International Conference on Diamond and Carbon Materials July 17-18, 2017 London ,UK

Dr. Guang Li received her M.Sc in Chemistry from China Textile University in 1985, and her Ph.D in material science and engineering from Donghua University in 2006. She was a Senior Visiting Scholar in the University of Twente (Netherlands). She has been a full Professor at Donghua University sine 1999, and continuously working on high performance polymer , porous carbon fibers and their associated processing and applications. She has published more than 100 scientific papers in high-impacting peer-reviewed journals and has given more than 24 keynote/invited/oral presentations, co-authored 4 books, and owns 26 patents. Dr. Li has been awarded several prizes for recognizing her contributions to science and technology.

High performance polymer and fiber, Porous carbon fiber and its application, Functional polymer composites

Dr. Bingqing (B. Q) Wei is currently a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Delaware. He was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Center for Computation & Technology at Louisiana State University from 2003 to 2007. He had worked as a research scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Rensselaer Nanotechnology Center from 2000 to 2003. Dr. Wei was a visiting scientist for Max-Planck Institut für Metallforschung, Stuttgart, Germany in 1998 and 1999. From 1992 to 2001, he was a faculty member at Tsinghua University in Beijing, where he received his Bachelor’s degree (1987), M.S (1989), and Ph.D. (1992) in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of The Materials Research Society (MRS), The Electrochemical Society (ECS), The American Chemical Society (ACS), and The American Society of Mechanical Engineering (ASME)

Dr. Bingqing (B. Q) Wei research interest lies in nanomaterials and nanotechnology. His recent research focuses on controllable synthesis of macroscale nanotube architectures with 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensions; physical, chemical, electrochemical and mechanical property characterizations of nanotubes; and nanotube device applications.

Hock Chun Ong received his BA and PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University, USA. He currently is an Associate Professor in Physics Department, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has been working on amorphous carbon, diamond, and ZnO for years and his current interest is light-matter interaction focusing on plasmonics. He has published more than 100 technical papers on fluorescence and sensing. He has been serving as an organizer of international conferences.

Light-matter interaction focusing on plasmonics

Dongfang Yang received his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from University of Guelph in 1995. Now he is a Senior Research Officer at National Research Council Canada. His current search interests include laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy devices; chemical and optical sensors development; and electrochemical studies of organic adsorption and self-assembly monolayer. He has also held the Adjunct Professorship at the Department of Chemistry, Lakehead University and the Department of Chemistry, Western University in Ontario, Canada.

laser materials processing; pulsed laser, sputtering and e-beam deposition of thin films; new materials development for energy devices.

Vikas Berry is a Chemical Engineering Professor and Department Head at University of Illinois at Chicago. Dr. Berry has made pioneering contributions in the fields of graphene quantum materials and Bionanotechnologies; and has received several honors, including the NSF-CAREER Award, Sigma Xi Outstanding Junior Scientist Award, Big 12 Fellowship and William H. Honstead Professorship. Dr. Berry received his bachelor's degree from the Indian Institute of Technology-Delhi, India, in 1999, master's degree from the University of Kansas in 2003, and a doctorate degree from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 2006.

Graphene quantum materials and Bionanotechnologies

Dr. Bharat Bhushan is an Ohio Eminent Scholar and The Howard D. Winbigler Professor in the College of Engineering, and the Director of the Nanoprobe Laboratory for Bio- & Nanotechnology and Biomimetics (NLB2) and affiliated faculty in John Glenn College of Public Affairs at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. In 2013-14, he served as an ASME/AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, House Committee on Science, Space & Technology, United States Congress, Washington, DC. He holds two M.S., a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering/mechanics, an MBA, and two honorary and two semi-honorary doctorates. His research interests include fundamental studies with a focus on scanning probe techniques in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology, bio/nanomechanics and bio/nanomaterials characterization and applications to bio/nanotechnology, and biomimetics. He has authored 8 scientific books, 90+ handbook chapters, 800+ scientific papers (Goggle Scholar h-index–105+; Web of Science h-index–80+; ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Materials Science since 2007 and in Biology and Biochemistry since 2013; ISI Top 5% Cited Authors for Journals in Chemistry since 2011), and 60+ scientific reports.

Fundamental studies in the interdisciplinary areas of bio/nanotribology/nanomechanics and nanomaterials characterization in bio/nanotechnology and biomimetics with a focus on scanning probe techniques.

Dr. Ghosh has completed his PhD from Tata Institute of Fundamental Research and postdoctoral studies from the University of Maryland at College Park and Argonne National Laboratory. Currently, he is a Professor of Physics and Materials Science at Missouri State University. Over the last 25 years in his research career, he has been developing organic and inorganic thin films, nanomaterials, and their heterostructures for potential applications in the field of spintronics, renewable energy, and nanobiotechnology and has made important contributions to these fields. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles in highly cited journals and has been serving as a reviewer in many reputed journals.

organic and inorganic thin films,nanomaterials, and their heterostructures for potential applications in the field of spintronics, renewable energy, and nanobiotechnology

Dr. Jun Li has completed his PhD in 1995 from Princeton University and postdoctoral studies in 1997 from Cornell University. He is currently a professor in Chemistry Department of Kansas State University. He has published more than 110 papers in reputed journals, over 20 invited book chapters and 29 referred proceeding papers, and co-edited one book. He is currently serving as a senior editor of IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology and an editorial board member of 5 other journals. He has been granted nine patents on carbon nanomaterials and nanotechnologies.

Carbon Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies

Prof. Saibal Mitra obtained his MS degree from Clemson University and his Ph.D. Iowa State University in 1991. After his Ph.D., Dr. Mitra did his postdoctoral studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Institute for Energy Conversion. He joined the faculty of University of Tulsa in 1996 and is currently a professor at Missouri State University. He has published extensively in reputed journals and has presented numerous papers in national and international conferences. His research interests lie in the area of thin films and devices.

Thin films and devices