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From 15th to 20th of September, the traditional 2019 IEEE 9th International Conference «Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties» took place in Odessa. The conference was attended by more than 220 participants (more than 100 of them are foreigners) from about 30 world countries including Poland, Belarus, the USA, Germany, Japan, China, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, South Korea, Canada, France and Turkey. The representatives of Australia and Greece took part in the conference for the first time.
During 5 working days, 4 plenary and 12 keynotes were heard, 24 invited, 36 oral presentations and more than 140 poster reports were presented. The plenary performances by Professor Paul Weiss (h=70, the number of documents: 440, the number of references: 17642 – here and further indicators are from Scopus database) from California State University, Los Angeles (the USA) should be marked out. Professor made the report about the precision nanoscale contacts on the topic «Precise Сhemical, Physical and Electronic Nanoscale Contacts». Professor Katsuhiko Ariga (h=102, the number of documents: 736, the number of references: 37656) (University of Tokyo, Japan) told about the molecular robots and their development is going on in the laboratory «Graduate School of Frontier Sciences» under his own supervision. Samuel Bader, the professor of The Argonne National Laboratory of the USA (h = 74; the number of documents: 397, the number of references: 18586) made the report «The Marriage of Ferromagnetism and Superconductivity: A New Twist» and professor Meyya Meyyappan (h-70 the number of documents: 498; the number of references: 19541), the senior researcher of the exploration technology of the Ames Research Center (NASA, USA) was talking about how to use machine learning in the physical property exploration and the printed electronics elaboration.
On Monday (the 16th of September) and Thursday (the 19th of September) two round-table meetings of the members of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (ІЕЕЕ) were held headed by the professor James E. Morris, IEEE Nanotechnology Council President-Elect, for 2020-2022. Professor Atsufumi Hirohata, IEEE Magnetics Society Secretary/Treasurer, attended the meeting as well. Also, the round-table meeting headed by the professor of Sumy State University Maksym Pogorielov on the topic «Functional Nanomaterials for Applications in Sensors and Biomedicine» was held within the framework of the project Horizon 2020. Moreover, all the participants were presented with the lecture on the topic «ERASMUS+: International Mobility and Exchange Opportunities for Students and Organizations» organized by the representative of Erasmus Office in Ukraine Kateryna Zhdanova.
According to the Memorandum signed with ІЕЕЕ Association, the conference papers, that meet the IEEE requirements, will be published in “Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE 9th International Conference “Nanomaterials: Applications & Properties” (ISBN: 978-1-7281-2830-6) and indexed by Scopus database and WoS Core Collection. Also, selected articles will be published in the thematic edition «Microstructure and Properties of Micro- and Nanoscale Materials, Films, and Coatings» in the form of monograph of the Springer Nature publishing house, edited by the Professor Alexander Pogrebnjak and Candidate of Technical Sciences Oleksandr Bondar from SumDU.
At the end of the conference, the best poster presentations were awarded with the special prize «Future Star in Nanoscience & Nanotechnology». All of them will be granted the membership in the IEEE for 1 year for free. In addition, through the grant funds from the IEEE Magnetics Society, the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics and the sponsors (Kaufman & Robinson, Inc., Angstrom Engineering Inc., OPTEC Group LLC, AJA International, Inc., K-Tek Nanotechnology LLC, Vacuum One LCC, Bruker), this year it was possible to provide more than 50 travel grants for young scientists in the amount about 6 500 UAH for each of them.
