Prof. Em. Aharon Gedanken obtained his M. Sc. from Bar-Ilan University, and his Ph. D. degree from Tel Aviv University, Israel. After his postdoctoral research at USC in Los Angeles. He got a lecturer position at BIU on Oct. 1975. He spent two sabbatical years at AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1980-8l, and 1987-88 as well as a summer in 1984. He also has done research at NIDDK, NIH in the summers of 1989, 1990 and 1991. In 1994 he switched his research interest from Spectroscopy to Nanotechnology. His special synthetic methods of nanomaterials include: Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET). Since 2004 he is mostly focused on the applications of nanomaterials. Gedanken has published 782 per-reviewed manuscripts in international journals, and has applied for 38 Patents. His H-Index is 85 according to the WEB of SCIENCE. Gedanken has served as the Department Chairman as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Exact Sciences at Bar-Ilan University. He is on the editorial boards of 4 international journals. He still leads a group of 13 research people. He was a partner in five EC (European Community) FP7 projects one of them, SONO, was coordinated by him. This project was announced by the EC as a “Success Story”. He is a partner in PROTECT a textile project in Horizon 2020. He was the Israeli representative to the NMP (Nano, Materials, and Processes) committee of EC in FP7. He was awarded the prize of the Israel Vacuum Society in 2009 and the Israel Chemical Society for excellence in Research in Feb. 2013.

Sonochemistry, Microwave Superheating, Sonoelectrochemistry, and Reactions under Autogenic Pressure at Elevated Temperatures (RAPET)

Prof. Limin Wu has completed his PhD from Zhejiang University and postdoctoral studies from Penn State University. He has published more than 300 papers in reputed journals with more than 9000 citatons and H-index=53. He has been serving as an editorial board members of several international Jourals.

Organic/inorganic nanohybrid colloidal spheres; Functional coatings

Antonio Tejeda is a researcher at CNRS, the main French Research Center. He received his PhD at Autonoma University in Madrid in 2003. He worked at Denis Diderot University in Paris under a Marie Curie Fellowship, and obtained a tenure position at CNRS in 2004, where he presently works in the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides since 2014. He is there the head of an inverse photoemission setup that he initiated and developed. He combines this technique with an intense research activity using synchrotron facilities. His expertise areas are low dimensional systems, surfaces and interfaces

Research focuses on low-dimensional systems, such as solids surfaces, interfaces between two solid materials, lamellar compounds or graphene.

Professor Yuehe Lin has received his PhD from University of Idaho in 1997. Currently he is a fellow of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is serving as an editorial member of several reputed journals like Talanta and Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. He has authored over 200 research articles and is the coeditor of the Handbook of Electrochemical Nanotechnology and the section editor of the Encyclopedia of Nanofluidics and Microfluidics. He is a fellow of AAAS.

Biosensors; Nanobiotechnology

D.Y. Li is a Professor at Department of Chemical & Materials Engineering, and an Adjunct Professor at Department of Bio-medical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. He received a PhD in Metallurgical Engineering (1995) from McGill University (Canada), a PhD in Materials Physics (1990) from University of Sci. and Tech. Beijing, a M.Sc. in Solid State Physics (1985) from Zhongshan University (China), and a B.Sc. in Solid Mechanics (1982) from University of Sci. & Tech. China (Hefei). Dr. Li is the editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Nano and Biomaterials; he is also a member of editorial boards of other four journals.

Correlation between electron work function and materials properties Bacteria-metal surface interactions; Surface modification for bacteria control Surface science and engineering Wear and corrosion of materials Computational materials science and engineering and Photocatalytic materials for solar energy utilization.

Prof. Sondipon Adhikari is the chair of Aerospace Engineering in the College of Engineering of Swansea University. Currently he is a Wolfson Research Merit Award holder from the Royal Society. He received his PhD in 2001 from the University of Cambridge. During this time he was the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Trust scholar at the Trinity College. He was a lecturer at the Bristol University and a Junior Research Fellow in Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. He was a visiting Professor at the Carleton University, University of Johannesburg and a visiting scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research areas are multidisciplinary in nature and include uncertainty quantification in computational mechanics, bio &nanomechanics (nanotubes, graphene, cell mechanics, nano-bio sensors), dynamics of complex systems, inverse problems for linear and non-linear dynamics and vibration energy harvesting. He has published about 150 journal papers and 100 conference papers in these areas. He was an Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) Advanced Research Fellow and winner of the Philip Leverhulme Prize (2007) in Engineering (given to an outstanding scholar under the age of 35).

Computational mechanics Bio & nanomechanics (nanotubes, graphene, cell mechanics, nano-bio sensors) Nonlocal theory for nano systems Dynamical systems Model uncertainty

Dr. L. P. Singh is a Senior Scientist in CSIR- Central Building Research Institute. He received his PhD in Physical -Analytical Chemistry from University of Roorkee. He has published more than 40 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He has received First Khosla Research Award with Gold Medal by University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India, Second Khosla Research Award with Silver Medal by University of Roorkee, Roorkee, India in 1996, Raman Research Award 2012 by CSIR, New Delhi and Outstanding Concrete Technologist Award” 2015 by Indian Concrete Institute(ICI) and UltraTech, Cement.

Nanotechnology Building Materials (Cement/Concrete, Bricks) Chemical Sensors