June 17, 2008

8:40-8:50            Opening Ceremony

Remarks by Professor Hongjie Dai and Professor Yadong Li

Chairman: Professor Hongjie Dai

8:50-9:20            Nanogenerators and nanopiezotronics

Zhonglin Wang (School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology)

9:20-9:50            Strain Engineering for Self-assembly of Nanoarchitectures and Tuning of SiGe Band Structures

Feng Liu ( Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Utah)

9:50-10:20          Stabilizing Monodispersed Metal Nanoparticles for Catalysis Applications

Nanfeng Zheng (State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surface and Department of Chemistry, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University)

10:20-10:30        Coffee break

Chairman: Professor Lei Jiang

10:30-11:00        Photoswitchable single molecule DNA nanomotors

Weihong Tan (Department of Chemistry and Physiology and Functional Genomics Center for Research at Bio/nano Interface, UF Genetics Institute and Shands Cancer Center, University of Florida)

11:00-11:30        表界面调控的纳米材料热力学和热力学稳定的纳米体系

黄丰 (中国科学院福建物质结构研究所)

11:30-12:00        Functional Nanoparticles Assembly Electrochemical Immunosensors

Jun-Jie Zhu (School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Key Lab of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, Nanjing University)

12:00-13:00    Lunch (in Tsinghua-Foxconn Nanotechnology Research Center)

13:00-14:00    Poster Session

Chairman: Professor Shuming Nie

14:00-14:30        Recent Work on Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
Hongjie Dai (Department of Chemistry, Stanford University)

14:30-15:00        Development of Photoluminescent Colloidal Quantum Dots for Cancer Cell Imaging

Kui Yu (Steacie Institute for Molecular Sciences, National Research Council Canada)

15:00-15:30          Functional Inorganic Nanomaterials and Inorganic-organic Hybrids with

 Unique Shape and Structures Synthesized by Solution Strategies

Shuhong Yu (Division of Nanomaterials & Chemistry, Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences at Microscale, Schoolo of Chemistry and Materials, University of Science and Technology of China)

15:30-15:40        Coffee break

Chairman: Professor Zhonglin Wang

15:40-16:10        Nontoxic and Long-Circulating Nanoparticles for In-Vivo Cancer Imaging and Therapy

Shuming Nie (Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Chemistry, Emory University and Georgia Institute of Technology)

16:10-16:40        Nanoimprint lithography – An Enabling Engine to Nanotechnology

Stephen Y. Chou (NanoStructure Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University)

16:40-17:10        Computational Modeling of Gold Nanoclusters

Jun Li (Institute of Theoretical & Computational Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Tsinghua University)

17:10-17:50        Controlled Synthesis and Biomedical Applications of Monodisperse Magnetic Nanocrystals

Yanglong Hou (Department of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, College of Engineering, Peking University)

18:00-        Banquet