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MARSS 2022 to be held July 18-22, 2022 in Toronto, Canada

October 11th, 2021

Dear Colleagues,

After the two-years pandemic break, the 5th Int. Conference on Manipulation, Automation and Robotics at Small Scales (MARSS) will be held on July 18-22, 2022, in Toronto, Canada. General Chair: Yu Sun (CA), General Co-Chairs: Eric Diller (CA) and Xinyu Liu (CA). MARSS is the flagship forum for cross-disciplinary R&D communities related to manipulation and automation (incl. measurement and characterization) at micro/nano scales as well as all kinds of small scale robots and their applications. The conference is technically supported by IEEE-NTC and IEEE-RAS.

We cordially invite you to attend and contribute to the conference. MARSS2022 intends to offer 12-14 plenary talks and 25-30 technical sessions (oral presentations only). Full papers (5-6 pages) or short papers (1-3 pages) on MARSS-related topics are invited. Presented full papers will be submitted for inclusion into the IEEE Xplore® digital library. Selected full papers will be recommended to Journal of Micro-Bio Robotics (Springer Nature) for publishing a Special Issue.

MARSS features powerful committees at all levels. However, we keep looking for motivated professionals who may want to work in the Program Committee (PC). Your contribution or recommendations will be appreciated.

No online virtual presentation option will be offered by MARSS2022. Regarding potential travel restrictions due to the pandemic, please check for details https://marss-conference.org/venue-travel/information-regarding-potential-travel-restrictions-due-to-the-pandemic.

Full paper submission (5-6 pages): March 15, 2022
Short paper submission (1-3 pages): June 15, 2022

We look forward to meeting you in Toronto!

FYI: MARSS2023 will be held in Hangzhou, China / MARSS2024 will be held in Delft, Netherlands / MARSS2025 will be held in Purdue, IN, USA.

Sergej Fatikow / MARSS, Founding Chair
Olaf C. Haenssler / MARSS, Publicity Chair

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Report on the 2021 IEEE NTC Romania Summer School on Nanotechnology

October 11th, 2021

contributed by Eden Mamut

Constanta, Romania, 20-24 September, 2021
Summer School Chair: Prof. dr. Eden Mamut, Institute for Nanotechnologies and Alternative Sources of Energy, “Ovidius” University of Constanta, Romania

The IEEE Nanotechnology Council approved the organisation of a five-day summer school dedicated to researchers, professors and students, hosted by the Institute for Nanotechnologies and Alternative Sources of Energy (INAES), located at the „Ovidius” University of Constanta, from 20th to 24th September 2021.

The Summer School was chaired by Prof. dr. Eden Mamut, INAES Director. The organization, administration, clerical works and formalities have been assured by Andreea-Iuliana Presura and the team from the Institute for Nanotechnologies and Alternative Energy Sources from Ovidius University of Constanta.

The theme of the school was „Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies for Advanced Energy Systems”. The aim of the organizers was to provide a holistic approach in developing “safe-by-design” advanced energy systems integrating nanomaterials and nanotechnologies and using multiscale and multiphysics modeling and optimization for performance improvement, reduction of environmental impact and the substitution of critical materials. The advanced energy systems that have been taking into consideration were biomass boilers, fuel cells, thermoelectric convertors, PV and hybrid solar panels and electro-opto-chemical reactors.

Read the full report here.

 

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National Nanotechnology Day (USA)

September 30th, 2021

National Nanotechnology Day (USA)
Event Date: October 09, 2021

National Nanotechnology Day is an annual celebration featuring a series of community-led events and activities on or around October 9 to help raise awareness of nanotechnology, how it is currently used in products that enrich our daily lives, and the challenges and opportunities it holds for the future. This date, 10/9, pays homage to the nanometer scale, 10–9 meters.

Planning for various events and activities is underway at schools, universities, and various organizations around the country. Whether at home or outside, there are so many ways to explore advances in nanotechnology and how it is impacting our everyday lives!

See National Nanotechnology Day | National Nanotechnology Initiative for details.

 

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Report on the Kick-off meeting of TC-16

September 29th, 2021

contributed by Giovanni Finocchio

Technical Committee 16 (TC-16) of IEEE Nanotechnological Council covers the area of interest in Quantum, Neuromorphic, and Unconventional Computing. This Committee was shaped in early 2021, and already received a formal approval from the IEEE NTC AdCom. TC-16 aims to serve as an interdisciplinary guide for scientists working in these three areas of advanced computing and to create a common language for them. In addition, TC-16 focuses on the role of nanotechnology, in terms of solutions, which can impact the developments of those computational paradigms.

TC-16 is chaired by Giovanni Finocchio, from the University of Messina (Italy), and includes other 11 scientists from all over the world: Supriyo Bandyopadhyay, from the Virginia Commonwealth University (USA); Kerem Camsari, University of California Santa Barbara (USA); Sorin Cotofana, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands); Yufei Ding, University of California Santa Barbara (USA); Kremena Makasheva, CNRS, LAPLACE (France); Moitreyee Mukherjee-Roy, IBM (USA); Amit Ranjan Trivedi, University of Illinois at Chicago (USA); Brajesh Kumar Kaushik, Indian Institute of Technology (India); Vito Puliafito, Politecnico di Bari (Italy); Guilherme P. Temporão, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); Yao Zhu, A*STAR (Singapore).

The kick-off meeting of the newborn TC was organized on June 11th with the participation of more than 100 virtual attendees.

During the meeting, up-to-date presentations were given by five invited speakers. The first was Kosuke Tatsumura, of the Toshiba Corporation in Kawasaki (Japan), who presented “Autonomously-synchronizable multi-chip architecture for Ising machines based on simulated bifurcation”. Satoshi Sunada, from the Kanazawa University (Japan), talked about “Physical deep learning based on dynamical systems”. The third speaker was Hyunsoo Yang, from the University of Singapore, presenting “Spin based Neuromorphic and Unconventional Computing”. In the second part of the meeting, Rudy Wojtecki, of the IBM Almaden Research Center (USA), presented “Fabricating the Future of Computing — From Silicon to Superconductors”, and Jean Anne Incorvia, from the University of Texas at Austin, showed her results about “Designing Magnetic Synapses and Neurons with Application-Specific Functions”. The meeting also included the presentation of one of TC-16 members, Guilherme Temporão, from the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), who presented a talk entitled “Quantum networks”. All the talks motivated interesting discussion among the speakers and the attendees, confirming both the validity of the virtual activities in this pandemic era and the great enthusiasm for the novel computational paradigms. The recorded talks can be found at the link https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCzjVk-RTYvtpH1epaMx0jw/featured looking for the playlist of the TC-16 kick-off meeting.

The Committee has many currently ongoing activities, including guest editing a special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Nanotechnology on Neuromorphic Computing, putting together teams of experts to write roadmap articles, and seeking to engage with IEEE Nanotechnology Council chapters worldwide to foster interest in this field.

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Report on the IEEE NTC Latin America Summer School on Nanotechnology (2021 IEEE LASSNANO)

September 29th, 2021

contributed by Guilherme B. Pintarelli

Region 9 ‘2021 IEEE NTC Latin America Summer School on Nanotechnology (2021 IEEE LASSNANO)’ was held virtually from 8 to 9 of September. The summer school had five lectures and two workshops on simulation and fabrication from experts from academia and industry.  The LASSNANO was cooperation between Brazil and Colombia IEEE NTC clusters. The LASSNANO had 15 attendees who were from engineering courses (undergraduate and graduate level). The summer school may facilitate triggering new IEEE NTC initiatives in Region 9. Since the 2000s, most Latin American countries have been investing and have strategic plans for developing nanotechnologies. We believe that introducing nanotechnology in engineering courses can generate innovative and visionary professionals, which may boost the Latin American industry. Thus, it may become more competitive and sustainable. The 2021 IEEE LASSNANO theme was ‘Sustainable electronics and abundant nanomaterials from natural sources, specifically their usage in Latin America’.

2021 IEEE LASSNANO Speakers:

  • Dr. Jim Morris (IEEE NTC Chair)
  • Dr. Juliana Jaramillo Fernandez (ICN2)
  • Dr. Andy Cai (COMSOL Inc.)
  • Dr. Daniela Suzuki (Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC)
  • Dr. John Alexander Muñoz Montenegro (Universidad El Bosque)
  • Dr. Juan Carlos Salcedo-Reyes (Universidad Javeriana)

2021 IEEE LASSNANO Organizers:

  • Guilherme Brasil Pintarelli, UFSC
  • Lily Estefanía Vargas Díaz
  • Camilo Eduardo Tellez Villamizar, Catholic University of Colombia

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IEEE Oregon Nanotechnology Chapter Presents Webinar on 4 Oct. 2021

September 29th, 2021

 

“Quasi 2D and 1D van der Waals Quantum Materials – From Physics to Device Applications” with Alexander A. Balandin, University of California, Riverside

Date/Time: October 4th, 2021 5-6:30 PM PT

Registration at:
https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/281851

 

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IEEE OJ-NANO Accepted for Inclusion in Scopus®

September 16th, 2021

We are delighted to announce that IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology (OJ-NANO) is now accepted for inclusion in Scopus® by Elsevier, meaning that articles will be discoverable in Elsevier’s abstract and citation database!

Launched in January 2020, gold open access IEEE OJ-NANO publishes novel and important engineering and scientific results at the nanoscale. Research results related to nanoscale devices, systems, materials, and their applications and underlying science are considered for peer-review and publication in this open access journal that is fully compliant with funder mandates, such as Plan S.

Since 2004, Scopus® delivers the broadest coverage of interdisciplinary abstract and citation database by Elsevier. This development indicates increased visibility and profile for both the journal and its published articles, demonstrating IEEE OJ-NANO is a reliable and high-quality source of information in the field of nanotechnology!

On this important juncture, we hope that you consider submitting your research to IEEE OJ-NANO!

NOTE: IEEE has the processes in place to send the journal content to Elsevier for processing. We expect the journal articles appear in Scopus from January 2022.

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IEEE OJ-NANO Now Indexed in Web of Science’s ESCI™

September 16th, 2021

We are delighted to announce that IEEE Open Journal of Nanotechnology (OJ-NANO) is now indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)™ by Clarivate Analytics, meaning that articles are now discoverable in Web of Science.

Launched in January 2020, gold open access IEEEOJ-NANO publishes novel and important engineering and scientific results at the nanoscale. Research results related to nanoscale devices, systems, materials, and their applications and underlying science are considered for peer-review and publication in this open access journal that is fully compliant with funder mandates, such as Plan S.

Since late 2015, ESCI provides Web of Science Core Collection™ users with expanded options to discover new areas of research in evolving disciplines, ensuring important research is visible in the Web of Science Core Collection. This development indicates increased visibility and profile for both the journal and its published articles, demonstrating IEEE OJ-NANO is a reliable and high-quality source of information in the field of nanotechnology. Furthermore, ESCI indexing is a necessary precursor to a journal being accepted in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)™ with an Impact Factor. IEEE OJ-NANO is now under consideration for SCIE.

On this important juncture, we hope that you consider submitting your research to IEEE OJ-NANO!

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IEEE Nano Peru 2021 Workshop

August 30th, 2021

https://www.even3.com.br/ieee_nanoperu_2021/

Note: The talks will be given in Spanish

The IEEE Nano Peru 2021 Workshop will be held as a virtual event according to the Peru time zone (GMT-5) from September 29 to October 01, 2021.

Retrospectives and current trends of nanoscience and nanotechnology will be discussed in this first workshop IEEE Nano Peru, as well as the importance of their development and dissemination in Peru.

The program will feature topics that emphasizes basic concepts of nanoscience and noanotechnology, experimental tools to study nanosystems, simulation and modeling of nanosystems, examples of technological applications, technological vigilance, and policies and innovations in nanotechnology.

To find more about the Workshop IEEE Nano Peru 2021, please visit the website: https://www.even3.com.br/ieee_nanoperu_2021/

Program overview:

The event will be held completely on-line from September 29 to October 01 (Peru time zone GMT-5):

Welcome (September 29, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM)

Invited Talks – Session 1 (September 29, 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM)

Invited Talks – Session 2 (September 30, 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM)

Invited Talks – Session 3 (October 1, 2:00 PM – 6:30 PM)

Closing Remarks (October 1, 6:30 PM – 7:00 PM)

(The talks will be given in Spanish).

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6th International Conference on Nanotechnology for Instrumentation and Measurement (NANOfIM 2021)

August 28th, 2021

 

Nanotechnology for Instrumentation and Measurement Workshop (NANOfIM 2021)
New Dates: 20-22 OCTOBER 2021 25-26 November 2021
Website: https://nanofim2021.po.opole.pl/
Contact: nanofim2021@po.edu.pl

Call for Papers

Download CFP (PDF)

The impact of instrumentation and measurements on human daily activities is always positively important as well as in nanotechnology issues. Nanoscale is not only a geometric problem but it is, especially, a process of reaching difficult objectives with compared to other ways. In any nanotechnology process, from designing up to testing, via fabrication, characterization, by means of measurements and/or specific instrumentation, is a critical aspect. The workshop intends to offer a forum for discussions and exchanges for different participants.

This important event will be celebrated at the Opole University of Technology Campus in Opole, Poland.

Authors are kindly invited to submit a full manuscript (4-5 pages including references) for oral presentation. Expanded and improved papers of the version published in the symposium proceedings are eligible for post-publication in international reputed journals (IEEE Journals and book series). All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and the submission system has a process to identity and reject fraudulent reviewers and papers. Moreover the process has also an antiplagiarism system.

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