Dr Teng leads the Nanoelectronics Research Group in the College of Engineering at Swansea University.His research includes the investigation of low-dimensional electronic materials, such as graphene, metal-oxide and nitride nanostructures etc., in the development of ultra-sensitive nano-biosensors for the early detection of diseases, short-wavelength lasers for ultra-high density data storage and nano-plasmonics for photovoltaic technology etc. Dr Teng has the expertise in the fabrication and characterisation of nanoscale electronic materials and devices, as well as controlling their properties through surface engineering for novel applications. Other research interests includes dilute magnetic semiconductor for spintronics and the use of scanning probe microscopy and other surface science techniques for the study of semiconductor surface and interface. He has been awarded research funding from NHS-National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), The Royal Society, Welsh Government, HEFCW, Sir Halley Stewart Trust and industries etc. He serves as an Associate Editor for RSC Advances and Editor for Fluorescent Materials journals.

His research interest is in the study of nanoscale electronic materials and devices. This involves the application of nanotechnology in electronics, which has major impact in healthcare, computer, photonic and energy technologies.

Ajay Kumar Mishra is a full Professor at the Nanotechnology and Water Sustainability Research Unit at College of Science, Engineering & Technology, University of South Africa, Florida Science Campus, South Africa. Prof. Mishra is currently working for University of South Africa as “Full Professor” since January 2015. He is also working as “Adjunct Professor” at Jiangsu University, China.He has authored over 100 scientific papers. He has delivered a number of including Plenary/Keynote/Invited Lectures. For his outstanding research profile, he was awarded a number of international awards. Prof. Mishra also served as Associate Editor as well as member of the editorial board of many peer-reviewed international journals. He has edited several books by the renowned publishers and also reviewer of many international journals. He is serving as member advisory board of a number of international scientific societies, conferences and workshops.

His research interests include synthesis nanomaterials/composites, smart materials, and water research

Dr. Solhe F. Alshahateet is Associate Professor of Organic and Supramolecular Chemistry graduated in 2003 from the University of New South Wales / Australia. He works at Mutah University since 2007. Currently, he is on sabbatical leave and the Dean of Scientific Research at Aqaba University of Technology (Jordan). He received many awards such as Australian Research Council and Jordanian Ministry of Higher Education scholarships. He was engaged in many projects from local and international funding agencies. Dr. Alshahateet attended many conferences worldwide. He published more than 70 articles mostly in international journals dealing with crystal engineering and supramolecular chemistry involving industrial applications. In addition, he is working as a referee and editorial board member for many international specialized journals. Highlights of his research have been in the area of synthesis and characterization of semiconducting materials, organic materials for and industrial applications (functional materials) such as pharmaceutical industry. After completing his PhD (2002) at the UNSW, he undertook research in new synthesis chemistry as a Research Fellow at UNSW for about one year. Since then he had undertaken research into synthesis of new organic materials at the Institute of Chemical and Engineering Sciences ICES, Singapore. He had research visitor appointments at the University of New South Wales (Australia) and at the University of South Florida (USA).

 Heterocyclic chemistry; synthesis and applications  Polymorphism, salts, co-crystals, hydrates and solvates of pharmaceutical solids  Design and develop crystalline molecular complexes of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs)  Design, synthesis and supramolecularity of new hosts and co-crystal formers  Experience in the area of physical organic chemistry such as adsorption of organic functionalities and heavy metals on synthesized organic surfaces; kinetic, thermodynamic; environmental studies and applications.  Drugs reformulation  Chemical X-ray Crystallography  Synthesis and structure of new organic inclusion compounds (host-guest chemistry)  Solvent free synthesis (Green Chemistry)

Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He holds two M.S., a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering/mechanics, an MBA, and two honorary and two semi-honorary doctorates. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (Goggle Scholar h-index–105+; Web of Science h-index–80+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ scientific reports. He has also edited 50+ books and holds 20 U.S. and foreign patents. He is co-editor of Springer NanoScience and Technology Series and Microsystem Technologies, and member of editorial board of PNAS. He has organized various international conferences and workshops. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards and international fellowships including the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize for Senior Scientists, Max Planck Foundation Research Award for Outstanding Foreign Scientists, Fulbright Senior Scholar Award, Life Achievement Tribology Award, and Institution of Chemical Engineers (UK) Global Award. His research was listed as the top ten science stories of 2015. He is a member of various professional societies, including the International Academy of Engineering (Russia). He has previously worked for various research labs including IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA. He has held visiting professorship at University of California at Berkeley, University of Cambridge, UK, Technical University Vienna, Austria, University of Paris, Orsay, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, Univ. of Southampton, UK, Univ. of Kragujevac, Serbia, Tsinghua Univ., China, Harbin Inst., China, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia.

Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques

Jae-Young Choi is Associate Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) located at Suwon in KOREA. Prior to joining SKKU, he was a vice president of Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT), Samsung Electronics, and a director of Graphene Center of SAIT. He earned his Ph. D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) in 1998, and he was a Research Fellow in 1998-99 at Ames Lab, DOE, US. He has co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Nature Nanotechnology and Nature Communications, and also over 400 patent applications related to nanomaterials and their applications, and his current citation is over 12,000. Especially for number of patents related to graphene, he was ranked as the 1st in the world as reported in Mature Materials 2012.

His current research interests are innovative synthesis and device applications (transistor, battery, and membrane) of 2D materials and new nano-structured materials.

Dr.Mohammed Khenfouch, a 34 years old nano materials scientist and professional Physicist, originally from the North African country of Morocco, holds an undergraduate degree in solid-state physics, from the University Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (USMBA) of Fez, Morocco. His keen interest led him to complete doctoral studies in Physics at the same university, which culminated in a Summa Cum Laude merit award (Très honorable) for his novel research on optoelectronic applications. His interest in this field took flight during his MSc studies (Master in physics of materials and nanostructures) and has persisted till now, after he completed his PhD studies in July 2013, in the group of polymers and nanomaterials of the USMBA with a thesis titled: Elaboration and Physical and chemical studies of Graphene based nanocomposites for optoelectronic applications. His PhD study involved nanocomposites and devices for energy and optoelectronic applications inc. Solar cells, LEDs and Gas sensors.Mohammed undertook a postdoctoral position within the UNESCO-UNISA AFRICA Chair in Nano sciences and Nanotechnology at the College of science, engineering and technology of the University of South Africa. Mohammed has gained some 8 years of in-depth knowledge and experience in the multi-disciplinary field of nano sciences and nanotechnology, with a specific focus on photonics, optics, optoelectronics and smart nanomaterials including Graphene materials. Mohammed has produced several peer reviewed outcomes. Being involved in numerous international organizations, Mohammed is an active member of African Network as well as The American association for science and technology (AASCIT), Unesco-Unisa Africa Chair in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (U2ACN2) and The Arab Scientific Community Organization (ARSCO). In addition, Mohammed served as adjudicator for many prestigious International programs and reviewed for many prestigious publishing groups. Moreover, he participated in the organization of many big events and the most recent one was NanoAfrica2016. Currently, Mohammed is the founder-chairman of Africa Graphene Center.

Mohammed’s current research focus on the design, growth, and development of smart nanomaterials for optical and optoelectronic, energy conversion and water cleaning applications via a low cost and Eco-friendly methods. His research interest is focused on multifunctional nano materials and nano composites, which represents the most common, most diverse, and probably the richest class of materials in terms of physical, chemical, and structural properties. The combinations of such variety of properties and applications with the unique effects of nano materials of low-dimensionality make the studies of these novel nano structures a very important issue of research and development from both fundamental and industrial standpoints. Additionally, he has also developed strong entrepreneurial instincts, which have not only led to several awards, but have also guided his research to yield devices with commercial potential.

Pradip Majumdar is currently the chair and a professor of mechanical engineering; and the director of heat and mass transfer laboratory in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University (NIU), where he has been teaching and conducting research since 1984.He has completed over 35 funded research projects and has published over 100 technical refereed articles. He has published two text books: 1. Computational Heat and Mass Transfer and 2. Fuel Cell: Analysis and Design. He is professionally very active in organizing and chairing national and internal conferences, workshops in heat and mass transfer, computational fluid dynamics, micro-nanoscale heat transfer, electronics cooling and fuel cell energy systems. He has been making keynote and plenary speaker presentations at national/international conferences and workshops. He is very active in professional societies and is an active member of ASME technical committees such as K-16: Heat Transfer of Electronics and K-20: Computational Heat Transfer. He is currently serving as the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of Transactions of Fluid Mechanics and Associate Editor of ASME Journal of Thermal Science and Engineering. He was the guest editor for Journal of Electronics manufacturing for special issues on electronics cooling. He received the CEET Faculty of the Year Award for excellence in education. He is an elected Fellow of ASME.

His research interests and experiences are in Thermo-fluid Sciences; Multi-Physics Simulation Modeling, Design and Data Analysis; Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Heat Transfer CFD, Finite Element Methods; Fuel Cell Power Generation System, Li-Ion Battery Storage systems; Alternative and Renewable Energy Systems; High Heat Flux Electronics Cooling, Thermal Interface Materials using Nanomaterials, Software Thermal Management for Embedded Systems; High Energy Laser Material Processing and Additive Manufacturing, Blood flow in human arteries, stent design and drug delivery system; and Energy-human tissue interactions

Dr Johann Bouclé is currently Associate Professor at the XLIM Research Institute (CNRS UMR 7252 / University of Limoges, France), where he manages a research axis devoted to hybrid optoelectronic devices based on organic and inorganic semiconductors. He obtained a PhD degree in Physics in 2004 on polymer/nanocrystal composites for nonlinear optics (University of Le Mans, France / CEA Saclay) and was then appointed postdoctoral research associate in the United Kingdom, initially at Imperial College London (with Prof Jenny Nelson) and then at the University of Cambridge (with Prof Neil Greenham), to develop novel hybrid solar cells based on polymers and metal oxide nanostructures. His activity led him to coordinate several granted projects (CNRS, Regional, ANR, FEDER) involving many French and foreign institutions in the field. Habilitated for research management (French HDR) since 2015, he is currently involved in the scientific boards of various French bodies in the field of printed electronics and solar cells. He is member of the International advisory board of the African Graphene Center, and currently contribute to the development of graphene-based interfacial materials for photovoltaic applications, and mainly perovskite solar cells. He has co-authored 43 international journal articles and peer-reviewed conference proceedings, 2 book chapters, 1 patent, and more than 85 communications during national and international conferences.

His current scientific activity focuses on the development and characterization of organic and hybrid optoelectronic devices. In particular, I particularly enjoy hybrid systems based on organic and inorganic semi-conductors, which take benefit from the physical properties of both components, as well as their associated interfaces and photo-physical and charge transfer processes. In this context, I demonstrate a significant track record in the field of solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells, organic bulk heterojunction, and polymer/carbon nanotubes composites. More recently at XLIM, I initiated several studies devoted to optoelectronic devices based on hybrid perovskite active layers, both for photovoltaic energy conversion and light emission. Regarding carbon nanostructures, I recently demonstrated efficient metal oxide / carbon nanotube composites for hybrid solar cells (both perovskite and dye-sensitized devices), and I am currently developping graphene-based materials for this application.

Kian Ping Loh is currently Provost’s Chair Professor in NUS and a well-known figure in the field of graphene and 2D materials research. Loh KP's team developed a strategy for the large area growth and transfer of graphene on silicon wafer (Nature 2014), a new strategy for the synthesis of graphene quantum dots from bucky balls (published in Nature Nanotechnology); fabricated the first broadband graphene polarizer (published in Nature Photonics); developed an industrially scalable strategy to process solution processed graphene for green catalysis, leading to a spin-off company. His awards include the President’s Science Award in 2014, the University Outstanding Researcher award in 2012, University’s Young Scientist award in 2008, American Chemical Society Nano Lectureship award in 2013. He is also head of the 2D materials group in Centre for Advanced 2D Materials, NUS also a co-director of the Shenzhen-NUS Joint Collaborative Innovation Center for Optoelectronic Science & Technology. He is currently the associate editor of the ACS journal Chemistry of Materials.

He research interest is Nano materials and Surface Chemistry

Dr. Sagade is a researcher in the Electrical Engineering Division of Department of Engineering at University of Cambridge. He is also a part of EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Large-Area Electronics focusing on the designing of novel electronic devices to be printed on flexible sheets and exploring the possibilities for high speed testing of large-area electronics produced by reel-to-reel (r2r) manufacturing. He obtained his Ph. D. in Physics from Dr B. A. M. University, Maharashtra, India for the work on development of room temperature ammonia gas detection with Copper Sulfide films and its materials modification by high energy swift heavy ion irradiation in 2009. Also he has worked at JNCASR Bangalore and AMO GmbH Germany.He has co-authored more than 35 peer-reviewed publications and 3 US patent applications. Dr. Sagade has developed graphene device encapsulation process which assist in persisting its novel properties in ambient for several months and enable hysteresis free DC measurements. He is a recipient of several awards including EPSRC Industrial Internship Award, DST-Nano Postdoc Fellowship, CSIR-SRF, Junior and Senior Research Fellowships from Ministry of Defence DRDO, India, etc. Dr. Sagade is a member of AAAS and MRS-Singapore

His research interests involves charge transport in graphene related materials and nanowires, gas permeation in graphene films, device encapsulation and various physical as well as chemical sensors

Zheng Hu received both his BS (1985) and Ph.D. (1991) in physics from Nanjing University. After two-year’s postdoctoral research in Department of Chemistry, he became an associate professor (1993), full professor (1999), and Cheung Kong Chair professor (2007) of Nanjing University. He is the owner of the NSFC fund for outstanding young scientists of China (2005). He spent two years in Research Center of Karlsruhe, University of Cambridge, and MIT as a postdoctoral fellow and Hua-Ying Scholar, respectively.

Hu is engaged in the research field of physical chemistry and materials chemistry addressing the growth mechanism, materials design and energy applications of a range of nano-/mesostructured materials, especially the carbon-based materials, group III nitrides and transition metal oxides.