The meeting will cover a wide variety of topics including:

  • Piezoelectric and triboelectric nanogenerators: device design, theoretical analysist, manufacturing, and applications
  • Triboelectric, piezoelectric and ferroelectric nanomaterials and nanostructures: synthesis, characterization, and integration
  • Theoretical and experimental study of piezotronic, piezophototronic and tribotronic effects for electron, photon and ion interaction
  • Nanogenerator and piezotronic technology innovations for environmental sustainability and human wellbeing

Plenary Speakers:

Chang-Beom Eom

Raymond R. Holton Chair for Engineering and Theodore H. Geballe Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

​Talk title to be announced!

Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Professor, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Department of Materials and Nanoengineering, Executive Vice President for Research, Rice University, USA

Talk Title: Energy Efficient Electronics

John A. Rogers

Louis Simpson and Kimberly Querrey Professor, and Director, Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics

Departments of Materials Science and Engineering, Biomedical Engineering and Medicine, Northwestern University, USA

Talk Title: Recent Progress in Bioelectronics

Chun-Hui Wang

Scientia Professor, Head of the School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering and the Director of the ARC Research Hub for Connected Sensors for Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Talk Title: Hybrid Optical-Triboelectric Sensors

Zhong Lin Wang

Director of the Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Dean of College of Nanoscience and Technology, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Regents’ Professor and Hightower Chair, Georgia Institute of Technology.

Talk Title: Impact of the nanogenerator to science and technology over large

Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh

Professor and Head of School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, The University of Sydney, Australia 

Talk Title: Liquid Metals for 2D Electronics and Piezotronics

Invited Speakers:

 

Amir H. Alavi

Assistant Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Pittsburgh, USA

Seong-Pil An

Assistant Professor, Department of Nano Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Jeongmin Baiik

Professor, School of Advanced Materials Science and Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Dayan Ban

Professor and Associate Director for the Centre for Intelligent Antenna and Radio Systems, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Canada

Amay Bandodkar

Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina State University, USA

Sylvain Blayac

Professor, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France

Chris Bowen

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK

Geoff Brennecka

Associate Professor, Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA

Joe Briscoe

Professor, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Changyong Cao

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, USA

Yang Cao 

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA

Jun Chen

Assistant Professor, Department of Bioengineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Yong Soo Cho   

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea

Dongwhi Choi

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Korea

Dukhyun Choi

Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea

Yeonsik Choi

Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Yonsei University, Korea

Ravinder Dahiya

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Northeastern University, USA

Ishara Dharmasena

Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Lecturer, School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering, Loughborough University, UK

Fengru Fan

Professor, Department of Chemistry, Xiamen University, China

Wei Gao

Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Engineering, Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, USA

Noëlle Gogneau

Senior Researcher, Center for Nanosciences and Nanotechnologies, Paris-Saclay University, France

Jianhua Hao

Chair Professor of Materials Physics and Devices, Department of Applied Physics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong

Chenguo Hu

Professor, Department of Applied Physics, Chongqing University, China

Weiguo Hu

Professor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Chang Kyu Jeong

Associate Professor, Division of Advanced Materials Engineering, Jeonbuk National University, Korea

Qingshen Jing

Lecturer, James Watt School of Engineering, University of Glasgow, UK

Blake N. Johnson

Associate Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA

Jonghoon Jung

Professor, Department of Physics, Inha University, Korea

Chong-Yun Kang

Professor, Electronic Materials Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Korea

Sohini Kar-Narayan

Professor, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge, UK

Alamgir Karim

Dow Chair and Welch Foundation Professor, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, USA

Ying-Chih Lai

Distinguished Professor Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan

Chengkuo Lee

GlobalFoundries Chair Professor in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Keon Jae Lee

KAIST Endowed Chair Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea

Ju-Hyuck Lee

Associate Professor, Department of Energy Science & Engineering, Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science & Technology (DGIST), Korea

Pooi See Lee

Professor, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Youngsheng Leng

Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, George Washington University, USA

Zhou Li

Professor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Zong-Hong Lin

Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Chuan-Pu Liu

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

Jun Liu

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, The State University of New York at Buffalo, USA

Luna Lu

Rielly Professor of Civil Engineering, Lyles School of Civil Engineering, Purdue University, USA

Dipankar Mandal

Professor, Institute of Nanoscience & Technology, India

Yanchao Mao

Professor, Key Laboratory of Materials Physics of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Microelectronics, Zhengzhou University, China

Gonzalo Murillo

Group Leader, Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona (IMB-CNM, CSIC), Spain

Thanh D. Nguyen

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA

Simiao Niu

Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Rutgers University, USA

Humberto Palza

Associate Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, University of Chile, Chile

Xuejun Pan

Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Douglas D. Sorenson Professor, Department of Biological Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Il-Kyu Park

Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Korea

Shuhua Peng

Senior Lecturer, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia

Luana Persano

CNR Researcher, Laboratorio NEST, Scuola Normale Superiore and Istituto Nanoscienze─Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Italy

Yong Qin

Distinguished Professor of Changjiang Scholars program, School of Physical Science and Technology, Lanzhou University, China

Hanjun Ryu

Assistant Professor, Department of Advanced Materials Engineering, Chung-Ang University, Korea

Nelson Sepúlveda

Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Michigan State University, USA

Jian Shi

Associate Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Andris Šutka

Professor, Institute of Materials and Surface Engineering, Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry, Riga Technical University, Latvia

Damien Thompson

Professor, Department of Physics at University of Limerick, Ireland

Lih-Sheng Turng

Consolidated Papers Foundation Chair, Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

Mohammed Jasim Uddin

Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, USA

Chuan Wang

Associate Professor, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Sihong Wang

Assistant Professor, Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago, USA

Steven Wang

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Yi-Cheng Wang

Assistant Professor, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Zhen Wen

Research Professor in Institute of Functional Nano & Soft Materials, Soochow University, China

Changsheng Wu

Presidential Young Professor, Assistant Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Jyh-Ming Wu

Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

Yi Xi

Professor, Department of Automotive Engineering, Chongqing University , China

Jiaqing Xiong

Professor in the Innovation Center for Textile Science and Technology, Donghua University, China

Wei Yan

Professor, Donghua University, China

Rusen Yang

Professor, School of Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology, Xidian University, China

Ya Yang

Professor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Zhengbao Yang

Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong

Hong-Joon Yoon

Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Engineering, Gachon University, Korea

Yanhao Yu

Assistant Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Southern University of Science and Technology, China

Cunjiang Yu

Dorothy Quiggle Career Development Associate Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Mechanics, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, USA

Junyi Zhai

Professor and Director of Scientific Research Office, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Chi Zhang

Professor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Yan Zhang

Professor, Beijing Institute of Nanoenergy and Nanosystems, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Qing Zhang

Professor, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Yunlong Zi

Associate Professor, Thrust of Sustainable Energy and Environment, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou), HongKong