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First Round of Abstract Submission Ends: Jan 30, 2026
Extended Early Bird Ends: Jul 28, 2025

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Shengchuan Wu
Southwest Jiaotong University, China
Title: Multi-modal experimental characterization on internal damage of critical-safety AM components
Shengchuan Wu is Professor of State Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Vehicle System, Southwest Jiaotong University, China. He received both his B. Eng. and M. Eng. Degrees from Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His research interests include in situ correlative tomography, damage tolerance assessment, and computational mechanics. He has published extensively, authoring over 150 international journal articles, five books and 16 patents on fatigue and fracture of engineering materials and structures mainly from additive manufacturing g and fusion welding, organized several international symposia and conferences. His H-index is equal to 37 in SCOPUS. He is Editorial member or Guest Editors of 3 international journals.
Prof. Leonid Dubrovinsky
University of Bayreuth, Germany
Title: Novel physics, chemistry, and materials at very tight place
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Prof. Wei Chen
Xian Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
Title: The Invention of Copper Cysteamine Illuminating Many Areas
Dr. Wei Chen is the dean for the School of CHIPS at the Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. He held the esteemed position of University Distinguished Professor within the Physics department at the University of Texas Arlington (UTA), Texas, USA. With a prolific academic career, he has authored over 360 publications in renowned scholarly journals, overseeing the compilation of two books, one monograph spanning three volumes, and contributing to the creation of 15 monographs. His works have garnered significant attention, amassing more than 20,478 citations, resulting in an impressive H-index of 73. Notably, Dr. Chen has authored a paper with 777 citations and four others with over 698 citations each. His inventive contributions extend to over 22 granted US patents. Dr. Chen's groundbreaking scientific endeavors have gained widespread recognition, notably drawing attention from CBS in the USA. In acknowledgment of his outstanding contributions, he received the University Distinguished Record of Research and Creative Activity Award in 2020. His eminence within the field was further solidified by his election as a Fellow of the International Association of Advanced Materials and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (UK) in 2021. In 2022, he received the IMMA Scientist Award for his exceptional contributions to Nanotechnology. His remarkable achievements were acknowledged by his election as a Fellow for the US National Academy of Inventors in 2022 and as a member of the University Academy of Distinguished Scholars in 2023, the highest honor and recognition at UTA. Dr. Chen also served as the Director of the Center for Security Advances Via Applied Nanotechnology (SAVANT) from 2012 to 2018, showcasing his leadership and vision in the field. He used to be the deputy director for the laboratory of Semiconductor Materials at the Institute of Semiconductors, CAS and he received the outstanding young scientist award from CAS.
Dr. Haidong Liang
National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore
Title: Quantum Emitters in 2D Materials
Dr. Haidong Liang is a Senior Research Fellow at Centre for Ion Beam Applications (CIBA) in National University of Singapore (NUS). His expertise lies in ion beam applications, material modification, and the development of quantum emitters in materials such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), diamond and SiC. Dr. Liang received his Ph.D. in Physics from the National University of Singapore in 2013. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Nanjing University, China, in 2009. His early research focused on micro- and nanofabrication of silicon using ion beams, with applications in photonic devices. In recent years, he has expanded the research scope of his laboratory in the field of ion beam applications, opening new directions for frontier research and technology development using accelerators—particularly in quantum light sources, quantum sensing, and optoelectronic functional materials. He has published over 20 papers in Science Advances, Physical Review Letters, Nature Communications and ACS Nano etc..
Prof. Jannick D. Rumeau
University of Lyon, France
Title: Ionic Liquids : Magical additives to get structuration and functional properties in polymer materials
Prof. Jannick Duchet-Rumeau got a PhD diploma of University of Lyon in Macromolecular Materials & Composites in 1996 focused on modelling of the interface in a polyethylene / glass system tuned by the grafting connecting chains to improve the adhesion properties. She has had a post PhD position in Louvain La Neuve (Belgium) where she worked on processing and characterization of polymer nanotubes. In 1998, she got an assistant professor position then a full professor position in 2010 in the laboratory ‘Ingénierie des Matériaux Polymères’ UMR CNRS #5223. She manages the National CNRS Network (GDR #3585) dedicated to Ionic Liquids and Polymers gathering 40 academic laboratories. Her research activities are dedicated to multiscale relationships between architecture and physical properties of polymer materials involving i/ nanocomposites materials ii/ mesoporous materials iii/ self assembled materials onto inorganic surfaces iv/ ionic materials from Ionic Liquids and v/ the multi-phased materials : polymer blends and fiber based composites. She is author of two hundred papers in international journals, 7 book chapters and 200 communications in international conferences. She has supervised 60 phd students. Since 2021, she has being managed the IMP Lab gathering 200 permanent and non permanent staff.
Prof. Liaoyong Wen
China
Title: Aluminum 3D Lithography: Enabling Multiscale Metamaterials for Advanced Sensing
Dr. Liaoyong Wen has been an assistant professor at Westlake University since 2019. He received a bachelor's degree from Zhengzhou University in 2006. From 2011 to 2016, he studied at the University of Münster and the Technical University of Ilmenau in Germany, earning a doctoral degree. In 2017, he started his post-doctoral research at the Institute of Materials Science, University of Connecticut. He is currently interested in using intelligent fabrication technologies to design and produce highly precise multiscale 3D metamaterials, exploring their structure-performance relationships in optoelectronic devices and biosensors, and integrating them into novel multifunctional and high-performance devices. So far, he has published more than 50 SCI-indexed papers in journals such as Nature Materials, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced Science, IEDM, and others, with an H-index of 34.
Prof. Christian K. Müller
University of Applied Sciences Zwickau, Germany
Title: Recent advances in resistive switching – prussian blue analog materials, mechanisms and devices
C. K. Müller reveived his diploma in Physical Chemsitry from Technical University of Chemnitz and his PhD in Physics from Technical University of Dresden. This was followed by several stays as a Post-Doc in Germany and Brazil. Then he continued as Research Group Leader in the field of micro and nanosensors. In 2018 after his Habilitation in the field of functional materials he became Associate Professor at Federal University of Florianopolis. Since 2019 he is Professor for Experimental Physics. The focus of his research activities are nanomaterials, sensor materials and material analysis with many published results.
Dr. Cristina IOJOIU
LEPMI Laboratory - Grenoble INP, France
Title: New polymer electrolytes with excellent properties in electrochemical devises
Dr. Cristina Iojoiu graduated with a PhD in Materials from the University of Montpellier, France, and joined the CNRS in 2006 as a researcher at the Laboratory of Electrochemistry and Physical-Chemistry of Materials and Interfaces (LEPMI) in Grenoble. Her research area, initially focused on polymers for proton exchange membrane fuel cells, has expanded to include polymer electrolytes and membranes for various electrochemical systems such as lithium, post-lithium, and redox flow batteries, as well as alkaline fuel cells and electrolyzers. She has supervised more than 25 PhD students, authored and co-authored over 120 publications in peer-reviewed scientific journals, and filed 17 patents. She has led or co-led more than 20 national, international, and European projects, and has designed and characterized various types of polymer materials for electrochemical systems. Dr. Iojoiu heads the "Materials Interfaces and Electrochemistry" team at LEPMI. Furthermore, she is the vice-director of the PEM (Physics, Engineering, and Materials) division and leads the scientific project "Multifunctional Materials for Electrochemical Generators" at the Laboratory of Excellence CEMAM.
Prof. Uwe Glatzel
University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Prof. Gérard COQUEREL
University of Rouen Normandie, France
Title: Structural purity of rac-Modafinil crystallized in solution and evolution under High Energy Milling (HEM) of form I and form III stacking within the same particle
Gérard Coquerel was born in March 1955. He has made his whole academic cursus at the University of Rouen. He started first to specialize in inorganic chemistry (PhD in July 1981) and then in solid state chemistry of organic components (Docteur d’État June 1986 i.e. Habilitation, in collaboration with Jean Jacques at the Collège de France in Paris). He is Professor at the University of Rouen Normandy since September 1997, Head of the research unit: ‘Crystal Genesis Unit’ that he created. This research group has been structured into an independent laboratory by the French Ministry of Research under the official affiliation number EA 3233 now UR3233. His main research activities are focused on: chirality, resolution of chiral molecules and deracemization, phase diagram determinations, molecular recognition, polymorphism, solvates and desolvation mechanisms, nucleation and crystal growth of molecular compounds, purification by using crystallization, defects in crystals, spherical agglomeration and continuous crystal growth. Part of these activities are fundamentals and another part is dedicated to more applied researches with a strong impact in pharmaceutical, cosmetic and fine chemistry industries.

Fields of expertise
• Phase diagrams between condensed phases; solid phase identifications and heterogeneous stable and metastable equilibria
• Crystallization of molecular species, Preparative purifications by means of crystallization, preferential crystallization: inventor of the AS3PC process: Auto-Seeded Polythermic Programmed Preferential Crystallization and ASPreCISE: Auto-Seeded Preferential Crystallization Induced by Solvent Evaporation. Deracemization via crystallization.
• Chiral discrimination in the solid state
• Molecular modelling at the interfaces between Crystal and Solution; nucleation mechanisms, supra-molecular interactions (host-guest associations, co-crystals, etc).
Possible fields of applications: design of crystallization pathways, polymorphism, resolution of chiral molecules by preferential crystallization (possibility of large-scale applications), chiral recognition by means of: conglomerate forming systems, deracemization, diastereomeric salts, host-guest inclusions, co-crystals, solvates. Controlled crystallizations of solvates and controlled desolvations, controlled morphology, high energy milling, crystallization under pressure, spray-drying & spray-chilling, spherical agglomeration, structural purity, access to nanoparticles. Fluid inclusions in crystals and continuous crystallization.

International Activities
Organization de congress (9 since 1995)
Co-guest editor of CGOM 7-8-9-10-11-12-13-14 in Crystal growth and Design (ACS)
Reviewer for a dozen scientific journals (Nature, Angewandte Chemie, JACS, CGD, CrystEngComm, etc.)
Participation into European programs (INTERREG III A ; INTENANT FP7 (Intenant E U Project between 11 laboratories ; 400 k€ 2009- 2011); ITN CoRe 750 k€ (8 Academic partners 15PhD 2016-2020)
Collaborations with European Universities: (Halle (D),Procope, Manchester(UK), Nijmegen (NL) Erasmus), ETH Zurich (CH), Glasgow (Scotland - UK), Barcelona (Spain)
Visiting professor: NTU Singapore 1 month in 2008, Kyoto 3 months 2014 (J-J-A), Tapei (NCU) 2 months: April and December 2019.
Supervisor of 60 PhD students.
235 papers in journals with peer review, 11 chapters of books, 45 patents.
Numerous lectures > 100 (invited speaker in: university, congress, industries in: Europe, USA, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, China, Taiwan, Thailand)
Teaching in the European master ‘Crystallography and crystallization’ Sevilla (Spain) 2010 -2016
Dr. Didier Devaux
LEPMI Laboratory - Grenoble INP, France
Title: Will Update
Since 2016, Didier Devaux is a CNRS research scientist at LEPMI lab. on electrochemical energy storage devices. He graduated in 2012 with a PhD in materials science on electrochemical and physicochemical characterizations of polymer electrolytes for Li metal battery. He co-authored 30 peer-review publications in international journals, one book chapter, and 3 patents. He focuses on analyzing electrochemical energy storage devices' functioning and failure modes by coupling techniques, notably using X-ray and Neutron techniques with electrochemistry and impedance. The objective being to tackle the phenomena at stake at the different scales.
Prof. Susana Cardoso de Freitas
INESC-Microsistemas e Nanotecnologias and Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa, Portugal
Title: From thin films and interface interactions to a industry-relevant magnetic sensor
Susana Cardoso de Freitas received the Ph.D. degree in Physics by the Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa and INESC–MN in 2002. In 2002 she was a Co-Op Pre-Professional Engineer at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center (USA), and then became a researcher at INESC-MN, where she is currently the leader of the Spintronics and Magnetic Biosensors Group and manages several technology-transfer contracts with industry worldwide related to sensors, leading a team of 16 contracted engineers/researchers and 20 students. In 2018 she was selected as one of the 100 Portuguese “Women in Science”. As a Full Professor in the Physics Department at Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa, she is responsible for student coordination and advanced training in microfabrication and spintronics. She is a co-author of more than 320 articles, 25 book chapters and five patents. She is an Associate Member Delegate to the European Physics Society (EPS) Council since 2019. She was a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2023.
Prof. Christophe COUPEAU
University of Poitiers, France
Title: Buckling Structure, a Relevant Signature of the Mechanical Properties of Film/Substrate Systems
Christophe COUPEAU, Professor in Materials science, University of Poitiers, France. His research activity is related to a variety of problems in materials science concerned with plasticity, mechanical properties and stability, and failure phenomena in engineered-material systems. The approach is based on the development of scanning probe microscopy (AFM/STM) enabling nano-scale surface features to be routinely analysed, even under in situ deformation conditions. The investigation of the surface evolution under stress and the characterization at a nanometre scale of the surface effects allow a better understanding of basic deformation mechanisms controlling deformation kinetics and may establish the foundation to develop more reliable models for describing the elastic or plastic response of crystalline materials under stress. The works extend from the mechanical properties of thin films and coatings to the study of variable temperature deformation of advanced bulk materials.
Prof. Chulsung Bae
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, NY, USA
Title: Molecular Engineering of Ion-Conducting Polymers for Clean Energy Technologies
 
Chulsung Bae is Ford Foundation Professor at Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Broadly speaking, Bae's research group focuses on development of functional polymeric materials that can find applications in the areas of clean energy technologies, using synthetic organic chemistry as a tool. Specific examples of projects include novel ion conducting polymers that can be used as a key component in next generation energy conversion and storage technologies, such as fuel cells, water electrolyzers, and redox flow battery, and functional polymer membranes that can play a crucial role in energy efficient separation process. He received BS in Polymer Science & Engineering at Inha University, MS in Materials Science at POSTECH, MS in Chemistry at University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Ph.D. in Chemistry at University of Southern California under the guidance of Surya Prakash and Nobel Laureate George A. Olah. He conducted postdoctoral research with John F. Hartwig at Yale University before starting independent academic career in 2004. In 2012 Bae relocated his research group to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Prof. Jean Le Bideau
Nantes University, France
Title: Enhanced Li+, Na+, Mg2+, Zn2+ Diffusion at the Polymer–Ionic Liquid Interface within Ionogel for Safe All-Solid Energy Storage Devices
Jean Le Bideau is Professor at Institut des Matériaux de Nantes Jean Rouxel (IMN), at Nantes University, where he is Principal Investigator for research on ionogels and hydrogels. His current research focuses on the effect of the chemical and topological nature of the confining network on the dynamics of the confined liquid. The fields of applications more particularly targeted are the electrochemical energy storage and the tissue engineering for regenerative medicine.
Dr. Hongyuan Chuai
Title: The discovery of carbon reduction reaction
Dr. Hongyuan Chuai received her PhD degree from Nankai University in 2019. During her PhD study, she worked as a joint PhD student in Centre de Recherche Paul Pascal, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CRPP, CNRS) from October 2016 to October 2018. Then she worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Tianjin University and now she is working as a research fellow at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She discovered and proposed the carbon reduction reaction for the first time in the world, pioneering a new direction for the electroreforming of carbon materials into high-carbon chemicals. She has published over ten papers as the first/corresponding author in renowned journals such as ACS Catalysis, and has been granted/applied for two patents. She has been awarded to Best Researcher Award for the contribution and honourable achievement in innovation research.
Prof. Fredrik Lundell
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Title: Hydrodynamic assembly of biobased nanostructured filaments with mechanical, thermal, biological or electrical functions
Fredrik Lundell is professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests spans from development of assembly processes for nanofibers to the fundamentals of the fluid physics involved where he has made contributions to the flow-driven rotation of non-spherical particles and the concept of efficient interfacial tension due to concentration gradients. He received his Master in Engineering Physics 1998 and PhD in Fluid Mechanics from KTH in 2003 and spent 2003-2004 as a postdoc at Commisasariat à l'énergie atomique et aux alternatives in Grenoble, France. From late 2004 he has been at KTH (full professor from 2017). From 2020 he is head of the department of Engineering Mechanics with 240 permanent and non-permanent staff. He has recevied multiple teaching awards, served as program director for the BA+MS program Vehicle Engineering (600 students), head of the KTH unit for Higher education and learning and is present on the board of five research centres. He has contributed to more than 100 scientific papers in e.g. Nature Communications, ACS nano and Journal of Fluid Mechanics, has an h-index of 30, is the inventor behind 2 patents and is co-founder of CelluXtreme AB.