The Centre for Plastic Electronics is hosting its prestigious annual symposium on 10 and 11 June 2019, which Nanoscale is proud to support. It will take place at Imperial College London and has already attracted several high-profile speakers to discuss their latest advances in the science and technology of organic conducting materials and of organic/flexible electronics and photonics. The program includes a day of short talks and poster presentations by students and early career scientists giving them a platform to highlight their recent work.

More information and details of how to register is available on the website: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/centres/plasticelectronics/eventssummary/event_20-2-2019-14-14-7.

Abstracts submissions for poster presentations are open until the 31 May.  

The organisers are also delighted to host Prof Erwin Reisner of the University of Cambridge who will be giving his RSC Corday-Morgan Prize talk for his work on the development of solar-driven catalysis with molecularly engineered semiconductors and semi-artificial photosynthesis.

The symposium will cover all areas related to organic/plastic electronics and photonics, including chemistry, physics, materials science and device engineering. Confirmed speakers include:

• Christine Luscombe, University of Washington
• Andy Cooper, University of Liverpool
• Iain McCulloch, KAUST and Imperial College London
• Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge
• Kwanghee Lee, GIST, South Korea
• Henry Yan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• Ji-Seon Kim, Imperial College London
• Artem Bakulin, Imperial College London
• Maria Ibáñez, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
• Rachel Evans, University of Cambridge
• Oliver Dumele, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
• Hyejeong Seong, Imperial College London
• Rowena Brugge, Imperial College London
• Ludmilla Steier, Imperial College London
• Jess Wade, Imperial College London
• Alex Clark, Imperial College London

With more speakers being confirmed in the coming weeks, this will be an event not to miss!

If you cannot attend the Symposium, you can follow the hashtag #CPESymp19 on Twitter.

Attendees at the 2018 edition of the event. Credit Dr Jess Wade.

Nanoscale Horizons, Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the Nano Korea 2019 symposium which takes place from 2-5 July 2019!

Meet the Editor: Professor Dong Ha Kim, Associate Editor of Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances, will be attending Nano Korea 2019.

At Korea’s largest nanoscience and nanotechnology conference, internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join the four day conference to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field. The first day of the meeting offers a variety of tutorial sessions followed by talks and poster presentations throughout the rest of the meeting.

Topics

​The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.

The conference topics will include:

• Nanoelectronic devices

• 1D & 2D Nanomaterials

• Hybrid Nano Structural Materials

• Nanobiotechnology

• Nanotechnology for Energy & Environment

• Computational Nano Science & Technology for Nanomaterials

… and many others. Find an overview here.

Key Dates

Pre-Registration due 31^st May 2019

Full Paper Submission due 19^th July 2019

More information available on the conference website: http://sympo.nanokorea.or.kr/2019/eng/main/

The Nanoscale journal family was delighted to sponsor prizes at the recent Bioinspired Nanomaterials 2019 ECR meeting, at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Organised by Dr King Hang Aaron Lau, University of Strathclyde, Professor Carsten Mim, KTH Stockholm, and Professor Basit Yameen, Lahore University of Management Sciences, this meeting brought together researchers in biological structure characterization as well as bioinspired soft matter and bionanotechnology.

Congratulations to the prize winners:

Poster presentation prizes

1. Corrigan Hicks, University of Bristol

2. (joint) Mohammad Al Qaraghuli, University of Stratchlyde

2. (joint) Tales Rocha DeMoura, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Oral presentation prizes

1. Kevin Baumann, University of Cambridge

2. Colette Whitfield, Newcastle University

More photos and information are available on the event website: https://bio-nanomaterials-glasgow-2019.org.uk/

The 19^th IEEE Conference on Nanotechnology (IEEE-NANO 2019) will be held from 22-26, July 2019, in the Parisian Macao, Macau, China.

IEEE-NANO is the flagship IEEE conference on nanotechnology, which has been a successful annual conference since 2001. Recent conferences were held in Cork (2018), Pittsburgh (2017), Sendai (2016), Rome (2015), and Toronto (2014). This is only the 3rd time that the conference will be held in Greater China since its inception almost two decades ago (i.e., Hong Kong in 2007 and Beijing in 2013).

Topics

The conference scope spans both nanoscience and nanotechnology, including:

• Developing new nanomaterials or manipulating matter at nanometre length scale
• Studying the fundamental physical, chemical or biological properties of these nanomaterials and nanostructures
• Manipulating and optimizing nanomaterials and nanostructures to create new nanosensors, nanoactuators andnanoelectronic/nanophotonic devices.

Listed below are some of the more specific topics that IEEE-NANO 2019 will focus on:

• Micro/Nano Electro-Mechanical Systems (M/NEMS)
• Micro/Nano/Molecular Fabrication
• Nanomaterials
• Nanomaterial Based Devices and Systems
• Nanophotonics and Nanoscale Imaging
• Nanoscale Robotics, Assembly, and Automation
• Molecular Sensors, Actuators, and Systems
• Micro/Nano Fluidics
• Micro/Nano Mechanics
• Nanobiology/Nanomedicine

Deadlines

Oral Abstract Submission 15 February 2019

Poster Abstract Submission 15 May 2019

Early Bird Registration 15 June 2019

More information available on the conference website: https://2019.ieeenano.org/

Novel Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials for Real World Applications…

Nanoscale and Nanoscale Advances are delighted to support the 2nd Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials (POEM) Conference and the first Saint-Petersburg Academic University POEM conference!

Meet the Editor: Professor Andrea Ferrari, Associate Editor, will be speaking at POEM 2019.

Internationally known experts, including industry leaders, will join these four day conferences to discuss the most critical technological advances and innovations in the field of novel photonic and optoelectronic materials and systems for a wide range of applications in communications, computations, energy harvesting, bio-chemical sensing and artificial intelligence.

Topics

​The conference programme incorporates symposia covering a broad range of subjects in Photonic and Optoelectronic Materials (from 2D, chalcogenide and group IV materials, to organic and quantum dot nanomaterials, to liquid crystals and fluid nanocomposites), which creates an excellent platform to academia and industry delegates to build up national and international collaborative networks, exchange experiences and benefit from peer support.

The conference topics will include:

• 2D materials

• IV element-based photonic materials and devices

• Chalcogenide materials

• Quantum Dots and Nanowires

• Organic materials

• Liquid Crystals and Fluid Nanocomposites​

The conference programme will incorporate the following symposia:

• 2D Material Symposium

• Liquid Crystal Symposium

• THz Optoelectronics and Photonics Symposium

• Nanophotonics Symposium

• Energy Materials Symposium

• Metamaterials and Plasmonic Devices Symposium

• Smart Biosensors and Bioanalytical Systems Symposium

• Microscopy and Microspectroscopy of Nanomaterials Symposium

Key Dates

Abstract Submission 1^st March 2019

Registration 25^th March 2019

More information available on the conference websites: https://www.poem2019.com/and https://www.spb-poem.com/

The 1^st SNAIA2018 Conference took place in December 2018 and was a great success, attracting more than 200 delegates from around the world to discuss their work on smart nanomaterials.

The Royal Society of Chemistry was delighted to support student prizes at SNAIA2018. Congratulations to all  the prize winners!

The Best Student Talk Prize, supported by Nanoscale Horizons, was awarded to Joaquin Faneca (University of Exeter, UK) by Prof Jochen Feldmann (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany).

The Best Poster Presentation Prize, supported by Nanoscale, was awarded to Elcin Cakal Sarac (Istanbul University, Turkey) by Prof Laura Lechuga (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain).

The Best Poster Presentation Prize supported by Nanoscale Advances, was awarded to Alfio Torrisi (Nuclear Physics Institute, Czech Republic) by Prof Laura Lechuga (Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Spain).

The Best Student Talk Prize, supported by Journal of Materials Chemistry B,  was awarded to Ignacio Gonzalez (IFW Dresden, Germany) by Prof Pavlos Lagoudakis (University of Southampton, UK; Skoltech University, Russia).

Symposium ES19 – Excitonic Materials and Quantum Dots for Energy Conversion

May 29, 2019 to May 31, 2019

Location

Organisers

• Zoe Cournia (Academy of Athens, Greece)
• Adam Pecina (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
• Marco De Vivo (Istituto Italiano di Technologia, Italy)

Supports

   CECAM

 Nanoscale Horizons

 Nanoscale

 Nanoscale Advances

and more.

Description

Practical information: 

The deadline for registration is April 12^th (with final answers given on April 30^th)

Our workshop will host ~20 invited talks of 35 min (including Q&A). In addition to planned poster session, a few slots (~5) for short talks of ~25 min are available. If you would like to present your results, please mention your preferred format (contributed talk or poster) with your application.

This workshop will focus on the current challenges in computational simulations of nanoparticles, including their functionalization, from catalysis (nanozymes) to membrane interacting nanoparticles. In addition, the workshop will take advantage of several experimentalists working on nanoparticles interacting with materials and biological environment. Ultimately, we will discuss and debate on how computational methods can further evolve to build novel tools for a deeper understanding of nanostructures and nanomaterials.

Sessions will focus mainly on the methodological improvements for studying nanoparticles and their interaction with complex realistic environments, including protein membranes. We will discuss our models and approaches with experimentalists throughout the workshop’s sessions:

1. Nanoparticles and membranes
2. Functionalized Nanoparticles
3. Experiments meet simulations for nanoscience
4. Nanoparticles for health and technology

For more information please visit the workshop website: https://www.cecam.org/workshop-0-1823.html 

The Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF is organizing an International Nanophotonics School for PhD students and postdocs that will focus on hot topics in modern fundamental nanophotonics science. A unique line-up of top-scientists have agreed to serve as lecturers for the school, all of whom are also known to be excellent teachers, see the draft program below. The number of attendees is limited to 80.

Unique program format
The school has a unique format: each lecturer is asked to give a one-hour tutorial, that is specially prepared for the school. The tutorial is built up of from basics for students that are new in the field, and then covers more complex concepts. Lecture slides will be made available to the attendees. The tutorial is followed by a 30 min. highlight talk by the lecturer.

Speakers will include:

• Femius Koenderink, AMOLF, Amsterdam
• Jean-Jacques Greffet, Institut dÓptique, Paris
• Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University
• Allard Mosk, Utrecht University
• Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, London
• Ewold Verhagen, AMOLF, Amsterdam
• Javier Aizpurua, Materials Physics Center, San Sebastian
• Stepfan Goetzinger, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
• Elaine Li, University of Austin, Texas
• Mark Wilson, University of Toronto
• Isabelle Staude, Abbe Center of Photonics, Jena
• Mikael Rechtsman, Pennsylvania State University

Who can attend?
PhD students and postdocs are welcome to register for the School. The number of attendees is limited to 80.

Student/postdoc presentations
All school attendees are invited to present a poster about their research. In addition, a total of 10 slots is available in the program for oral presentations. Abstracts can be submitted to apply for these talks.

Important Dates

Early-bird registration ends 1 March 2019

Oral abstract submission ends 1 April 2019

On behalf of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology,  we would like to warmly invite you to participate in at the 9th International Conference on Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology (AMN9), which will  be held at the National Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa,  in Wellington from the 10th to the 14th of February 2019.

AMN9 is the ninth event in a biennial conference series  which focuses on cutting-edge research in nanoscience and nanotechnology. The topics covered reflect the broad scientific interests of the MacDiarmid Institute and range from nano-bio interfaces, nanomedicine, materials for photovoltaics, to novel electronic devices (including spintronics and valleytronics). The programme will include a line-up of world-leading  plenary speakers, cutting edge keynote talks, as well as contributed oral and poster presentations. The goals is to create a stimulating environment to present new results and exchange scientific ideas.

Check out the website for more details on the speakers and for the full registration details: http://www.cmnzl.co.nz/amn9-conference/