International Conference and Expo on Smart Materials & Structures June 15-17, 2015 Las Vegas, USA

Dieter Sporn of Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research ISC, Würzburg with expertise in Supramolecular Chemistry, Solid-state Chemistry & Smart Materials

Materials Chemistry Nanobiotechnology Materials Organometallic Chemistry Materials Processing Solid-State Chemistry Supramolecular Chemistry

MOGENS BRØNDSTED NIELSEN, PhD, is Professor of Organic Chemistry Department of Chemistry at the University of Copenhagen, where he teaches courses in advanced organic chemistry, heterocyclic chemistry, and supramolecular chemistry. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed papers, monographs, and book chapters.

Chemistry of materials

Yongmei Zheng, is a professor at School of Chemistry and Environment, and Key Laboratory of Bio-inspired Smart Interfacial Science and Technology of Ministry of Education, in Beihang University. Research interests are focused on biological surfaces and bioinspired surface materials with gradient multi-structures to realize the dynamic wetting-controlled functions. The integrating methods of physical, chemical, and nanotechnology are used to develop novel technique into fabrication of bioinspired surfaces. Wetting mechanisms, including water repellency or water collecting, droplet driving, ice-phobic, anti-icing and anti-frosting, are revealed at micro- and nano-level. Publications include in Nature, Sci. Rep., Adv. Mater., Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., ACS Nano, Adv. Funct. Mater., Small, Chem. Commun., J. Mater. Chem. A, Nanoscales, ACS Appl. Mater. Interface, Soft Matter, Langmuir, Appl. Phys. Lett., etc., with 12 Cover stories.

Research interests are focused on biological surfaces and bioinspired surface materials with gradient multi-structures to realize the dynamic wetting-controlled functions. The integrating methods of physical, chemical, and nanotechnology are used to develop novel technique into fabrication of bioinspired surfaces. Wetting mechanisms, including water repellency or water collecting, droplet driving, ice-phobic, anti-icing and anti-frosting, are revealed at micro- and nano-level.

Professor Jacek Przybylski is a specialist in applied mechanics. At the early stages of his work for the Czestochowa University of Technology his scholarly research interests included the reliability theory of mechanical objects and the fatigue theory. Over the last thirty years he has been mainly concerned with the stability and vibration of mechanical systems. During that period he has published his doctoral and postdoctoral theses and many technical papers and articles. He has also been conducting research into other subject areas, such as the theoretical and experimental investigations of vibration of the divergence-pseudoflutter systems, computer aided design of mobile cranes and resonance boxes of musical instruments as well as the interaction problems between the supports of truck cranes and the ground of particular rheological properties. In the last ten years his investigation has been focused on the influence of the piezoelectric actuation on the static and dynamic behaviour of mechanical systems, including the geometrically non-linear systems. His work in the above areas has been published in a large number of various Polish and international highly reputable journals. Moreover, he has published as an author or co-author seven research monographs in the field. Professor’s didactic activities cover lectures, classes, workshops, seminars and laboratory classes on mechanics, mechanics of materials, theory of vibrations, and computer aided design. He is the author of curriculum-oriented textbooks, laboratory instructions and concepts of many laboratory and didactic stands for graduate and postgraduate students at various stages of higher education. Other activities include being a supervisor who mentors postgraduate students preparing for their PhD examinations. For his scientific and didactic activities Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education has awarded him two individual and three collective prizes. He has also been awarded twelve prizes by the Rector of CUT.

Physics, Materials Engineering

Yuri Aristov is a professor of physical chemistry and the head of the Group of Energy Accumu-lating Materials and Processes at the Boreskov Institute of Catalysis (BIC), Novosibirsk, Russia. He received his M.Sc. degree from the Moscow Physico-Technical Institute in 1977, and his doctoral and habilitation degrees from BIC (1984 and 2003). He contributed to the fields of radiation chemistry, low-temperature electron tunneling, fractal analysis of porous solids, and thermochemical transformation of heat. He is currently working on novel composite adsorbents for adsorptive chilling, gas drying, and maintaining relative humidity in museums. He has published 1 monograph, 200 papers, and 26 patents.

Physics, Solid State Materials

Marek Janusz Wójcik is currently a Professor of Chemistry at Jagiellonian University; Poland. He completed his MSc in Chemistry on1968 and PhD in Chemistry on 1973 at Jagiellonian University. He got titles as Professor of Chemical Sciences in 1996. His research interest is in (i) theoretical studies of hydrogen-bonded systems, water, aqueous ionic solutions and ices, (ii) quantum-mechanical calculations, (iii) theoretical studies of multidimensional proton tunneling, (iv)Car-Parrinello simulations. He has published more than 100 articles in reputed Journals.

Research areas: (i) theoretical studies of hydrogen-bonded systems, water, aqueous ionic solutions and ices, (ii) quantum-mechanical calculations, (iii) theoretical studies of multidimensional proton tunneling, (iv) Car-Parrinello simulations. More information: www.chemia.uj.edu.pl/~wojcik

Dr. Kwun Nam HUI is an associate professor at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Pusan National University in South Korea. His current research focuses on synthesis of hierarchical carbon/graphene materials as well as on the development of 3D hierarchical metal oxide materials as advanced electrode materials for energy storage and conversion applications. His research has led to one US patent, 7 Korea patents, four review papers, three book chapters, 86 peer-reviewed SCI journal papers. He has served as guest editor/member of the editorial board of a number of journals.

applications of nano-porous catalysts/adsorbents/nanowires such as zeolite, MCM-41/SBA-15, MWCNT, graphene composites, Co3O4, etc. in air purification, catalytic combustion, energy production/storage, water treatment, organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs), ZnO based photovoltaic cell, III-V semiconductors LEDs and solid-state lighting.