Conference Schedule

Day1: December 2, 2019

Keynote Forum

Biography

Georgios K Kertsopoulos is the inventor of this world patented invention “Magnetic system of three interactions” WO2013136097A4. Practical demonstrations of the effects produced by this novel technology have been made in front of researchers and academia, at seminars and conferences. His research includes physics, mathematics, electromagnetism, space-time experimentation, gravity-inertia measuring apparatus inventions. He has published in English, the book Magnetic system of multiple interactions (Volumes I & II) 3+3 AND 5+5 = 16 interactions in total vs the known two from 0 distance to infinity and much more than that…, which includes the complete new scientific know-how of the technology.

Abstract

The magnetic system of multiple polarities and interactions is an  invention that introduces new multiple polarities and interactions and new types of magnetic fields, occurring between opposite interacting magnetic bodies, as these have never been observed before in the past by the academic and laboratory experts. The world patent that supports and verifies all the ten claims of the invention is WO2013136097A4 bearing the title: “Magnetic system of three interactions”. The invention has been granted a European Patent, granted patents also in USA, Canada, Australia, UK, Ireland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Greece, India, etc. The technology comprises a magnetic system performing more than 96 polarities and interactions. As an application, the magnetic system produces 3 or 5 or 7 or 9 or 11 or 13 polarities and interactions with their respective opposites, in total 96 vs. the known 2 of the state of the art. These multiple polarities and interactions occur for the first time in the state of the art between confronted magnetic constructions, where there, only one of the two interactions has been observed up to now. The polarity of like or unlike poles is determined according to the distance with the application of the invention’s technology, whereas the polarity of like or unlike in the state of the art is independent of the distance. The magnetic system is a fully systemized product that can be used as an experimental instrument by everyone interested, to exploit the newly developed designing/constructing possibilities in the magnetic/electromagnetic products. All magnetic and electromagnetic products of the state of the art have been built based on the knowhow of one of the two interactions occurring between two confronted magnetic bodies, of either attractive or repulsive interaction. Now, the polarities and interactions can be numerous totaling more than 96.

Tracks

  • Plenary Talk
  • Advancement in Nano Materials and Nanotechnology | Particular and Fiber Composites | Energy Storage and Conversion | Polymer Science and Engineering
Location: Aiguablava 2

Biography

Y Long studied at Cambridge University, United Kingdom and currently hold senior lecturer position in School of Materials Science in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research area is to develop different nanostructured functional thin films. She has successfully implemented two
technology transfer from lab to industry for Hard Disk Company Seagate Technology. Her more recent work is developing functional smart coatings. She has published widely in high impactful journals such as Joule, Advanced Energy Materials, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Journal of
Materials Chemistry A and Small, etc. and her work has been widely reported in different media and her work has won TechConnect Innovation Award, Washington in 2015.

Abstract

Buildings consume 40% of the total energy and glass is the least energy efficient part. Thermochromic material responds to solar spectrum differently at the stimulus of heat which makes it attractive in the energy saving smart windows application. The most studied inorganic VO2 has the intrinsic problems of low luminous transmission (Tlum) and low solar modulation (ΔTsol the transmission difference between high and low temperatures). Numerous efforts such as employing dopings, nanoparticle-based composites, and nano-porous structuring have been widely studied. Our group have developed five new approaches to tackle this veritable challenge, namely, biomimetic nanostructuring including photonic structure and moth eyegridded structures tunable plasmonic structures organic and hybrid structures. In addition, new active controls has also been applied to thermochromic material to generate a new electrothermochromics or mechanical-thermochromic materials. Perspectives will be shared.

Biography

Dr. Lei Yang obtained his PhD in Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden in 2014, focusing on the development of novel photovoltaic materials and their applications in hybrid and organic solar cells. During 2015-2017, he worked as a researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Monash University in Australia. From 2017 to the present, he has been working as an associate professor in the School of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Xi’an University of Architecture and Technology. He was honored as the Yanta Youth Scholar and listed in the Hundred Talent Program of Shaanxi Provence. His main research interests include nano-materials for photo-catalysis, advanced oxidation for wastewater treatment and development of environment- friendly materials. He has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers in SCI journals, such as J. Am. Chem. Soc., Appl. Catal. B-Environ., J. Phys. Chem. Lett., Water Res., etc., with H-index of 12 and total citation exceeding 1400. 

Abstract

In order to avoid particle aggregation, we combine TiO2 nano-crystalline film with D35 organic dye to fabricate a new visible-light photocatalyst D35-TiO2, which exhibits excellent visible light absorption. Its transient photocurrent is almost 10 times higher than pure TiO2  under visible light illumination (λ > 420 nm). This novel photocatalyst exhibits excellent degradation efficiency of bis-phenol A due to considerably enhanced light harvesting and charge separation. BPA was degraded completely in 300 min. During the reaction, ⋅O2- plays the dominant role, meanwhile ⋅OH and h+D35 also contribute to the BPA degradation. To further improve the photocatalytic performance of D35/TiO2, a novel D35- TiO2/g-C3N4 photocatalyst was synthesized to obtain the quasi-full-visible-light absorption and the excellent charge separation efficiency. The complementary co-absorption of g-C3N4 and D35 exhibits a broad visible-light harvesting range up to 675 nm, and the simultaneous electron injection from both D35 and g-C3N4 to TiO2 synergistically activates persulfate (PS) to produce the active oxidizing species more efficiently. In the D35-TiO2/g-C3N4/PS photocatalytic system, BPA could be completely removed in only 15 min and nearly 50% was mineralized into nontoxic substances. Radical quenching experiments and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectra revealed that the radical process（⋅OH, SO4−, ⋅O2- and h+）was the main degradation pathway. The D35-TiO2/g-C3N4/PS photocatalytic system also showed a strong non-selective oxidative

Location: Aiguablava 2

Biography

Can Zhang has her expertise in the development of innovative medicinal functional materials, targeted nanodrugs delivery system and cyto-pharmaceuticals. She proposes a novel approach based on self-neutrophils to tackle the issues confronted by nanomedicine. She is a professor of both of pharmaceutics and medicinal chemistry, dean of the Academic Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and director of the Center of Advanced Pharmaceuticals and Biomaterials in China Pharmaceutical University (CPU). (orcid.org/ 0000-0003-3529-5438)

Abstract

Nanomedicine has a great prospect in the treatment of tumor. However, it cannot achieve a full therapeutic potential due to the existence of multiple physiological barriers on the transporting road to the lesions [1]. Our group proposed a novel, cyto-pharmaceutical strategy based on self-neutrophils to tackle the issues confronted by nanomedicine. Neutrophils, by responding to specific chemokines, can transmigrate multiple physiological barriers and penetrate into deep tumor, spontaneously. Therefore, cyto-pharmaceutical fabricated from neutrophils could enhance the tumor-targeting ability as well as therapeutic efficiency of chemotherapeutical drugs, thus expanding the anti-tumor indications. As a proof of concept, we first utilized surgery, radiotherapy or thermotherapy [1-3] to locally amplify the inflammatory signals in tumor, and then applied the cyto-pharmaceutical fabricated from self-neutrophils to treat tumors, synergistically. By taking advantage of the intrinsic properties of self-neutrophils, including responding to inflammatory chemokines, migrating across the physiological barriers and penetrating towards the deep tumor, the targeting efficiency of cytopharmaceutical was three order of magnitude higher than free drugs and one order of magnitude higher than drugloaded liposomes, respectively. Cyto-pharmaceutical fabricated from self-neutrophils significantly inhibited the recurrence of tumor. Besides, the median survival period of mice receiving cyto-pharmaceutics could be extended to 2 months [1]. The personalized therapeutic regimen, which was combining cyto-pharmaceuticalmediated chemotherapy with surgery, radiotherapy or thermotherapy, could be further developed to treat other inflammation-related diseases.

Biography

Prof Ya Ding is a professor of Pharmaceutical Analysis at China Pharmaceutical University, China. She obtained her PhD. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Nanjing University in 2007. She was a postdoctoral fellow from 2008-2012 in Department of Biology, Nanjing University and a visiting scholar from 2013- 2014 in Department of Chemistry, at University of Massachusetts- Amherst. Her research interests include smart drug delivery
based on gold nanoparticles, study on the quality standard of nanomaterials, and spectroscopic study of nanomaterials. She has the awardees of Program for New Century Excellent Talents in University (2010) and Science Technology Achievement Award, Higher Institution (Natural Science Award, the first prize, 2011). (orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-5641)

Abstract

Drug-conjugated nanoparticle is a uniquely structured drug delivery system. In each conjugate, the nanoparticle acts as a core to crosslink more than 100 prodrug molecules and prodrug is composed of its parent drug molecules covalently connected on the surface of nanoparticles via proper spacers. This system can be seen the assembly of prodrugs in the nanoscale and show the advantages of both prodrug and nanoparticles. To investigate the structure-efficacy relationship of this system, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) and Doxorubicin (Dox) are selected as the demonstrations to construct Dox-conjugated GNPs. Polyethylene glycol (PEG) is used as the spacer to improve the solubility, biocompatibility, and body circulation of the system. Here, the position of Dox, size of gold core, and molecular weight of PEG are adjusted to regulate the in vitro properties and in vivo performance of Dox-conjugated GNPs systematically. According to the structure-efficacy relationship studies of Dox-conjugated GNPs, it allows to reveal the internal mechanism that guides therapy of tumor treatment, explore physicochemical and material science approaches to improve the therapy efficacy of nanoconjugates, and promote the theoretical and practical researches of nanoparticle-based drug delivery system as the candidate for tumor treatment.

Biography

Marco Silva has his expertise in polymer-based composites, magnetoelectric materials and laminate composites. As a PhD in Materials engineering, he focuses on the development of new composite materials for different applications. He is a
researcher of C-MAST, Centre for Mechanical and Aerospace Science and Technologies at University of Beira Interior (orcid.org/0000-0002-4466-7275)

Abstract

Fibre reinforced polymers are typically formed from carbon, glass, and aramid fibres embedded in a thermosetting polymer, the growing environmental awareness and tighter legislation make companies increasingly challenging their environmental sustainability concerns, material sourcing and waste management solutions. These concerns lead to substitute those traditional materials by natural fibre-reinforced composites. Nowadays natural fibre-reinforced composites are used in many industrial activities such as aerospace, defence to construction and automotive. They present high specific properties in addition to their eco-friendly aspect and the abundance of natural resources. However, regarding the perspective of mechanical properties, and as consequence of the inherent viscoelasticity of the matrix phase and reinforcing fibre, polymer composites are prone to creep and stress relaxation, making it a great challenge when they are used in long-term applications. Additionally, the degradation in wet environment could also limit their widespread in practical engineering applications. This sensitivity towards wet environment of natural fibres may also lead to a degradation of the fibre-matrix interface and consequently, a decrease of the mechanical properties of natural fibre-reinforced composites. The present work intends to study the benefit of hybridization of flax fibre composites. For this purpose, a full mechanical characterization was performed in terms of static and viscoelastic behaviour before and after wet aging. Figure presents the main results obtained for stress relaxation tests before wet aging.

Biography

Milan Ostry is associate professor at Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Civil Engineering (Czech Republic). His specializations are thermal engineering, sustainable development and thermal energy storage. He has experience from the national and international projects focused on the thermal energy storage. In the past he also dealt with integration of PCMs into building structures and their performance under real conditions. Currently he is the principal investigator in a research project No. 19-20943S “Compatibility of plastics and metals with latent heat storage media for integration in buildings” supported by Czech Science Foundation.

Abstract

Latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) represents advanced technology based on the use of reversible change of phase of materials. LHTES offers significantly higher heat storage density in narrow temperature interval compared to sensible heat storage. Integration of wide range of organic and inorganic of latent heat storage media known as Phase Change Materials (PCMs) was introduced in building industry during last decades as a substitution of heavy-weight structures. Organic PCMs are represented by paraffin or fatty acids, while salt hydrates are typical representatives of inorganic PCMs. Currently the origin of the heat storage materials is starting to play an important role in the design of the heat storage systems. Therefore the environmental impacts such as embodied energy associated with production of
PCMs have to be considered too. That is why renewable bio-based non-paraffinic PCMs made from underused feedstock are at the forefront of the development of LHTES. This group of PCMs includes soybean oils, coconut oils and beef tallow. This paper describes investigation of coconut oil as a representative of promising PCMs because of its availability at domestic market. The samples of coconut oil were subjected to periodical heating and cooling in small environmental chamber. Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) analysis of the samples was performed as well. The results from DSC analysis show that tested coconut oil has melting enthalpy 103 J/g. Temperature ranges of melting and solidification of PCM in Fig. 1 indicate that coconut oil meets one of the conditions for application in buildings. Unfortunately the supercooling effect down to the 20 °C was observed during cooling of the samples. Therefore behavior of coconut oil and its thermal stability will be subject of our future work. Presented work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation under project No. 19-20943S “Compatibility of plastics and metals with latent heat storage media for integration in buildings”