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Research Topics in New Materials
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1. Bio-Materials, Bio-SoC, Bio-Nanotech, Bio-NEMS/Bio-MEMS, Biomedical Devices and Optics
-- Bio-Materials
- Bioinspired Materials and Systems
- Biomaterials - Cells
- Biomaterials - Proteins
- Biomaterials - Vaccines
- Biomedical Materials
- Biomineralization
- DNA and RNA
- Drug delivery
- Implants
- Tissues
- Biomolecular Engineering
- Biomimetic Materials: Characterization, Chemistry and Self-Assembly
- Biocompatible Materials for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering
- Biomaterials for Device Biointerface with Anti-infective and Antibacterial Applications
- Functional Nanomaterials for Therapeutic Delivery, Diagnosis and Detection
- Materials for Advanced Drug Delivery
- Bio-compatible Materials and Packaging
- Synthesis and Fabrication of Biomaterials and Devices
- Polymer/Silicon Hybrid Microsystems
- Orthopaedic Polymers
- Interactions of Biomaterials and Cells
- Nanomaterials and biological systems
- Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering
- Recent Advances in Rapid Prototyping of Biomaterials
- Biologically Derived Materials from Natural Resources
- New Frontiers in Polymers and Fibers for Biomedical Applications
- Standards in Biomaterials Development
- Biomolecular Materials
- Translational genomics in engineering
- Tissue engineering
- Neuro-engineering
- Cell engineering
- Cellular and biomolecular Engineering
- Device-tissue integration
- Nano-mechanisms for molecular systems
- Materials engineering & microfabrication
- Biomedical polymer material
- Biomembranes
- Bioceramics and composites material
- Artificial organs
-- Biomedical Devices and Bio-SoC (Bio-System-on-a-Chip)
- System-on-a-Chip
- Bio-Chips
- Bio-System-on-a-Chip (Bio-SoC)
- Organ-on-A-Chip
- Organ on a chip technology and its role in future healthcare
- Body-on-A-Chip
- Bioelectromagnetics applications
- Bioinstrumentation
- Electrophysiology techniques
- Biomedical Signal Processing
- Circuits for Biomedical Applications/Devices
- Physiological system and medical devices
-- Bio-Nanotech
- Bio-Nanotechnologies, Bio-NEMS, Bio-MEMS
- Nanomedicine
- Biomaterials for nanomedicine
- Nanoscale Materials, Structures and Devices
- Optical Micro- and Nanometrology
- Advanced Micro/Nano Fabrication Techniques
- Micro- and Nano-scaled Sensors and Actuators
- Nanocellulose
- Nanostructures for Bio Sensing and Detection
- Nanomedicine: Emerging Nanomaterials for Bioimaging, Targeting and Therapeutic Applications
- Nanoscale Electromechanical Phenomena in Advanced Materials for Biological Applications
-- Bio-NEMS/Bio-MEMS
- Nanotechnology, NEMS, MEMS
- MEMS Supercapacitor
- MEMS Packaging Optimization
- Bio-NEMS/Bio-MEMS
- Optical MEMS
- Optofluidics
- Microfluidics for Biomedical Applications
- NEMS/MEMS for Biomedical Applications
-- Biomedical Devices and Optics
- Biomedical Optics
- Biophotonics
- Biomedical Sensing Materials, Electrodes, and Devices
- Implantable Medical Devices
- Security and Sensing
- Biochemical Sensors
- Photonic Sensors
- Photonic Sensor Technologies
- Ultra-thin, Flexible Sensor
- Biosensors for Theranostics and Imaging
- Nanoscale 3D and 4D Tissue Engineering Manufacturing
- Stem Cell Technology
- Self-healing Bioelectronic and Biosensor Miomaterials
- Graphene sensor
- Radar sensors
- Micro/Nanofluidics
- Materials in Microfluidics and Lab-on-a-Chip
- Biomimetic Devices and Systems
- Miniaturized Diagnostic Medical Devices
- Body Area Sensor Networks
-- Biosensors and Bioelectronics
- Biosensing technology
- Nano-Bio-Optics
- BioMEMS/NEMS
- Advancement in nanotechnolgy
- Bioinstrumentation
- Environmental biosensors
- Biosensors for Imaging
- DNA chips and nucleic acid sensors
- Sensor networks and data Communications
- Nanobiosensors
- Nanobioelectronics
- Biosensing technology
- Biosensors in Drug Delivery and Clinical Chemistry
- Application of biosensors in drug Delivery and clinical chemistry
-- Biophysics
- Biophysics
- Molecular biophysics
- Biophysics and structural biology
-- Biomechanics
- Mechanobiology
- Biomechanics
- Orthopaedic biomechanics
2. AI in Materials Science, and Materials for Water Purification
-- Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Materials Science
-- Materials for Water Purification
- Wastewater and Recycle
- Biological Wastewater Treatment
- Nanotechnology for Drinking Water and Waste Water Treatment
- Biocatalysis for Water Treatment and Reuse
- Human Pathogenic Viruses
- Advanced Water Purification Technology Using Membrane Process
- Desalination Principles and Approaches
- Microbial Desalination Cells
- Water Desalination Via Ion Concentration Polarization
- Portable Solar Powered Water Purification Systems
- Drinking Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes
- Water Softening Technology
- Ultrapure Water Technology
- Other Emerging Topics
3. Electronic, Quantum, Photonic Materials
-- Electronic Materials
- Two-Dimensional and Related Materials: Fundamental Science, Preparation, and Applications
- Compound Semiconductor and Wide Bandgap Materials for Electronic and Optical Devices
- Advanced Interconnects and Packaging, Materials, Characterization, and Methodology
- Advanced Technologies for Memory Devices and Flexible Electronics
- Advanced Materials and Related Technology for Next Generation Displays
- Electromagnetic Metamaterials
- Plasmonics and Metamaterials
- Nanomaterials and Composites
- Nanoscale Materials, Structures and Devices
- Wireless Electronic Skin
- Novel Nano-fabrications Techniques
- Materials Chemistry and Physics
- Solid State Physics
- Flexible Electronics
- Green electronics
- Heterogeneous Electronics
- AI Chips
- AI Accelerators
-- Green Materials for Electronics and Advanced Technologies
- Aluminium
- Borosilicate Glass
- Iron Alloys
- Graphene
- Biomaterials
-- Quantum Dot Technology
-- Quantum Dots for Biological Applications
- Biofabrication
- Biomaterials
- Biomechanics
- Bioprocess Engineering
- Biosafety and Biosecurity
- Biosensors and Biomolecular Electronics
- Industrial Biotechnology
- Nanobiotechnology
-- Quantum Effect
- Discrete
- Quanta
- Particle and wave duality
- Probabilistic
- Uncertainty
- Superposition
- Schrödinger’s cat
- Cat state
- Entanglement
- Spooky action at a distance
- Bell’s theorem and Bell’s inequality
- Bell states
- Phase
- Interference
- Wave function
- Density matrix or density operator
- Probability amplitude
- Unitarity principle
- Basis state
- Computational basis state
- Quantum state
- State vector
- Collapse of wave function on measurement
- Measurement
- No-cloning theorem
- Hamiltonian
- Schrödinger’s equation
- Time evolution
- Fermi-Dirac statistics
- Bose-Einstein statistics
- Fermions
- Bosons
- Pauli exclusion principle
- Spin
- Integer spin
- Half-spin or half-integer spin or spin 1/2
- Spin up and spin down
- Cooper pairs
- Superconductivity and superfluidity
- Tunneling
- Josephson effect
- Quantum hall effect
- Macroscopic quantum effects
- Zero-point energy and vacuum fluctuations
-- Quantum Chemistry
- Computational quantum chemistry
- Experiments of chemical systems
- Experimental and theoretical methods
- Electronic structure and computational chemistry
- Wave model
- Valence bond
- Molecular orbital
- Density functional theory
- Chemical dynamics
- Adiabatic chemical dynamics
- Non-adiabatic chemical dynamics
- Atomic physics
- Computational chemistry
- Condensed matter physics
- Electron localization function
- Physical chemistry
-- Quantum Materials and Quantum Technologies
- Quantum Materials
- Quantum Science and Engineering
- Quantum Chemistry
- Computational Chemistry
- Quantum Chemistry and Machine Learning
- Quantum Electronics
- Quantum Information Science
- Q-Silicon
- Quantum Optics
- Quantum Dots
- Quantum-Enhanced Ultra-Precise Sensing
- Exploring Quantum Computing for High-Energy Physics
- Quantum cascade lasers (QCLs)
- quantum technologies
- Quantum Sensing
- Quantum Metrology
- Quantum Imaging
- Photonic-based quantum computation
- Quantum nano-photonics
- Quantum nano-photonics for applications in quantum communication, computation and biomedical imaging
-- Photonic Materials
- Photonics and Nano Devices
- Nanoscale Optics
- Novel Photon Sources
- Advanced Optoelectronic Materials
- Optical Metamaterials
- Linear and Nonlinear Optics
- Organic Electronic and Opto-electronic Materials
- Organic Photonic Materials and Devices
- Organic Sensors
- New Materials for Organic Light-emitting Diodes (OLEDs)
- Optoelectronics and Nanophotonics
- Plasmonics
- Microwave Photonics
- Computational Materials Science and Engineering
- Materials Informatics
- Composites
- Organic-Inorganic Composite Materials
- Materials Performance
- Materials Characterization, Processing and Manufacturing
- Mechanical Properties and Responses to Deformation
- Microstructure and Property Relationships in Materials
- Heat Energy Harvesting Technology
- High-density Rechargeable Batteries
- Graphene, BN, MoS2 and Other 2D Materials and Devices
- Graphene-based Biosensors (Optical, Electrical etc)
- Graphene Optoelectronics
- The Physics and Applications of Nano-photonics and Photodetectors-based on Graphene, related 2D Materials
- Recent Theoretical Advances and Simulation Studies of Graphene, 2D Materials
- Graphene-Enhanced Materials for 3D Printing
- 3D and 4D Printing Materials
- Nanodevices and Nanofabrication
- Nanodevices, Enabling Nanotechnologies, Integrated Nanosystems
- Silicon Nanophotonics: Modulators, Switches, Light Emission
- Optomechanical Relay
- Flexible Silicon Photonics
- Next Generation Semiconductor Devices
-- Nano Science and Nanotechnology, Nanomaterials
- Nano-optics
- Micro- and Nano-fabrication
- Nanotechnology, NEMS, MEMS
- Interfacial Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
- Nanostructured Materials
- Synthesis and Architecture of Nanomaterials
- Nanowires, Nanoparticles, and Quantum Dots
- Nanotubes and Nanowires
- Nanowires and Thermoelectric Materials
- Silicon Carbide Nanowires (SiC NWs)
- Carbon Nanotubes: Growth, Processing, Characterization and Devices
- Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene: Synthesis, Functionalisation and Applications
- Materials, Structures & Devices for Nanoscale Electronic-Photonic Integration
4. Magnetic and Superconducting Materials
-- Magnetic Materials
- Advanced Magnetic Materials
- Electromagnetics
- Magnetic Materials: Soft and Hard
- Magnetic Materials: Theory, Property Measurements and Analyses (Tools and Technologies)
- Magnetic Materials: Theoretical Calculation and Simulation
- Magnetic Materials for Energy
- Advanced Magnetic Materials and Their Applications
- Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications
- Fabrication of ferromagnetic materials; hard and soft types (powders, bulks, thin-films, composite materials)
- Search of rare-earth free magnetic materials
- Alternative ways to generate high magnetic fields including superconducting trapped-field magnets
- Processing technologies: Deposition of films, structuring, ink jet-printing, 3D-printing, new shapes of materials (nanowires, porous materials, composites)
- Investigation of microstructure
- Magnetic imaging (MRI, magnetic force microscopy, magneto-optics)
- Tuning the magnetic properties to higher efficiency
- Materials issues for spintronics
- Optimizing the properties magnetic materials for given applications
- New emerging applications of magnetic materials
-- Magnetic Quantum Computing Materials
- Rare earth minerals
- Quantum behavior
- Superparamagnetic behavior
-- Superconducting Materials
- Room temperature superconductor
5. Semiconductor Materials and Engineering
-- Semiconductor Materials
- Semiconductor Physics
- arbon Electronics
- Surface Acoustic Waves
- Quantum Optics
- Terahertz Research
- Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- 2D Transport
- 1D Transport
- Quantum Dot Refrigeration
- Fundamentals of Low Dimensional Systems
- Defects in Semiconductors
- Semiconductor Band Structures
- Analog Integrated Circuit Design
- CMOS Device Reliability
- CMOS Technology
- Nano CMOS Device Quantum Simulation
- Semiconductor Inks
-- Semiconductor Engineering
- Process Window Optimization
6. Organic Polymer Materials, Soft Materials, Hybrid Materials
-- Organic Polymer Materials
- Advanced Polymeric Materials
- Polymeric Materials
- Smart Polymers
- Polymer Organic Semiconductor Materials and Devices
- Electro-optic (EO) Polymers and Devices
- Hydrogels and Water-Soluble Polymers
- Membrane Materials and Technologies for Emerging Applications
- Advanced Functional Materials
- Smart Materials
-- Soft Materials
-- Hybrid Materials
7. New Green Energy Materials, Perovskite, and Other Materials
- Advanced Carbon Materials
- Advanced Ceramic Materials
- Nanoscale Materials, Structures and Devices
- Mechanical Behavior and Performance of Ceramics and Composites
- Electroceramics
- Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites
- Virtual Materials (Computational) Design and Ceramic Genome
- Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications
- Advanced Ceramic Coatings for Structural, Environmental and Functional Applications
- Nanostructured Ceramics
- Nanoceramics and Nanohybrids for Energy, Environment and Healthcare
- Geopolymers, Chemically Bonded Ceramics and Eco-friendly and Sustainable Materials
- Inorganic Membranes and Their Applications
- Energy and Environment Materials
- Solar Chemistry and Photocatalysis
- Hybrid, Organic and Perovskites Photovoltaics
- Solar Cells (Perovskites, Organic, Hybrid, Dye Sensitized, Si-based)
- Photocatalysis and Photosynthesis (Photocatalytic Water Splitting, Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction, Photoelectrochemical Cells, Solar Fuel Generation, Interfacial Charge Dynamics)
- Energy Conversion and Storage (Electrochemical Batteries, Supercapacitors, Thermoelectrics)
- Thin Film Photovoltaic Device
- Nanoimprinted Organic Solar Cells
- Next-generation Solar-cell Materials and Devices
- Nanostructure Materials for Solar Energy Conversion
- Electrochemical Energy Storage Systems
- Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion: Silicon and Beyond
- Photovoltaics: Organic and Hybrid
- Hydrogen Production and Storage
- Artificial Photosynthesis
- Advanced Ceramic Materials and Processing for Photonics and Energy
- Fuel Cells Components
- Fuel Cell Electrochemistry
- Materials for Fuel Cells
- Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC)
- Fuel Cell Technologies and Applications
- Fuel Cell Systems and Applications
- Microbial Fuel Cells
- Electrochemistry
- Electrocatalysis
- Materials and Technologies for Solid State Lighting
- LEDs
- Solid-state Devices for Light Emission and Detection
- Advanced Materials and Technologies for Energy Generation and Rechargeable Energy Storage
- Rare Earth Oxides for Energy, Optics and Biomedical Applications
- Ion-Transport Membranes
- Advanced Structure Materials
- High-Entropy Alloys and Metallic Glass Materials
- Structural Light Alloys
- Advanced Steels
- Advanced Structure Materials: Superalloys
- 3D Additive Manufacturing Materials and Technology
- Materials for Extreme Environments
- Structural Materials
- Materials Challenges for Future Nuclear Fission and Fusion Technologies
- High-entropy Materials
- High-entropy Materials for Catalysis
- Materials Technology for Nuclear Waste Treatment and Disposal
- Nuclear Power Reactor Waste and Deep Geological Disposal of Waste
8. Metals, Ceramics, Composite Materials
- Liquid Metal
- Metallurgy
- Advanced Iron and Steelmaking
- Metal Forming
- Steel Products and Properties
- Self-Healing Metals and Advanced Metal-matrix Composites
- Tribology
- Corrosion
- Surface Science and Engineering
- Modern Trends in Surface Engineering
- Surface Dynamics
- Surface Diffusion
- Surface Modification
- Non-Ferrous Metals and Alloys
- Microstructure Engineering
- Hydrometallurgy
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Superconductors
- Economics and Management of Metallurgical Production
- Advanced Ceramics and Composites for Sustainable Nuclear Energy and Fusion Energy
- Other Emerging Topics
9. Power Electronics, Clean Energy, Smart Grid, Clean Vehicle Vehicles, Energy Storage
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