Breakfast and Registration
8:00–9:00 am (Bauer Lobby)
Catered breakfast and drinks will be provided.
9:00–9:10 am Introduction and welcome, Hongjie Dai (Stanford)
(Pfizer Lecture Hall, CCB – Ground floor, Mallinckrodt)
Session I: Nano Materials, New Frontiers [Chair: Jie Liu (Duke)]
9:10–9:25 am Thomas Kempa (Johns Hopkins): “2D Atomic and Molecular Lattices: Rational Synthesis and New Properties”
9:25–9:40 am SungWoo Nam (UIUC): “Tailoring Instability of Atomically Thin Materials for Unconventional Material Properties”
9:40–9:55 am Ritesh Agarwal (Penn): “Active Control of Light Matter Interactions in Layered Materials: from Trivial to Topological Band Structures”
9:55–10:10 am Wooyoung Shim (Yonsei): “Decoding the Materials Genome for a New Class of van der Waals Crystals”
10:10–10:25 am Xuan Gao (Case Western): "Nanowires with Spin-Orbit Coupling: from Semiconductors to Topological Insulators"
Break
Session II: Nano Photonics and Energy [Chair: Alex Noy (LLNL)]
10:45–11:00 am Song Jin (U Wisconsin-Madison): “From Dislocation-Driven Nanowire Growth to Halide Perovskite Nanostructures: Lessons I Learned from Charlie”
11:00–11:15 am Qihua Xiong (NTU): “Perovskites Photonics and Quantum Optics at Room Temperature”
11:15–11:30 am Xiaolin Zheng (Stanford): “From Flame Synthesis to Water Splitting”
11:30–11:45 am Yue Wu (Iowa State): “Reactive Metal Support Interaction in 2D Metal Carbides (MXene) for Catalysis”
Lunch
12:00–1:30 pm (Bauer Lobby)
Catered lunch and drinks will be provided.
Afternoon
(Pfizer Lecture Hall, CCB – Ground floor, Mallinckrodt)
Session III: Nano Materials at Interfaces [Chair: Min Ouyang (U Maryland)]
2:00–2:15 pm Bozhi Tian (U Chicago): “Exploring Chemical Dynamics at the Soft-Hard Interfaces”
2:15–2:30 pm Mike McAlpine (U Minnesota): “Nanomaterials-Enabled 3D Printing of Functional Materials and Devices”
2:30–2:45 pm Wei Zhou (Virginia Tech): “Multiresonant Plasmonic Nanophotonics for Nano-Bio Interface”
2:45–3:00 pm Tzahi Cohen-Karni (Carnegie Mellon): “Highly Controlled Multiscale Synthesis of Hybrid Nanomaterials”
3:00–3:15 pm Yongjie Hu (UCLA): “Developing Extremely Conducting Thermal Energy Materials: From Atomistic Theory Prediction to Experimental Realization”
Break
Session IV: Nano Bio and Medicine [Chair: Paul Ashby (LBNL)]
3:35–3:50 pm Xiaojie Duan (PKU): “Materials and Technologies for MRI-Compatible Neural Electrodes”
3:50–4:05 pm Quan Qing (ASU): “A New Way to Modulate Protein Dynamics in Live Cells: Precisely Regulate ERK Signaling Pathway with Local Electric Fields”
4:05–4:20 pm Adam Woolley (Brigham Young): “3D Printed Microfluidic Devices for Measuring Biomarkers in Blood”
4:20–4:35 pm Chen Yang (Boston University): “Design Nanomaterial to Reconnect and Fire Neurons”
4:40-5:10 pm Panel Discussion: “Past, present and future of Nanoscience and Engineering”
Chair: Jason Hafner (Rice)
Panel Members: Yi Cui (Stanford), Teri Odom (Northwestern), Xiangfeng Duan (UCLA), Wei Lu (U Michigan), Jia Liu (Harvard), and Silvija Gradečak (MIT)
5:10 pm: Concluding remarks, Peidong Yang (Berkeley)
Reception
6:00–7:00 pm (Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street – Pavilion Foyer)
Banquet Dinner
7:00-10:00 pm (Charles Hotel, One Bennett Street – Kennedy Room)