Stuttgart Nanodays 2013 Conference
2nd/3rd quarter 2013
 

 

Speakers

  • Sivaram Arepalli
    Professor at the Department of Energy Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea
    "Carbon Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Applications"

    Prof. Sivaram Arepalli is with the department of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Suwon, Korea. He was the Chief Scientist of the Applied Nanotechnology Program at NASA-Johnson Space Center before moving to Korea. He received Ph.D. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur in 1979. He finished postdoctoral work at the University of Pennsylvania, Cornell University and the University of Illinois at Chicago prior to joining Lockheed Martin at Houston in 1987. In 1997, he initiated the carbon nanotube project at NASA by starting nanotube production using a double pulse laser oven process. He was responsible for improving understanding of the nanotube growth mechanisms. He helped ISO to establish standards for nanomaterials and carbon nanotubes. He is an Associate Fellow of AIAA and Senior Member of APS. He received the “Nanocarbon 2008 Award” from the Carbon Society of Japan in 2008. He conducted several Nanotehnology based workshops and conferences. In 2009, he organized the first International Green Energy Nanocarbon Conference. He currently serves as an associate editor for the “Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology” and as editor-in-chief for the “Journal of Nano Energy and Power Research”. His current interests include synthesis and processing of nanomaterials for energy applications such as fuel cells, solar cells, batteries and supercapacitors. His group also works on nanocomposites for aerospace structures, environmental sensors and bioimplants.

  • Kinji Asaka
    Kinji Asaka Artificial Cell Research, GroupGroup Leader at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
    "Ionic polymer actuators based on Carbon Nanotubes and ionic liquids"

    Kinji Asaka received the phD degree in Science from Kyoto University in1990. He is currently a Group Leader of the Artificial Cell Research Group, Health Research Institute of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST). His current research interests include interfacial electrochemistry and polymer actuators. He is a member of SPSJ, SICE, RSJ and JSME.

  • Ray Baughman
    Director and Professor of Nano Tech Institute University of Texas in Dallas, USA
    "Key Note on CNT Actuators"

    Ray Baughman became the Robert A. Welch Professor of Chemistry and Director of NanoTech Institute at the University of Texas in Dallas in August 2001, after 31 years in industry. He is a Member of The National Academy of Engineering and The Academy of Medicine, Engineering and Science of Texas; a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the Royal Society of Chemistry; an Academician of The Russian Academy of Natural Sciences; an Honorary Professor of four universities in China; and is on editorial and advisory boards of Science, Materials Research Letters, the International Journal of Nanoscience, and the Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Ray has 61 US patents and over 310 refereed publications with over 18,100 citations. He has received the Chemical Pioneer Award of the American Institute of Chemists (1995), the Cooperative Research Award in Polymer Science and Engineering (1996), the New Materials Innovation Prize of the Avantex International Forum for Innovative Textiles (2005), Nano 50 Awards from Nanotech Briefs Magazine for Carbon Nanotube Sheets and Yarns (2006) and for Fuel Powered Artificial Muscles (2007), the NanoVic Prize from Australia (2006), the Scientific American Magazine 50 recognition for outstanding technological leadership (2006), the CSIRO Metal for Research Achievement (2006), the Chancellor’s Entrepreneurship and Invention Award (2007), 21 for the 21st Century award (2007), the Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award of Carnegie Mellon University (2007), the Kapitza Metal of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (2007), and the honorary 2010 Graffin Lectureship of the American Carbon Society. Listed 30th in the Top 100 Material Scientists of the Decade (2000-2010). In 2010, he became the Honorable Yang Shixiang Professor of Nankai University and the Honorable Tang Aoqing Professor of Jilin University.

  • Bojan Boskovic
    Founder of Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd., UK
    "Commercialisation of Carbon Nanomaterials"

    Dr. Bojan Boskovic is a founder and a CEO of the Cambridge Nanomaterials Technology Ltd (www.CNT-Ltd.co) a consultancy company specialised in carbon nanomaterials that helps companies, universities and government institutions to develop nanomaterials related R&D and IP strategy, training, partnership, products, technologies, funding and markets. He has more than ten years of hands-on experience with carbon nanomaterials and composites from industry and academia in the UK and Europe. Previously, he worked as a R&D Manager at Nanocyl, one of leading carbon nanotube manufacturing companies in Europe. At Nanocyl he was leading a team of researches and scientist in carbon nanomaterials applications ranging from polymer composites to electronic and bio-medical applications. He also worked on carbon nanotube synthesis and applications as a Principal Engineer-Carbon Scientist at Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems, as a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and as a Senior Specialist at The Morgan Crucible PLC. During his PhD at the University of Surrey he invented a low temperature carbon nanofibre synthesis method using PECVD. This research was granted a patent, published in Nature Materials and utilised by CNT synthesis equipment manufacturer Surrey Nano Systems. He is a board member of the British Composites Society and a member of the Steering and Review Group for the Mini-IGT in Nanotechnology that advices UK Government on nanotechnology strategy.

  • David Carroll
    Founder of the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials, USA
    "Advances in Organic Thermoelectrics"

    (1985) BS in physics from NC State University (Raleigh, NC).
    (1993) PhD in physics from Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT) under the supervision of Dr. Dale Doering. Dr. Carroll's thesis work involved charged defects in complex oxide materials.
    (1993 - 1994) Postdoctoral Associate for Professor Dawn Bonnell at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA), Dr. Carroll worked on the application of scanning probes to size and dimension related phenomena in oxide supported metal nanoclusters.
    (1994 - 1997) Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Insitut für Metallforschung in Stuttgart Germany under the direction of Professor Manfred Rühle. Dr. Carroll's primary research focus was nanoscale phenomena at metal-ceramic interfaces using a combination of microscopy techniques. It was at the MPI that Dr. Carroll first began working on carbon nanotubes and specifically was the first to identify the signature for one dimensional behavior in such systems as well as their defect states.
    In 1997 Professor Carroll established the Laboratory for Nanotechnology at Clemson University (SC) where he received promotion and tenure in (2001/2002) from the Department of Physics. At Clemson he established a program in organic devices based on carbon nanotube nanocomposites demonstrating enhanced lifetime and performance in OLEDs for the first time.
    In 2003, Professor Carroll's group moved to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem NC to establish the Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. This move allowed the research team to expand its work into the fields of biomedical nanotechnologies and to continue their work in nanocomposite organic devices such as photovoltaics. Professor Carroll's team continues to push the state-of-the-art in performance of organic solar cells.
    Since becoming faculty, Professor Carroll has published over 200 articles in scholarly journals such as PRL, PNAS, APL, Advanced Materials, and NanoLetters with an h-index of 32. He has published 1 text book: One Dimensional Metals, edited two books, written three book chapters, and holds 7 patents with 8 more patent filings. Dr. Carroll is a frequent speaker at international conferences with more than 75 invited talks in the past few years. He is also a reviewer for 23 different journals, a regular panelist at NSF, SFI, DFG, AFOSR, ARO, and NASA, and is a frequent consultant to a number of industrial interests. He has been actively involved in four spin-off companies utilizing technologies from his labs. Professor Carroll continues to maintain strong ties to the Max-Planck-Insitut für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart Germany, the Department of Physics at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland, and the Department of Materials Science at Rice University.

  • Georg Duesberg
    Associate Professor CRANN, School of Chemistry at the Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
    "Scalable fabrication of graphene based electronics"

    Prof. G.S. Duesberg graduated in Physical Chemistry at the University of Kassel, Germany. He conducted his PhD research at the Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, and Trinity College, Dublin from 1997 - 2000 on purifying, assembling and imaging carbon nanotubes. During this work he was able to characterise individual carbon nanotubes by Raman spectroscopy for the first time. From 2001 - 2005 Prof. Duesberg worked at the Corporate Research Department of Infineon AG, in Munich, Germany. The research focus was on the integration of bottom-up grown structures into CMOS based devices. Waferscale Chemical Vapour deposition (CVD) of CNTs as well as the growth of individual nanotubes on lithographically defined locations are among his achievements. Furthermore, he was involved in the fabrication of the world's smallest transistor and the first power transistor with carbon nanotubes.
    From 2005 - 2007 he worked in the Thin Films Department of the Qimonda AG, Dresden, Germany on the implementation of new ultrathin carbon films into future DRAM technology.
    In July 2007 Prof. Duesberg was awarded an ETS Walton fellowship in the School of Chemistry in Trinity College Dublin and became Principal Investigator in CRANN. Since Feb. 2009 he is Assoc. Prof. in the School of Chemistry at the Trinity College Dublin. Prof. Duesberg continues his research on adaptive devices from nano-structures carbon materials.
     

  • Carsten Glanz
    Group Leader for Melting and Sintered Metals Process Engineering of Functional Materials, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany
    "Carbon reinforced ceramic materials, influence from nanofillers to electrical, mechanical and tribological properties"

    2008-till date Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Nobelstrasse 12, 70569
    Stuttgart, Germany
    Group Leader Melting and Sintered Metals
    - Contact Person reinforced MMCs and CMCs with Carbon Nanotubes
    - Interface management

    2008 Fraunhofer Technologie Development Group TEG, Nobelstrasse 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
    Group Leader Melting and Sintered Metals
    - Contact Person reinforced MMCs and CMCs with Carbon Nanotubes
    - Development of Metal Matrix and Ceramic Matrix Composites
    - Interface management

    2001-2008 Fraunhofer Technologie Development Group TEG, Nobelstrasse 12, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
    Project manager of R&D projects
    - Application and Controlling for project funds
    - Interface management

    2000-2001 Porzellanfabrik Hermsdorf GmbH, Kermikerstrasse 5-7, 036601 Hermsdorf, Germany
    Research and Development assistant for ceramic technologies
    - Controlling of R&D project

  • Christopher Hubrich
    Head of Laboratory Process Engineering of Functional Materials, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany
    "Coating of Multi-walled carbon nanotubes"

    Christopher Hubrich studied chemistry at the University of Marburg and the University of Munich (LMU). He started his doctoral studies at the LMU and continued them at the University of Rostock where he received his PhD in 2008 in the field of inorganic chemistry with specialization on element-organic chemistry. Afterwards he worked at the University of Rostock on applied projects in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for Catalysis/Rostock. Since the beginning of 2011 he has been employed as scientific coworker at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automa-tion (IPA).

  • Gyu Tae Kim
    Associate Professor at Korea Univ.
    "Electrical hysteresis in nanodevices: Carbon nanotubes and nanowires"

    2006 – till date Associate Professor, Korea Univ.
    2002 – till date Assistant Professor, Korea Univ.
    2000 - 2002 MaxPlank Institute, Germany
    2000 - 2000 Senior researcher at Easy Cicuitdotccom corporation
    2000 - 2000 LG ELITE Organic EL Team
    2000 An Honor Prize
    1996 – 2000 Ph.D in Physics, Seoul National Univ.
    1999 – 1999 KOSEF- DAAD Young Scientist Internship Course
    (MaxPlank Institute, Germany)
    1997 - 1997 KOSEF-DAAD Graduate Student Internship Course
    (MaxPlank Institute, Germany)
    1992 – 1996 M.S. in Physics, Seoul National Univ.
    1988 - 1992 B.S. in Physics, Seoul National Univ.

  • Ivica Kolaric
    Head of Department Process Engineering of Functional Materials, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, and Director Fraunhofer Office for Process Engineering of Functional Materials and Robotics OPER, Germany /Japan
    "The golden rule of Nanocarbons"

    2008 - till date Head of Department; awarded for a excellent performance Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Stuttgart, Germany Head of Fraunhofer IPA’s Office Osaka/Japan

    2006 - till date Head of Department; awarded for a excellent performance (Fraunhofer TEG Stuttgart)
    2004 – 2005 Team Leader Mechatronic Systems, awarded for a excellent performance (Fraunhofer TEG Stuttgart)
    2004 - 2008 TiasNimbas/ University of Bradford, Master of Business Administration, Master of Business Administration. Strategie und Marketing
    2003 – 2004 Team Leader Mechatronics (Fraunhofer TEG Stuttgart)
    2002 – 2003 Team Leader prototype construction and testing (Fraunhofer TEG Stuttgart)
    2000 - 2002 Scientific assistant (Fraunhofer TEG Stuttgart)
    1998 - 2000 Team Leader mechanical processing (WFB Stuttgart)
    1996 - 1998 Technical Editor (ACI Filderstadt)
    1992 - 1996 Fachhochschule für Technik Esslingen, Mechatronik, Dipl Ing (FH)

  • Katsuyoshi Kondoh
    Professor of JWRI (Joining and Welding Research Institute) of Osaka University, Japan
    "Metal surface modification by un-bundled carbon nanotube coating"

    Prof. Katsuyoshi Kondoh
    Katsuyoshi Kondoh is Professor of JWRI (Joining and Welding Research Institute) of Osaka University, Japan for research on advanced nano-materials science of metals and their engineering application.

    Katsuyoshi Kondoh (born in November 16, 1963)
    1982 School of Engineering, Division of Welding, Osaka University
    1986 Graduate School of Engineering, Division of Welding, Osaka University
    1988 Sumitomo Electric Industries, Research and Development Center
    1998 PhD of Osaka University
    2001 Associate Professor, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo
    2006 Professor, Joining and Welding Research Institute (JWRI), Osaka University
    2011 Vice director of JWRI, Osaka University

    Research Topics:
    1. Advanced metal matrix composites reinforced un-bundled nano carbon materials.
    2. Environmentally benign brass alloy via powder metallurgy route
    3. Surface potential control for improvement of galvanic corrosion phenomenon of light metals
    4. Recycle process of agricultural wastes in producing industrial resources

  • Urszula Kosidlo
    Research Engineer and Project Manager Process Engineering of Functional Materials, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany
    "Graphene Mass Production"

    Urszula Kosidlo, M.Sc. – studied Process Engineering and Energy Technology at the University of Applied Sciences in Bremerhaven, Germany, and received her Master of Sciences degree in 2006 in cooperation with Fraunhofer Technology Development Group TEG in Stuttgart, Germany. She is working at Fraunhofer since 2005 as research engineer involved in both scientific and industrial projects both as project manager or project engineer, and since 2008 as deputy manager of Carbon Nanotube Application Laboratory. Specialised in the field of carbon nanotube – polymer composites, their processing and applications, especially as electrochemical actuators and in sport equipment sector. Currently, main research interests are in the field of graphene, its production, properties engineering and applications.

  • Dominik Nemec
    Group Leader for Dispersions and Compounds Process Engineering of Functional Materials, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA, Germany
    "High-performance heating elements - CNT films on thin and flexible substrates"

    01/2009 – till date Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation, Stuttgart
    The department ”Process Engineering of Functional Materials”
    - Group leader Dispersions and Compounds
    - Development of processes and methods of manufacturing materials with manipulated mechanical, electrical and thermal properties based on the nanoparticles and their new applications
    - The execution and acquisition of activities for financial successes of the group
    - Project organization and monitoring (costs and scheduling)
    - Project management from conception till implementation
    - Coordination of internal and extern capacities of projects, where many institutes or companies are involved
    - Supervision of staff, diploma students, interns and working students

    07/2005 - 12/2008 Fraunhofer Technology Development Group, Stuttgart
    The department " Energy-Efficient Mechatronic Systems "
    - Theme leader: electrically and thermally conductive materials
    - Group leader: application development of nanomaterials
    - Development and application of innovative materials based on carbon nanotubes
    - Project organization and monitoring (costs and scheduling)
    - Project management from conception till implementation
    - Coordination of internal and extern capacities of projects, where various institutes or companies are involved
    - Supervision and tutoring of employees (staff), diploma students (undergraduate students), interns and working students

    05/2001 - 07/2005 Fraunhofer Technology Development Group, Stuttgart
    The department of “Project Management Systems and Pilot Plants”
    - Conception, development, construction of pilot plants (automation of test methods)
    - Project organization and monitoring (costs and scheduling)
    - Project management from conception till start up

  • Jessica Ravine
    President of Buckeye Composites, USA
    "Carbon Nanotube Paper Manufacturing and Composite Applications"

    Jessica Ravine is President of Buckeye Composites, where she leads carbon nanotube paper manufacturing scale-up and commercialization.  Her application development efforts have focused in thermal and electrical property enhancement of composites.  Ms. Ravine received her masters’ in Materials Engineering and bachelors’ in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and was formerly a program manager for the National Composite Center.

  • Davide Ricci
    Team leader at the Robotics Brain and Cognitive Science Department of the Italian Institute of Technology, Italy
    "Superior performance of carbon nanotube coated neural probes"

    Davide Ricci holds an MSc in Physics (1989) and a PhD in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (1993). Currently he is Team Leader at the Robotics Brain and Cognitive Science Department of the Italian Institute of Technology, Morego, Genoa, Italy, supervising the Soft Materials Design Laboratory. His research interests encompass Nanoscience, Robotics and Bioengineering, with a focus on the development of technologies based on novel materials such as conductive polymers, nanocrystals and carbon nanomaterials. Research is directed to the fabrication of new devices by the integration of nanostructures with conventional technologies, such as neural electrodes for Brain Machine Interfaces, of flexible nano-actuators and sensors for robotics and of smart interfaces for tissue engineering and prosthetics.

  • Siegmar Roth
    Professor at the school for Electrical Engineering Korea University and founder of Sineurop Nanotech GmbH, Germany/Korea
    "Transparent conducting films based on Nanocarbons"

    Siegmar Roth has obtained his PhD in Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria and his Habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. His career has led him via the Siemens Research Laboratories in Erlangen, the Institut Laue Langevin and the High Field Magnet Laboratory in Grenoble, France to the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. From here he retired in summer 2008 and in March 2009 he joined the School of Electrical Engineering of Korea University (WCU on Flexible Nanosystem). In addition he conducts his own private research laboratory Sineurop Nanotech GmbH in Stuttgart. He is author of more than 600 scientific publications and of the book "One-dimensional Metals".

  • Karl Schulte
    Head of the Institute of Polymers and Composites at the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Germany
    "Electrically Conductive Carbon Nanomaterials and its Potential in Polymer Composites"

    Professor Karl Schulte is head of the Institute of Polymers and Composites of the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg. A research staff of 16 full time scientists plus three technicians form a group which has great experience in the area of characterisation, testing and modelling of polymer composites and the synthesis and characterisation of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and it integration in polymer composites. He has a more than 20 years experience in polymer matrix composites research and published numerous papers in this field. He is at present the European Editor of the journal Composites Science and Technology.
    Prof. Schulte is the speaker of scientific board of Inno.CNT a scientific network on “Carbon Nanotubes for future industrial applications” with some 80 members from both industry and academia.

  • Viera Skakalova
    Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
    "Graphene Synthesis"

    Prof. Viera Skákalová worked as a professor associate at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava in field of conducting polymers. In 1999 she joined the Weizmann Institute of Science and later the MPI for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. She is an author of more than 100 publications in fields of carbon nanostructures (graphene, fullerenes and carbon nanotubes), molecular monolayers and conductive polymers. She coordinates several national and EC scientific project, organized scientific conferences (E-MRS 2007, 2009), co-edited journals Physica Status Solidi (Wiley) and Physica E (Elsevier).

  • Carlo Taliani
    Deputy Director of ISMN CNR Bologna, Italy
    "Pulsed plasma technology enables room temperature deposition for flexible plastics"

    Position: Deputy Director of ISMN-Bologna (a branch of ISMN-CNR)
    Research interests
    The principal interest of Prof. Taliani is in soft matter nanotechnologies for application in information technologies and renewable energy sources and in innovative coatings.
    A short list of research interest is the following:
    • Electronic and optoelectronic properties of organic semiconductors for the development of devices including organic light emitting diodes (OLED) , organic solar cells, organic transistors and plastic electronics.
    • Nanoscience e nanotechnology of nanostructured organic and inorganic materials.
    • New bottom-up approaches for the preparation of two and three dimensional structures.
    • Organic Spintronics: materials and processes for the application of organic semiconductors to spintronics.
    • Thin film fabrication by means of pulsed plasma deposition (PPD): an innovative method for TCO, CMR, complex oxides coatings, decorative coatings etc.

    -He has published more than 238 scientific papers on international refereed journals.
    (The complete list is available at the site: http\\www.bo.ismn.cnr.it)
    -Has received more than 4000 citations (ISI Science Citation Database).
    -Is author of six patents.
    -Has given more than 140 invited talks and conferences on approximately 250 presentations at conferences.
    -Has edited several books.
    -Has been member of several committees (advisory boards) of international conferences and has organized more than 20 congresses, workshops and international schools.
    -Coordinates the relation between CNR and NSF on Nanotechnology.
    -Acts regularly as referee of research proposals and international journals
    -Is member of several associations: American Physical Society ,New York Academy of Sciences, European Material Research Society, Società Chimica Italiana, Material Research Society e Fellow of the Third World Academy of Science.

  • Frédéric Vidal
    Professor at the Laboratoire de Physicochimie des Polymères et des Interfaces, University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
    "Fabrication of conducting IPN actuators for microsystems"

    Frédéric Vidal is Professor at the Laboratoire de Physicochimie des Polymères et des Interfaces, University of Cergy-Pontoise. His research currently includes development of Interpenetrating Polymer Networks (IPNs), electronic conducting polymer and conducting IPN based electrochemical devices such as electrochromic or actuator devices.

  • Thomas Wallmersperger
    Professor and Chair of Mechanics of Multifunctional Structures at the Institute for Solid Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
    "Modeling of Carbon Nanotubes on the Mesoscale"

    Dr. Thomas Wallmersperger is Professor and the Chair of Mechanics of Multifunctional Structures at the Institute for Solid Mechanics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at TU Dresden. He had been working from 1998 until 2010 at the Institute of Statics and Dynamics of Aerospace Structures, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering and Geodesy at the University of Stuttgart. There he has been the Head of the “Smart Structures and Coupled Multifield Problems” group.
    Dr. Wallmersperger completed his dissertation in 2003 and his habilitation in 2010 in Stuttgart, Germany.

    His research fields comprise: coupled multi-field problems, material modeling, adaptive structures, electroactive polymers, multiscale modeling, high-temperature materials, fracture mechanics and discretization methods.
    He has been a reviewer for multiple scientific journals and co-organizer of the “International Symposium on Design, Modeling and Experiments of Adaptive Structures and Smart Systems" (DeMEASS)”.

    Since 2000 Thomas Wallmersperger has published more than 60 conference and journal articles in the field of adaptive structures. Since 2006, he has been Program Committee Member of the SPIE Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (EAPAD) conference. In 2009, Dr. Wallmersperger co-chaired the SPIE EAPAD conference.