The full World Nano 2021 scientific program across 2 days — keynotes, oral presentations, and posters. Talks are ordered by program prominence within each day.
Day 1
- Keynote
Nanomaterials: new trends for preserving architectural heritage materials
Marcos Lanzon · Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain
Nanomaterials are widely used in biological, medical and engineering applications, but little is known on their use to preserve heritage materials. Architectural materials undergo irreversible deterioration due to…
- Keynote
Carbon Nanotubes and its application in Nanotechnology
Raymond Jagessar · University of Guyana, Guyana
Carbon nanotubes often refer to single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with diameters in the range of a nanometer. Single-wall carbon nanotubes are one of the allotropes of carbon, intermediate between fullerene cages…
- Keynote
Nanoparticles joining in smart additive manufacturing, design & evaluation
Soshu Kirihara · Osaka University, Japan
Complicated metal and ceramic components were fabricated by smart additive manufacturing, design and evaluation (Smart MADE). The functional structures were designed by computer graphics and fabricated by…
- Keynote
No more laundry?
Liqiu Wang · The University Of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Liquid-repellent surfaces repel liquids instead of allowing droplets to adhere. These surfaces are important in many fields including self-cleaning clothes and kitchenware, enhanced heat transfer, and anti-fouling…
- Keynote
Electrical behaviour of composite materials with polymer matrix / metal powders
Doina Elena Gavrila · Universities Of Bucharest, Romania
The interest for polymer / metal filler composite materials results from the fact that their electrical properties are close to those of metals and the mechanical characteristics and processing methods are close to…
- Oral
Characterization of nanoparticles in silicon dioxide food additives
Sadia Afrin Khan · Food and Drug Administration, United States
Food additives are added to food for their technical effect in food (e.g., emulsifier, stabilizer, thickener, anticaking agent, antioxidant, etc.). Food grade additives may have a particle size distribution that extends…
- Oral
Desalination via photothermal thin films
Donglu Shi · University of Cincinnati, United States
There has been an increasing need to utilize abundant seawater, via desalination, for a variety of uses, in particular agriculture in the arid regions that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Current…
- Workshop
Inertial clocks and remote non-simultaneity
Robert Buenker · University of Wuppertal, Germany
There has been an increasing need to utilize abundant seawater, via desalination, for a variety of uses, in particular agriculture in the arid regions that are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Current…
- Oral
Fabrication of a Resonant Waveguide Grating (RWG) with a single-step TiO2 sol-gel technological approach on planar and non-conventional substrate (tube)
Maria Usuga · Jean Monnet University, France
Resonant waveguide gratings (RWG), also called Guided-Mode Resonance (GMR) gratings, have been discovered several decades ago, and are known for their possibility to very strongly reflect an incident wave for special…
- Oral
Fabrication of Si-based dielectric resonators: Combining etaloning with Mie resonances
Mario Khoury · Institut Matériaux Microélectronique Nanosciences de Provence, France
We use low-resolution optical lithography and plasma etching joined with solid state dewetting of crystalline, ultra-thin silicon on insulator (c-UT-SOI) to form monocrystalline, atomically-smooth, silicon-based Mie…
- Oral
Targeting receptor heterogeneity using molecular targeted photochemical-nanoplatform
Shazia Bano · Harvard Medical School, United States
The complex tissue architecture with enormous cellular diversity in malignant lesions and the tumor microenvironment, and its transformation with time is a pivotal driver of treatment resistance. Molecular targeted…
- Oral
Synthesis and characterization of semicarbazide based U(VI) complexes and their application in electrochemical sensors
Chandra Mohan · K. R. Mangalam University, India
Diverse research have been reported for designing a sensor by caring open chain and macrocyclic compounds operating system through transition metal, which display a rich and versatile redox activity. Chemical sensors…
- Oral
Unprecedented Redox scavenging signature alongwith antioxidant action of silver nanoparticle coupled with Andrographispaniculata(AP-Ag NP) against carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced toxicity in mice
Soumendra Darbar · Jadavpur University, India
Nano technology possesses several branches including nanomedicine, which is the most promising field in the future medicine and is a probable therapeutic agent in prevention and medication of life threatening diseases…
- Oral
Chitosan-olive oil microparticles for phenylethyl isothiocyanate delivery
Ezequiel Coscueta · Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Portugal
Phenylethyl isothiocyanate (PEITC) is released from the enzymatic hydrolysis of gluconasturtiin, the most abundant glucosinolate found in watercress (a vegetable from the family Brassicaceae ) by the enzyme myrosinase.…
- Oral
The role of nanotechnologies in hydrocarbon energy
Khavkin Aleksandr · Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Russian Federation
Nanotechnologies the approach means purposeful regulation of properties of objects on molecular and above molecular a level (0,1-100 nanometers), determining fundamental parameters of physical objects. It takes place in…
Day 2
- Keynote
Nanostructures as Sustainable Energy Materials in PEC Solar Cells
Meera Ramrakhiani · Rani Durgavati University, India
Soaring petroleum price and global warming have fueled the intensive research for alternative energy sources and technologies. The reserve of fossil fuel is depleting very fast. The search for alternative source of…
- Keynote
Hello implantable nanosensors: Goodbye oldfashion hospitals
Thomas J Webster · Brown University, United States
There is an acute shortage of organs due to disease, trauma, congenital defects, and most importantly, age related maladies. While tissue engineering (and nanotechnology) has made great strides towards improving tissue…
- Keynote
Carbon-nanotube-supported pyrolytic carbon micro/nano-cones
Germercy Paredes Guerrero · Pontificia Universidad Católica Madre y Maestra, Dominican Republic
Pyrolytic carbon (PyC) is extensively used in industrial processes as composite matrices or coatings. It is obtained by thermally decomposing a gaseous carbon precursor (typically methane, but other hydrocarbons are…
- Keynote
Nano-structuring of polymer blends at the interface driven by topology
Giuseppe Pellicane · UKZN And Universita’ Degli Studi Di Messina, South Africa
Physical techniques for surface modification of plastics use surface-active agents, which can self-assemble at the surface. Many techniques, which are important in modern technologies, use polymer blends, and there is…
- Oral
Enhanced visible light photocatalysis by BN-TiO2 nanocomposites for pharmaceutical degradation and wastewater treatment
Huiyao Wang · New Mexico State University, United States
Boron nitride (BN) nanosheets are promising support materials for catalysts. A series of BN-TiO2 enabled electrospun nanofibers were synthesized for photocatalytic treatment of ibuprofen and secondary wastewater…
- Oral
Synthesis of micro-nanostructured TiN thin film from a TiO2 Sol Gel
Arnaud Valour · Jean Monnet University, France
The miniaturization of optical components to control and manipulate light amplitude, phase, and polarization requires micro- to nanostructured metasurfaces that provide resonant light–matter interactions to exploit…
- Oral
Agrinanotechnology : An instrumental act for global food and nutritional security
T N V K V Prasad · Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, India
Nanotechnologies (technologies or ideas which dealt with the objects / systems whose measured size is less than 100 nm in at least one dimension and whose properties are significantly differed from their bulk counter…
- Oral
Preparation of invasomes -A novel carrier for drug delivery
Abbaraju Krishna Sailaja · RBVRR Women’s College of Pharmacy, India
Background: Diclofenac sodium is capable of providing benefit to patients suffering from: rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, and gout. Diclofenac sodium is a medicine that reduces inflammation and pain. It is also…
- Oral
How to achieve vertically aligned AZO nanorods array by chemical bath deposition
Lamya Al Farsi · Sultan Qaboos University, Oman
Zinc oxide as an II-VI compound semiconductor has attracted considerable attention due to its applications in short wavelength optoelectronics devices owing to its wide direct band gap and large exciton binding energy…
- Oral
High - frequency MI in ferromagnetic microwires for magnetic sensor
Syed Ali Junaid Alam · National University of Science and Technology MISiS, Russian Federation
The design of an advance strip cells on PCB board for VNA calibration which allows to measure the MI dependence at frequency up to GHz region has been discussed in this work. Different types of Co-based amorphous…
- Oral
Thriving narrow band gap ferroelectric oxides for photovoltaic applications
Fabio Figueiras · Instituto de Nanociência e Nanotecnologia, Portugal
The formation of a ferroelectric Bi2ZnTiO6 (BZT) perovskite-like phase in the thin film form is demonstrated to be viable onto Pt/Si-based substrates at 550 ºC using the rf-sputtering method. This “lead-free” BZT…
- Oral
"GABA-functionalized carbon nanotubes to improve compatibility, dispersion and mechanical properties of PHBV nanocomposites"
Thais Larissa do Amaral Montanheiro · Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil
Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate), PHBV, is a biodegradable and biocompatible polyester with the potential to be used as a substitute for conventional thermoplastics. However, PHBV is brittle and has low…
- Poster
Influence of electrospinning methods on characteristics of nanofibres essential for biological applications
Karel Havlicek · Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
Nanofibres may be generated using a number of techniques; however, electrospinning allows industrial-scale production. In this study, we examine different nanofibre properties resulting from five different…
- Oral · Virtual
Development of conductive nanomaterials for biotechnology applications
Magda Nechanicka · Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic
Conductive nanomaterials have gained immense interest because of their distinctive properties and their potential in various fields. The wide range of preparation factors influencing the ability of nanomaterials to…
- Oral
Adverse reactions combination therapy MDR-TB using Bedaquiline
Elena Ershova · Khanty-Mansiysk clinical TB dispensary, Russian Federation
Since 2013, the Russian Federation has been using the new anti-TB drug Bedaquiline (Sirturo), whose mechanism of action is radically different from the existing anti-TB drugs. The drug has shown its high effectiveness…
- Oral
Reliability design of mechanical systems subjected to repetitive stresses
Seongwoo Woo · Addis Ababa Science & Technology University, Ethiopia
The basic reliability concepts - parametric ALT plan, failure mechanism and design, acceleration factor, and sample size equation were used in the development of a parametric accelerated life testing method to assess…
- Oral
A comparative study of solvent blended EDPM / neoprene clay nanocomposites showing progressive thermal and mechanical properties
Ginil Mon · Nesamony Memorial Christian College, India
Nanocomposites have definite advantages over conventional composites due to their light weight, low cost and excellent mechanical, thermal, optical and electrical properties. Clays and layered silicates are well suited…
- Oral
Characterization of the titanium dioxide nanoparticles
Weam Sidahmed Awadalla Sidahmed · University of Khartoum, Sudan
This research aims to study an effect of annealing nanosize titanium dioxide (TiO2 ), Titanium dioxide (TiO2 ) is a wide gap oxide semiconductor is an n-type due to oxygen deficiency. It has three phases of the crystal…
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