Plenary Sessions

Presentation Title Ferecrystals based on Atomic Layer Deposition
Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 3(Wed.), 13:00 - 13:50
Speaker Prof. Dr. Kornelius Nielsch
Affiliation Leibniz Institute of Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany
Biography Since 2015 Director, IFW; Full Professor for Metallic Materials and Metal Physics, Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany
  • 2009 - 2015

    Coordinator of the German Priority Program on Thermoelectric Nanostructures

  • 2007- 2015

    Associate Professor for Experimental Physics, University of Hamburg

  • 2007

    Habilitation: “Multifunctional (Magnetic) Nanowires and -tubes based on Nanoscale Honeycombe Structures”, University of Bielefeld, Germany

  • 2003 - 2007

    Project Leader of the BMBF Nanotechnology Research Group: “Multifunctional Nanowires and Nanotubes” at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany

  • 2002 – 2003

    Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, U.S.A.

  • 1997 - 2002

    PhD: “Highly ordered ferromagnetic nanowire arrays: Electrochemical synthesis and magnetic characterization” (with highest honors), with Prof. Ulrich Gösele at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics, Halle, Germany

  • 1997

    Diploma: “Fabrication of semiconductor nanoparticles in the gas phase and its physical characterisation”, Lund University, Sweden

  • 1993 - 1997

    Study of Physics at the Gerhard-Mercator-University, Duisburg, Germany
Presentation Title Conformal Nano-Bio Interfaces for Sense Digitalization
Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 4(Thu.), 13:00 - 13:50
Speaker Prof. Xiaodong Chen
Affiliation Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Biography Professor Xiaodong Chen holds the prestigious President's Chair Professorship in Materials Science and Engineering at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, with courtesy appointments in Chemistry and Medicine. His research interests span mechanomaterials science and engineering, flexible electronics technology, sense digitalization, cyber-human interfaces and systems, and carbon-negative technology.

Esteemed awards recognising Prof. Chen's outstanding scientific contributions include the Singapore President's Science Award, the Singapore National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigatorship and NRF Fellowship, Winner of Falling Walls, the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Dan Maydan Prize in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Kabiller Young Investigator Award. He is a member of the Singapore National Academy of Science and the Academy of Engineering Singapore and a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Chinese Chemical Society. Prof. Chen also serves on the editorial advisory boards of numerous esteemed international journals, including Advanced Materials, Small, and Nanoscale Horizons. He is the current Editor-in-Chief of ACS Nano, a flagship journal in nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Presentation Title High-Entropy Materials Technology
Abstract
Presentation Date & Time July 5(Fri.), 13:00 - 13:50
Speaker Prof. Jien-Wei Yeh
Affiliation National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Biography Professor Jien-Wei Yeh got PhD at Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University in 1986. He is the Chair Professor of Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, and the Director of High Entropy Materials Center, National Tsing Hua University. He is the Chair of International High-Entropy Materials Consortium.

He has the expertise in the field of high-entropy alloys and materials, aluminum alloys, magnesium alloys and metal-matrix composites, coating technology, manufacturing technology.

He has rewritten the history of materials development. In these 27 years, he h as invented, named, defined and theorized High-Entropy Materials. He creates t he new life for the Periodic Table of Elements from which limitless material’s compositions could be provided for research, development and applications. He h as published more than 280 papers. According to Scopus statistics, as of October 1, 2023, his total number of citations is 41,781 and H-index is 85. The highest number of citations for a single paper (high-entropy concept paper) is 8,48 3 times. In 2022, Professor Yeh’s world ranking of scientific influence in the field of materials is No. 2 from the list of World's Top 2% Scientists published by Stanford University and Elsevier in 2023, basing on the analysis of 2022 Scopus paper citation. He is also the first to implement high-entropy materials technology into industry and make significant contributions. He is known as “Father of High-Entropy Alloys”.