Carbon based materials and smart structures for electronic, photonics, electrochemical, MEMS and energy applications

Carbon based materials have a wide range of applications in the fields of advanced manufacturing, electronic, photonics, energy and sensing applications. The symposium aims to provide a forum for researchers, students, industry researchers, and entrepreneurs to present and discuss their recent scientific results on a wide variety of topics related to science and engineering issues associated with carbon-based materials (including diamond, and DLC, carbon nitride, 1D, 2D and 3D carbon nanomaterials), structures and composites, as well as fundamental insights and new findings toward advanced functionality in the fields of physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and manufacturing. An emphasis will also be placed on the fundamental issues to advance our understanding and utilizations of advanced carbon materials, nanostructured carbon materials, hybrid smart structures with wide bandgap semiconductors, and related electronic, optical, photonics, electrochemical, or energy devices applied to environment, healthcare, and energy.

Proposed sessions and topics of interest:

• Graphite/Diamond/DLC/amorphous carbon materials: growth, characterizations, properties, and applications
• New types of carbon associated, hybrid, and composite materials
• Carbon nanostructures and materials, including 1D, 2D and 3D carbon materials.
• Electronic, photonics, biomedical, electrochemical, and power devices
• MEMS/NEMS/microsystems based on carbon materials
• Thermal management and energy
• Antimicrobial and antibacterial properties
• Heterojunction devices and interfacial structures
• Electrochemical corrosion and oxidation resistance, thermal protection, diffusion resistance,
• Surface hydrophilicity/hydrophobicity, and smart/functional carbon surfaces
• Modeling and theory computation of materials growth and property prediction

ORGANIZERS

• Haitao Ye, University of Leicester, United Kingdom; haitao.ye@leicester.ac.uk
• Richard Yongqing Fu, Northumbria University at Newcastle, United Kingdom
• Cinzia Casiraghi, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• Changzhi Gu, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
• Jikui Luo, Zhejiang University, China
• Liping Wang, Ninbo Institute of Materials Technology and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Science, China
• Peyman Servati, University of British Columbia, Canada