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Tentative Topics 

  1. Electronic and Photonic Materials
    1. Silicon Germanium
    2. Oxide Electronics
    3. III-V and II-VI
    4. Carbon and Graphene
    5. Organic  Electronics
    6. Photonic Materials
    7. Nanomaterials Synthesis & Solutions Route
    8. Nanomaterials Devices & Applications
    9. Nitride Electronics

  2. Advanced Functional Materials
    1. Magnetic & Spintronics
    2. Hybrids & Composites
    3. Ferroics
    4. Superconductors
    5. Glasses
    6. Electro Ceramics

  3. Energy and Green Materials
    1. Photovoltaics
    2. Hybrids including Biomass-Based Material
    3. Batteries, Fuel Cells & Supercapacitors
    4. Thermoelectrics

  4. Advanced Structural Materials
    1. Composites
    2. Light  Metals & Alloys

  5. Materials Modelling and Simulation
    1. Computational Materials Science
    2. Simulation & Modelling

  6. Materials Characterization
    1. Electron Microscopy
    2. Scanning Probe Microscopy
    3. Spectroscopy

  7. Materials for Bio / Medical Applications
    1. Biosensors
    2. Nanomedicine - Tissue Engineering
    3. Cell-Material Interaction

FORUMS

  1. Clean Water
  2. Industry / Academia Interaction

 

 

 

THEME SYMPOSIA - CHAIRS AND CO-CHAIRS

Theme Symposium Theme Symposium Chair Theme Symposium Co-Chairs

Electronic and Photonic Materials

Silicon Germanium

Samit K Ray (IIT, Kgp)
physkr@phy.iitkgp.ernet.in
physkr@gmail.com

Shunri Oda, Tokyo Institute
soda@pe.titech.ac.jp

Pei-Wen Li (NCU, Taiwan)
pwli@ee.ncu.edu.tw

Navakanta Bhat (IISc)
navakant@ece.iisc.ernet.in

Oxide Electronics

Rao M S R (IIT, Chennai)
msrrao@iitm.ac.in

Tatsuo OKADA
(Kyushu University, Japan)
okada@ees.kyushu-u.ac.jp

Jayaraj M K (CUSAT)
mkj@cusat.ac.in

III-V and II-VI

Muralidharan R (SSPL, Delhi)
muralidharan@sspl.drdo.in

Chakrabarti S  (IIT, Mumbai) 
subho@ee.iitb.ac.in

Raman A ,IMRE, Singapore
ram-akki@imre.a-star.edu.sg

Carbon and Graphene

Sampath S  (IISc, Bangalore)
sampath@ipc.iisc.ernet.in

Nanda K K (IISc)   
nanda@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

Organic  Electronics

Ramgopal Rao V (IIT,Mumbai)
rrao@ee.iitb.ac.in

Onoda M
onoda@eng.u-hyogo.ac.jp

Subodh Mhaisalkar
Subodh@ntu.edu.sg

Satish Patil (IISc)
satish@sscu.iisc.ernet.in

Photonic Materials

Narayan Rao D (Central University,Hyd)
dnrsp@uohyd.ernet.in

Thyagarajan K (IIT, Delhi)
ktrajan@physics.iitd.ac.in

Reji Philip (RRI)
reji@rri.res.in

Nanomaterials Synthesis:
Solutions Route

Byrappa K (Mys. Univ, Mysore)
kbyrappa@gmail.com,
byrappak@yahoo.com

Yoshimura M (Tokyo Instt)
yoshimura@msl.titech.ac.jp

Young-Jei Oh,  (Director of KIST)
youngjei@kist.re.kr.

Eswaramoorthy  M (JNC)
eswar@jncasr.ac.in

Nanomaterials:
Devices and Applications

Enakshi Bhattacharya (IIT, Madras)
enakshi@ee.iitm.ac.in

Ganguli  A K (IIT, Delhi)
ashok@chemistry.iitd.ac.in

Nitride Electronics

Shivaprasad S M (JNC, Bangalore)
smsprasad@jncasr.ac.in

 

Katsumi Kishino (Tokyo University)
kishino@katsumi.ee.sophia.ac.jp

Dipankar Saha
dsaha@iitb.ac.in , dsahaiitb@gmail.com

Srinivasan Raghavan  (CeNSE)
sraghavan@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

Subhabhrata Dhar(IIT-B)
dhar@phy.iitb.ac.in 
subho_dh@yahoo.co.in

Advanced Functional Materials

Magnetic and Spintronics

Sundaresan A (JNC, Bangalore)
sundaresan@jncasr.ac.in

X F Jin (Fudan Development Institute)
xfjin@fudan.edu.cn

Ding, Jun,  NUS , Singapore)
msedinj@nus.edu.sg

Kimura T,  Osaka University,
kimura@mp.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Suresh K G (IIT, Mumbai)
suresh@phy.iitb.ac.in

Hybrids and Composites

Natarajan S (IISc, Bangalore)
snatarajan@sscu.iisc.ernet.in

Amlan J Pal (IACS, Kolkata)
sspajp@iacs.res.in

Ferroics

Pandey D (BHU, Varanasi) dpandey_bhu@yahoo.co.in

Prof. S Wada

Prof. Brendan J Kennedy (Professor of Chemistry at the University of Sydney.)

Superconductors

Budhani  R C(NPL, New Delhi)
dnpl@mail.nplindia.org

Yuji Matsuda (Kyoto University, Japan) (Yet to confirm)
matsuda@scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Yoichi ANDO (Osaka University, Japan) (Yet to confirm)
y_ando@sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp

Hai-Hu Wen (Nanjing University, China) (Yet to confirm)
chenxh@ustc.edu.cn

Xian-Hui Chen (Univ of Sci and Tech, China) (Yet to confirm)
chenxh@ustc.edu.cn

Hu-Jong Lee (Pohang University, Korea) (Yet to confirm)
hjlee@postech.ac.kr

Chong Kim Ong (NUS, Singapore) (Yet to confirm)
phyongck@edu.sg

C S Sundar (IGCAR)
css@igcar.gov.in

Glasses

Kothiyal G P (BARC, Mumbai)
gpkothiyal@yahoo.co.in

Masahiro Tatsumisago
tatsu@chem.osakafu-u.ac.jp

Jong Heo (Pohang University, Korea)
jheo@postech.ac.kr

Sujatha Devi P (CGCRI)
psujathadevi@gmail.com

Prof. Jianrong Qiu
qjr@scut.edu.cn

Electro Ceramics

 

K B R Varma KBR (IISc, Bangalore)
kbrvarma@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

Takayuki  Komatsu (Nagaoka University)
komatsu@mst.nagaokaut.ac.jp

Ajit Kulkarni (IIT, Mumbai)
ajit.kulkarni@iitb.ac.in

Energy and Green Materials

Inorganic PV

Baskar K (Crystal Growth Centre, Chennai)
baskar@annauniv.edu

T Soga ( Nagoya Int of Tech, Japan
soga@nitech.ac.jp

Organic PV

Suresh Das (NIIST)
sureshdas@niist.res.in,
sureshdas55@gmail.com

Hayase S (Kyushu Instt)
hayase@life.kyutech.ac.jp

Parameswara Iyer (IIT, Guwahati)
pki@iitg.ernet.in

Hybrids

Mehta B R (IIT, Delhi)
brmehta@physics.iitd.ernet.in

Iji M  (Japan)
m-iji@bk.jp.nec.com

Batteries, Fuel Cells and Supercapacitors

Shukla A K (IISc, Bangalore)
shukla@sscu.iisc.ernet.in

Saito N (Japan)
hiro@rd.numse.nagoya-u.ac.jp

Jeng-Kuei Chang (NCU, Taiwan)
jkchang@ncu.edu.tw

Vijaymohanan Pillai K (CECRI)
director.cecri@gmail.com

Thermoelectrics

Satish  Vitta, (IIT, Mumbai)
satish.vitta@iitb.ac.in

 

Yoshikazu Shinohara
SHINOHARA.Yoshikazu@nims.go.jp

Ryoji Funahashi
(NIAIST, Japan)
funahashi-r@aist.go.jp

Ajay Dhar (NPL, New Delhi)
adharmail.nplindia.org

Advanced Structural Materials

Composites

 

 

Manocha L M  (S P University, Vallabh Vidyanagar) manocha52@rediffmail.com,
lalitmanocha@gmail.com

Kim H.D (Korea)
Khd1555@kims.re.kr

Mansurov Zulkhair  A
zmansurov@kaznu.kz

Light  Metals and Alloys

Amol Anant Gokhale (DMRL, Hyderabad)
director@dmrl.drdo.in

Alok Singh (NIMS, Japan)
Alok.SINGH@nims.go.jp

Materials Modelling and Simulation

Computational Materials Science

Das G P (IACS, Kolkata)
msgpd@iacs.res.in

Jun Nakamura (Japan)
junj@ee.uec.ac.jp

Yuan Ping Feng, National University of Singapore(NUS)
phyfyp@nus.edu.sg

Kwang- Ryeol Lee ( KIST, Korea)
krlee@kist.re.kr

Shobhana Narasimhan (JNC, Bangalore)
shobhana@jncasr.ac.in

Simulation and Modelling

Abhishek Singh (IISc)
abhishek@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

Kawazoe (Tohuku)
kawazoe@e-workshop.co.jp

Waghmare U V (JNC, Bangalore)
waghmare@jncasr.ac.in

Materials Characterization

Electron Microscopy

Ravishankar  N (IISc, Bangalore)
nravi@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

Ranjan Datta (JNCASR)
ranjan@jncasr.ac.in

Raju V. Ramanujan (NTU, SIngapore)

Kenji Kaneko (Kyushu Univ., Japan)

Scanning probe Microscopy

Jaydeep Basu (IISc, Bangalore)
basu@physics.iisc.ernet.in

H Yamada (Koyota Univ)
h-yamada@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Spectroscopy

Chandrabhas Narayana (JNC, Bangalore )
cbhas@jncasr.ac.in

Balaji Jagirdar ( IISc, Bangalore)
jagirdar@ipc.iisc.ernet.in

Materials for Bio / Medical Applications

Biosensors

Soumyo Mukherji (IIT, Mumbai)
mukherji@iitb.ac.in

Manoj Varma  ( IISc Bangalore)
mvarma@ece.iisc.erent.in

Nanomedicine- Tissue Engineering

Ashok Raichur (IISc)
amr@materials.iisc.ernet.in

Shanti Nair ( Amrita Institute, Kochi) (Yet to confirm)
shantinair@aims.amrita.edu

Cell-Material Interaction

Bikramjit Basu  (IISc,Bangalore)
bikram@mrc.iisc.ernet.in

Jayabalan M (SCTIMST)
muthujayabalan@rediffmail.com

Sriram Ramakrishna (NUS, Singapore)
seeram@nus.edu.sg

FORUMS

Clean Water

Pradeep T (IIT, Madras)
pradeep@iitm.ac.in

Sung Jae Kim, (Seoul National University, Korea)
gates@snu.ac.kr

Industry / Academia interaction

Mano Manoharan (GE,India)
mano.manoharan@ge.com

Suraj Rengarajan
Suraj_Rengarajan@amat.com

 

Plenary Speakers

C N R Rao,  JNCASR, Bangalore Artificial photosynthesis and generation of hydrogen by water splitting Opening Plenary
Teruo Kishi , NIMS, Japan Material Research Strategy and Structural Materials in Japan  Plenary
Rudolf Gross, WMI, Germany Circuit Nano-Electromechanics   Plenary
Yunqi Liu, CAS, China Design and Synthesis of p-Conjugated Molecules and Their  Application in Organic  Field-Effect Transistors  Plenary
Soo WohnLee, Sunmoon University Korea Towards multi-functional  photocatalytic nanomaterials for red and green tides removal Plenary

 

Invited Speakers (Partial List)

Topic Name Title  
Magnetic and Spintronics Xiaofeng Jin Unveiling the origins of the Anomalous Hall effect Invited 
Y G Zhao Magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic heterostructures Invited 
Arindam Ghosh Impact of charge and spin defects on the electrical transport in Dirac materials Invited 
Yoshinori Onose Topological effects on magnetic excitations in magnetic materials Invited 
Ying-Hao Chu Coupled Magnetic Properties of Self-Assembled Complex Oxide Heterostructures Invited 
Kee Hoon Kim Electric field control of magnetization in helimagnets  Invited 
Shinji Miwa High diode sensitivity due to nonlinear spin dynamics in magnetic tunnel junction Invited 
P Chowdhury Development of pinned electrode for magnetic tunnel junction with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy Invited 
Pratap Raychaudhuri  Emergence of nanoscale inhomogeneity in the superconducting state of a homogeneously disordered s-wave superconductor, NbN Invited
Brahmananda Chakraborty First principles investigation of intrinsic ferromagnetism in Y2O3 induced by doped group 2A non-magnetic elements X (X=Be, Mg, Ca) Invited 
Prahallad Padhan Frequency-dependent magnetoresistance and magnetocapacitance properties of magnetic tunnel junctions with Mgo tunnel barrier Invited 
Herng T S ZnO Magnetism, Ferroelectricity and Multiferroicity  Invited 
Mahendiran R Perovskite oxides tailored for magnetic refrigeration and thermoelectric applications Invited 
Yusuf S M  Phase Coexistence in Magnetic Systems Invited 
Majumdar S Magnetic Behavior of Ni-Mn-Sn-based Shape Memory Alloys Invited 
Organic PV Subodh G. Mhaisalkar Current Progress and Future Perspectives for Organic/Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells Invited 
Ho Jung Chang Characteristics of polymer solar cells added with gold nanoparticles in hole transport layer by spin coating method Invited 
Satish Ogale Awaited  Invited 
Narayan K S  Awaited Invited 
Suresh Chand Awaited Invited 
Satish Patil Awaited Invited
Sundar Kumar Iyer s Some Examples of Electric Field Annealing in Organic Solar Cell Fabrication Invited 
Batteries, Guel Cells and Supercapacitors Okada S State-of-the Art Na-Ion Batteries as Post Li-Ion Battery Invited
Balachandran U Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Based on Proton-Conducting Ceramic Electrolyte Invited
Nagahiro Saito The Surface Modification of CNT for High Dispersion in Water Invited
Reddy  M V Spinel oxides as Electrode Materials for Lithium Ion Batteries Invited 
Thermoelectrics Junichiro Shiomi  Phonon transport in nanostructured thermoelectric materials Invited
Franck  Gascoin Thermoelectric properties of layered titanium chalcogenides Invited
Ramesh Chandra Mallik The role of interfaces in the thermoelectric properties of bulk PbTe with encapsulated bismuth and indium phases Invited
Banerji P Different approaches towards high thermoelectric power conversion efficiency in PbTe based materials Invited
Kanishka Biswas New Approaches to Enhance the Thermoelectric Performance of Te-free Bulk Chalcogenides Invited
Budhani  R C  Development of advanced thermoelectric materials and devices for energy harvesting Invited
Ajay soni Role of Interfaces in Thermoelectric Performance of Bulk Nanocomposites Invited
Aswal D K  Quest of Efficient Thermoelectric Power Generators Invited
Tsutomu Iida Waste heaat recovery using environmentally benign Mg2Si for reducing automotive CO2 emission Invited
Ryuji Okazaki Photothermoelectric property in oxide compounds Invited
Emmanuel Guilmeau Phonon scattering in layered TiS2 compounds Invited
Computational Materials Science Chun Zhang Electronic and Transport Properties of Molecular Junctions under a Finite Bias: A Dual Mean Field Approach Invited
Mohammad Saeed Bahramy Eletrical control of spin-valley couping Invited
Saroj K Nayak Predictive Large Scale Electronic Structure for Materials Design: From Nanoelectronics to BioTechnology Invited
Su-Huai Wei Rational Design of Semiconductors for Hydrogen Production through Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting  Invited
Noejung Park First-principles materials study for energy storage and conversion Invited
Hyungjun Kim Toward a lithium-‘air’battery: The effect of CO2 on the chemistry of a lithium-oxygen cell Invited
Hongjun Xiang Unified model for spin order induced polarization in multiferroics Invited
Nisanth N. Nair H2 formation from Water at the Rh/Al2O3 Interface Invited
Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta First-principles Study of Spin-Crossover Polymers Invited
Satoshi Watanabe First-Principles Simulations on Electric and Dielectric Properties of Metal-Oxide Heterostructures for Novel Nanoscale Devices Invited
Simulation and Modelling Mittal R Anomalous Thermodynamic Behaviour of Novel Compounds: Inelastic  Neutron Scattering and Lattice Dynamics Studies Invited
Sudipta Dutta Interacting Spins in Honeycomb Ribbons with Zigzag Edges Invited
Abinandanan Phase separation as a mechanism for relieving strain energy in epitaxially grown alloy thin filmsA Invited
Ayappa K G  Functionalizing Graphene Nanoribbons for Improved Methane and Carbon dioxide Gas Storage Invited
Hisato Yasumatsu Electron Accumulation at Sub-Nano Interface By Dosing of Uni-Size Pt Cluster Disk on Si (111) Surface and its Application to Catalytic Co Oxidation Invited
Young-Woon Son Origin of anomalous water permeation through graphene oxide membrane Invited
Kaoru Ohno TOMBO, an all-electron mixed basis program Invited
Manish Jain New Methods to Accelerate GW Calculations Invited
Electron Microscopy Kenji Kaneko Three-Dimensional Electron Tomography for Materials Science and Engineering Invited
Masaki Tanaka Multiplication process of crack tip dislocations revealed with HVEM-tomography Invited
Hata S Long-Period Superstructures and Their Ordering Behavior in Al-Rich TiAl Alloy: Seeing Nanostructure Apart from Phase Diagrams Invited
Raju V. Ramanujan ELECTRON MICROSCOPY OF MAGNETIC FLUIDS Invited
Tanji T Electron Holography of Interfaces between Metal and Oxide Ionic Conductor Invited
Cell Material Interaction Horiuchi N  Electric characterization in hydroxyapatite for understanding biointerfaces Invited
Prabha D Nair Biosignal embraced scaffolds for tissue regeneration Invited
Min Wang Novel Tissue Engineering Scaffolds and their Interactions with Cells Invited
Oxide Electronics Koshizaki . N FABRICATION OF SUBMICROMETER SPHERICAL PARTICLES FROM NANOPARTICLE AGGREGATES BY PULSED LASER MELTING IN LIQUID AND THEIR APPLICATION Invited
Tatsuo Okada Controlled Growth of ZnO Nano-Crystals and Their Lasing Characteristics Invited
Carlo Lamberti Lowdimensional oxides investigated by X-rays absorption and emission spectroscopies: a selectivesof 2D, 1D and 0D cases Invited
Gavin Lawes Magnetically induced ferroelectric order in transition metal vanadates  Invited
Werner Paulus Impact of long -range structural correlations for the reactivity  of solid oxides: Example of non-stoichiometric Ruddlesden Popper phases Invited
Toshi Kamiya Impurity  and Defects in Oxide Semiconductors Invited
Michael Lorenz Pulsed laser deposition of functional oxides for electronic applications Invited
Wilfrid  Prellier High-Throughput Synthesis of Complex Oxide Thin Films Invited
Hyeongtag Jeon Stability Enhancement with Nanoparticels on the Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O Thin Films Transistor Invited
Silicon Germanium  Prashanta Basu Group IV Semiconductors and Their Alloys for Photonic Device Applications Invited
Tsutomu Tezuka Ge-on insulator MOSFETs for high-performance and 3D stacking Applications Invited
Sheng-Wei Lee High quality multifold Ge/Si/Ge composite quantum dots for thermoelectric Materials: Their formation mechanism and thermoelectric properties Invited
Shunri Oda Si/Ge based Low-Dimensional Structures for Future Electronics Invited 
Satyam P V Self Assembled Graded-SixGey Nano/Micro structures on High Index Silicon Surfaces Invited
Dev B N  Self-Organized Epitaxial Nanostructures on Silicon Surfaces Invited
Hamaya K Spintronics on SiGe platform Invited
Siddheswar Maikap GeOx Based Nanoscale Resistive Switching Memories Invited
Pei-Wen Li Designer Germanium Quantum-Dot Single Electron Transistors and Broadband Photodetectors Invited
Tom George The Curious Case of Germanium Quantum Dots: Anomalous Migration and Growth Behavior of Ge under Si oxidation Invited
Milan K Sanyal Synchrotron X-ray studies of Ge quantum huts formed at interfaces of Si-Ge superlattices Invited
Kukreja L M  Anomalous optical transitions in photoluminescence from pulsed laser deposited ensembles of capped Silicon Nanoparticles Invited
Carbon and Graphene Vitor M Pereira Resonant tunneling in graphene pseudomagnetic quantum dots Invited
Suk-Ho Choi All-graphene p-n vertical tunneling diodes and photodetectors applications Invited
Arindam Ghosh Multifunctional Heterostructures of Graphene Invited
Mandar M Deshmukh Tunable graphene superlattice  Invited
Baskaran G Room Temperature Superconductivity, Spin Liquid and Mott Insulator: Silicene and Germanene as prospective playgrounds Invited
Masanobu Naito Stiffness-and Conformation-Dependent Polymer Wrapping onto Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes Invited
P I Cohen Introduction of a bandgap into graphene grown on SiC with adsorbed nitrogen Invited
Sood A K  Photophysics of Graphene using Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy Invited
Kulkarni G U Pencil-on-paper: Electronic devices Invited
Organic Electronics Dinesh Kobra Design Rules For Balanced Charge Carriers Transport in Blend of Organic Semiconductors Based Optoelectronic devices Invited
Bansi D Malhotra Nanostructured Metals Oxides Based Microfluidics Biosensors Invited
Toshihiko Kaji Co-evaporant induced crystallization for organic solar cells and other organic electronics Invited
Ananth Doddabhallapur
Tatsuo Hasegawa Print Production Technologies for Organic Thin Film Transistors Invited
Photonic Materials Murukeshan Vadakke Matham Nanoscale fabrication of features using plasmonic interference and their applications (Invited Talk) Invited
Jayasankar C K SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISATION OF LUMINESCENT MATERIALS: PHOTONIC APPLICATIONS Invited
Aditya K. Dharmadhikari Femtosecond laser based inscription inside transparent materials Invited
Vijaya R Lasing in Opaline Microcavities Invited
Debabrata Goswami  Nanophotonics: Control at sub-diffraction limit through fewmtosecond light-matter interaction  Invited
Tata B V R  Self-assembly Methods for Fabricating Large Size Photonic Crystals Invited
Pavan Kumar G V  Nanowire-Photonics: Plasmonic and Excitonic  Invited
Vijaya Prakash G Inorganic-Organic layered perovskites: Fabrication to photonic applications Invited
Tadaaki Nagao Plasmon-enhanced photocatalyst and vibrational spectroscopy for the green nanotechnology Invited 
Shobha Shukla Solar Energy Concertration using Planar Metallic Nanostructures for Efficient Photodevices Invited
Achanta Venu Gopal Nanostructured materials for photonic and plasmonic studies Invited
Hybrids Including Biomass Masatoshi Iji Highly  Functional Bioplastics Used for Durable Products : Polylactic Acid Composites and Cardanol-Bonded Cellulose Resin Invited
Nicholas M. Thomson Increasing the range and performance of polyhydroxyalkanoates Invited
Basudeb Saha Bionenewable Solid Acid Catalyst for the Preparation of High Value Chemicals and High Octane Fuels From Lignocellulose Invited
Hideki ABE Molecular and Materials Designs of Biomass Polymers Invited
Samit K. Ray One Dimensional Hybrid Nanostructures for Photovoltaic Devices Invited
Dr. Prakash P. Wadgaonkar Cashew Nut Shell Liquid (CNSL): A Versatile Renewable Raw Material of Great Industrial Promise Invited
Dr. Rie Nakamura, Dr. Eng Estimation of Migration Structure in Ramie Twisted Yarn and its Mechanical Properties Invited
Nanomaterials Synthesis and Properties Byrappa K Organic Assisted Solution Processing of TiO2 , ZnO, NiFe2O4 and Fe3O4 Particles for Biomedical Applications Invited
Narayan K S Low Temperature Synthesis and Surface Modification of Calcium Phosphate Based Bioceramic Composites Invited 
Young-Jei Oh Preparation and Characterization of Ag, Cu and Al Doped-ZnO Nanomaterials for Flexible Electronics Invited
Balaji R. Jagirdar Solvated Metal Atom Dispersion and Digestive Ripening – Duo par excellence for Diverse Nanostructured Materials Invited
Bhagavannarayana G Enhancement of Crystal Perfection by Appropriate Growth Conditions or After Growth Processing Steps in Strategic Bulk Single Crystals Grown by CZ-method Invited
Tomoaki  Watanabe Ammonothermal Route to Functional Nitrides and Oxynitrides Invited
Yoshimura  M Direct Fabrication of Graphene and Functionalized Graphene by Solution Processes Invited
Ranjani Viswanatha  Defects in nanomaterials: Implications in various applications  Invited
Prasad B L V Evaluation of Batch Processes for Continuous Flow Synthesis of Metal and Metal Oxide Nanomaterials Invited
Benedict Hsu Nanohybrid-encapsulated Manganese Oxide Nanoparticles for Optimized MRI Invited
Eswaramoorthy M Organic-inorganic hybrids: synthesisand their unusual applications Invited
Ik Jin Kim Microporous Ceramics from Particle-Stabilized Wet Foams Invited
Sakamoto N Solution Derived 12CaO·7Al2O3 Nanoparticles Clathrating Oxygen Radicals O- Invited
Reddy  M V Chemical Synthesis of Metal Nitrides and Oxides Invited
Kohei SOGA Materials Development for OTN-NIR Small Animal Fluorescence Bioimaging Invited
Nanomaterials: Devices and Application Dojin Kim The low-limit of nano-size effect in nanowire gas sensor device Invited
Roy Chaudhuri C Nanostructured Silicon Oxide Immunosensor as Frequency Selective High  Performance Biomolecule Detection Platform Invited
Anil prabhakar Magnonics: Spin wave propagation in magnetic meta-materials Invited
Manu Jaiswal GRAPHENE: ENGINEERING ELECTRONIC PHENOMENA ON A SINGLE-ATOM MEMBRANE Invited
Dusane R O  Supercapacotors from Silicon Manowires Invited
Nitride Electronics Chichibu S F Effects of Si-doping on the near-band-edge emission dynamics of Al0.6Ga0.4N epilayers grown on AlN templates by metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy Invited
Yang C C Regularly Patterned InGaN/GaN Quantum Well Nanorod LED Array Invited
Sudhirajan Tripathi 200 mm Diameter GaN-on-Silicon Epiwafers for Power Electronics Invited
Siddarth Rajan III- Nitride Tunnel Junctions: Devices and Applications Invited
Muralidharan R AlGaN/ GaN hetero-structures – Material growth, characterization and High electron mobility transistor fabrication Invited
Yong-Hoon Cho Group III-Nitride Semiconductor Nanostructures for Novel Light Emitting Devices Invited
Srinivas Raghavan Awaited Invited
Arnab Bhattacharya Non-polar and Semi-polar Group-III Nitride Semiconductors: MOVPE growth, characterization, and devices Invited
Subhrabhrata Dhar Awaited Invited
Shivaprasad S M  Awaited Invited
Andres Cantarero,  Raman spectroscopy of nitride nanowires Invited
Electro Ceramics Taik-Nam Kim Performance of eletric double layers capacitor using activated carbon electrode materials from rice husk Invited
Kumar V PZT Thin Films: Influences of Films Texture for Microactuator Applications Invited
James A R  Applications of novel synthetic techniques to electroceramics for improved electrical Propertiesinvited Invited
Takahashi Y Perfectly Surface Crystallized Glass-Ceramics: Domain Structure and Electro-Optic  effect Invited
Raghu N  Multilayer Piezo Actuators Based on Silver Internal Electrodes Invited
Komatsu T  Unique Crystal Growth with Crystal Axis Rotation in Multi-Ferroic b’-Gd2(MoO4)3 Patterned by Laser Invited
Hybrids and Composites Wolfgang Schmitt  Supramolecular Approaches  to Nanoscopic Coordination Cages, Clusters and High-Surface Area Coordination Networks Invited 
Anjan Barman Nanoscale Magnonic Crystals: A New Paradigm Towards Microwave Communications Invited
Furong Zhu Integration of organic optoelectronic devices and application Invited 
Amitava Patra Exciton-Plasmon Interactions in Hybrid Nanostructures Invited
Onoda M New Fabrication Method of Conductive Polymer/Fullerene Composite Film for Organic Photovoltaic Cells
Invited 
Superconductors Shigeru Kasahara Nodal s-wave superconductivity in iron-based superconductors Invited
Bharathi A  Structure and magnetism across the SDW transition in Bafe2-xRuxAs2 Invited
Mittal R Phonons in Parent and Superconducting FeAs and FeSe Based Compounds Invited 
Datta T S  Superconducting Magnet Development Programme at lnter-University Accelerator Centre Invited
Awana V P S  Superconductivity in layered REO0.5F0.5Bi2 (RE = La, Pr and Nd)  Invited
Patnaik S New directions in layered chalcogenide superconductors Invited
Hidenori Hiramatsu  Non-equilibrium impurity doping and critical current density of 122-type iron-pnictide superconductors Invited
Tsuyoshi Tamegai  Bulk Superconductivity in Fe1+y(Te,Se) Induced by Post Annealing Invited
Bhandari R K  Use of Superconductivity in Indian Accelerator Programmes Invited
Hu-Jong Lee Complete Gate Control of Supercurrent in Graphene-based p-n Junctions  Invited
Satyajit S Banerjee Competition Between magnetism and superconductivity in an underdoped Iron Pnictide superconductor Invited
Jauyn Grance Lin Novel properties in heterstructures of unconventional superconductor and ferromagnet Invited
Hossain Z Reentrant Superconductivity in Borides and Arsenides Invited
Ceramics and Glasses Shifeng Zhou Glass-ceramics for Wavelength Tunable Light Source Invited
Bekir Karasu Noval Glass Compositions for Concrete Reinforcement Invited
Sudarsan V Structure studies on glasses using solid state NMR Technique Invited
Ranjan Sen Recent Developments and Research Trends on Specialty Glasses and Optical Fibers Invited
Ghosh A Correlation of structure and ion transport properties in some glassy ionic conductors Invited
Sevi Murugavel Novel mesoporous bioactive glass and glass-ceramics: Influence of the local atomic structure on in-vitro bioactivity Invited
Asokan S Awaited Invited
Composites Rie Nakamura Estimation of migration structure in Ramie twisted yarn and its mechanical properties  Invited
Joshi S V  Exciting prospects for Hybrid plasma spraying of composite coating employing powders and solution precursors Invited
Koteswararao V. Rajulapati Fabrication and Mechanical properties of Aluminium based Bulk Nanocomposites Invited
Pai B C  Development of functional metal matrix composites for engineering applications Invited
Arvind Kumar Saxena Multifunctional precursor materials for SiC ceramics Invited
Anil Kumar Ceramic materials and composites for missile applications: R&D at ASL-DRDO Invited
Manocha S M  Development of micro/nano reinforcment Ceramic matrix composites through sol-gel route.    Invited
Mathur R B  Role  of  carbon materials  in generation and storage of clean energy  Invited
Inorganic PV Saravanan S  Technology and Manufacturing of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cell Invited
Balaji N ( in place of prof. J Yi) Enhanced Surface Passivatio By Sol-Gel processed Mgo for c-Si Solar Cell Applications Invited
Vijayaraghavan R Zno based Transparent Conducting Oxides for Solar Cells Invited
Tetsuo Soga  Fabrication and characterization of all-carbon photovoltaic device Invited
Partha Chaudhuri Electrical conduction mechanism through a superlattice of silicon quantum dot embedded silicon layers Invited
Pavan Kumar Bijalwan Silicon nitride thin films as the dielectric barriers for flexible a-Si: H thin film solar cell on steel substrate Invited
N Shigekawa Awaited  
Light Metals and Super Alloys Miura H  Fabrication of Ultrafine Grained Mg Alloys by Multi-Directional Forging and The Specific Mechanical Properties Invited
Toshiji Mukai Grain Refinement and  Textue Modification of Magnesium Alloys for Improving Mechanical Performance Invited
Shigeharu Kamado Development of Commonly-used Heat Treatable Magnesium Alloys for High Speed Extrusion Invited
Koichi Tsuchiya Effect of Severe Plastic Deformation on a+b Duplex Structure Formation  in Ti-5Al-5Mo-5V-3Cr Alloy Invited
Shae K Kim Importance of Cleanliness for Mg Alloys Invited
Satyam Suvas Evolution of texture in Magnesium alloys through severe plastic deformation  Process Invited
Subodh Kumar Awaited Invited
Alok Singh Effect of microstructure on strength and ductility og high strength extruded Mg-Zn-Y alloys Invited
Gokahle A  Awaited Invited
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Clean Water Nitin Labhsetwar Materials for Defuoridation of Water and Wastewater Invited
Sreekumaran Nair A Electrospun Tio2Nanostructures/ Polymers for Photocataysis & Self-cleaning Coatings Invited
Sung Jae Kim  Awaited Invited
Ghosh A K  Awaited Invited
Khuntia S Awaited Invited
Pradeep T Biopolymer-reinforced synthetic granular nanocomposites for affordable point-of-use water purification Invited
Ferroics Nobuo Nakajima Local origin of the ferroelectric moment in SrTiO3: real space energy space studies Invited
Satoshi Wada Dielectric and Piezelectric Enhancement of Barium Titanate-based Na- no-structured Ceramics with Heteroepitaxial Interfaces Invited
Umesh V Waghmare First-principles Theory of Structural Transitions and Domain Xtructure in Bulk and Nano-scale Ferroelectricsinvited Invited
Ashish Garg Gallium Ferrite: A near temperature Multiferroics Material Invited