Program

Sunday, April 15, 2018
Location: 
Auditorium No. 1 Research Building, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen
12:00-18:00           Badge pick-up



Monday, April 16, 2018
Location: 
Auditorium No. 1 Research Building, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen

07:00-08:30            Badge pick-up

Introduction: Hsing-Lin Wang, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
08:45-09:00            Opening Ceremony
                               Shiyi Chen President of Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
                               Professor of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering  

09:00-12:00            SESSION 1 
Chair: Ani Mahapatra, Publisher, ACS Publications

09:00-09:30            Kirk Schanze, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA
                               Editor-in-Chief, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, ACS Applied Bio Materials,
                               ACS Applied Energy Materials, ACS Applied Nano Materials                                                            
                               Water Soluble Conjugated Polyelectrolytes: Structures, Properties, Processing and                                Applications                   
            
09:30-10:00            Prashant V. Kamat, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA
                               Editor-in-Chief, ACS Energy Letters
                               Meeting the Clean Energy Demand with Nanotechnology

10:00-10:30            Jillian Buriak, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
                               Editor-in-Chief, Chemistry of Materials
                               Directed Self-Assembly for Nanolithgraphy: Writing with Polymers
                               
10:30-10:50            Group Photo & Coffee Break

Chair: Carlos Toro, Managing Editor, ACS Publications
10:50-11:20            Paolo Fornasiero, University of Trieste, Trieste, Italy 
                               Associate Editor, ACS Catalysis
                               Opportunities and Challenges of Well-Defined and “Smart” Catalysts

11:20-11:40            He Yan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P.R.China
                               Temperature Dependent Aggregation Enables Efficient Fullerene and Non-fullerene Organic Solar Cells -                                A New Path Toward Next Generation Organic Solar Cells

11:40-12:00            Fei Huang, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, P.R.China
                               Self-doped n-Type Interfacial Materials for High-performance Polymer/Perovskite Solar Cells

12:00-14:00            Lunch & Poster Session 1 

14:00-17:00           SESSION 2
Chair: Hong Wang, Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

14:00-14:30            Luis M. Liz-Marzán, CIC biomaGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain 
                               Co-Editor, ACS Omega
                               Engineering Plasmonic Colloids for Biosensing

14:30-15:00            T. Randall Lee, University of Houston, Houston, TX, USA
                                Deputy Editor, ACS Applied Nano Materials
                                Photonic and Magnetic Nanoparticles for Health, Energy, and Biosensing

15:00-15:30            J. Justin Gooding, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
                                Editor-in-Chief, ACS Sensors
                                How Nanomaterials Are Taking Us Towards Quantitative Sensors by Monitoring Many Single Molecules

15:30-15:50            Coffee Break
 
Chair: Xiaodong Xiang, Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)
15:50-16:10            Xumu Zhang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P.R.China
                               Practical Asymmetric Hydrogenation

16:10-16:30            Yongye Liang, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P.R.China
                               Rational Design of Molecular Fluorophores for Biological Imaging in the NIR-II Window

16:30-17:00            Guided Tour of Testing Center



Tuesday, April 17, 2018
Location: Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

08:30-11:30            SESSION 3 
Chair: Yongye Liang, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

08:30-09:00            Marc A. Hillmyer, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
                               Editor-in-Chief, Macromolecules
                               Block Polymers in Next-Generation Membrane Materials

09:00-09:30            Stuart Rowan, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
                               Editor-in-Chief, ACS Macro Letters
                               Cellulose Nanocrystals as Sustainable Nanomaterials and Their Nanocomposites

09:30-10:00            Françoise M. Winnik, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland and University of Montreal, Montreal, QC                                Canada 
                               Editor-in-Chief, Langmuir
                               Functional Interfaces and Colloids for Nanomedicine

10:00-10:20            Coffee Break

Chair: Baomin Xu, Chair Professor, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech)

10:20-10:50            Vivian Wing-Wah Yam, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R.China 
                                Associate Editor, Inorganic Chemistry
                                From Discrete Metal-Ligand Motifs to Supramolecular Assembly, Nanostructures and Functions

10:50-11:10            Xing Cheng, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P.R.China
                               Tuning Polymer Properties by Surface Micro- and Nanostructures

11:10-11:30            Hongkai Wu, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Kowloon, Hong Kong, P.R.China
                               Application of 3D Printing in Microfluidics

11:30-13:30            Lunch & Poster Session 2

13:30-17:00           SESSION 4
Chair: Gang-yu Liu, University of California, Davis, CA, USA

13:30-14:00            David L. Kaplan, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
                               Editor-in-Chief, ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering
                               Fibrous Proteins to Study Structural Hierarchy and Functional Materials

14:00-14:30            Shu Wang, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P.R.China 
                               Deputy Editor, ACS Applied Bio Materials
                               Conjugated Polymer-Based Assembly Materials for Biomedical Applications

14:30-15:00            Gang-yu Liu, University of California, Davis, CA, USA
                                Senior Editor, The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
                                Engineered 3D Nanostructures for Regulations of Cellular Signaling Processes

15:00-15:20            Coffee Break

Chair: Kirk Schanze, University of Texas, San Antonio, TX, USA

15:20-15:40            Xugang Guo, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, P.R.China
                               Imide-Functionalized Organic Semiconductors for High-Performance Thin-Film Transistors

15:40-16:00            Jianbin Xu, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R.China
                               Electronic Transport in 2-Dimensional Conjugated Molecular Sheets: Structures, Properties, and Devices

16:00-16:20            Zijian Zheng, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, P.R.China
                               Polymer-Assisted Metal Deposition: An Interfacial Chemical Approach for Soft Electrodes and Devices

16:20-16:40            Qian Miao, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, P.R.China
                               Interface Engineering and Crystal Engineering for High-Performance Organic Thin Film Transistors

16:40-17:00            Poster Prize Award Presentation + Closing Ceremony















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