Sabu Thomas is currently the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is a Professor at the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and Full Professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. His ground-breaking research has covered the areas of polymer science and engineering, polymer nanocomposites, elastomers, polymer blends, interpenetrating polymer networks, polymer membranes, green composites and nanocomposites, nanomedicine and green nanotechnology. Prof. Thomas has received several national and international awards in recognition for his work, and recently received Honoris Causa (DSc) from the University of South Brittany, Lorient, France, in recognition for his contributions to polymer science and engineering. Prof. Thomas has published over 1400 peer- reviewed research papers, reviews and book chapters. He has co-edited more than 183 books. Currently he is having an H index of 127.

Engineering at the Nanoscale: A Strategy for Developing High Performance Functional Materials from Agrowaste.

Digby D. Macdonald is a native of New Zealand, a naturalized US citizen, and is a Professor in Residence (semi-retired) in the Departments of Nuclear Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He holds B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees from the University of Auckland and a Ph. D. from the University of Calgary (1969), all in Chemistry. He specializes in the growth and point defect structures of thin oxide, passive films on metal surfaces under extreme environmental conditions and developed the Point Defect Model for describing the physico-electrochemistry of such systems for which he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011. He has also developed the modern theory of stress corrosion cracking, corrosion fatigue, and pitting corrosion in terms of the deterministic Coupled Environment Models and is a pioneer in the modern form of Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy. One of his major activities has been the modeling of the electrochemical and corrosion properties of structural materials in the coolant circuits of operating, water-cooled nuclear power reactors and recently modeled for DOE the coolant circuit of the ITER that is currently being built in Cadarache, France. ITER is the World’s first fusion technology demonstration reactor. He has also contributed to developing the science base for the disposal of High-Level Nuclear Waste in the US (Yucca Mountain), Belgium, and Sweden. Prof. Macdonald has published more than 1000 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings and has published four books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Society of New Zealand (the “National Academies” of those countries and is a Member of the EU Academy of Sciences. He enjoys a H-index of 82 and his papers have been cited over29,740 times.

The Rocky Road Towards Understanding Passivity and Passivity Breakdown

Sib Krishna Ghoshal (Condensed Matter Physicist) is Professor at Physics Department and Laser Center, Faculty of Science, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. He received PhD from JNU (Delhi) and was postdoctoral fellow at Brandeis University (USA) and IIT (Delhi) & Oxford University (UK). He published over 650 research articles, 18 book chapters and 7 books with Google Scholar h-index of 46, i10-index of 152 and citations of 7372. He received 58 research grants, two patents on the proposed anticancer drug formulation and plasmon humidity sensor, supervised 28 PhD, 80 MSc & 60 Undergraduate theses. He is recognized as Top 2% of Scientists in their Field Worldwide in 2019 and 2021 by Stanford University (USA) rankings.

Engineered Fluorescent Ag-Cu Nano shells for Upcoming Biomedicine

Prof. Mahmoud Abdel-Aty is the President of Natural Sciences Publishing USA, President of Arab Impact Factor (Association of Arab Universities), the Vice-President of African Mathematical Union, Dean of Research and Graduate Studies (Ahlia University, Kingdom of Bahrain), formerVice-President of African Academy of Sciences and former Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at Applied Science University, Kingdom of Bahrain. He completed his doctorate in quantum optics at Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Munch, Germany in 1999. After his analytical study of quantum phenomena in Flensburg University, Germany, 2001-2003, as a post doctorate visitor, he joined the Quantum Information Group in Egypt. He received the D. Sc. (Doctor of Science), in 2007. He is especially well known for seminal contributions to theories of quantum measurement, nanomechanical modeling, highly non-classical light, practical information security, and optical implementations of quantum information tasks. His current research interests include quantum resources, optical and atomic implementations of quantum information tasks and protocols. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Applied Mathematics & Information Sciences (an International Journal, USA), a founding editor for several international journals. He has published more than 276 papers in international refereed journals,13 book chapters and 4 books. Abdel-Aty’s research has been widely recognized and he has received several local and international awards, such as the Incentive State Award for Advanced Technology Sciences, the State Award of Excellence for Basic Science and State Encouragement Award for Mathematics. He was also the recipient of the Abdul Hameed Shoman Foundation Award for Arab Researchers in Mathematics and Computer Sciences and Mohamed bin Rashed Prize for the best initiative in language policy and planning offered by Mohamed bin RashedFoundation. He was also the recipient of the Third World Academy of Sciences, Fayza Al-Khorafy award and Shawky Salem prize for Knowledge Management. In 2014 he has been elected as a vice-president of the African Academy of Science, 2018 elected as a President of National Committee for mathematics, 2022 elected as a Vice-President of African mathematical Union, 2023 elected as a Vice-President of Egyptian mathematical Society.

Quantum Entanglement of a Superconducting Qubits

Richard J. Spontak, a Distinguished Professor at NC State University, received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and pursued post-doctoral research at Cambridge University before joining P&G in 1990 and NC State in 1992. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed journal papers. He has received numerous research awards including the NC State Holladay Medal for Excellence, the ACS (PMSE) Tess Award, the SPSJ International Award, the IChemE Underwood Medal, the ACS (Rubber) Chemistry of Thermoplastic Elastomers Award, and the IOM3 Colwyn Medal. An elected APS, IOM3, ACS-PMSE, and RSC fellow, he is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.

Professor Raman Singh’s primary research interests are in the relationship of Nano-/microstructure and Environment-assisted degradation and fracture of metallic and composite materials, and Nanotechnology for Advanced Mitigation of such Degradations. He has also worked extensively on use of advanced materials (e.g., graphene) for corrosion mitigation, stress corrosion cracking, and corrosion and corrosion-mitigation of magnesium alloys (including for the use of magnesium alloys for aerospace, defence and bioimplant applications). Prof Singhis a senior professor at Monash University, Australia. He is a Guest Professor at ETH Zurich, Switzerland (2020, 2023, 2024), US Naval Research Lab, Indian Institute of Science, and University of Connecticut. He worked as a scientist at Indian Atomic Energy and as a post-doc fellow at University of New South Wales, Australia. Prof Singh’s professional distinctions and recognitions include: Guest Professor of ETH Zurich, Editor of a book on Cracking of Welds (CRC Press), Lead Editor of a book on Non-destructive Evaluation of Corrosion (Wiley), Editor-in-Chief of an Elsevier and two MDPI journals, leader/chairperson of a few international conferences and numerous plenary/keynote lectures at international conferences, over 265 peer-reviewed international journal publications and 15 book chapter, and several competitive research grants (that includes 4 Discovery, 7 Linkage and one ITRH grants of Australian Research Council). Prof Singh has supervised 52 PhD students. His vibrant research group at Monash University comprises of PhD students from different disciplines (Mechanical, Chemical, Materials and Mining Engineering, and Science) as well as from different cultural backgrounds (Australian, Middle-eastern, Chinese, Malaysian, Indian, African, North American and Israeli).

Graphene Coatings: A Disruptive Approach to Corrosion Resistance

Brian Cantor is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford, a Research Professor in the Brunel Centre for Advanced Solidification Technology at Brunel University, a Trustee of the UK’s National Science Museum Group, Co-Director of the UKRI Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Circular Metals, and a Chief Editor of the Springer-Nature research journal High Entropy Alloys and Materials. He was previously Vice-Chancellor of the University of York and Bradford University, Head of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at the University of Oxford, and a research scientist and engineer at General Electric Research Labs in the USA; he also worked briefly at Banaras Hindu University, Washington State, Northeastern, IISc Bangalore and the Kobe Institute. He founded and built up the World Technology Universities Network, the UK National Science Learning Centre, the Hull-York Medical School, Oxford’s Begbroke Science Park, and the York Heslington East campus. He was a long-standing consultant for Alcan, NASA and Rolls-Royce, and editor of Progress in Materials Science. He invented the new field of multicomponent high-entropy alloys and discovered the so-called Cantor alloys.Among many honours and prizes from different countries around the world, he is a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng).

Multicomponent High-Entropy Cantor Alloys

Dr. Per A. Löthman obtained his Ph.D. degree from Twente University , The Netherlands in the field of Macroscopic Magnetic Self-assembly and conducted research in Canada, France and Germany on carbon nanotubes, Graphen and related nanomaterials. His research is interdisciplinary and involve BioNanotechnology including DNA, S-layers, Viruses (archaea, bacteriophages), Biomolecular Architecture. Botany and functional surfaces. Dr. Löthman has published over 60 scientifical articles, several book chapters and serves as a reviewer for several journals such as Journal of Bioanalytical and Analytical Chemistry, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, Thin Solid Films, Sensors and Actuators, Microsystems Technologies, Biophysical Reviews and Letters, He is Senior Research Scientist at Foviatech GmbH in Hamburg, Germany, a young innovative high-tech company in the field of advanced materials and artificial intelligence, and a lecturer in Nanomedicine, Nanopharmacy and Nanomaterials (Kaiserslautern University) and Mechatronics Systems and Design (Hamburg University), Germany.

Engineering vascularization - strategies for functional tissues and organs

Dr.-Ing. Yogesh Sonavane is a Founder of Rintegrate Med Tech, Berlin based starup. His experƟse lies in Biomaterials, Material Science along with Chemical and Process Engineering. He is looking aŌer business development acƟviƟes. Rintegrate Med Tech aims to make completely resorbable implants from syntheƟc bone material and their composites. They are developing a material which is structurally similar and chemically adaptable with human bone. These implants will allow natural bone to grow through them and are integrated into the natural bone as it heals. Thus, there will be no post healing removal required with their material and the chance of rejecƟon by the body is very low. The state of art presents syntheƟc bone material for low load bearing applicaƟons. Our technology intends to bring a change in the current scenario.

TOWARDS NATURALLY HEALING DENTAL IMPLANTS

Valeriy V. Bykouski (Bykovskiy) completed Master of Science equal degree from Chemistry Department of the Chemistry and Biology Faculty Gomel State University named after F. Scorina, Belarus. He has been working as a Senior Scientist of Radiochemistry Department at Radiobiology Institution of National Academy of Science of Belarus, and as a Senior Scientist of Chemistry, Corrosion Protection, Material specialization and testing, Microbiology and associated researches Department in NOC Belarusneft, LLC LUKOIL and LLC LUKOIL-Engineering for onshore and offshore objects. He has published more than 20 papers and 5 of which in reputed journal.

The method of systematization of corrosion and associated complications of the oilfield technological circle from wells of Up Stream to Middle and Down Stream’s and Utilization Sub circles as the chain of object-oriented specialization of the materials, treatments and technical solutions

Yi-Hsun (Will) Chen has completed his PhD from Institute of NanoEngineering and MicroSystems, Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He has been working as a Researcher of Biomedical Technology and Device Research Laboratories (BDL), Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI), Hsinchu, Taiwan since 2007. The company has many capability on Bio-IT, Diagnostics and Precision Medicine, Regenerative Medicine, Natural Medicine and Healthcare, and Targeted Drug and Delivery. He has published several reputed ophthamology journals recently. He has also the inventors owned two patents about ophthamology new drugs. His current job is drug discovery and its bussiness development.

Using a Photolabile Paper-Based Chip to Investigate the Neuroprotective Effect of Extracellular Vesicle in a Rodent Model with Nonarteritic Anterior Ischemic Optic Neuropathy

Dr Jain has done his Ph.D. in Solid State Physics from IIT Delhi. He joined Solid State Physics Laboratory and worked as Director Grade scientist. He was head of the silicon devices and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS) division and developed many new technologies. He has also developed the technology for space quality silicon solar cells and among these technologies a few have been transferred to industries. His result of electro-luminescence in porous silicon was considered as the first International observation and it was reported as NEWS by Photonics spectra USA, Electronics Asia. He is among those, who have started the MEMS programme in the country and also produced many devices. Dr. Jain was also associated with the National Programme on Smart materials & MEMS technology from the beginning. He has published more than 200 papers in National & International journals, edited a few books and has filed 45 patents. He has received the Technology award in 2002. He worked as Emeritus Scientist of CSIR at NPL up to June 2007. He has made a multidisciplinary department with most modern facilities in Amity University. He has also brought a large number of research projects from different Gov. funding agencies including many ongoing projects on solar energy and thermal energy storage. He has organized many International and National conferences, delivered invited lectures at many places, and visited many laboratories and institutes abroad. He got the Award in 2012 from “Power of Ideas” (DST programme) and from Royal Academy of U.K. “On the pocket friendly reusable water purification system” based on nanomaterials. Very recently technologies developed of room temperature LPG sensor, flyash battery and cleaning of industrial waste water technology using nanonmaterials have been transferred to industries for commercialization. He is working in the areas of solar energy, sensors, bio sensors, water purification MEMS, Nanomaterials and on some others. Among his recent contributions, his Agri-voltaic work, which can double the income of the farmers is very popular. Generation of electric power from the waste water and simultaneously cleaning the same water is another outstanding work. He has started two new institutes at Amity University, Amity Institute of Advanced Research and Studies (Materials & Devices) & Amity Institute of Renewable and Alternative and working as the Distinguished Scientist & Professor.

Fabrication of UV detector by making heterojunction on Silicon Nanowires on Si Chip

Houda Khattab is a Ph.D. student in Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science at the Laboratory of Condensed Matter and Interdisciplinary Sciences (LaMCScI), which is part of the Faculty of Sciences at Mohammed V University in Rabat. She has previously worked as a part-time assistant professor of Physics at the same university. She is interested in studying materials for energy storage, especially the properties of nanomaterials and their applications in ion batteries. Currently, her research focuses on phosphorene, a 2D material with excellent properties, which she is studying using theoretical methods such as functional density theory (DFT). Additionally, she has experience in modeling and simulation with various tools, such as Quantum espresso, WIEN2k, Monte-Carlo, and LAMMPS codes for calculation, VESTA and Phonopy, and XCrySDen for structure molding. Houda has participated in several international schools and conferences.

Materials for sodium-ion battery anode with a 2D heterostructure based on phosphorus

Dr. Gladys Yerania Perez Medina have been working for more than 10 years mentoring and teaching materials engineering and welding topics. She contributed to the development of master welding in COMIMSA México and received international recognition. She has been the sponsor of more than 20 students of Specialty of Welding, and 10 earning their Master’sdegree. She has been published in journals with high impact in welding research, publications in conference proceedings, and book chapters

Welding process & genetic algorithm applied in advanced materials

Matthias Schmidt studied chemical engineering and technical chemistry at the University of Dresden. His specialty was the chemistry of biomass. After graduating, he worked in research and development at the private institute BIOPOS and the company biorefinery.de GmbH as a laboratory manager. In 2007 he founded the company Green Sugar GmbH and further developed the so-called Bergius process of wood saccharification until it was ready for the market. He holds a number of patents in this area. From 2021 he founded ELMA products UG with the aim of establishing a process for refining silicate-rich biomass (e.g. rice husks) on an industrial scale. In this context, novel bio-based materials have been developed that can serve as alternatives to fossil-based materials.

Biogenic Silica - towards Novel Advanced Materials

Mr. Suresh Aluvihara completed his postgraduate degree in the year 2023 from Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka which is well recognized university in the world. His postgraduate research disciplines were Environmental Engineering, Material Engineering, Water Treatments, Pollution Control Engineering and Chemical Engineering. He received his first degree in the year 2017 from a recognized government university in Sri Lanka under the disciplines of Earth Science and relevant scopes. According to his research and academic profile, he has done more than 75 research publications in reputed journals, international research conferences and international workshops as the full papers, conference proceedings and abstracts while obtaining a large number of citations. When considering his contribution in conference works, he participated in a large number of international research conferences under the roles of keynote speaker, invited speaker, featured speaker, guest speaker, moderator and organizing committee member in both online and in person mode. At present he is serving as a researcher in Agricultural Soil Science while joining with an Agricultural Research Institute. In the consideration of his additional research and associated experiences, currently he is giving his services for a few of research journals as an editor and reviewer in his research interests. Nowadays he is conducting a few of research works as the leading investigator in Earth Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Water Engineering disciplines. Furthermore, he received some awards in best young scholar and best young scientist in a few of world recognized awarding schemers and he received some competitive opportunities for the participation in international research conferences and training workshops.

Sevkan Ülker has completed his Ph.D. from the Department of Material Science and Engineering, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey. He has been working for more than seven years on the characterization, microstructures, and mechanical properties of nanocomposites. Furthermore, he works in the field of sustainability. He has been published in journals with high impact in nanocomposites research, in conference proceedings, and in book chapters.

Biological nanosilica: nanostructured diatom frustules reinforced polymer nanocomposites