Functional Materials

Invited Speakers:

• Franca Albertini, Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, Italy
  Magnetic shape memory thin films and nano-disks: effects of size reduction on magnetism, structure and microstructure
• Christian Binek, University of Nebraska, USA
  Voltage-controlled exchange bias and exchange bias training
• Ekkes Brück, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
  Transition metal based magnetocaloric materials
• Ludovico Cademartiri, Iowa State University, USA
  Studies of polymer-like behaviour in ultrathin nanowires
• Victor Castaño, Centro de Física Aplicada y Tecnología Avanzada, Mexico
  The nano revolution and its impact in materials for energy applications
• Axel Enders, University of Nebraska, USA
  An STM-Guided Search For 2D Organic Ferroelectrics and Co-Crystals
• Ali Hendaoui, LMN/INRS-EMT, Canada
  From “smart” material to “smart” devices: Novel applications based on the insulator-to-metal transition in VO2
• Luis Hueso, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
  Organic spintronic devices
• Nazir P. Kherani, University of Toronto, Canada
  Tandem Photovoltaics Using Transparent Conducting Photonic Crystal Contacts
• Leszek Malkinski, University of New Orleans, USA
  Using micro-origami techniques to create functional materials with complex architectures
• Lluis Manosa, Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
  Caloric effects in ferroic materials
• Chandrima Mitra, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
  Emerging functional properties in Cobalt-based oxides
• Devajyoti Mukherjee, University of South Florida, USA
  Advanced laser ablation techniques for ferroelectric and multiferroic heterostructures of perovskite-oxides
• Riad Nechache, Institut Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique, Canada
  Perovskite materials for energy related applications
• Giuseppe C. Tettamanzi, The University of New South Wales, Australia
  Controlling electrons through a single atom one at a time
• Susan Trolier-McKinstry, Pennsylvania State University, USA
  Piezoelectric MEMS Energy Harvesters
• Raul Valenzuela, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico
  Synthesis by soft chemistry​ and magnetic properties of ferrite nanoparticles
• Paolo Vavassori, CIC nanoGUNE, Spain
  Nanostructured magnetoplasmonic metamaterials: a promising route for label-free molecular sensing applications
• Fiorenzo Vetrone, National Institute for Scientific Research, Canada
  Near-infrared emitting nanoparticles for applications in biology
• Alberto Vomiero, National Institute for Scientific Research, Canada
  Nanomaterials for excitonic solar cells
• Wilfred G. van der Wiel, University of Twente, The Netherlands
  TBA
• Arcady Zhukov, The University of the Basque Country, Spain
  Recent progress in studies of magnetic microwires

Workshop Chairs:

• Hariharan Srikanth, University of South Florida, USA
• Federico Rosei, National Institute for Scientific Research, Canada