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September 10th 2018
8:30 am – 10:30 am Registration and Refreshments
10:15 am – 10:40 am Opening remarks L.A. Giraldeau (DG of INRS), Claudio Taffuri (Italian Ambassador of Italy in Canada), Giorgio Contini and Federico Rosei
| Session chair: Federico Rosei | |
| 10:40 am – 11:30 am | John Polanyi (Univ. of Toronto) Something new: Nano-Molecular Beams give surface reaction at selected impact parameters |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 am | Giovanni Comelli (Trieste Univ.) Graphene growth on Ni(111) |
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm Buffet Lunch
| Session chair: Giorgio Contini | |
| 1:30 pm – 2:00 pm | Fabio Beltram (Normale Univ.) Nanosystems for biomedicine |
| 2:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Clara Santato (Polymtl) Towards greener electronics |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Giovanni Fanchini (Western Ontario Univ.) Nanostructured flash memory devices based on radical polymers and carbon-based nanomaterials |
3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee Break
| Session chair: Giovanni Comelli | |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Jean Michel Nunzi (Queens Univ.) Optical Rectification and Hot-Electron Photo-detectors |
| 4:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Alessandro Molle (CNR, IMM) Materials design the two-dimensional level: from Xenes to anisotropic MoS2 |
| 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Dimitri Perepichka (McGill Univ.) π–Electron Conjugation in 2D Polymers |
| Session chair: Federico Rosei | |
| 5:00 pm – 5:10 pm 5:10 pm – 6:30 pm |
Robert Déziel (regional director,NSERC-CRSNG) Panel Events: discussion with Industries Partners |
| Participants | Bioastra Technologies inc., Mrs Sumitra S Rajagopalan Sens Wear, Dr. Alireza Hassani, Photon etc., Mr Sébastien Blais-Ouellette, MPB Communications inc., Mr Emile Haddad |
8:15 pm Social Dinner
September 11th 2018
| Session chair: Fabio Beltram | |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Dongling Ma (INRS) Developing Hybrid Nanostructures for Energy and Biomedical Applications |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Anna Sgarlata (Tor Vergata Univ.) Epitaxial growth of Ge-based nanomaterials. From GeSi to novel bidimensional systems: Graphene on Ge and Germanene on HOPG |
| 11:00 am – 11:30 am | Jean-François Morin (Laval Univ.) Novel Photochemical Methods for the Preparation of Nanographenes and Graphene Nanoribbons |
11:30 am – 12:00 am Coffee Break
| Session chair: Dongling Ma | |
| 12:00 am – 12:30 am | Marta Cerruti (McGill Univ.) Graphene aerogels: from self-assembly to applications |
| 12:30 am – 1:00 pm | Maurizia Palummo (Tor Vergata Univ.) Novel 2D materials for opto-electronic applications: insight from parameter-free quantum mechanical methods” |
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Buffet Lunch
| Session chair: Maurizia Palummo | |
| 2:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Stefan Heun (CNR, Nano) Non-Classical Longitudinal Magneto-Resistance in Anisotropic Black Phosphorus |
| 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Mohamed Siaj (UQAM) Efficient hydrogen evolution based on bidding-free molybdenum diselenide catalyst |
| 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Luca Floreano (CNR, IOM) Chemical reactions of porphyrins at the interface with transition metal oxides |
4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Coffee Break
| Session chair: Stefan Heun | |
| 4:30 pm – 5:00 pm | Nazir Kherani (Toronto Univ.) Engineering Nanostructured Materials for Tunable Light-Matter Interactions |
| 5:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Filippo Romanato (Padova Univ.) Nanostructured metasurface optics for Orbital Angular Momentum spectroscopy |
| 5:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Thomas Szkopek (McGill Univ.) Ion Sensitive Graphene Field Effect Transistors: Saturating the Physical Limit to Potentiometric Sensing |
September 12th 2018
| Session chair: Anna Sgarlata | |
| 10:00 am – 10:30 am | Thomas M. Brown (Tor Vergata Univ.) Electron extracting nanolayers in perovskite & organic solar cells |
| 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Fiorenzo Vetrone (INRS) Lanthanide-Doped Nanoparticles |
11:00 am – 11:30 am Coffee Break
| Session chair: Dimitri Perepichka | |
| 11:30 am – 12:00 am | Emanuele Orgiu (INRS) Hybrid van der Waals Heterostructures |
| 12:00 pm – 12:30 pm | Valentina Tozzini (CNR, Nano) Graphene imperfections: defects or effects? |
| 12:30 pm – 1:00 pm | Hanadi Sleiman (McGill Univ.) To be defined |
1:00 pm – 1:10 pm Concluding remarks and greetings
1:10 pm – 2:30 pm Buffet Lunch
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm Visit to INRS facilities