The goal of this symposium is to bring together researchers to exploit and advance fruitful synergies between soft matter and nanotechnology. The symposium will focus on advanced methods utilized to assess structure-process-property relations and to monitor and address the fundamental aspects related to soft nanotechnology, which is one of the most dynamic and expanding fields in science and technology. The field is driven both by a number of growing applications – nanofabrication, nanodevices, medical implants, biosensors and biochips, regenerative medicine – and by the desire to understand soft matter processes at a nanoscale level.
This symposium is highly interdisciplinary and crosses the boundaries of materials science, chemistry, biology and nanotechnology, and will address fundamental questions as well as applications. Topics to be address include (but are not limited to): • Self-assembly and self-organization • Building blocks/synthetic methodology • Functional supramolecular materials • Biological aspects of soft matter • Biomimictry and bioinspiration • Theory, modelling, and simulation of soft matter • Interfacing biomolecules and functional nanomaterials • Novel characterization tools for soft matter • Surfaces and interfaces • Advanced nanopatterning techniques for soft matter • Micro- and nanofluidic systems and devices • Chemical and biochemical sensing
The programme is organized into invited presentations by internationally renowned researchers, complemented by contributed oral presentations and poster sessions by young scientists. In addition, we in collaboration with the Editors of Small would like to organize a themed special issue in Small with the topic of “Nanotechnology with Soft Matter".
Sponsors
We wish to thank the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Asian Office of Aerospace Research and Development for their contribution to the success of this conference,
Keynote Speakers
Katsuhiko ARIGA, National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
Adi EISENBERG, McGill University, Canada
Wolfgang KNOLL, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Yi LU, University of Illinois, United States
Joachim SPATZ, MPI for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Ben Zhong TANG, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China
Paul S. WEISS, UCLA, United States
Invited Speakers
Lifeng CHI, University of Muenster,
Luisa DE COLA, University of Muenster,
Yi DING, Shandong University,
Xinliang FENG, Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research,
H.-J. GALLA, University of Muenster,
Jian-hua HAO, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
Gilad HARAN, Weizmann Institute of Science,
Wenping HU, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Xingyu JIANG, Nantional Centre for Nanoscience and Technology,
Steven LENHERT, Florida State University,
Lain-Jong LI, Academia Sinica,
Chwee Teck LIM, National University of Singapore,
Xiaogang LIU, National University of Singapore,
Nan LU, Jilin University,
Frank NOUVERTNÉ, Raith GmbH,
Atul PARIKH, University of California, Davis,
Lidong QIN, The Methodist Hospital Research Institute,
