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Workshop on Advanced Materials - II
Nanostructured Advanced Materials
February 13-16, 2002, Bangalore, India
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WAMII Schedule

Venue: The AMRL Conference Hall, Jakkur

Wednesday, 13 February 2002

 9.00 - 9.45 Inaugural talk - C.N.R. Rao

Session 1
9.45 - 10.30 M.-P. Pileni, Nanomaterials: Fabrication, Organization, Physical properties
10.30 - 11.00 Tea/Coffee

Session 2
11.00 - 11.45 S. Sun, Chemical Synthesis and Assembly of Monodisperse Magnetic Nanomaterials
11.45 - 12.15 P. Ayyub, Nanocrystalline thin films: optoelectronic properties
12.15 - 12.45 M. Sastry, Nanoscale assembly using electrostatic interactions
12.45 - 2.00 Lunch

Session 3
2.00 - 2.45 I. Willner, Functional Nanoparticle Architectures for Sensoric, Optoelectronic and photo electrochemical Applications
2.45 - 3.15 P. Sen, Silicon nanostructures in single crystalline silicon
3.15 - 3.30 Tea/Coffee

Session 4
3.30 - 4.15 B. K. Rao, Transition metal clusters supported on molecular templates
4.15 - 4.45 T. Pradeep, Structure and dynamics of monolayers on planar and cluster surfaces
Thursday, 14 February 2002

Session 5
9.00 - 9.45 M. A. El Sayed, Shape dependent properties of some semiconductor and metallic nanocrystals
9.45 - 10.30 P. V. Kamat, Semiconductor - metal nanocomposites
10.30 - 11.00 Tea/Coffee

Session 6
11.00 - 11.30 G.U. Kulkarni, Properties of nanocrystals and their assemblies
11.30 - 12.15 M. Sanyal, Growth Mechanism and Properties of Nano-structured films

Session 7
12.15 - 1.00 Posters - I
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch

Session 8
2.00 - 2.30 Ram Seshadri, Solvothermal routes to oxide and chalcogenide nanoparticles
2.30 - 3.15 A. Gedanken, Using novel methods for the fabrication of nanomaterials
3.15 - 3.30 Tea/Coffee

Session 9
3.30 - 4.15 P. O'Brien, New strategies for the synthesis of nano particulates
4.15 - 4.45 A. Govindaraj, Carbon nanotubes from organometallic precursors
Friday, 15 February 2002

Session 10
9.00 - 9.45 J. Jortner, Charge transfer and transport - from molecular systems to biosystems
9.45 - 10.30 U. Landman, Small is different: the nonscalable regime
10.30 - 11.00 Tea/Coffee

Session 11
11.00 - 11.45 A.K. Raychaudhuri, Fluctuations and noise in nanostructures
11.45 - 12.15 D. Kanhere, Thermodynamics of small Tin and mixed Tin-Lithium clusters : ab initio molecular dynamical investigations
12.15 - 1.00 D. J. Schiffrin, Nanoparticles and Functional Structures
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch

Session 12
2.00 - 2.45 A.K. Sood, Electrochemical tuning of electronic structure and pressure Induced transformations of single wall carbon nanotubes
2.45 - 3.30 U. Heiz, Guiding principles for nanocatalysis
3.30 - 3.45 Tea/Coffee

Session 13
3.45 - 4.15 S. Deb, Pressure induced glass transition in porous silicon
4.15 - 5.00 P. Gai, Advanced Nanowires and Nanocatalysts: From Dynamic Atomic Structures to Nano technological Applications
Saturday, 16 February 2002

Session 14
9.00 - 9.45 S.T. Lee, Semiconductor nanomaterials - synthesis and characterization
9.45 - 10.30 L. Dai, Opto electronic polymers and aligned carbon nanotubes
10.30 - 11.00 Tea/Coffee

Session 15
11.00 - 11.30 K. G. Thomas, Photochemistry of chromophore functionalized metal nanoparticles
11.30 - 12.15 S. Komarneni, Nanophase Materials by Novel Microwave-hydrothermal Process

Session 16
12.15 - 1.00 Posters - II
1.00 - 2.00 Lunch

Session 17
2.00 - 2.30 A.R. Raju, Preparation and characterization of sub-micron spherical particles of oxide materials by Nebulized Spray Pyrolysis
2.30 - 3.00 S. Sampath, Self-Assembled Nanostructures
3.00 Concluding remarks followed by Tea/Coffee
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