Professor Akihisa Inoue is a world-leading material scientist. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Tohoku University, in Materials Science and Engineering. He was on the faculty at Tohoku University, before retiring as an Emeritus Professor. He also held a number of administrative posts at Tohoku University, and was named the President of the university in 2006. As a pioneer in the development of bulk metallic glass materials, Professor Inoue shared The 2009 James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials awarded by the American Physical Society. Other honors include elected member of Japan Academy, foreign member of the US National Academy of Engineering, 2002 Japan Academy Prize, 2003 Kelly Lecture, University of Cambridge, and 2010 Acta Materiallia Gold Medal. He is author of over 2500 publications, and was identified by Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) as No. 1 in worldwide ranking of highly cited authors publishing scientific papers in materials science and engineering journals during 1996-2006. Presently he serves as a Special Adviser to the Chancellor, and Director of International Institute of Green Materials, Josai University Educational Corporation, in Tokyo. Japan.

He is Chief Scientist and Group Director at RIKEN.My research work is interdisciplinary and explores the interface between condensed matter, atomic physics, optics, quantum optics, nano-science, quantum information, and computing. We are also studying quantum nano-electronics, quantum devices, nano-mechanics, opto-mechanics, hybrid quantum electro-mechanical systems, and quantum simulators. Particular emphasis is being placed on superconducting Josephson-junction qubits, scalable quantum circuitry and improved designs for their quantum control.

Liviu Chibotaru has completed his PhD from the Academy of Sciences of Moldova and postdoctoral studies from the KU Leuven, Belgium. He is the associate professor at the KU Leuven. He has published more than 250 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as guest editor in several international journals.

In many areas of materials science and economics, competition is seen as an opportunity to obtain improved performance. Utilizing many techniques (bulk magnetometry, neutron reflectometry and resonant x-ray magnetic scattering), we have discovered and explored the existence of competing magnetic phases in many single layer thin films that results in giant negative magnetization. We have focused on the system of complex oxide La0.7Sr0.3MnO3. While transmission electron microscopy images show pristine epitaxial growth, the data supports that there are regions of different magnetic order. This results in interesting magnetic measurements, that share similarities with ferrimagnets with competing magnetic lattices. This competition results in spontaneous negative magnetization that aligns counter to a small applied magnetic field and inverted hysteresis loops near room temperature. This behavior has much in common with superparamagnetic nanoparticles. In this talk, the time, field and temperature dependence of these samples will be discussed to help understand this phenomenon. The switch from negative to positive magnetization effectively doubles the change in magnetization, important for some types of devices. We acknowledge funding support from NSF (DMR-1608656) for growth and optimization and DOE (DE-SC0016176) for the magnetic characterization of our films. This work has been included in our sample database made possible by NASA WV EPSCoR Grant # NNX15AK74A.

Dr. Holcomb’s research focuses on the high-quality growth and novel characterization of strongly correlated systems. In these materials, there is a strong competition between the electric and magnetic properties, which can cause unique behavior, often useful for various technologies (e.g. computing, magnetic sensing, and optical devices). We primarily focus on the effect of interface properties on bulk and coupling phenomena, such as magnetic dead layers (the loss of magnetism near the interface or surface) and magnetoelectricity (electric control of magnetism or vice versa). We take advantage of ultrafast optical and synchrotron techniques to provide depth-dependent information on atomic valence, magnetization and symmetry. Dr. Mikel Holcomb investigated a certain class of materials called multiferroics that show promising device applications, particularly for future computers. In these materials, one can change magnetic fields with electric fields or vice versa. Current computers use magnetic domains for the 0�s and 1�s for information storage and communication. These domains are changed by magnetic fields. The issue is that the large magnetic fields that are required to change these progressively smaller and smaller bits require a lot of power, are slow, and are hard to localize. If one can use electric fields instead, we do not have all of these problems and could therefore possibly make smaller, faster, more energy efficient devices. Mikel Holcomb will expand upon this research by studying complex oxides surfaces and interfaces. In addition, Mikel Holcomb is looking forward to developing mentoring connections between faculty and students at many levels. By grouping students of many ages, younger students can learn from slightly advanced peers and older students can develop mentoring skills. Mentoring has proven to improve interest and skills in scientific areas for both the mentor and the mentored.

Graphene possess many appealing properties, however the topological edge states were not expected to exist there, due to negligible spin-orbit interaction. In contrast, the topological crystalline insulating phase was found in the Au-doped graphene and tilted graphene bilayers. The aforementioned systems are nonmagnetic. Magnetism shows up at the graphene edges when it is terminated with single bonds on one side and double bonds on the other side. Recently, the topological crystalline insulating phase has been found in the π-stacked molecular systems and magnetic graphene nanobelts. The band inversion in these systems is partial and anomalous, i.e. between the valence band top and conduction band minimum+1. The metallic edge states with the Chern number 1 exist in both magnetic phases, ferro- and antiferromagnetic. The edge states become gapless at a small pressure, around 0.87 GPa, applied along the stacking axis. Their dispersions are not symmetric for the spin up and down. The graphene nanobelts are π-stacked with the AB-type, and the zigzag edges are terminated with the O and H atoms at the opposite sides, in the reversed order along the stacking axis. The propagation of the topological edge states is parallel to the O...H-interaction direction, across the stacked belts. The hydrogen interaction direction pins also the topological propagation in the π-stacked molecular systems.

Małgorzata Wierzbowska is Associate Professor in IHP PAS (Warsaw) since 2017. She received her M.S. and Ph.D. in Physics from the Nicolas Copernicus University in Toruń in 1994 and 2000, respectively. During 1998-1999 she visited Bochum (Germany) as a fellow of the Roman Herzog Fundation. After 2000, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Lund (Sweden), Würzburg (Germany), Dublin (Ireland) and Triest (Italy). She obtained habilitation in 2014 from the Institute of Physics PAS (Warsaw). Her scientific interests include inorganic and organic optoelectronic materials, low-dimensional systems and magnetism.

Cécile Cournède Postdoctoral researcher Dpt of Earth Sciences Institute for Rock Magnetism University of Minnesota John T.Tale Hall 116 Church St. SE Minneapolis, MN,

Osteoarticular allografts both large and small are employed as “fresh” grafts for cartilage reconstruction after a few weeks of storage at 4°C. Chondrocyte viability and biomaterial properties at the time of implantation are believed to be an important factor in ensuring long-term allograft survival in vivo. A long-term preservation method is needed but prior attempts at cryopreservation by freezing in the literature have failed. More recently ice-free vitrification has been developed using high concentrations of cryoprotectants and convection warming in a warm bath. This works for small cartilage plugs but not large full thickness osteochondral grafts because the tissues are not warmed fast enough to avoid damaging ice formation. In this presentation we demonstrate the effectiveness of a new nanowarming method that warms 30-50 mL volumes containing tissues in ~80 seconds. Magnetic Fe nanoparticles (10 nM diameter) were placed in 55-83% cryoprotectant solution (dimethylsulfoxide, formamide and propanediol) around porcine femoral osteochondral samples and cryopreserved by immersion into -135°C 2-methylbutane baths and -135°C storage for 1-4 weeks. An inductive heating system was used to rewarm the samples resulting in more than an order of magnitude faster warming than convection warming in a warm bath at 37°C. Biomaterial assays included permeability assessment, water and glycosaminglycan measurements. Viability assays included metabolic activity over time post rewarming, live/dead staining a few hours post rewarming, and chondrocyte isolation and cell culture. Experiments were repeated 4 times and subjected to statistics (ANOVA and t-Tests). Biomaterial properties in nanowarmed ice-free cartilage were retained. Statistically improved metabolic activity was observed with all cryoprotectant formulations tested (p<0.05 compared with convection warming), the 83% formulation combined with nanowarming returned to fresh values after 3-4 days. Higher isolated cell viability (p<0.05) by trypan blue exclusion and in vitro expansion of nanowarmed cartilage

Kelvin G. M. Brockbank, Ph.D. serves as senior vice president of scientific affairs and Chief Scientific Officer of Organ Recovery Systems. Mr. Brockbank served as Senior Vice President of Organ Recovery Systems, Inc.

PhD and Master works tutoring 39 Master Projects, 19PhD works in « Engineering Sciences » and in « Mechanic » Publications 48 Publicationsin impact factor Journals• 7 Technical Publications• Oral communications – Poster communications - Seminars 10 Invited Conference in International Conferences• 102 Oral communications in InternationalConferences with proceeding• 35 Posters communications in International Conferences with proceeding• 21 Oral communications in other conferences• 30 presentationsin University / Industry seminars•

Room-temperature ferromagnetic behaviourwas reported in nanoscaled materials excepted to be diamagnetic, including the coinage metals copper, silver, and gold. However, it is yet unclear which factors (size, shape, surface coating) influence the magnitude and origin of the magnetic response. In this work, we study the magnetic and electronic properties of nanoscaled coinage metals, reporting on cautionary examples, and demonstrating tuning of the magnetic properties. We used gas-phase synthesis to study the properties of Ag and Cu nanostructures free of capping ligands, allowing for pristine surface studies. Both sub-12 nm diameter nanoparticles and thin filmswere investigated. In situ magnetic quartz crystal microbalance was used tp investigate the effect oxidation has on these nanomaterials. Our findings indicate that ferromagneticbehaviouris induced in silver and copper nanostructuresbecause of partial, non-stoichiometric surface oxidation; thus, there is no size effect linkage to their magnetism. Conversely, chemically synthesized gold nanoparticles coated with four different n-alkanethiols, as well as hydroxyl- and carboxyl-functionalized alkanethiols, were studied using SQUIDmagnetometry and ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy. We find room-temperature ferromagnetic behaviour (hysteresis in magnetization vs field strength loops) in all samples, and large effective magnetic anisotropy. Importantly, we find the nanoparticles coated with polar chain end-groups show markedly higher magnetization,which correlates with higher work functions. This work establishes chemical handles to enhance magnetism in nanoscale gold particles. This is in stark contrast to alkanethiol-coated Au thin films, in which we find no convincing evidence of magnetism.

Simon Trudel completed his PhDat Simon Fraser University (BC, Canada), and conducted a Alexander van Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship at TechnischeUniversität Kaiserslautern (Germany), studyingmagnetooptics in Heusler compounds.He started his independent research career at the University of Calgary (AB, Canada) in 2009, we he is currently an Associate Professor and Director of the Nanoscience Program. His research interests include clean energy conversion, in-operandox-ray absorption spectroscopy investigations of catalysis, the study of non-conventional magnetic materials, and developing new magnetic contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging.

The talk will focus on two aspects of magnetism in nanostructured carbon. Superconducting nanocrystalline boron doped diamond (films) have demonstrated a large spacial variation in the structure of the order parameter across individual samples, indicative of a mixed superconducting phase. Here we demonstrate the coexistence of spin-orbit coupling and superconductivity, and hence shed light on the nature of this mixed phase for the first time. Hallmark features of spin-orbit coupling are observed through the presentation of the weak anti-localization effect in the low field magneto-conductance. Ultra-high-resolution transmission microscopy indicates the microstructure is dominated by crystal twinning with grain boundaries composed of stacking fault planes where translational symmetry is sharply broken, this along with antisymmetric confinement potential between grains allows for a Rashba-type spin orbit coupling. Most importantly, a pronounced zero bias conductance peak in the differential conductance is observed, through the magnetic field dependence of this peak we establish a clear signature of a hidden triplet character. Spin mixing of singlet and triplet states is believed to occur due to a Rashba spin orbit coupling related to broken structural inversion symmetry at the diamond interfaces.We report on the enhancement of magnetic properties of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) functionalized with a gadolinium based supramolecular complex. Saturating resistance at low temperatures is fitted with the numerical renormalization group formula verifying the Kondo effect for magnetic impurities on a metallic electron system. Magnetoresistance shows devices fabricated from aligned gadolinium functionalized MWNTs (Gd-Fctn-MWNTs) exhibit spin-valve switching behaviour of up to 8%. This study highlights the possibility of enhancing magnetic interactions in carbon systems through chemical modification, moreover we demonstrate the rich physics that might be useful for developing spin based quantum computing elements based on one-dimensional (1D) channels.

Somnath Bhattacharyya is a Professor in the School of Physics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa whose research is focused on the area of condensed matter physics and nano-electronics. In 1997 Somnath Bhattacharyya completed his doctoral degree from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore in Condensed Matter Physics. He worked as a researcher in the USA, Germany and England. His major interest is in the transport properties of carbon and major achievements include the demonstration of resonant tunnel devices based on amorphous carbon, gigahertz transport in carbon devices, n-type doping of nanocrystalline diamond and developing theoretical models for transport in disordered carbon and recently in unconventional superconductivity in diamond. In 2007 he established his new research group the “Nano-scale Transport Physics Laboratory” at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in South Africa. His team focuses on the fabrication of the nanoelectronic devices, studying novel electronic properties of nanocrystalline diamond films and carbon superlattice structures at high magnetic fields and high frequencies. His group is also involved in performing theoretical modelling of carbon quantum structures as well as new quantum processors. Prof. Bhattacharyya has published four book chapters and about seventy papers in peer reviewed journals. At present Prof. Bhattacharyya is engaged in developing a new infrastructure for a wider range of quantum nanotechnology that will include qubits, quantum matter, carbon based microwave detectors, and also encourage deeper studies of philosophy of science.

The number of breakthrough pathogenic activity in water distribution network system is constantly increasing day by day especially at level of consumption. Bacterial growth or survival rate often relates to acidity and alkalinity of water. Sudden changes in pH value and temperature indicates a possibility of present bacterial contaminant in aqueous environment. The observation of pH- and temperature based for tap water supply samples in Malaysia regions therefore was determined. On the basis of the findings, the observed pH value was compared to the recommended range for pH tap and drinking water, which is between 6.5-8.5. A significant spread can be seen among the measured parameters within the range of pH and temperature at 6.00 to 8.65 and 19.20 to 32.00 °C, respectively. There is a statistically significant difference between each sampling regions based on the measured pH value (𝐷𝐹4,145 = 44.79, 𝑝 < 0.05) determined by one-way ANOVA. The pH value and temperature evidence significant effects by various environmental conditions (air temperature, weather, humidity etc.). There appears to be a negative Pearson correlation between the two water parameters in region WM01 (r = −0.352, p > 0.05), WM02 (r = −0.207,p > 0.05), WM04 (r = −0.334, p > 0.05) and WM05 (r = −0.21, p > 0.05).

Herlina Abdul Rahim received a B.Eng in Electrical Engineering (Control and Instrumentation) and M.Sc in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia in 1998 and 2000,respectively. She received her Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Universiti Teknologi MARA, in 2009. At present she is an Associate Professor at Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. She is currently a Deputy Director (Corporate Management) at Research Management Centre in UTM. Her current research interests are sensor technology and artificial intelligent system. She actively involved in R&D; and to date, she has filed 72 IPR including patent filings and copyrights. She has won many medals for her inventions and innovations at international and local research exhibition. She has also published more than 200 research articles in international journals, proceedings, book chapters and research monographs. She is a senior member of the IEEE, a Professional Engineer of Board of Engineers Malaysia (BEM), a corporate member of the Institute of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) and Chartered Engineer, the Institute of Engineering and Technology.