Introduction

With concerns about energy crisis and global warming, looking for renewable energy sources that are not harmful to the environment is one of most critical tasks for us. For example, solar-to-fuel conversion is an appealing strategy to produce environmentally friendly fuels and attain sustainable energy systems. This symposium aims to share recent progress in the nanotechnology research area regarding the strategies to create renewable energy sources via reduction of CO₂ emission. The topic of this session covers various research fields based on carbon-neutrality, providing an opportunity to actively discuss recent research trends and seek opportunities for collaboration. Through the presentations and discussions on the carbon neutrality in nanotechnology, it will provide an opportunity to explore the future directions of this research area.

Topics

• Photoelectrochemical cells and photo(electro)catalysts
• Solar driven production of fuels
• CO₂ conversion
• Hydrogen production and storage
• NH₃, H₂O₂ production

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Energy storage devices are essential in various applications ranged from consumer electronics to electric vehicles and grid-based energy storage systems. The session will focus on energy storage devices including batteries and capacitors, featuring presentation delving into nanotechnologies that will impact the design and engineering of next generation energy storage products. Therefore, in this session, we will share and discuss the recent progress and prospect on a wide range topics of next generation energy storage technologies.

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• Li ion, Na ion, Dual ion batteries
• Supercapacitor, Psuedocapacitor
• Lithium metal batteries, metal-air, Sulfur battery
• All solid-state batteries, Organic batteries
• Redox flow batteries
• Energy storage devices in various form factors

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Nanotechnology has been considered as a key area to overcome several limitations and huddles in various biotechnology areas. In this session, we will introduce recent cutting-edge bio-health technologies including nanobiomaterials, next-generation nanobiosensors, nanotechnology-based biomimetics, Nanotherapeutics, and Nanoscale-based tissue engineering.

Topics

• Nanobiomaterials
• Nanobiosensors
• Nanobiophotonics
• Organ-mimicking nanobiotechnology
• Cell and tissue engineering
• Emerging nanobiotechnology

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Nanotechnology positions as a new strategy to overcome obstinate diseases. The application of nanotechnology in human disease administration, diagnosis, and genetic transformations is still in its developing stages. Considerable efforts have been dedicated to inhibit obstinate disease progresses, which is a highly complicated process involving various pathways and biological events. In this session, we will introduce several recent application of nanomedicine to overcome obstinate diseases.

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• Nanomedicine for cancers
• Nanomedicine for inflammatory diseases
• Nanomedicine for medical devices
• Nanomedicine for precise diagnosis

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In spite of tremendous technical innovations in the conventional silicon semiconductor industry, further physical channel length scaling nearly reaches the fundamental quantum limit. Nanotechnologies have contributed to both further scale down of the conventional silicon devices and emergence of the unprecedented novel devices, such as neuromorphic devices. In the session, various advances in nano materials, structures, and devices for electronic applications will be discussed with a focus on their intrinsic properties, operating principles, and implications to advanced silicon technologies and emerging devices. The presentations of the state-of-the-art technologies in nanoelectronics will provide an overview and vision for next-generation computing with innovative technologies.

Topics

• Novel materials and devices for advanced logic and memory technologies
• Neuromorphic devices including synapse- and neuron-mimic devices
• Spintronic and valleytronic devices
• Light-matter interaction and exciton devices
• Electronic devices based on low-dimensional materials
• Sensors and actuators based on nano-materials and nano-structures
• Organic nano-devices

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Various approaches have been attempted to overcome the limitations of existing optical techniques based on unique properties of light-matter interactions at the nano-scale. In this session, we will examine recent developments in nanophotonic technologies such as metamaterials, near-field optics, photonic crystals, plasmonics, etc using diverse optical nanostructures that have been applied to address conventional technical limitations and also explore potential application areas in optics and optoelectronics where nanophotonics may directly prove useful. Furthermore, this session will be an opportunity in which we can see emerging possibilities in nanobio technology, communication, energy, and medicine in the future.

Topics

• Integration and applications of nanophotonic devices and systems
• Light-matter interaction at sub-wavelength scales
• Subwavelength-scale structures: Metamaterials & Plasmonics
• Photonic integrated circuits, and silicon photonics: active and passive devices and circuits
• Ultrafast and nonlinear optics in nano- and low-dimensional materials
• Nanobiophotonics, Super-resolution Imaging, Optofluidics
• Nanophotonics for energy harvesting, conversion, and photocatalysis

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The key agenda for the recent progress in convergence nanotechnology and the successful development of the emerging 4th industrial revolution can include energy, environment, bio, nanoelectronic device, sensor, and information technology. Hybrid nanomaterials are key elements in such inter-/multi-disciplinary research and development areas. In this session, we first discuss the eye-opening advance in the design, synthesis, analysis, and application of next-generation hybrid nanomaterials with a focus on multidisciplinary applications, and provide a comprehensive overview on the future outlook.

Topics

• Hybrid nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications
• Hybrid nanomaterials for multifunctional electronic devices
• Hybrid nanomaterials for sensor applications
• Hybrid nanomaterials for biomedical applications
• Hybrid nanomaterials for sustainable and renewable technologies

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Over the past decades, nanofabrication platform has enabled major discoveries, innovations, and contributions to realize and commercialize by providing researchers from academia, research institutes, small and large companies with leading-edge fabrication platform, instrumentation, and expertise within all disciplines of nanoscale science, engineering, and technology. In this session, we will discuss recent research trends and current status of various technology advances, which are based on nanomaterials and nanofabrication technologies for realization and commercialization of nanotechnolgies.

Topics

• Advanced Nanofabrication Process Technologies
• Large-scale, large-volume nanomanufacturing processes∙ Nanoscale resolution nanofabrication processes
• 3D processing, integration and packaging∙ Nanomanufacturing technologies for bio & medical applications ∙ Nanosynthesis and surface treatment technologies
• Nanofabrication Platform Development/Optimization by Machine Learning

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The functionality and reliability of materials and device depend on the capability to delicately control physics and chemistry on an atomic level. Meanwhile, depending on such nanomaterials and nanodevices, nanoscale metrology using microscopic and spectroscopic analysis techniques need to be newly designed and developed. This session covers on (ii) metrology science to measure the practicality of materials via nanodevice based on (i) physical and chemical principles in materials phenomena.

Topics

• Nanoscale microscopic, crystallographic, and spectroscopic techniques
• Nanoscale metrological techniques for measuring chemical, optical, electrochemical, electronic/magnetic, thermal, and mechanical properties
• Operando measurement and analysis via nanodevice
• Instruments and instrumentation for nanometrology
• Theory and computational techniques for nanoscale metrology and characterization

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Recent developments in nanosciences and nanotechnology have led to the commercialization and incorporation of an increasing number of nanoproducts into our daily life. Since we don't fully understand the risks that these new technologies pose, there are growing concerns about how they will affect people's health and the environment. For instance, there are increasing concerns on the effects of micro-  and nano- sized plastics in the environment and human health, while developments and applications of novel 2D nanomaterials request urgent development of innovative assessment technologies for these advanced materials. In this session, we'll offer forums for discussing about important issues related to the nanosafety, standardization, and nano ESG that can help development of safe and sustainable nanotechnologies.

Topics

• Effects of micro- and nano- plastics in the environment and human health
• Innovative technologies for the assessments of advanced (nano)materials
• Standardization of nanotechnology
• ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) in nanotechnology
• Nanotechnology for environment
• Characterization and safety evaluation of nanoproducts

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Computational approaches are becoming increasingly important in various areas of nanotechnology. This session aims to bring together the researchers working in the area of computational materials science as well as introduce the state-of-the-art computational studies to experimental researchers with a focus of materials database & AI, low-dimensional nanomaterials, energy-related materials, and computational approaches for materials characterization.

Topics

• Data-driven materials design (materials database, AI, natural language process, and by passing principle-based simulation methods)
• Low dimensional materials: From surfaces to clusters
• Computational design for energy-related materials
• Computational approaches for materials characterization

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In the 4th industrial revolution era, research and development of more diverse and novel sensor technology are required through the innovative convergence between new nanotechnology and fresh ideas. In this session, next-generation advanced sensor technologies related to nanotechnology: sensing materials, devices, and systems that meet the needs of the times will be presented. Especially, we intend to provide a venue for practical information exchange by presenting leading-edge nano sensor application cases.

Topics

• New sensing materials based on nanotechnologies
• New nanotechnology-based sensing devices
• Next generation nanotechnology fusion-based sensor systems (IoT, wearable, AI etc.)
• Nanotechnology sensor applications (physics, chemicals, bio-healthcares, etc.)

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