Currently, Professor Abdel-Aty holds key positions, serving as the Director of the International Relations Center at Sohag University in Egypt and as the Vice-President of the African Mathematical Union. He has previously held leadership roles, including Vice-President of the African Academy of Sciences and the Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at Applied Science University and Ahlia University in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He completed his doctorate in Information and Communication Technology at the Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics in Germany in 1999. He has conducted significant postdoctoral research on Information Sciences at Flensburg University in Germany from 2001 to 2003. He has also made substantial contributions to the Quantum Information Group in Egypt, focusing on areas such as quantum measurement, nanomechanical modeling, highly non-classical light, practical information security, and optical implementations of quantum information tasks. His exceptional achievements, numerous awards, and editorial engagements highlight his significant impact and recognition within the scientific community.

Engineered Quantum Entanglement in Nanomechanical Systems Coupled to Superconducting Materials

Jinlian Hu is currently a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at City University of Hong Kong and serves as the President of the Hong Kong Federation of Invention and Innovation as well as Executive Vice Chairman of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Invention and Innovation Association. Professor Hu is a top 2% of scientists by Stanford Ranking (actual ranking 0.07%), an elected Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (USA) and fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, International Association of Advanced Materials, Textile Institute in UK and the Hong Kong Institute of Textiles and Apparel respectively. Professor Hu is also an awardee of National Talents by China Central government, a recipient of Sang Ma Technology award (China) and distinguished achievement award of USA Fiber Society. Specialized in textiles engineering and materials by education, Professor Hu received PhD from the University of Manchester, is a pioneer in shape memory polymer materials for textiles and medical devices. Her research areas cover 1)smart polymers/ fibers /textile materials, 2)spider silk and bionics, and 3)biomaterials and wearable devices. She published 14 books and 33 book chapters and has been a keynote/Plenary speaker at more than 140 conferences and published more than 400 journal papers. Professor Hu is also distinctive in her impact on industries: Apart from 5 start-ups from her Ips, she has cooperation with ~60 local, regional, national, and international companies, holds more than 100 patents and has translated more than 20 items to industries. Besides, for her sustained influence in the theory and application of shape memory polymeric and fiber materials, the University of Manchester awarded her a Doctor of Science in 2023

Learning from the Nature: Artificial Spider Silk and Its Potential Biomedical Applications

Dr. Viktor Balema is an expert in novel electronic and energy materials, as well as non-conventional materials preparation techniques. He earned his BS/MS degrees from L'viv State University, Ukraine, and PhD from the A. Nesmeyanov Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow. Subsequently, he conducted research at the universities of Karlsruhe and Leipzig, Germany as Visiting Scientist, then joined Ames Laboratory of the US Department of Energy. Over two decades, Dr. Balema directed the Hard Materials Segment and Materials Science R&D at Sigma-Aldrich Co. and held Senior Scientist and CTO positions at Ames Laboratory and in the chemical industry. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at Clemson University, SC, USA. Dr. Balema has authored over 100 papers and patents, delivered numerous invited talks, and served as a reviewer for the US DOE, NSF, US CRDF, ACS PRF, and numerous peer-reviewed journals. His research has also been featured in popular scientific magazines, including New Scientist and Scientific American.

Mechanochemistry: From Scientific Mystery to Scalable Materials Preparation & Recycling Technique

Professor des. Dr. Per Arvid Löthman obtained his Ph.D. degree from Twente University , The Netherlands in the field of Magnetics and Self-assembly, conducted research in Canada, France and Germany on carbon nanotubes, Graphen and related 2D nanomaterials. His research is interdisciplinary and involve sensors and sensing, 2D advanced materials, BioNanotechnology including DNA, S-layers, Viruses (archaea, bacteriophages), Biomolecular Architecture, Botany and functional surfaces, Mechatronics and BioMechatronics. Dr. Löthman has published over 90 scientifical articles, several book chapters & books and serves as a reviewer and he is on the editorial board for several journals such as Nature, Nature Materials, Journal of Bioanalytical and Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Thin Solid Films, Sensors and Actuators, Microsystems Technologies. Dr. Löthman is Professor des. in BioMechatronics at the European University of Applied Science Hamburg, and researchgroup leader at University of Bayreuth in the field Organ-on-a-Chip and 3D Bioprinting. Furthermore, Dr. Per Arvid Löthman is Senior lecturer in “Nanomedicine, Nanopharmacy” and “Sensors and Sensing in Engineering, Biology and Medicine” (Kaiserslautern University) and Mechatronics Systems and Design (Hamburg University), Germany and Manufacturing Engineering (HTW Berlin) Germany.

The medical microscale by signals – Explorations of Microphysiology via analytical platforms

Thomas J. Webster’s (H index: 124; Google Scholar) degrees are in chemical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh (B.S., 1995; USA) and in biomedical engineering from RPI (Ph.D., 2000; USA). He has served as a professor at Purdue (2000-2005), Brown (2005-2012), and Northeastern (2012-2021; serving as Chemical Engineering Department Chair from 2012 - 2019) Universities and has formed over a dozen companies who have numerous FDA approved medical products currently improving human health in over 20,000 patients. His technology is also being used in commercial products to improve sustainability and renewable energy. He is currently helping those companies and serves as a professor at Brown University, Saveetha University, Vellore Institute of Technology, UFPI, and others. Dr. Webster has numerous awards including: 2020, World Top 2% Scientist by Citations (PLOS); 2020, SCOPUS Highly Cited Research (Top 1% Materials Science and Mixed Fields); 2021, Clarivate Top 0.1% Most Influential Researchers (Pharmacology and Toxicology); 2022, Best Materials Science Scientist by Citations (Research.com); and is a fellow of over 8 societies. Prof. Webster is a former President of the U.S. Society For Biomaterials and has over 1,350 publications to his credit with over 55,000 citations. He was recently nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Prof. Webster also recently formed a fund to support Nigerian student research opportunities in the U.S.

The Impact of Nanomedicine: 30,000 Orthopedic Nano Implants With No Failures and Still Counting

Victor R. Orante-Barrón, Ph.D. Associate Professor since february, 2010. Departamento de Investigación en Polímeros y Materiales. Universidad de Sonora. México. Education Ph.D., Materials Science, Universidad de Sonora. México. 2009. M.Sc., Polymers and Materials, Universidad de Sonora. México. 2005. B.Sc., Chemical Sciences, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Campus Monterrey (ITESM). México. 1999. Research Fellowships Post-Doctoral Fellowship, in the Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory of Oklahoma State University. From 2009 to 2010. Supervisor: Dr. Eduardo G. Yukihara. Visiting Researcher, in the Department of Physics of University of South Africa (UNISA), from September 4 to December 6, 2015. Awards Member of the National System of Researchers (SNI, in Spanish) of the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACyT, in Spanish). Level 1, since January, 2011. Acknowledgement to Desirable Profile from Program for Professional Teacher Development (PRODEP, in Spanish) of the National Secretary of Public Education. Participation in Conferences 98 presentations of scientific contributions in national and international conferences. Publications 24 articles published in international journals. Organizing Committees Member of organizing committees for three international conferences. Teaching Professor of several courses for undergraduate and graduate students. Human Resources Training Advisor of three B.Sc. theses (two concluded, one in process), five M.Sc theses (four concluded, one in process), and one Ph.D. thesis (in process)

Novel Thermoluminescence Features of La2O3 Phosphors Obtained by an Optimized Urea-based Solution Combustion Synthesis

Abdullah Aydın is an Professor of Science/Chemistry Education at Kırşehir Ahi Evran University, Turkey. He received his Master's in Analytical Chemistry from Uludağ University in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in science / chemistry education from Gazi University in 2004. He is a member of the editorial team of 74 international journals (disciplinary and interdisciplinary). He has 11 excellence awards [Excellence in reviewing]. He has outstanding contribution award [Journal of Cleaner Prudiction - ELSEVIER]. He has committee memberships (SciTech Nanosciences 2019 & Nanotech-2021 & GECAET-22 & Material Science 2024 & Functional Materials 2024). He has national [Ahi Evran University, "Academic Performance Award", The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, “Broadcast award”], and international [VDGOOD Technology Factory, “Lifetime Achievement Award”] awards. He has scientific memberships ESERA, IJDS, ACSE, Turkish Chemical Society, VDGOOD Technology Factory. The focus of his research is the Analytical Chemistry, trace element analysis, materials and processes, disciplinary and interdisciplinary.

Fibrous proteins and materials: silk sampling

Dr. Meena Laad is currently Professor in Physics and Head of Applied Science Department at Symbiosis Institute of Technology, a constituent of Symbiosis International Deemed University, Pune, India. A doctorate in Physics with more than 28 years of teaching and research experience, Dr Laad specializes in synthesis and characterization of Metal, Polymer and Ceramic Matrix Composite materials, Intermetallic compounds, Nanolubricants. She has more than 60 research papers published in peer reviewed International journals with high impact factors. Dr Laad has been the recipient of several research grants and fellowships from prestigious national and international funding agencies such as University Grants Commission- Department of Atomic Energy Consortium for Scientific research, Defense Research & Development Organization, AICTE, UKIERI grant by British Council, UK. Dr Laad has 1 patent granted and 3 patents published to her credit. She has authored a book on Thermoluminescence in Inorganic solids and contributed book chapters published by Springer, Elsevier, Wiley, Taylor & Francis, Royal Chemical Society. She has been honored with National Award conferred to her as Best Researcher by the Society for Technologically Advanced Materials of India. Dr Laad has also received DUO India Professor fellowship 2020 with International collaborations from MHRD, Government of India and prestigious SPARC grant of DST, Govt. of India. Dr Laad is on Editorial board /Reviewer of some of the reputed international journals. She has been invited as keynote speaker, technical committee member, and session chair in several international conferences organized by Universities abroad.

Synthesis and Characterization of Ceramic Polymer Composite dielectric material for Energy Storage Application

Federico Bottegoni received his master degree in Engineering Physics in 2008 at Politecnico di Milano. His activity was mainly focused on the spectroscopy of strongly-correlated systems, such as manganites and superconducting cuprates studied by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS). He received his Ph.D in Physics with honors in 2012 at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano. During his Ph.D. he dealt with optical spin injection in group-IV semiconductors and SiGe heterostructures by means of spin-polarized photoemission and spin-polarized photoluminescence. He worked at Ecole Polytechnique-Palaiseau (FR), where he studied transport operators for charge and spin currents in semiconductors with large spin-orbit interaction. From 2016 to 2021, he was assistant professor at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano. In 2021 he became associate professor. His scientific activities are focused on semiconductor spintronics, with particular attention to spin transport and dynamics (spin currents) in semiconductors and metal/semiconductor systems, optical characterization and optical spin injection in semiconductor nanostructures and spin dynamics in ferromagnetic systems and topological insulators. He is currently working on charge and spin transport properties of two dimensional dichalcogenides, studied by time-resolved spectroscopic techniques. He is the scientific coordinator of the Semispin laboratory at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Milano. Federico Bottegoni is one of the leading scientist for group-IV-based spintronics and he co-authored pioneering experimental works in the field of opto-spintronics.

Non-local architecture for spin current manipulation in group-IV semiconductor platforms

Dr. Ghandi received his PhD in experimental chemical physics with a focus on radiation chemistry from Simon Fraser University in 2002. He did his postdoctoral research at the University of British Columbia and TRIUMF National Laboratory on materials science. He has also been invited visiting scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the UK before joining Mount Allison University in 2005. Dr. Ghandi received his early tenure in 2009, and he was a member of the Chemistry and Biochemistry department as well as a member of the physics department of Mount Allison University until July 2018. In July 2018, he joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of Guelph as an associate professor. Dr Ghandi has published more than 120 refereed papers, book chapters and patents that span a broad range of interests in material science, nuclear energy, physical chemistry, analytical chemistry, green chemistry, nanotechnology, and radiation physics and chemistry. The results of this research have implications for the development of new antimicrobial material, sensors, and energy technologies, increasing the lifetime of nuclear reactors as well as material to reduce radiation therapy side effects. He has also been one of the founding members of the Atlantic Green Centre and was the president of the International Society of Muon Spectroscopy. He was the VP of America (North, Central and South America) of the International Society for Muon Spectroscopy before that. He is the National Representative of the Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division of IUPAC, the Co-Chair of the Environment Waste Management and Decommissioning Division of the Canadian Nuclear Society and the president of the Physical, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry Division of the Chemical Institute of Canada. In 2009, he received the NBIF Breakthru (first prize) for opening inventive frontiers in the fields of polymeric materials, nanotechnology, and green chemistry. In 2010 he received the KEK Visiting Scientist Fellowship award for distinguished contributions to applications of muon science in studies of green technologies. In the same year, he received the Paul Paré Excellence Award for outstanding research without compromising excellence in teaching and service. He received this award again in 2013. In 2008 he received the leadership Mount Allison award for his contributions in training undergraduate research students at Mount Allison University (from both chemistry and physics programs). In the same year, he received the Marjorie Young Bell Award for his research on green chemistry. In 2017/2018 he received the Jean d'Alembert chair from the University of Paris/ Saclay in France. In 2024, he received the best paper award from the journal, nanomaterials. Ghandi was selected as one of the members of the five-year plan steering committee for TRIUMF national lab (selected by the director of TRIUMF) (2012-2015). He was the chair-elect of the TRIUMF national lab user group which is an elected position, by international users of TRIUMF and the chair of the user group selection committee for a new director of TRIUMF. He has been the Chair of many sessions and invited, and keynote speaker at many conferences on material science, nuclear chemistry, radiation chemistry, green chemistry, polymer science and muon science. He has been on the International advising board of the central laser facility in the UK. He has been on the review panels of different international particle accelerator proposal evaluation committees over the last few years. He was invited by CIC as a delegate of the Canadian Chemical Society, Environmentally Friendly and Sustainable Chemistry to China (2008). He has organized international conferences, and symposia and serves often as a grant and paper reviewer and he is on the editorial board of several international journals.

Muons as probes of chemistry under the surface of materials

Dr Sikiru O. ISMAIL is a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Lecturer in Manufacturing Engineering and Materials, Department of Engineering, School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, England, UK. He is an active member of Centre for Engineering Research as well as Outreach and Networking Coordinator of Centre for Climate Change Research. He completed his Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, University of Portsmouth, England, UK, after obtaining his PhD degree in the same University, as a sponsored researcher with prestigious awards. Prior to his PhD degree, he obtained ND, BEng (Hons) and MSc with First Class Honours/Distinction Grades as Overall/Best Student in all his degree programmes, among other outstanding prizes. Moreover, Dr Ismail has several years of professional (industrial, research and academic/lecturing) experience, having worked in many sectors. His research specialisation focuses on Materials (mainly Bio/composites) Design, Development, Testing, Characterisation and Optimisation for Specific Applications as well as Advanced Manufacturing Engineering: Innovative Manufacturing Processes (Subtractive: machining; Additive: 3D and 4D printing and Formative: extrusion, injection moulding, among others), using Experimental and Numerical Simulation/Finite Element/Analytical Modelling Techniques. He has obtained PGCE, hence successfully supervised many undergraduate and postgraduate projects. He has won both prestigious internal and external research grants or funding and scholarships. In addition, he has published/presented over 130 reputable high impact articles. Dr Ismail is a Reviewer and Editorial Board Member of many reputable local/international journals and conferences. He is currently a Visiting Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, Tamil Nadu. In addition, he was Guest Editor of Special Issues of a few good Journals. He is a qualified Advance Higher Education Internal and External (local and international) Examiner. Furthermore, Dr Ismail is a Member, Chartered Engineer and Fellow of some local and international professional bodies: MASME and MASC (USA), MIMechE, CEng MIET, FHEA and FRSA (UK). Summarily, Dr Ismail is an active lecturer and researcher; he is very passionate about supporting students to achieve excellence and solving engineering problems for industries through cutting-edge, state-of-the-art and globally relevant research.

Enhancing Mechanical Properties of Structures through Biomimicry and Additive Manufacturing

Norbert M. Nemes is an experimental solid state physicist who obtained his PhD in Physics from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002 and after postdoctoral stays in the NIST Center for Neutron Research and also the Materials Science Institute of Madrid, he is now a Full Professor of Applied Physics at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, one of the largest and oldest Spanish universities, and Director of the Magnetometry and High Pressure Synthesis Laboratories. He has published over 130 research papers with an h-index of 30 on topics ranging from materials of reduced dimensions, superconductors, spintronics and magnetic anisotropy, multifunctional materials (magnetoelectric coupling), and in the last decade on thermoelectrics.

Structural Evolution and Nanostructure of Thermoelectric Materials

Dr. Adina Magdalena Musuc - Senior researcher II, head of Chemical Kinetics Laboratory has expertise in isothermal and non-isothermal heterogeneous kinetics, thermoreactivity and kinetics of explosive reactions in gaseous and condensed systems, thermoreactivity of some classes of mono- and polycoordination compounds, thermoreactivity of polymers (natural and synthetic), oxide materials design/synthesis, cyclodextrin inclusion complexes, fields of thermal analysis but also in green chemistry science, polysaccharide characterization and functionality, materialized in 68ISI ranked articles,having in all contributions in the field of green chemistry science, pharmacy, biomedical, kinetics, polymers chemistry and thermal analysis, 1 book chapter (Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc; UK), 3 RO patents, coordinator/collaborator in national/international projects, reviewer for several ISI journal (Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, Dalton Transactions, Journal of Material Research, Nanomaterials, etc.).She works as guest editorof ISI journals such as Processes, Fire, and Applied Sciences. Hirsch index (h-index) and the total number of citations, according to Scopus: h-index = 15 and 523 citations. According to Google Scholar h-index = 16 and 630 citations. Her activity and the expertise in the field of thermal analysis has been recognized by the scientific community, being included in the encyclopaedia “Who’s Who in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 2014”, Eds. ImreMiklósSzilágyi and GyörgyLiptay, Springer, Budapest 2014, ISBN 978-3-319-09485-4 and awarded with “NicolaeTeclu” prize of the Romanian Academy.

Enhancing Nutrient Quality and Biodegradation in Food Products through Biodegradable Packaging with Natural Plant Extracts

Maria Constanze Schwenk studied at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and did research at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. She graduated from law, American history and literature (with a research focus on religion and identity formation in colonial New England) as well as from English linguistics, with an emphasis on cognitive science, i.e. learner autonomy, knowledge construction processes and language interaction. She has held several scholarschips for study and research purposes at home and abroad. She works and publishes on different projects related to her expertise, and does research at the the University of Vienna.

Components of Wisdom– Towards a Revsion of Recent Trends to Attribute Concepts of Human Intelligence and Knowledge+- to New Materials from a Cognitive Science Perspective

Alka Sharma has done Bachelor and Master degree in Physics from the University of Delhi. She holds a PhD degree in Physics from the Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR). Dr. Alka worked on broad spectral photodetection in semiconducting thin films and topological insulator-based nanostructures. After PhD, in 2018 she was selected as Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow and contributed to the field of bandgap renormalization of carbon nanotubes, later in 2021 Dr. Alka joined as an Assistant professor at Tohoku University and fabricated quantum dot devices and investigated the quantum transport in 2D material. In 2022, she joined the top semiconductor company ASML and working as a technical support engineer II in the HMI department. She explains basic concept and provides technical solutions related to the scanning electron microscope.

Wide-Spectral Photodetector Based on Freestanding and Lightweight Multiwalled Carbon Nanotube Paper

Dr. Carina B. Maliakkal recently completed her postdoctoral research position at Karlsruher Institute of Technology working on ex-situ and in-situ TEM investigation of exhaust gas catalysts, with focus on CO oxidation. Before that she was a researcher at Lund University investigating compound nanowire growth in-situ while the nanowire is growing using TEM. Her PhD research at TIFR, India was based on understanding the growth of III-V semiconductor nanowires.

Reducing electron beam-induced reduction in Ceria