar

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Jadavpur University, India

16-12-10

17:00 - 18:00

Session 14: Carbon Nanotechnology              16th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair:  Prof. Dr. Juergen Schreiber

Fraunhofer Institut für Zerstörungsfreie Prüfverfahren, Institutsteil Dresden, Germany

Plenary talk: "Improvement of polymer characteristics by CNT addition"

Speaker: Prof. Alberto Tagliaferro

Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

16-12-10

18:00 - 19:30

Cultural Programme

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

16-12-10

19:30

Dinner

Venue: Adjacent to Outreach and SAC

17th December, 2010

17-12-10

9:00 - 10:00

Session 15: Carbon Nanotechnology              17th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair: Dr. Mukul Kumar

Plenary talk: "Atomic defects in low-dimensional carbon structures"

Speaker: Prof. Kazutomo Suenaga
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)

Japan

Session 16: Carbon Nanotechnology                                            17th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair: Dr. Dipak Setua, Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment, (DMSRDE), India

17-12-10

10.00 - 10.20

Invited talk: "Carbon nanotubes entangled with mesoporous materials"

Speaker: Dr. Ulka Bhimrao Suryavanshi

Department of Electric and Electronic engineering

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

17-12-10

10:20 - 10:40

Contributed talk:"Inculcation of ferromagnetism in CNT’s"

Speaker: Dr. Ashok Ranjan

Defence Materials Stores Research and Development Establishment,

GT Road, Kanpur-208013, India

17-12-10

10:40 - 11:00

Contributed talk: "Sn/C  nano-composite anode material for lithium ion batteries"

Speaker: Prof. Jacob Muthu

School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering

Session 17: Carbon Nanotechnology                                            17th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Seminar room

Session Chairs: Prof. Vijaya K. Rangari, Center for Advanced Materials, Tuskegee University, USA and Dr. P.S.Mukherjee, Institute of Minerals & Materials Technology (CSIR) –BHUBANESWAR-751013, (Orissa), India

17-12-10

10:00 - 10:20

Invited talk: "Arrangement of metal nanoparticles on carbon nanotubes"

Speaker: Dr. Zhenquan Tan
Joining and Welding Research Institute

Osaka University, Japan

17-12-10

10:20 - 10:40

Contributed talk:"Nucleation enhancement and electron field emission properties of diamond thin films"

Speaker: Prof. Debabrata Pradhan

Materials Science Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India

17-12-10

10:40 - 11:00

Contributed talk: "Li adsorption in novel nanostructures for energy storage applications"

Speaker: Prof. V.Gayathri,

Department of Physics, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, India

17-12-10

11:00 - 11:30

Tea

Venue: Outreach Lobby

17-12-10

11:30 - 12:30

Session 18: Carbon Nanotechnology              17th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

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

Japan

Plenary talk: "Growth, manipulation and nanoelectromechanical properties of carbon nanotubes"

Speaker: Prof. Eleanor E.B. Campbell

School of Chemistry, Edinburgh University, Scotland

Department of Physics, Konkuk University, Korea

Session 19: Carbon Nanotechnology              17th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chairs:Prof. Mineo Hiramatsu, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Meijo University, Japan and Prof. Nishit Verma, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India 

17-12-10

12:30 - 12:45

Contributed Talk: "In-situ synthesis of metallic electrodes for carbon nanotube termination" 

Speaker: Dr. Amit Saraiya

NST Division, DMSRDE, G.T. Road, Kanpur-13, India

17-12-10

12:45 - 13:00

Contributed Talk: "Evolution of strain in ultra nanocrystalline diamond films"

Speaker: Dr. B. Sundaravel

Materials Science Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam 603102, India

17-12-10

13:00 - 13:15

Contributed Talk: “Effect of temperature on growth of carbon nanotubes over carbon fibers”

Speaker: Dr. Bharti

Nanoscience and Technology Division, Defence Materials and Stores Research and Development Establishment, (DMSRDE); Kanpur-208013, India.

17-12-10

13:15 - 13:30

Contributed Talk: "Nanostructured carbon and polymer as acceptor and donor materials for energy conversion devices"

Dr. Debmalya Roy

Nanoscience and Technology Division, DMSRDE, G.T. Road, Kanpur-208013, India

17-12-10

13:30 - 14:00

Lunch

Venue: Adjacent to Outreach and SAC

Session 20: Carbon Nanotechnology              17th December, 2010

Venue: Outreach Auditorium

Session Chair:Prof. Yasuhiko Hayashi, Department of Frontier Materials

Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan

17-12-10

14:00 - 14:25

Invited talk:"Carbon coatings for medical applications"

Speaker: Dr. Castellino Micaela

Department of Physics
Polytechnic of Turin, Italy

17-12-10

14:25 - 14:45

Contributed Talk: "Effect of catalyst fabrication on the synthesis of high-quality thin-multiwalled carbon nanotubes: Sol-Gel vs. Combustion method"

Speaker: Prof. Prashant Dubey

Centre of Material Sciences, University of Allahabad, Allahabad-211002, India

17-12-10

14:25 - 14:40

Invited Talk: "Vegetable oil based polymer/multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) nanocomposites - Multi-facet advanced materials"

Speaker: Prof. Niranjan Karak

Advanced Polymer and Nanomaterial Laboratory, Chemical Sciences Department, Tezpur University, Napaam-784028, India

17-12-10

14:40 - 15:00

Invited Talk: "Prediction of Young’s modulus of defective single wall carbon nanotubes using finite element analysis"

Speaker: Prof. Mukul Shukla
Mechanical Engineering (Technology/Science)
Johannesburg, Republic of South Africa

17-12-10

15:00 - 16:00

Valedictory Function

and

Announcement of Awards for Best three poster presentations

Venue: Outreach Auditorium