TIME
 

PROGRAM
 

8:30am

8:30am to 9:30am
Registration and Breakfast
 

9:30am

9:30am to 9:45am
Opening Address by 1^st Nano Today Conference Chair, Prof Jackie Y. Ying
 

9:45am

9:45am to 10:30am
Plenary Lecture I
Auditorium, Level 2

Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: The Key to New Studies
in Other Areas of Science and Technology
Herbert Gleiter, Institute of Nanotechnology Research Center Karlsruhe, Germany
 

10:30am

10:30am to 12:15pm
Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Nanocrystals/Nanoparticles I
Creation Theatrette, Level 4
Chair: Andrew Wan

Templating Routes for Synthesizing Mesoporous Zeolites
Feng-Shou Xiao, Jilin University, China (Invited)

10:30am to 12:15pm
Nanosystems for Sensing, Diagnostic, Imaging and Magnetic Applications I
Breakthrough Theatrette, Level 4
Chair: Charlotte Hauser

Recent Results with Polymer-Coated Metallic Nanoparticles and Membrane Micropores for Diagnostic Applications
Allan Hoffman, University of Washington, USA (Invited)
 

11:00am

Synthesis, Functionalization and Self-Assembly of ZnO Nanoparticle Superlattices
Lan Chen, University College Cork, Ireland
 

Future Directions in Cancer Research: Nanotechnology Based Approaches to Diagnostics and Therapeutics
Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotech in Cancer, USA (Invited)

11:15am

Cation Exchange in Lanthanide Fluoride Nanoparticles
Cunhai Dong, University of Victoria, Canada
 

11:30am

One-Pot Synthesis of Monodisperse Water Soluble ‘Dual-Responsive’ Magnetic Nanoparticles
Nguyen T K Thanh, The Royal Institution of Great Britain, UK
 

Drug-Receptor Interaction Evaluated by Ellipsometric Nanotechnology in Cardiovascular High-Risk Patients
Gunter Siegel, Charite University Clinic Berlin, Germany
 

11:45am

Glucosamine-Conjugated Nanoparticles for the Separation of Insulin-Secreting Beta Cells
Karthikeyan Narayanan, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

Nanoscaled Biosensors: Nanotechnology in Early Disease Detection and Personalized Medicine
Matt Trau, Australian Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Australia (Invited)

12:00pm

Living Yeast Cells as a Controllable Biosynthesizer for Fluorescent Quantum Dots
Dai-Wen Pang, Wuhan University, China
 

12:15pm

12:15pm to 1:30pm
Lunch and Poster Session I
Foyer, Level 4
Chairs: Jun Yang and Jianping Xie

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Thin Films
Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Nanocrystals/Nanoparticles
 

1:30pm

1:30pm to 3:30pm
Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Nanocrystals/Nanoparticles II
Breakthrough Theatrette, Level 4
Chair: Motoichi Kurisawa

Large-Scale Synthesis of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticles and Their Designed Assembly for Multifunctional Biomedical Applications
Taeghwan Hyeon, Seoul National University, Korea (Invited)

1:30pm to 3:00pm
Nanosystems for Sensing, Diagnostic, Imaging and Magnetic Applications II
Exploration Theatrette, Level 4
Chair: Zhiqiang Gao

Ultrasensitive Amplification Strategy for Biosensing Applications
Jie Zhang, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

1:45pm

In Situ Enzyme-Initiated Deposition of Metal Hexacyanoferrate Nanoparticles to Amplify the DNA Hybridization Events
Xiaojun Chen, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

2:00pm

Programming Matter: The Directed Self-Assembly of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices
Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania, USA (Invited)

Magnetophoresis Sensing System Using Bifunctional Nanoassembly for Tuberculosis Diagnosis
Jaebeom Lee, Pusan National University, Korea
 

2:15pm

Lithography-Free Fabrication of Dual-Mode ZnO Nanowire Field Effect Transistors
Somenath Roy, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

2:30pm

Bifunctional Fe₃O₄-Ag Heterodimer Nanoparticles for Two-Photon Fluorescence Imaging and Magnetic Manipulation
Jiang Jiang, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

Fabrication of Nanowire Array Electrode for Immobilization and Direct Electron Transfer of Redox Protein
Ju Xu, University College Cork, Ireland

2:45pm

Room-Temperature Synthesis of Nanocrystalline Ag₂S and Its Nanocomposites with Gold
Jun Yang, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

A ZnO Nanorod Based Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor
Chang Fu Dee, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia

3:00pm

Room Temperature Synthesis of Alloy Nanoparticles
Tina Nenoff, Sandia National Laboratories, USA(Invited)
 

3:00pm to 3:30pm
Coffee/Tea Break

3:30pm

3:30pm to 4:00pm
Coffee/Tea Break

3:30pm to 5:30pm
Nanosystems for Sensing, Diagnostic, Imaging and Magnetic Applications III
Breakthrough Theatrette, Level 4
Chair: Juergen Pipper

The Surface Plasmon Resonance Landscape of Gold Nanosryctals
Paul Mulvaney, University of Melbourne, Australia (Invited)
 

4:00pm

4:00pm to 5:30pm
Functionalization and Size-Dependent Properties of Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots and Nanowires I
Creation Theatrette, Level 4
Chair: Nandanan Erathodiyil

Interfacing Semiconductor and Metallic Nanocrystals with Biology
Hedi Matoussi, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA (Invited)
 

Characterization of Leaky-Mode-Resonated Filter in Two-Dimension Photonic Crystal Slabs
Chunxia Wang, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 

4:15pm

Nano-Encapsulated Indocyanine Green for Optical Imaging and Phototherapy
Bahman Anvari, University of California, Riverside, USA
 

4:30pm

Highly Fluorescent Gold Nanoclusters: Synthesis and Applications
Jianping Xie, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

Periodic Polymers for Photonics, Phononics and Mechanics
Edwin Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA (Invited)
 

4:45pm

Fabrication and Dispersion of Gold Shell Pretected Magnetite Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
Ian Y. Goon, University of New South Wales, Australia
 

5:00pm

Aqueous Synthesis of Glutathione-Capped Cadmium-Free Quantum Mn-Doped ZnS-ZnSe QDs
Yuangang Zheng, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

Individual Addressable 3D Nanoelectrodes for Neural Metabolic Studies
Winnie Edith Svendsen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
 

5:15pm

Optimization and Presentation of Novel Luminescent Silica Nanoparticles
Gemma-Louise Davies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
 

A Thixotropic Nanocomposite Gel for 3D Cell Culture
Shona Pek, Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology, Singapore
 

5:30pm

5:30pm to 6:45pm
Reception and Poster Session II
Foyer, Level 4
Chair: Mo Huang Li

Functionalization and Size-Dependent Properties of Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots and Nanowires
Nanosystems for Sensing, Diagnostic, Imaging and Magnetic Applications