The Nanotech France 2021 Conference topics/ sessions include:

Advanced Nanomaterials/Synthesis/ Properties

• Nanoparticles Synthesis and applications
• Nanocomposites / Bionanocomposites Materials
• Nanofluids
• Nanostructured / nanoporous Materials and devices
• Nanostructured coatings, surfaces and membranes
• Carbon Nanostructures and devices/ Graphene
• Polymer Nanotechnology
• Soft Nanotechnology and Colloids

Graphene and 2D Materials

• Fundamental Science of Graphene and 2D Materials
• Growth, synthesis techniques and integration methods
• Characterization techniques (AFM, SPM, TEM, etc.)
• Chemistry and biology studies of graphene and 2D Materials
• Applications in electronics, Photonics, Magnetism, Spintronics, sensors,etc
• Applications in energy (photovoltaics, fuel cells, hydrogen etc)
• Application  in health and biomedical
• Graphene-related health and environment research/ Toxicity
• Graphene: Innovation and commercialization. 

NanoMetrology- Characterization and Modelling at the nanoscale

• State of the art of measurement at the nanoscale level
• Methodologies  (AFM, STM, SEM, TEM, Mass spectrometry, etc)
• Precision instrumentation design and theory
• Nanotribology, Surface nanometrology/ 3D printing, etc
• New and emerging measurement and analysis technologies
• Standards for nanometer scale Characterization
• Reference materials, measurement standards, etc
• Good laboratory practice, traceability, uncertainty, calibration, verification, etc
• New developments in modelling and simulations at the nanoscale
• Emerging control theory and applications

Nanoscale Electronics

• Nano Electronics and Photonics
• Memory and  logic devices, circuits and architecture for advanced CMOS technologies
• Beyond and extended CMOS devices
• spin electronics
• Sensors based on emerging devices
• Quantum electronics
• Neuromorphic architectures
• Interconnecting nanoscale objects
• 3D approaches

Nanotech for Energy and Environment

• Nanomatrials for Clean and Sustainable Technology
• Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Collection and Conversion
• Energy Storage and Novel Generation
• Nanotech for Oil and Gas
• NanoNuclear Materials
• Fuels Applications
• Renewable Energy Technologies
• Bio Sources for Materials and Fuels
• Green Chemistry and Materials
• Water Technologies
• Smart Grid

Nanotech in Life Sciences and Medicine

• Bionanomaterials and Tissues Engineering
• Biosensors, Diagnostics and Imaging
• Materials for Drug and Gene Delivery
• Biomarkers and Nanoparticles
• Cancer Diagnostics, Imaging and Treatment
• Drug Delivery and Therapeutics
• Cancer Nanotechnology
• Nano Robots
• DNA nanotechnology
• Nanotoxicity

Nanotechnology safety/Nanotoxicity

• NanoToxicology
• Risk assessment and management
• Measurement of health risk
• Exposure scenarios
• Regulation and ethical impacts

Nano Applications

• Food Technology
• Catalysis
• Military and Defence
• Aeropspace and Vehicle Manufacturers
• Manufacturing and Construction
• Textiles

 

In addition to these main conference sessions, the following  workshops and focused symposia will run in parallel:

Workshop on VIMMP project - Virtual Materials Marketplace (H2020 GA 760907)

Chair: Dr. Welchy Leite Cavalcanti and Dr. Michael Hoffmann, Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Technology and Advanced Materials (IFAM), Germany.

Description: VIMMP is a user-friendly digital marketplace that provides effective use of materials modelling by a wide range of stakeholders facilitating an accelerated speed of development and market deployment of new materials. VIMMP is a true “two sided” marketplace that promotes exchange between providers and consumers of products and services. The target is to promote easily access to state-of-the-art Soft Matter Simulation Tools for novel product developments. A remarkable component of VIMMP is the translation router for connecting users to experts so called translators. With the guidance of the translators VIMMP will facilitate the translation of a scientific problem into modelling workflows ready for simulation using a range of software tools and VIMMP components. Among the main achievements of project are the VIMMP ontologies, the development of translation router ontology driven, collection of stakeholders feedback for the business plan, data storage architecture of VIMMP including search and metadata ingest. Within VIMMP project the Industrial relevance and requirements based on real life user cases is ensured via one SME and two large manufacturing companies test cases representing four industrial sectors:

1. Emulsions - food emulsions
2. Complex/structured fluids - personal care liquid
3. Polymer composites – tire compounds
4. Corrosion inhibitors - Polymer corrosion inhibitors in metalworking fluids and paints & coatings

This workshop aims to present and provide a discussion regarding elements and components to be present in open Marketplaces as VIMMP to facilitate innovation in materials manufacturing industries (large and SME) and to contribute to the growth related to the Digital Single Market. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 760907.

VIMMP invites authors from academia and industry to submit high-quality papers on topics which include, but are not limited to:

• Ontologies and Metadata
• Interoperability among marketplaces
• Open simulation platforms
• Translation cases (translation from a scientific materials challenge into a solution by applying materials modelling)
• Materials modelling (electronic, atomistic, mesoscopic and continuum)
• Use case solutions benefiting from material modelling for different industrial sectors.
• Multiscale models

 

Symposium 2 on Nanocoatings/ Thin films and nanostructured surfaces

Description: The symposium topics will include, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Fundamentals, processes of deposition, characterisation and applications of nanocoatings and thin films
• Surface nanoengineering reactive surfaces, Colloidal assembly, Colloidal stabilization in complex media
• Nanostructured coatings or nano-engineered thin film architectures (nanocomposites, multilayers, nanolayers and glancing angle deposition, etc)
• Nanocoatings functional properties such as tribological, mechanical, optical, magnetic, electrical, thermoelectrical, thermochromic, etc
• Thin films for smart applications: (bio)sensors; ultra-thin membranes for sensors, biocompatibility; energy; etc.;
• New trends in thin film materials: metallic glasses, architectural glass; high entropy alloys, oxynitrides, intermetallics, plasmonics, etc.