PLENARY SPEAKERS

• Herbert Gleiter, Institute of Nanotechnology Karlsruhe, Germany
  Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: The Key to New Studies in Other Areas of Science and Technology
   
• C N R Rao, Jawaharalal Nehru Center for Advanced Scientific Research, India
  Graphene, The New Nanocarbon
   
• David A Tirrell, California Institute of Technology, USA
  Proteins that Nature Never Made
   

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Flemming Besenbacher, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  Dynamics of Nanocatalytical Model Systems Revealed by High-Resolution Video-Rate STM
   
• Frank Caruso, University of Melbourne, Australia
  Nanostructured Materials for Biomedicine Applications
   
• I-Wei Chen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  Stable and Responsive Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications
   
• Anne George, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
  Novel Templates Designed for Hard-Tissue Regeneration
   
• Michael Grätzel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  Nanocrystalline Junctions, Properties and Applications in Solar Energy Conversion and Bioelectronics
   
• Paula Hammond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Self-Assembly Approaches toward Directed Drug Delivery: From Patchy Micelles to Mad Nanolayers
   
• Allan Hoffman, University of Washington, USA
  Recent Results with Polymer-Coated Metallic Nanoparticles and Membrane Micropores for Diagnostic Applications
   
• Taeghwan Hyeon, Seoul National University, Korea
  Large-Scale Synthesis of Uniform-Sized Nanoparticles and Their Designed Assembly for Multifunctional Biomedical Applications
   
• Cherie Kagan, IBM, USA
  Molecular and Nanostructured Materials for Solar Photovoltaics - Molecular Engineering of Organic and Nanowire Devices
   
• Kam Leong, Duke University, USA
  Cellular Response to Nanotopography
   
• Dan Luo, Cornell University, USA
  DNA as a Nanoscale Material
   
• Hedi Mattoussi, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA
  High Speed CNT Full Adder Cells
   
• Daniel Morse, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
  Low-Temperature, Kinetically Controlled Nanofabrication of Semiconductor and Ferroelectric Thin Films and Nanoparticles
   
• Chung-Yuan Mou, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
  Mesoporous Materials Thin Film with Perpendicular Nanochannels
   
• Mamoun Muhammed, KTH - Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
  Next Generation Nanoparticles for Controlled Drug Delivery Systems
   
• Paul Mulvaney, University of Melbourne, Australia
  The Surface Plasmon Resonance Landscape of Gold Nanocrystals
   
• Christopher Murray, University of Pennsylvania, USA
  Programming Matter: The Directed Self-Assembly of Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices
   
• Larry Nagahara, National Cancer Institute Alliance for Nanotechnology in Cancer, USA
  Future Directions in Cancer Research: Nanotechnology Based Approaches to Diagnostics and Therapeutics
   
• Tina Nenoff, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
  Room Temperature Synthesis of Alloy Nanoparticles
   
• Buddy Ratner, University of Washington, USA
  The Significance and Lack of Significance of Nanoscale Features for In Vivo Healing and Bioreaction
   
• Ryong Ryoo,, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
  New Opportunities in Catalytic Applications with Hierarchically Porous Zeolites
   
• Edwin Thomas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Periodic Polymers for Photonics, Phononics and Mechanics
   
• Matt Trau, University of Queensland, Australia
  Nanoscaled Biosensors: Nanotechnology in Early Disease Detection and Personalized Medicine
   
• Thomas Tsakalakos, Rutgers University, USA
  Nanotechnology and Biomedicine at the Cross Roads
   
• Thomas Webster, Brown University, USA
  Nanotechnology for Regenerating Tissues: Is it Hype or Reality?
   
• Feng-Shou Xiao, Jilin University, China
  Templating Routes for Synthesizing Mesoporous Zeolites
   
• Bing Xu, Brandeis University, USA
  Multifunctional Magnetic Nanoparticles
   
• Hong Yang, University of Rochester, USA
  Design, Synthesis, Formation Mechanism and Property of Platinum Alloy Nanostructures
   
• Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley, USA
  Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Conversion
   
• Shuguang Zhang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
  Designer Self-Assembling Peptide Nanomaterials