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Focusing on our on multidisciplinary collaboration and research that bridges industry need with deep technology insights. We will explore how our different sectors and partnerships drive everything from fabrication and characterisation at scale through to training and the translation of research into industry applications.

DAY TWO: Wednesday 14 February 2024
7:30am
Industry Breakfast Seminar: Electron Beam Lithography
Proudly sponsored by Elionix


9:00am
Opening Plenary day 2
Session Chair: Jane Fitzpatrick
Protein Nanocages and Cellulose: Opportunities at Interfaces
Associate Professor Sierin Lim, Nanyang Technological University
10:00am
Morning tea
will be served in the Exhibition area
GLOBAL THEME
BIO-ENGINEERING
ELECTRONICS
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
PHOTONICS & QUANTUM
QUANTUM & MODELLING, COMPUTATION, AI
ROOM
Room: Plenary 3
Room: 219
Room: 220
Room: 217
Room: 218
SUB THEME
DRUG DELIVERY & TISSUE ENGINEERING
ELECTRONIC MATERIALS
HYDROGEN & FUTURE FUELS
BIOPHOTONICS
MODELLING FOR ENERGY MATERIALS
SESSION CHAIR
Doctor Karyn Jarvis
Doctor Tuomas Haggren
Doctor Mega Kar and Doctor Gurwinder Singh
Professor Kenneth Crozier and Mr Ben Russell
Professor Paolo Raiteri and Doctor Alicia Schuitemaker
10:30am
Nano-bio interactions of nanomedicines
Professor Chunxia Zhao,
The University of Adelaide
Keynote Speaker
1030-1100
New class of quantum electronic and spintronic materials
Distinguished Professor Xiaolin Wang, University of Wollongong
Keynote Speaker
1030-1100
Bio-mediated Strategies for Making Fuel Cell Catalysts
Professor Tiffany Walsh,
Deakin University
Keynote Speaker
1030-1100
Brillouin microscopy in application from tissue engineering to fundamental cell biology
Associate Professor Irina Kabakova, University of Technology Sydney
Keynote Speaker
1030-1100
Molecular Modelling of Electrocatalyst Materials for Sustainable Urea Production
Mr Yiran Jiao, The University of Adelaide
Keynote Speaker
1030-1100
11:00am
Overcoming biopharmaceutical barriers using lipid nanotechnology
Doctor Paul Joyce, University of South Australia
Invited Speaker
1100-1120
Kinetic In situ Single layer Synthesis (KISS) technique of large area 2D materials exfoliation and their ARPES investigation
Doctor Antonija Grubisic-Cabo, University of Groningen
Invited Speaker
1100-1120
Understanding Solvent-Solute Interactions of Ionic Liquids
Professor Tam Greaves,
RMIT University
Invited Speaker
1100-1120
Real-time imaging and tracking of single nanoparticles crossing the blood–brain barrier in live zebrafish
Yiqing Lu, Macquarie University
Invited Speaker
1100-1120
Accelerating the Discovery of Novel Materials for a Sustainable Society: Integrating High Throughput Screening and Machine Learning
Associate Professor Ravichandar Babarao, RMIT University
Invited Speaker
1100-1120
11:20am
Photonics-based, passive transducers for electrophysiology applications
Doctor Francois Ladouceur, University of New South Wales
1120-1135
The long road of 2D materials from Lab innovation till high volume manufacturing
Doctor Salim El-Kazzi, AIXTRON
Invited Speaker
1120-1140
Sustainability in the supply chain of battery research: from materials to cells
Associate Professor Cristina Pozo-Gonzalo, ICB-CSIC in Zargoza Spain
Invited Speaker
1120-1140
Ultrathin nano-printed imaging devices
Doctor Jiawen Li, The University of Adelaide
Invited Speaker
1120-1140
Ferroelectric and Topological Catalysis: Novel Chemical Reactions driven by Physics
Associate Professor Liangzhi Kou, Queensland University of Technology
Invited Speaker
1120-1140
11:40am
Starting at 11:35am
Micro- and nanotopographies for biological applications
Associate Professor Victor J Cadarso, Monash University
1135-1150
Atomic-scale imaging and spectroscopy of devices based on two-dimensional black phosphorus (BP) and GaN
Professor Charlene Lobo, University of Technology Sydney
1140-1155
Photoactive Complex Oxides for Optoelectronics and Energy Applications
Doctor Enrico Della Gaspera, RMIT University
1140-1155
Metaoptics in the MIR with graphene and silicon carbide
Professor Francesca Iacopi, University of Technology Sydney
Invited Speaker
1140-1200
Understanding catalysis at the atomic scale on dynamic liquid metals
Doctor Charlie Ruffman, University of Auckland
1140-1155
11:55am
Starting at 11:50am
Tuneable selenium nanoparticle-antimicrobial peptide conjugates against drug resistant bacteria
Mr Shaveen Sasanka Bogahapitiya Gamage,
University of Melbourne
1150-1200
Doping, optical signatures and compensation of acceptors in nanostructured and bulk Ga2O3
Associate Professor Cuong Ton-That, University of Technology Sydney
1155-1210
Exploring polymers for energy devices
Professor Drew Evans,
University of South Australia
Invited Speaker
1155-1215
Starting at 12:00pm
Towards Precision Medicine: Enabling Accessible Nanoplasmonic Sensors and Microfluidics Integration for Lab-on-a-Chip Applications
Mr Jorge Lozano Lopez,
RMIT University
1200-1210
Ab-initio investigation of hot electron transfer in CO2 plasmonic photoreduction in presence of hydroxyl adsorbate
Doctor Zelio Fusco,
Australian National University
1155-1205
12:10pm
Self-supported Ultra-thin Films of Doped Nickel Oxides for Alkaline Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Ms Ina Oestroem, University of New South Wales
1215-1225
Orchestrating Organelle Interactome and Mitochondrial Remodelling through Mechanical Signalling
Doctor Leo Zhang,
UTS
Invited Speaker
1210-1230
Application of machine learning to clean energy technologies
Doctor Nastaran Meftahi,
RMIT University
1205-1215
12:30pm
Lunch
will be served in the Exhibition area
ROOM
Room: Plenary 3
Room: 219
Room 220
Room 217
Room 218
SUB THEME
TISSUE ENGINEERING AND BIOMATERIALS
ELECTRONIC DEVICES
BATTERIES & THERMAL ENERGY
OPTOELECTRONICS
QUANTUM DEVICES II
SESSION CHAIR
Doctor Jessica Kretzmann
Doctor Antonija Grubisic-Cabo
Prof Tam Greaves and Doctor Mohammad Taha
Associate Professor Irina Kabakova and Mr Zachary Stosic
Associate Professor Jacqueline Romero and Mr Chris Adambukulam
1:20pm
Harnessing the Precision of Biorecognition for the Development of Responsive, Functional Nanomaterials
Professor Marc Knecht, University of Miami, Department of Chemistry
Invited Speaker
1320-1340
The topological transistor for low-energy electronics
Professor Michael Fuhrer, Monash University
Keynote Speaker
1320-1350
Development of new solid and liquid electrolytes by tailoring the ionic and molecular structure
Professor Jenny Pringle,
Deakin University
Keynote Speaker
1320-1350
Chemical identification with a mid-infrared metasurface-based microspectrometer
Professor Kenneth Crozier,
The University of Melbourne
Keynote Speaker
1320-1350
On chip microwave generation with the Josephson laser
Doctor Maja Cassidy,
University of New South Wales
Keynote Speaker
1320-1350
1:50pm
Starting at 1:40pm
Engineering Materials for Cell Transplantation and Reprogramming in the Brain
Professor David Nisbet, Melbourne University
Invited Speaker
1340-1400


Optical strategies for single extracellular vesicles analysis towards early detection of cancer
Doctor Ying Zhu, University of Technology Sydney
Invited Speaker
1400-1420
Ultra-thin materials for next-generation electronics, optoelectronics and antipathogenic coatings: Fundamentals to Applied Industrial Solutions
Professor Sumeet Walia,
RMIT University
Invited Speaker
1350-1410
Lithium-ion Battery: Research crossing the material frontier to supply chains
Doctor Xia Huang, The University of Queensland
Invited Speaker
1350-1410
Technologies for Infrared Sensing and Imaging
Professor Laurie Faraone,
The University of Western Australia
Invited Speaker
1350-1410
Quantum applications of strongly interacting rare earth ions
Doctor Rose Ahlefeldt,
The Australian National University
Invited Speaker
1350-1410
2:10pm
Starting at 2:20pm
Multifunctional coatings with antimicrobial nanoparticles to provide fouling-resistance and bacteria-killing capabilities
Doctor Tao Huang, The University of Melbourne
1420-1435
Tuning electronic properties of graphene with a transferred ultrathin high-K dielectric
Dr Semonti Bhattacharyya, Leiden University
Invited Speaker
1410-1430
Non-Aqueous Electrolytes for Energy Storage Devices
Doctor Mega Kar,
Deakin University
Invited Speaker
1410-1430
Flexible metasurface/nanowire LED integrated device for optical sensing
Mr Dawei Liu, Australian National University
1410-1425


Thermo-optic Tunability of Transmission Resonances in All-dielectric Infrared Bandpass filters
Mr Benjamin Russell, University of Melbourne
1425-1440
Noise in silicon quantum dots
Doctor Amanda Seedhouse, DIRAQ
Invited Speaker
1410-1430
2:30pm
Investigation of Plasma Polymerised Coatings on Degradable Vaginal Implants for Pelvic Reconstruction
Doctor Karyn Jarvis,
Swinburne University of Technology
1435-1450


Europium(III) Co-doped Molecularly Imprinted Nanoprobe for Luminescent Detection of Tetracycline Antibiotics in Food Samples
Mr Zexi Zhang,
Australian Institute For Bioengineering And Nanotechnology
1450-1500


Anti-CEA immobilization on 2D Mo Oxides for ingestible cancer biomarker detection sensor
Miss Jiaru Zhang,
RMIT University
1500-1510


Nanoscale Conductive polymer-based SERS sensing of complex biofluids
Mr Rahiel Janbaz,
Deakin University
1510-1520
From idea to product in the semiconductor ecosystem:
Francesca Iacopi (co-chair)

Doctor Nadia Court (S3B)
Doctor Salim El Kazzi (Aixtron)
Doctor Romano Hoofman (Imec.IC-link)
1430-1500


Improving contact resistance of Graphene-based devices for next-generation electronic device applications
Mr Md Arifuzzaman,
The Australian National University
1500-1510


Investigating the Conductive Properties of Thiolated Gallium Micro- and Nanoparticles
Mr Shih-Hao Chiu,
University of Sydney
1510-1520
Effect of Microstructure Tuning on Thermoelectric Properties via Liquid Metal Pathway
Ms Moonika Widjajana, University of Sydney
1430-1445


High-entropy low melting point metal nanodroplets
Doctor Francois-Marie Allioux, University of Sydney
1445-1455


Tailored porous carbons for CO2 Capture and LIBs
Doctor Gurwinder Singh, University of Newcastle
1455-1505


Unveiling the Key for hydrothermally derived pure 1T-MoS2
Doctor Manas Panda,
Monash University
1505-1520
METAMATERIALS
Characterisation of Surface Spin Noise using T1 Relaxometry in Fluorescent Nanodiamonds
Ms Erin Grant, University of Melbourne
1430-1440


All-electrical magnetometry using defect spins in silicon carbide
Doctor Brett Johnson,
RMIT University
1440-1455


Realisation of epitaxial ultra-thin Kagome metal FeSn films
Mr James Blyth,
Monash University
1455-1505


Controlling microwave plasma-based nitrogen termination of the diamond surface
Mr Daniel Roberts,
RMIT University
1505-1515
High-resolution phase imaging with dielectric metaoptics
Miss Niken Priscilla, Arc Centre Of Excellence For Transformative Meta-optical Systems
1440-1450


Tuneable meta-optical image processing devices
Doctor Lukas Wesemann, University of Melbourne
1450-1500


Arbitrary structuring of single photons with a multifunctional metalens
Doctor Chi Li, Monash University
1500-1510


Zooming in on Nature's Tiny Messengers: Plasmonic Metasurface-Assisted Super-Resolution Imaging Towards Small Extracellular Vesicles (Ev’s) Analysis
Mr Anthony El-Helou, UTS
1510-1520
3:20pm
Afternoon tea
will be served in the Exhibition area
ROOM
Room: Plenary 3
Room: 219
Room: 220
Room: 217
Room: 218
SUB THEME
DRUG DELIVERY AND TISSUE ENGINEERING
ELECTRONICS: RAPID FIRE TALKS
ENERGY MATERIALS
DETECTORS
OPTICALLY ADDRESSABLE QUBITS
SESSION CHAIR
Doctor Shadi Houshyar
Professor Marc Knecht
Professor Jenny Pringle and Doctor Francois-Marie Allioux
Professor Laurie Faraone and Miss Niken Priscilla
Doctor Rose Ahlefeldt
3:50pm
Folding Genes with DNA Origami
Doctor Jessica Kretzmann, University of Western Australia
1550-1605


Re-examination of polymer encapsulation of semiconductor quantum dots and their use in rapid tests for detecting chlamydial infections
Doctor Fabio Lisi, University of Tokyo
1605-1620


Modulating the immune responses to radiotherapy using aluminium and gold nanoparticles
Doctor Ali Nazarizadeh, University of South Australia
1620-1635


Harnessing the Virucidal Potential of Nanostructured Silicon: A Nature-Inspired Approach to Mitigate Viral Threats
Mr Samson Wai Liong Mah, RMIT University
1635-1645


Designing Advanced Artificial Nerve Guide Conduit with Multi-Layered Nanocomposite Scaffold
Mr Mustafijur Rahman, RMIT University
1645-1655
Liquid Classification using a Renewable Graphite / Rubber / Hydrocolloid Composite Sensor
Doctor Christopher Harrison, Swinburne University of Technology
1550-1600


A Microelectrode Study of TCNQ Charge-transfer Complex for Controlled Electrocrystallization
Mr Jiancheng Lin, University of New South Wales
1600-1610


Damage-free Epitaxial Lift-off of HgCdTe Thin Films for Future Curved Infrared Detectors Applications
Mr Shuo Ma, University of Western Australia
1610-1620


Syenta MicroFab Electrochemical 3D Printer: An Electronics Prototyping Platform
Doctor Grishmi Rajbhandari, Syenta
1620-1630


III-V nanofilms for photodetection and sensing
Doctor Tuomas Haggren, Australian National University
1630-1645
Harnessing Kinetic Energy via Electromechanically Active Polymers
Doctor Peter Sherrell,
RMIT University
1550-1605


Infrared modulation via near-room-temperature phase transitions of vanadium oxides & core-shell composites
Doctor Mohammed Taha, University of Melbourne
1605-1620


Nitrogen and Sulphur co-doped reduced Graphene Oxide(rGO)/gold nanoparticles hybrids for SERS sensing platform
Mr Anant Srivastava, IIT KANPUR
1620-1630


Plasmonic Janus Nanosheet for Flexible Leaf-like Fuel Cell
Ms Yifeng Huang,
Monash University
1630-1640
III-V semiconductor nanowire arrays for ultra-low power IR photodetection
Mr Kosala Dhanawansha, Australian National University
1550-1600


Low-temperature fabrication of Zinc Oxide nanofilms for flexible UV photodetectors
Mr Zachary Stosic,
Macquarie University
1600-1610


Ultra-Porous Hybrid Nanostructures for Highly Sensitive UV Photodetectors
Mr Reza Behboodian,
Macquarie University
1610-1620


Engineering atomic and photonic properties for rare-earth ion quantum hardware
Doctor John Bartholomew, University of Sydney
Invited Speaker
1550-1610


Better living through multiphoton quantum interference
Professor Andrew White, University of Queensland
Invited Speaker
1610-1630


Sculpted light in quantum and bio
Professor Halina Rubenstein Dunlop University of Queensland
Invited Speaker
1630-1650
COLOUR CENTRES
All-optical nanoscale temperature sensing on microelectronics using diamond color centers
Doctor Trong Toan Tran, University of Technology Sydney 1620-1630

Quantum sensing and light guiding with fluorescent nanodiamond doped PVA fibers
Mr Roy Styles,
RMIT Student
1630-1640


Near-infrared magnetometry with nitrogen-vacancy centres in diamonds for fibre-based applications
Marco Capelli,
RMIT University
1640-1650
5:30pm
Poster sessions
will be in the ICONN Lounge