Smart Materials

Koji Fujita received his B.Sc. degree from the Tohoku University in 2010 in aerospace engineering, and he got a Ph.D. at the Tohoku University under the supervision of Professor Hiroki Nagai. His research has focused on an airplane for Mars exploration. His thesis work involves the conceptual design of the Mars airplane and aerial deployment technique. He continued this research at Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency as a Research Fellowship for Young Scientists of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Now he is an assistant professor of the Institute of Fluid Science at Tohoku University. He started a joint research with co-authors to utilize dielectric elastomer actuators for his airplane for Mars exploration.

Actuator, Dielectric elastomer, Mars airplane, Wind tunnel, Wing

Dr. Shahria Alam is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, and Chair of the Civil Engienering Program at The University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus. He received his PhD in Civil Engineering from Western University in 2008. His research interests include smart materials and their structural applications in bridges and buildings; seismic isolation devices, seismic rehabilitation of structures; performance-based design; recycle/reuse of industrial wastes. Dr. Alam is the Chair of the Engineering Mechanics and Materials Division of Canadian Society for Civil Engineering (CSCE). He has published more than 200 peer reviewed articles. He is also the recipient of many national and international awards including CSCE Pratley Award 2015, and UBC Researcher of the Year Award 2018 and Moldovan Memorial Award 2014. He is currently serving as the Associate Editor of the Journal of Bridge Engineering, ASCE.

Superelasticity, Shape memory alloy (SMA), Seismic; Infrastructure.

Dr. Nader Ghareeb has completed his PhD in April 2013 from the RWTH Aachen University of Technology in Aachen, Germany. He is now working as an assistant professor in the mechanical engineering department at the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK). His research interest includes modelling and active control of smart structures, multi-body simulation and blast simulation.

Actuators and sensors, piezoelectric materials, shape memory alloys, smart materials

Angelica Chiodoni has completed her M. Sc. in Material Science (Università degli studi di Torino) in 2001 and her PhD in Physics in 2005 (Politecnico di Torino). At present she coordinates the Electron Microscopy facilities and laboratories of Centre for Sustainable Future Technologies - Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. She also coordinates a scientific activity addressed to photo-electro heterogeneous catalysis of CO2 reduction into valuable fuels and chemicals.

Ab-initio simulation, CO2 reduction, Dendrimers, Nanostructured catalysts

Yongmei Zheng, PhD, is a professor at School of Chemistry, Beihang University. Research interests are focused on bioinspired surfaces with gradient micro- and nanostructures to control dynamic wettability, and develop the surfaces with characteristics of water repellency, anti-icing, or fog-harvesting, tiny droplet transport, and so on. Publications are more than 100 SCI papers included in Nature, Adv. Mater., etc., with 12 Cover stories, and a book “bioinspired wettability surfaces: Development in micro- and nanostructures” by Pan Standard Publishing, USA. Her work was highlight as scientist on News of Royal Society of Chemistry, ChemistryWorld in 2014. She is a member of Chinese Composite Materials Society (CSCM), American Chemistry Society (ACS), International Society of Bionic Engineering (ISBE), and International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM). She wins an ISBE outstanding contribution award in 2016 by ISBE and an IAAM Medal in 2016 by IAAM, in Sweden. Her homepage: http://www.zhengyongmei.polymer.cn.

Bioinspired Surfaces, Wettability, Gradient Micro- and Nanostructures

Ying Zhu Doctoral Supervisor, Vice dean of School of Chemistry, Beihang University. She has undertaken more than 10 significant programs, including the National 863 Program, National 973 Program and National Science Foundation, and so on. She has already authorized 14 national invention patents, and 6 national and international invention patents are in publicity. She has been awarded as National Natural Science Award of China, Second Prize (2014); Beijing Science and Technology Award, First Prize (2012), New Century Excellent Talents in University, Ministry of Education (2008), K. C. Wong Post-doctoral Research Award Funding, Chinese Academy Sciences (2006).

Electrochemical catalysts, Energy conversion, CO2 conversion, Conductive nanomaterials

Vice President, KAST (Korea Academy of Science and Technology),Chief Officer of Information and Publications, KAST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Board Member, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Professor, Academician/Permanent Fellow, The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Professor Emeritus: Pohang University of Science and Technology, Advisory Committee Member of various Organizations

Permanent Fellow, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Publication and Information Director, Korea Academy of Science and Technology), Organizing Committee Member, Int. Conf./NEW3SC on High-Temperature Superconductivity, Professor of Physics, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea, Visiting professor at the Invitation of Nobel Laureate, Prof. R. B. Laughlin, Member, Korean Academy of Science and Technology, Board of Trustee Member, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Visiting Professor, Korea Institute of Advanced Studies, Director, Center for Theoretical Physics, Pohang Univ. of Science. and Technology 9. 2003 : Co-chair, International Conf.(MEW3SC) on High Tc Superconductors

Eri Yoshida has completed her Ph.D. from Tokyo Institute of Technology. She joined Kyoto Institute of Technology as an assistant professor. She was also a visiting scientist at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an associate professor of Toyohashi University of Technology. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications and over 20 patents. She has been serving as an editorial board member of several international journals. Her research interests include molecular self-assembly of amphiphilic block copolymers, controlled/living radical polymerization, molecular design of functional polymers, and polymer syntheses using supercritical carbon dioxide. The study in this paper concerns the molecular self-assembly of amphiphilic diblock copolymers prepared by the photo nitroxide-mediated controlled/living radical polymerization technique recently established by her research group.

Amphiphilic diblock copolymer, Artificial biomembrane models, Giant vesicles, Photopolymerization-induced self-assembly

Nick Bierwisch studied computer science from 1998-2003 in Leipzig. 2006 he started working in the field of contact mechanics and in 2008 he started being self-employed. Most of this work in this field was done with the Saxonian Institue of Surface Mechanics.

Contact Mechanics, Indentation, Optimisation, Scratch Test

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received a PhD- degree from Dicle University, Diyarbakir-Turkey. He studied at Surrey University, Guildford, UK, as a post doctoral research scientist in 1986-1987, and his studies focused on shape memory alloys. He worked as a research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became a professor in 1996, and he has already been working as professor. He published over 50 papers in international and national journals; He joined over 100 conferences and symposia in international and national level as a participant, invited speaker or keynote speaker with contributions. He served the program chair or conference chair/co-chair in some of these activities. In particular, he joined in last four years (2014 - 2017) over 30 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chair organized by South Asian Institute of Science and Engineering (SAISE), web: http://saise.org/, Science and Engineering Institute (SCIEI), web: http://www.sciei.org, International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, web: http://www.iacsit.org/, The Academic World Education and Research Center (AWER-Center), web: http://www.awer-center.org/, and other institutes and companies. Dr. Adiguzel served his directorate of Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Firat University in 1999-2004. He supervised 5 PhD and 3 M.Sc theses. He is also Technical committee member of many conferences. He received a certificate which is being awarded to him and his experimental group in recognition of the significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates the cooperation of his group and interest in Powder Diffraction File.

Shape memory effect and displacive phase transformations in shape memory alloys and other alloys, molecular dynamics simulations, alloy modeling, electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction and crystallography

Prof. BIPAN HAZARIKA is a Professor in Rajiv Gandhi University having more than 10 years of working experience. He has done his B.Sc in Mathematics from Arya Vidyapeeth College, Guwahati, Assam in 1996 & M.Sc in Mathematics form Guwahati University, Guwahati, Assam in 1999. He has also qualification of SLET & UGC-CSIR-JRF. He got his Ph.D from Mathematical Sciences Division form Institute of Advanced Study in Science and Technology (IASST), Guwahati, under Gauhati University, Guwahati Assam in 2008 having thesis title: Studies on I-convergnet sequence spaces. He has the area of Specialization of Functional Analysis. He is interested in Sequence Spaces, Algebra, Analysis, Fuzzy Analysis, Dynamical Systems. He has attended more than 10 international conferences and got his paper published on more than 130 international research papers. He has completed Project on "I-convergent sequences of fuzzy real numbers associated with multiplier sequences", UGC.

Sequence Spaces, Algebra, Analysis, Fuzzy Analysis, Dynamical Systems

Seiki Chiba was Executive Director for Advanced R&D Project Development, Stanford Research Institute (SRI International). He served on SRI for 22 years. Dr. Chiba was supervising advanced R&D programs including Japanese Government projects. Now, he is CEO & professor, Chiba Science Institute. He has published more than 367 papers in the various areas and has been serving as editorial board members of AWMC, Industrial Engineering & Management, Industrial Engineering & Management, Steel Structures & Construction, and Journal of Material Science. He has a Ph.D. in Metallurgy & Material Science from the University of Wales (Britain).

Actuator, Dielectric Elastomer, Generator, Marine Energy