Materials Webinar | Nanoarchitectonics of Functional Materials
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10th Materials Webinar
Nanoarchitectonics of Functional Materials
The Materials webinar on nanoarchitectonics is very pleased to host Prof. Dr. David Leong and Prof. Dr. Jung Ho Kim as keynote speakers.
Nanoarchitectonics was introduced 20 years ago as a new concept referring to a technological system for arranging nanoscale structural units in a required architecture. The nanoarchitectonics concept couples nanotechnology with various research fields, including materials science, supramolecular chemistry, and bio-related sciences, to logically create functional materials from nanoscale units. In nanoarchitectonics approaches, several actions, and processes, including the regulation of atomic/molecular manipulation, chemical materials modification, control of physicochemical interactions, self-assembly/self-organization, application of external physical stimuli, and biological processes, are combined with rational selection to create functional materials, where interactions, thermal fluctuations, and statistic uncertainties can be harmonized. In the frame of this concept, many new nanocomposites and nanoarchitectures with multifunctional properties were obtained through the combination of several materials within a well-defined architecture.
Date: 26 July 2023
Time: 10:00 am CEST
Webinar ID: 890 8122 8662
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
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Meet Our Speakers
Assoc. Prof. David Leong
Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore;
David graduated with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering from National University of Singapore (NUS) in 1998. He worked as a school teacher teaching GCE A-levels Chemistry for a few years before doing his PhD work on stem cell biology at the Department of Biological Sciences, NUS and graduating in 2006. Thereafter he did his postdoctoral training under Professor Morris Jay Birnbaum at University of Pennsylvania Medical School, Howard Hughes Medical Institutes. After his postdoctoral training, he returned to NUS as a Lee Kuan Yew Postdoctoral Fellow and later returned to his undergraduate alma mater department as an Assistant Professor in 2010. He got his tenured Associate Professor in 2017 till present. He has published in a variety of topics spanning basic chemistry mechanisms, basic nano-biology mechanisms to applied materials work in a variety of bio-related applications. His senior author work can be found in the top chemistry and materials journals namely, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Communications, Advanced Materials, Advanced Functional Materials and ACS Nano etc. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2019. His current Scopus h-index is 63.
Prof. Jung Ho Kim
Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials, Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), University of Wollongong, North Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia;
Professor Jung Ho Kim is a dedicated full-time Professor at the Australian Institute for Innovative Materials (AIIM), the University of Wollongong (UOW) in Australia. He completed his Bachelor's (1998), Master's (2000), and PhD (2005) degrees at Sungkyunkwan University in South Korea. Starting from April 2005, he has been actively involved at UOW.
Professor Kim's outstanding contributions to his field have been recognized through various prestigious appointments and grants. He was honored with an Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship (APD) for four years (2008-2011) and later awarded an ARC Future Fellowship (FT) for five years (2012-2016). Since 2016, he has held a tenured position as a Professor at UOW.
In addition to his academic roles, Professor Kim actively contributes to the scientific community through his editorial engagements. He currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for Materials Future (IOP), Guest Editor for EcoMat (Wiley), Guest Editor for Carbon Energy (Wiley), Associate Editor for Science Technology of Advanced Materials (Taylor&Francis). Recently, he has taken on the prestigious role of Editor-in-Chief for Frontiers in Batteries and Electrochemistry.
Professor Kim's expertise lies in the field of energy harvesting and storage devices, where he has dedicated his efforts over the past 17 years. His prolific research output includes over 300 peer-reviewed SCI journal articles, garnering more than 20,000 citations and an impressive h-index of over 71. In recognition of his significant contributions, he was named a highly cited researcher in the cross-field category for the year 2021.
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On Wednesday, 26 July 2023, MDPI and the Journal Materials organized the 10th webinar entitled "Nanoarchitectonics of Functional Materials". This online Webinar was chaired by Dr. Fabien Grasset (CNRS, France) and Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga (NIMS, Japan). The two speakers Dr. David Leong (National University of Singapore, Singapore) and Prof. Jung Ho Kim (University of Wollongong, Australia) presented their research related to the Nanoarchitectonics of Functional Materials.
After a short introduction by the chair, Prof. Dr. David Leong presented his research on nanomaterials induced endothelial leakiness. The second speaker was Prof. Dr. Jung Ho Kim and his presentation explained the nanoarchitectonics of lithium ion pathways through pores in a carbon framework for improving the storage capability and reversiblity of lithium metal anode.
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