Programme

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Monday 11 February 2013

Day 1

7.30 - 17.30 REGISTRATION
8.30 - 9.30 Welcome  Powhiri and Official Conference Opening
  Opening Keynote     
9.30 - 10.15 Speaker Joanna Aizenberg
  Title Everything slips: design of novel omniphobic materials
  Plenary Session 
10.15 - 10.45 Speaker  Liberato Manna
  Title Synthesis and assembly of complex nanocrystal structures
10.45 - 11.10 MORNING TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR MATERIALS ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Condensed Matter Nanomaterials in Biology Electrochemically and Optically Functional Molecules Nanostructure Fabrication Nanomaterials for Energy Business of Nanotech
11.10 - 11.40 Invited Parallel 36.2 Ralf Tonner Invited Parallel 2.1
Chen Sheng Yeh
Invited Parallel 3.1
Viola Birrs 
Invited Parallel 4.1
Richard Blaikie 
Invited Parallel 5.1
Amy Prieto 
Invited Parallel 6.1
Brendan Kayes 
  Invited Parallel 2.2
Tamsyn Hilder
11.40 - 11.55 Invited Parallel 1.2
Tomonobu Nakayama
Invited Parallel 2.3
Marek Osinski
Invited Parallel 3.2
Pall Thordarson

Invited Parallel 4.2
Cather Simpson
Invited Parallel 5.2
Baohua Jia
Invited Parallel 6.2
Simon Hall
11.55 - 12.10 Contributed 1.1 
Andreas Hermann
Invited Parallel 2.4
Saion Sinha
Contributed 4.1 Idriss Blakey Invited Parallel 5.3 
Anthony Chesman
Invited Parallel 6.3
Will Charles
12.10 - 12.25 Contributed 1.2
Kevin Smith
Contributed 2.1 
Volker Nock
Invited Parallel 3.3
Jenny Pringle
Contributed 4.2
Khairudin Mohamed
Contributed 5.1 
Gordon Burstein
Contributed 6.1
Ralph Cooney
12.25 - 12.40 Contributed 1.3
Gideon Gouws
Contributed 2.2
Anne Anderson
Invited Parallel 3.4
Chuan Zhao
Contributed 4.2
Andreas Markwitz
Contributed 5.2
Chito Kendrick
Contributed 6.2
Jim Johnston
12.40 - 13.30 LUNCH      
  Plenary Session      
13.30 - 14.00 Speaker Michelle Simmons    
  Title Quantum computing in silicon with donor electron spins
14.00 - 14.30 Speaker Christelle Prinz    
  Title Nanowires in biology: from applications to nanotoxicology
14.30 - 15.00 Speaker

Takuzo Aida    

  Title Advanced Molecular Design for New Soft Functional Materials 
15.00 - 15.30 AFTERNOON TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR MATERIALS ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Spintronics Nano-based Therapeutics MOFs Nanofabrication Nanostructure Synthesis and Characterisation Sensors
15.30 - 15.45 Contributed 7.1
Simon Granville
Invited Parallel 8.1
Jamboor Vishwanatha
Invited Parallel 9.1
Deanna D'Alessandro
Contributed 10.1
Mike Kelly
Invited Parallel 11.1
Richard Tilley
Contributed 12.1
James (Elf) Eldridge
15.45 - 16.00 Invited Parallel 9.2
Matthew Hill
Invited Parallel 11.2
Julie Cairney
Contributed 42.3
Paul Kilmartin
16.00 - 16.15 Contributed 7.2
Eva-Maria Anton
Invited Parallel 8.2
Pei (Pauline) Li
Invited Parallel 9.3
Paolo Falcaro
Contributed 10.3
John Kennedy
Contributed 11.1
Inga Helgadottir
Contributed 12.3
Yung-Chiun Her
16.15 - 16.30 Contributed 7.4
Thomas Kernreiter
Contributed 9.1 
Valeska Ting
Contributed 10.4
Subrabhata Dhar
Contributed 11.2
Melissa Dewi
Contributed 12.4
David Rickerby
16.30 - 17.00 Highlighted poster oral introductions will take place at the end of each concurrent session.
17.00 - 19.00 Welcome Function and Poster Session 1 , Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building

Tuesday 12 February 2013

Day 2

8.00 - 17.30 REGISTRATION
  Opening Keynote
8.45 - 9.30 Speaker Krysztof Matyjaszewski    
  Title Nanostructured functional hybrid materials by atom transfer radical polymerization
  Plenary Session     
9.30 - 10.00 Speaker Tai Chiang    
  Title Topological surfaces, interfaces, and films
10.00 - 10.30 Speaker Amanda Barnard    
  Title Structure/property relationships for sustainable nanoparticle-based sunscreens
10.30 - 11.00 MORNING TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR
MATERIALS
ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Optical Materials and
Radiation Detection
Nanomaterials in Biology Functional Polymers Metal oxide semiconductors Carbon Nanostructures Ceramics and Hybrid Materials
11.00 - 11.15 Invited Parallel 13.1
Stephen McKeever
Invited Parallel 32.1
Lynette Cegelski
Invited Parallel 15.1
Peter Roth
Invited Parallel 16.1
Steve Durbin
Invited Parallel 17.1
Shaun Hendy
Invited Parallel 18.1
Ian Brown
11.15 - 11.30 Invited Parallel 15.2
Zoran Zujovic
11.30 - 11.45 Contributed 13.1
Laura Dixie
Invited Parallel 14.2
Li-chen Wu
Contributed 15.1
Benjamin Cheesman
Invited Parallel 16.2
Chris McConville
Invited Parallel 17.2
Nikhil Medhekar
Contributed 18.1
Islah U-din
11.45 - 12.00 Contributed 13.2
Go Okada
Contributed 14.1
Michael Bradshaw
Contributed 15.2
Rudolf Kiefer
Invited Parallel 47.3
Michele Governale
Contributed 18.2
Pauline Calloch
12.00 - 12.15 Contributed 13.3
Grant Williams
Contributed 14.2
Andrew Rodda
Contributed 15.3
Marija Gizdavic-Nikolaidis
Contributed 16.1
Robert Heinhold
Contributed 18.3
Hyoung Jin Choi
12.15 - 12.30 Contributed 13.4
Michael Reid
Contributed 14.3
Ding Xin
Contributed 15.4
Ralph Cooney
Contributed 16.2
Martin Allen
Contributed 17.2
Davide Mattia
Contributed 18.4
Conrad Lendrum
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH 
  Plenary Session
13.30 - 14.00 Speaker Laszlo Forro
  Title Application of TiO2-based composites
14.00 - 14.30 Speaker Paul Burn    
  Title Fluorescent sensor for detecting explosives
14.30 - 15.00 Speaker William Lee
  Title Fabrication, Microstructural Characterisation, Oxidation and Laser Testing of Ultra High Temperature Non-oxide Ceramics.
15.00 - 15.30 AFTERNOON TEA 
  Parallel Sessions    
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR
MATERIALS
ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Optical Materials and Radiation Detection Nano-Based Therapeutics Molecular Magnetism Bioengineering Clusters Soft Matter and Self-assembly
15.30 - 15.45 Invited Parallel 19.1
Heinz von Seggern
Invited Parallel 26.1
Geoff Willmott
Invited Parallel 21.1
Sally Brooker
Invited Parallel 22.1
Franz Laermer
Invited Parallel 23.1
Elke Pahl
Invited Parallel 24.1
Calum Drummond
15.45 - 16.00 Contributed 23.1
Urban Rohrmann
Contributed 24.1
Marjorie Griffiths
16.00 - 16.15 Invited Parallel 19.2
Safa Kasap
Invited Parallel 20.2
Ja-an Annia Ho
Invited Parallel 21.2
Matthew Shores
Invited Parallel 22.2
Yung Woo Park
Contributed 23.2
Krista G. Steenbergen
Contributed 24.2
Allan Raudsepp
16.15 - 16.30 Contributed 20.1
Darren Svirskis
Invited Parallel 21.3
Annie Powell
Contributed 23.3
Doreen Mollenhauer
Contributed 24.3
Erich Schuster
16.30 - 17.00 Highlighted poster oral introductions will take place at the end of each concurrent session.
17.00 - 19.00 Poster Session 2, Level 0, Owen G Glenn Building

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Day 3

8.00 - 17.30 REGISTRATION
  Opening Keynote   Sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington        
8.45 - 9.30 Speaker Roald Hoffmann    
  Title The chemical imagination at work in very tight places
  Plenary Session     
9.30 - 10.00 Speaker Peter Schwerdtfeger    
  Title Playing with pentagons and hexagons – from fullerenes to hyperfullerenes, nanotubes and graphene
10.00 - 10.30 Speaker IP45.1 Keith Gordon
  Title Understanding the electronic structure of solar cell copolymers using spectroscopic and computational chemistry
10.30- 11.00 MORNING TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR MATERIALS ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Plasmonics and SERS Nanopore Science and
Nanofluidics
Supramolecular
Chemistry
Multiscale
Fabrication
Nanosuperconductivity and Magnetism Imaging and Characterisation
11.00 - 11.15 Invited Parallel 25.1
Eric Le Ru
Invited Parallel 20.1
Mark Grinstaff
Invited Parallel 27.1
Boris Rybtchinski
Invited Parallel 28.1
Haixia Zhang
Invited Parallel 29.1
Margriet J. Van Bael
Invited Parallel 30.1
Bridget Ingham
11.15 - 11.30
11.30 - 11.45 Invited Parallel 25.2
Tadaaki Nagao
Contributed 26.1
Sam Yu
Invited Parallel 27.2
Paul Plieger
Invited Parallel 28.2
Colin Raston
Contributed 29.1
Shawn Fostner
Invited Parallel 30.2
Jan Herrmann
11.45 - 12.00 Invited Parallel 25.3
Yuh-Lin Wang
Contributed 26.1
Omar Alsager
Invited Parallel 27.3
Nigel Lucas
Contributed 29.2
Yasuhiro Tokura
Invited Parallel 30.4
Andrew Edgar
12.00 - 12.15 Contributed 25.1
Jin Young Kim
Contributed 26.2
Peter Hauer
Invited Parallel 27.4
Paul Kruger
Invited Parallel 28.3
Chris Mack
Contributed 29.3
Leisha Armijo
Contributed 30.1
Kim McKelvey
12.15 - 12.30 Contributed 25.2
Walter Somerville
Contributed 26.3
Will Anderson
Contributed 27.1
Galen Eakins
Contributed 28.1
Avi Shalav
Contributed 29.4
Amol Nande
Contributed 30.2
Jaakko Timonen
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH 
  Plenary Session  Sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington     
13.30 - 14.00 Speaker Hans-Joachim Freund    
  Title From oxide film supported nanoparticles to two-dimensional zeolite films
14.00 - 14.30 Speaker Shane Telfer    
  Title Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): what are they and why should you care?
14.30 - 15.00 Speaker Ric Kaner   
  Title Exploring the synthesis and applications of graphene
15.00 - 15.30 AFTERNOON TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR MATERIALS ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Plasmonics and
Photonics
Biomaterials Polymers and
Spectroscopy
Carbon Electronics Nanoparticles Interfaces and Surfaces
15.30 - 15.45 Invited Parallel 31.1
Kostya (Ken)Ostrikov
Invited Parallel 32.3
Tom Davis
Invited Parallel 33.1
Trevor Smith
Invited Parallel 34.1
Tae-Woo Lee
Invited Parallel 35.1
Carla Meledandri
Invited Parallel 36.1
David Williams
15.45 - 16.00 Invited Parallel 35.2
Daniele Pelliccia
16.00 - 16.15 Invited Parallel 31.2
Yoshihiko Takeda
Invited Parallel 32.2
Ingo Koper
Contributed 33.1
Alex Barker
Invited Parallel 34.2
Natalie Plank
Contributed 35.1
Michael Vasiliev
Invited Parallel 36.3
Sunghoon Kwong
16.15 - 16.30 Invited Parallel 31.3
Qiaoliang Bao
Contributed 32.1
Benjamin Gully
Contributed 33.2
Sarah Thompson
Invited Parallel 34.4
Eunju Lim
Contributed 35.2
Robert Rees
Contributed 36.1
Paula Brooksby
16.30 - 16.45 Contributed 31.1
John Lekner
Contributed 32.2
John Beal
Contributed 33.3
Lisa Strover
Invited Parallel 34.5
Jiri Cervenka
Contributed 35.3
Victoria Coleman
Contributed 36.2
Haifeng Ma
16.45 - 17.00 Contributed 31.1
Baptiste Auguie
Contributed 32.3
Azam Ali
Contributed 33.4
Mark Waterland
Contributed 34.1
Yongsok Seo
Contributed 35.4
Max Lynam
Contributed 36.3
Ojas Mahapatra
18.30 - 20.00 Public talk (ticket required)
Auckland Museum     

Thursday 14 February 2013

Day 4

8.00 - 17.30 REGISTRATION
  Opening Keynote Sponsored by The University of Canterbury        
8.45 - 9.30 Speaker Don Eigler    
  Title Spin excitation spectroscopy – a tool set for atomic-scale spin systems
  Plenary Session     
9.30 - 10.00 Speaker Chiara Neto    
  Title Functional patterned surface coatings by dewetting of thin polymer films
10.00 - 10.30 Speaker Roy Clarke    
  Title Ultrafast-ultrasmall: nanostructuring  with femtosecond lasers
10.30- 11.00 MORNING TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR MATERIALS ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Superconductivity Fluorescent biosensors
and imaging
Dye-sensitized and
organic solar cells
Engineered biomimetic
systems
Nanoparticle catalysis Diffusion in Porous
Systems
11.00 - 11.15 Invited Parallell 37.1
Neil Ashcroft
Invited Parallel 38.1
Han Young Woo
Invited Parallel 39.1
Nicolas Tetreault
Invited Parallel 40.1
Ingrid Graz
Invited Parallel 41.1
Matt Kanan
Invited Parallel 42.1
Magnus Nyden
11.15 - 11.30 Invited Parallel 40.2
Elena Ivanova
11.30 - 11.45 Contributed 37.1
Jeffery Tallon
Invited Parallel 38.2
Toby Bell
Invited Parallel 39.2
Yasuhiro Tachibana
Contributed 40.1
Michael Aizenberg
Invited Parallel 41.2
Stuart Taylor
Invited Parallel 42.2
Petrik Galvosas
11.45 - 12.00 Contributed 37.2
Oleg Sushkov
Invited Parallel 38.3
Ji-yao Chen
Invited Parallel 39.3
Pawel Wagner
Contributed 40.2
David Musson
Invited Parallel 41.3
Thomas Nann
Contributed 42.1
Stefan Hertel
12.00 - 12.15 Contributed 37.3
Ben Mallett
Contributed 38.1
Minyung Lee
Invited Parallel 39.5
David Lewis
Contributed 40.3
Natasha Evans
Invited Parallel 41.4
Jason Scott
Contributed 42.2
Timothy Brox
12.15 - 12.30 Contributed 37.4
James Storey
Contributed 38.2
Anupama Srinivas
Contributed 39.1
Varun Vohra
Contributed 40.4
Miftakhul Huda
Contributed 41.1
Vladimir Golovko
Contributed 12.2 Christopher Lemon
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH 
  Plenary Session  Sponsored by Victoria University of Wellington     
13.30 - 14.00 Speaker Adam Pron    
  Title New core- and N-substituted naphthalene bisimides: synthesis, spectroscopic, spectroelectrochemical and structural characterization and application to organic field effect transistors   
14.00 - 14.30 Speaker Juliet Gerrard    
  Title Protein nano-doughnuts as self-assembling structures: towards responsive materials   
14.30 - 15.00 Speaker Ben Ruck   
  Title Magnetic properties of europium nitride 
15.00 - 15.30 AFTERNOON TEA 
  Parallel Sessions
  PHYSICAL PHENOMENA BIOLOGICAL INTERFACE MOLECULAR MATERIALS ENGINEERED NANOSYSTEMS NANOSCALE SYSTEMS CROSS THEME
  Optoelectronics and
Spintronics
Designed biosystems Organic solar cells Complex Engineered Systems Nanoelectronics Porous materials
15.30 - 15.45 IP43.2 Invited Parallel
Joe Trodahl
Invited Parallel 44.1
John Ramshaw
Invited Parallel 45.3
Ian Howard
InviInvited Parallel 46.1
Maan Alkaisi
Invited Parallel 47.1
Simon Brown
Invited Parallel 48.1
Alexander Moewes
15.45 - 16.00 Invited Parallel 44.2
Anton Le Brun
Invited Parallel 46.2
Giuseppe Tettamanzi
16.00 - 16.15 Contributed 43.1
Dunjun Chen
Contributed 44.1
Ivan Lozic
Invited Parallel 39.4
Frederic Laquai
Contributed 46.1
David Garrett
Invited Parallel 47.1
Adam Micolich
Invited Parallel 48.3
Haolan Xu
16.15 - 16.30 Contributed 43.2
Ben Ruck
Contributed 44.2
Marsilia Booth
Invited Parallel 45.2
Tracey Clarke
Contributed 46.2
Jenny Malmstrom
16.30 - 16.45 Contributed 43.3
Joseph Franklin
Contributed 44.3
Anneke Ryan
Contributed 45.1
Anastasia (Stasi) Elliot
Contributed 46.1
Xuming Sun
Contributed 17.1
Chun Cheah
Contributed 48.1
Jiri Dedecek
16.45 - 17.00 Contributed 43.4
Peng Chen
Contributed 44.4
Riyad Mucadam
Contributed 45.2
Kai Chen
Invited Parallel 46.4
Juergen Grotemeyer
Contributed 47.1
Kristiaan Tems
Contributed 48.2
Gordon Miskelly
19.00 - 22.00 Conference Dinner (buses leave Pullman Hotel at 6.15pm)
Viaduct Events Centre     

Friday 15 February 2013

Day 5

8.00 - 16.00 REGISTRATION
  Opening Keynote 
8.45 - 9.30 Speaker Dan Nocera
  Title The Artificial Leaf
  Plenary Session 
9.30 - 10.00 Speaker Teri Odom
  Title Nanolasers the size of virus particles
10.30 - 11.00 Speaker Bill Williams
  Title Take the Pieces and Build them Skywards: Biophysical Studies of the Plant Cell Wall and its Nanomachines
10.30 - 11.00 MORNING TEA 
  Plenary Session 
11.00 - 11.30 Speaker Lionel Vayssieres
  Title Quantum-confined oxide heteronanostructures for solar hydrogen generation
11.30 - 12.00 Speaker Andrew Wee
  Title Tuning the surface properties of graphene
12.00 - 12.30 Speaker Alison Downard
  Title Nanoscale surface patterning: new approaches to highly stable organic layers via aryldiazonium ion grafting
12.30 - 13.30 LUNCH 
  Plenary Session  
13.30 - 14.00 Speaker Invited Parallel 43.1 Walter Lambrecht
  Title Properties and prospects for optoelectronics of II-IV-N2 semiconductors
14.00 - 14.30 Speaker Ulrich Zuelicke                                            
  Title Magneto-electric equivalence in bi-layer graphene
14.30 - 15.00 Closing and Prize Giving