Smart Materials

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

Prof. JL Hu obtained PhD from the University of Manchester in 1994 and then immediately became a faculty member of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has achieved international reputation for her insight in conventional and emerging research areas, particularly shape memory polymers and textiles. She has approximately 500 publications including 12 books with 7 related to Smart Polymers, particularly Shape Memory Polymers. She has about 40 granted patents and wide connections with industries. Prof. Hu is a frequently invited keynote/plenary speaker at different conferences. Prof. Hu received over 50 awards including Distinguished Achievement in Fiber Science from the US-based Fiber Society and the Gold Award two times on the Advanced Automatic Fabric Appearance Evaluation Systems by National Inventions Exhibition of China and First-Class Prize of Sang Ma Trust Fund Textile Science and Technology Award. In 2011, she was awarded the title of “China Textile Academic Leader” by the China Textile Engineering Society and also the recipient of China Elite Talent in 2012.

Bio-based fibers, Shape memory, Hydration, Hydrogen bond, Model

Prof. Rafal Kozubski completed his Ph.D. from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków in 1984. From 1987 to 1988 he was a post-doc at the Strasbourg Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials (IPCMS), France. From October 1993 to September 1995 he stayed at the Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Vienna, Austria as a Lise-Meitner Fellow. In 2006 he was appointed a full professor in the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. His international experience includes International Fellowship at the Queen’s University in Belfast (2006-2008) and visiting professorships at the L.Pasteur University in Strasbourg/University of Strasbourg, France (2007-2011). In 2016 he was appointed a Conjoint Professor of the University of Newcastle, Australia. He published over 100 scientific papers in international reviewed journals and is an author of over 150 communications on international conferences.

Intermetallic compounds, ‘Triple-defect’ disordering, Self-diffusion, Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation

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

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

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, anti-frosting, or fog-harvesting, tiny droplet transport, water collection, fog-harvesting and so on. Publications are more than 90 SCI papers included in Nature, Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. 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), member of Chinese Chemistry Society (CCS), 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

Dr. Aman Ullah received his PhD (with distinction) in Chemical Sciences and Technologies in 2010 at the University of Genova, Italy by working together at Southern Methodist University, USA. He worked as a postdoctoral fellow before accepting an Assistant Professor position at the University of Alberta. He has been promoted to Associate Professor with Tenure. He has been teaching a graduate course entitled “Renewable Biomaterials”. This course deals with fundamentals in bio-based materials development, characterization, and various industrial applications. Aman has published more than 49 papers in reputed journals 2 book chapters and 5 patents/patent applications. His research is focused on the development of biochemicals, biopolymers/biomaterials from lipids and other renewable resources. He has participated and presented his work in more than 100 National and international scientific meetings and conferences, including several invited, keynote and plenary lectures at conferences and research centres in Asia, Europe, and America. In addition, he has received several awards including Canadian Rising Star award by Grand Challenges Canada.

Renewable Biopolymers, Bioconjugates, Copolymers, Lipids

A. Ivankovic is Professor of Mechanics of Materials (since 2004) and Head of Mechanical Engineering Programs (since 2012), (Head of Mechanical Engineering Discipline 2006-2011). He is a founding director of UCD Centre of Adhesion and Adhesives established in 2010, and UCD-Bekaert University Technology Centre (UTC) established in 2015. He is also a Visiting Professor at Imperial College London, ex Head of Structural Adhesives Division of Adhesion Society (2014-2016), Irish elected member for International Fracture Society (2017-), an external examiner of ME Mechanical program at Trinity College Dublin (2016-). A.I. currently leads the research group of 5 MSc, 7 PhD students and 4 PostDoc researchers. The main research focus of the group is the process-structure-property relationship towards materials by design, which involves multi-scale characterisation and modelling of thermo-mechanical, damage and fracture behaviour and nano-modification and tailor design of polymers, composites, adhesives and super-hard materials. Recently, the group’s research also focuses on additive manufacturing. The group has access to excellent processing, thermo-mechanical testing, video, microscopy, analytical and high performance computing facilities. A.I. track record includes: i) 340 publications (105 journal, 5 book chapters, 230 conference), ii) 25 graduated PhD (4 of which are full Professors), 25 MSc students, 15 past PostDocs and 1 Marie Curie Research Fellow, iii) Awarded over €25M research funding since joining UCD in 2004 (total over €27M, ~€6M as PI and ~€21M as co-PI), iv) 1 patent, 1 licence, v) Strong links and collaboration with industry and academia both nationally and internationally, vi) Memberships of a number of scientific committees, editorial boards, review panels, coordination of an international ESIS Mixed Mode Round Robin.

Fracture, Modelling, Polymers, Composites, Adhesives

Dr. Jaehwan Kim joined the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Inha University, Korea 1996, where he serves as Inha Fellow Professor. Dr. Kim is a fellow of The Korean Academy of Science and Technology, National Academy of Engineering of Korea, and Institute of Physics. He is an associate editor of Smart Materials and Structure and editor of International Journal of Precision Manufacturing and Engineering. He has been the director of Creative Research Center for EAPap Actuator funded by National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF). Recently, he started another Creative Research Center for Nanocellulose Future Composites, sponsored by NRF. He has first discovered cellulose as a smart material, which can be used for sensors, actuators and electronic materials. His research interests are smart materials, structures and devices, renewable smart materials, cellulose, electroactive polymers, power harvesting and flexible electronics. He has published more than 270 prestigious journal papers, 310 international conference papers, more than 40 patents.

Cellulose, Renewable materials, Multifunctional materials, Nanocomposites

Mohsen Adeli started his independent academic carrier at Lorestan University in 2005, where he was active as assistant professor in the field of functional carbon nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes and dendritic polymers. In 2013, He was promoted to the rank of full professor in chemistry. In 2014, he was invited to the Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, as a guest professor within the collaborative research center (SFB) 765.His research focuses on the synthesis and characterization of functional hybrid nanomaterials.

Two-dimensional nanomaterials, Graphene, Polyglycerol, Biointeractions

Vladimir Buljak has completed his PhD in 2009 at Politecnico di Milano. Upon completing PhD he spent additional two years as post-doc within the same institution up to 2011. After that he moved to the University of Belgrade, Mechanical engineering faculty where he obtained assistant professor position at the Department of Strength of materials. From 2016. he holds associate professor position at the same institution. Since 2015 he is professor in charge as visiting professor for the course "Theory of plasticity" at Politecnico di Milano. He was visiting scientist at University of Trento in 2014, and German Federal institute for materials research and testing - BAM at Berlin in 2016. He was scientist in charge for University of Belgrade for European FP7-INT project CERMAT2, dealing with advanced ceramic materials. He published more than 20 papers in reputed journals and one book.

Ceramic powder compaction, Inverse analysis, Porous ceramics, Thermally induced cracking

Prof. Hongwei Zhu received his B.S. degree (1998) and Ph.D. degree (2003) at Tsinghua University. After Post Doc. studies in Japan and USA, he began his independent career as a faculty member at Tsinghua University (2008~present). He is the vice dean of School of Materials Science and Engineering. He has authored 3 books and 10+ invited book chapters, received 20+ patents and published 200+ papers in reputed journals.

Graphene, Sensors, Surface, Interface

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. Vera Popovich (Dept. of Material Science & Engineering) has two Master’s degrees in materials science and in 2013 she obtained her PhD at TUDelft, The Netherlands. Since 2016 she is an Assistant Professor at TUDelft, providing advance understanding and control of fracture mechanical behaviour and relating it to material’s microstructure and processing. She has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of several journals.

Additive manufacturing, Functional grading, Tailor-made properties, Ni-base alloys

Ramm obtained a B.S. degree in Mathematics in 1959 and an M.S. degree in 1961 both at Leningrad State University. He received Ph.D. at Moscow State University in 1964 and Dr. Sci. in 1972 at Mathematics Institute Academy of Science, Minsk. Ramm taught at Leningrad Institute of Precision Mechanics and Optics from 1962-1979. He was a Visiting Professor and Research Scientist at the University of Michigan in 1979-1981. He has been a Professor at Kansas State University since 1981 and lectured at many Universities and Research Centers around the world.

Transmission boundary conditions, Reports on Math. Physics

Prof. Hikmat S. Hilal has completed his Ph.D. on Catalysis Chemistry from UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER, MANCHESTER, UK.‎ in 1980. He is a full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry in An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine. Prof. Hikmat S. Hilal received the An-Najah Research Prize in 2015. Prof. Hikmat S. Hilal received the Saint Andrews Prize for Environment in 2000.

Flexible Solar Cells, Nano-Crystalline Semiconductor Surface Modification, Physical chemistry Aspects of Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy,Metalloporphyrin Intercalation Inside Clays And Zeolites

Hadi S. Al-Lami has completed his PhD at the age of 35 years from Sussex University and p He is working as Professor of polymer chemistry and In addition teaches courses in advance polymer chemistry, inorganic polymers, and biomaterial chemistry and supervising many M.Sc. and Ph.D. postgraduate students. He has published about 100 peer-reviewed papers and three books, beside 10 Iraqi Patents.

ATRP, Drug Delivery, Insulin, Nano triblock

Dr Allal BARROUG has completed a Bachelor of chemistry (1979) from Mohamed V University of Rabat in Morocco, a Third Cycle Doctorate (1982) on materials science from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse in France and a PhD (1989) on chemistry of interfaces from the Catholic University of LouvainLa-Neuve in Belgium. He is a professor at Cadi Ayyad University of Marrakech in Morocco and his research interests focus on the surface properties of apatites materials and bio-composites. His awards from Harvard Medical School of Boston in USA took him as a senior research scientist to work on “Apatites as Local Delivery System for Therapeutic Agents”. Dr A. BARROUG published over 60 articles in peer reviewed journals and conferences proceedings, and he is serving as a reviewer of many reputed journals.

Adsorption, Calcium phosphate, Local drug delivery, Release

Dr. Osman Adiguzel graduated from Department of Physics, Ankara University, Turkey in 1974 and received 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 research assistant, 1975-80, at Dicle University and shifted to Firat University in 1980. He became 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 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 significant contribution of 2 patterns to the Powder Diffraction File – Release 2000. The ICDD (International Centre for Diffraction Data) also appreciates 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 modelling, 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

Dr. (Ms) T.Theivasanthi of Kalasalingam University doing research in nanomaterials / nanotechnology; has 15 years of teaching experience; published many research articles/ books and h-index 10; life member of Indian Science Congress Association and Magnetics Society of India; member of International Association of Advanced Materials; serving as Editorial Board Member/ reviewer for some scientific journals; lead editor in JNNN special issue (SAGE Publications, UK); achieved many awards/ honours/ recognitions including - Madurai Women Achievers Award - 2013, Motivational Award - 2015 and 2015 Women’s Day Award of St.Annes College; achieved World Record in LIMCA Book of Records-2015 for nanotechnology invention “World’s first superparamagnetic plants materials” – named “Santhi Particles”, World Record– 2016 for innovative products "The World’s lowest priced graphene" & "World’s Smallest Particles of Vegetables" and World Record– 2017 for the invention "The World’s Smallest Anti-Viral Plant Particles". Other innovative products- Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles, Low cost-mass production of graphene, agricultural nanofertilisers, vegetable powder for diabetes, plants materials for diabetes & psoriasis and nanoparticles for treatment of EBOLA, DENGUE, HIV & H1N1 virus infection. Govt. of India shows interests to develop her inventions for the benefits of public; since Dec-2014, she has delivered lectures (more than 105) in International / National scientific conferences, foreign countries and renowned institutes like National Institute of Technology, Anna University, Central University of all over India; she delivered Motivational Lectures for women, students and staff of institutes / Multi-national corporate companies (Cognizant Technologies); Artha Nyana Academy (Malaysia), Intelligent Society of Malaysia etc. NanoDigest, Economic Times and Telegraph have published news about her research; Thanthi TV, All India Radio, Minnal FM (Malaysia) and Bernama TV (Malaysia) have broadcasted her interviews.

Advanced Materials, Superparamagnetic lead nanoparticles, Nanotechnology, semiconducting lead Nanoparticles