Plenary Speaker

Professor Yu Huang

Prof. Huang explores the unique technological opportunities that result from the structure and assembly of nanoscale building blocks. Her research focuses on mechanistic understanding of nanoscale phenomena and on exploiting the unique properties of nanoscale materials for various applications. Taking advantage of the unique roles of nanoscale surfaces and interfaces, Prof. Huang is creating methodologies to apply the latest developments in nanoscale materials and nanotechnology to impact a wide range of technologies including materials synthesis, catalysis, fuel cells, biomedical and devices applications.

Plenary Speaker

Professor Stefaan De Wolf

• PhD, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, 2005
• MSc, Ghent University, Belgium, 1997

Stefaan De Wolf’s expertise lies in the science and technology of photovoltaics. His research focuses on the fabrication and characterization of high-efficiency solar cells, with specific attention to the fundamental understanding of interface structures and electrical contact formation, relevant to solar cells and electronic devices. Technologies of interest are perovskite and silicon solar cells, in single- and multi-junction form. He is also interested in scaling of photovoltaic technologies and addressing reliability issues, especially those associated with sunny climates.

Plenary Speaker

Professor Peidong Yan

Materials Chemistry, Solid State Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry — Low-dimensional nanoscopic building blocks are used to assemble complex architectures with novel chemical and physical properties.

Semiconductor nanowires have witnessed an explosion of interest in the past two decades due to advances in synthesis and the unique thermal, optoelectronic, chemical, and physical properties of these materials. The potential applications of single-crystalline nanowires are truly impressive, including computational nanotechnology, telecommunications, spectroscopic sensing, renewable energy, and the biological sciences. This breadth of application naturally requires a multidisciplinary community, including but not limited to materials scientists, chemists, engineers, physicists, and microbiologists, all converging to solve challenging problems at nanometer length scales.

Plenary Speaker

Professor Jiaxing Huang

• Miller Research Fellow, University of California, Berkeley, CA
• Ph.D. Chemistry, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
• B.S. Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China

His work has been recognized by awards from the National Science Foundation (US), the Sloan Foundation (US), the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the American Vacuum Society, and the International Aerosol Research Assembly. He received the Guggenheim Fellowship (US) in 2014, the JSPS Fellowship from Japan in 2016, the Humboldt Research Award from Germany in 2017, and the AAAFM-Stoddart Award in Functional Materials in 2023. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a Member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, and the founding Editor-in-Chief of Accounts of Materials Research, the first global partner journal of the American Chemical Society.