9th NRW Nano Conference - Innovations in Materials and Applications
Date | 2021-04-21 10:00 - 15:30 2021-04-22 10:00 - 15:50 2021-04-23 10:00 - 14:30 |
Registration open until | 2021-04-23 |
Organiser | Cluster NMWP.NRW |
Website | Redirect to external event website |
Description
The 9th NRW Nano Conference will be held ditigally from 21st to 23rd April!
The most important meeting place of the nanotechnology industry in Germany is coming soon: From 21 to 23 April 2021, the 9th NRW Nano Conference will take place virtually. And that's for sure: Good personal contacts – asusual, but at an unusual date! For the NRW Nano-Conference is characterized not only by the presentations of top-class international speakers, but above all by the interdisciplinary exchange on current trends and developments in the field of advanced materials, nanotechnologies and their wide range of application fields. With the new date in spring 2021, the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, the Cluster NanoMicroMaterialsPhotonics.NRW (NMWP.NRW) and the Economic Development Agency Münster are ensuring that this exchange can continue to take place as intensive and as personal as usual.
The NRW Nano Conference is Germany's largest conference with international appeal in the field of nanotechnologies. It takes place every two years at changing locations. More than 600 experts from science, industry and politics meet for two days to promote research and application of the key technology at the network meeting.
Thanks to NRW's excellent expertise with the most companies and institutes active in the nanotechnology industry in Germany, the Nano Conference is a fixed event in the calendar. It is characterised by its top-class keynote speakers, numerous lectures and the large exhibition of companies and institutions. Other event formats such as business pitches (short company presentations) and a poster exhibition complete the programme. The evening event, which serves as a Networking Event, offers the opportunity to make new contacts as well as to maintain existing ones (registration required!).
The main topics of the conference with brief descriptions are provided under the menu item "Call for Presentations" or on the conference homepage.
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Location
virtually / virtuell Albersloher Weg 32, 48155 Münster Deutschland | |
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- Wednesday 2021-04-21
- Thursday 2021-04-22
- Friday 2021-04-23
- Wednesday 2021-04-21
- Thursday 2021-04-22
- Friday 2021-04-23
Call for Posters
Deadline | 24.01.2021 @ 23:55 |
In addition to the Call for Presentations, scientists and entrepreneurs (present with an exhibition booth) also have the opportunity to present their ideas, projects and insights in form of a poster at the 9th NRW Nano Conference. Submissions will be assessed by the Cluster NMWP.NRW for thematic suitability and scientific content (promotional posters are not welcome!).
The format of the posters is DIN A0 in portrait orientation. Please use the template to format the abstract and summary of the abstract (available only as .docx: Guidelines for writing an abstract).
Examples for possible topics are described in the following and are hopefully helpful to give you a hint for the scope of the conference. Should your planned contribution fall into one of these topics, we ask you to classify it in the submission process. In this way we can more easily arrange the posters thematically:
Health / Medicine / Medical technology / Diagnostic Analysis
Demographic development is a major challenge for the health sector. Innovative, nanotechnology-based approaches in regenerative medicine and diagnostic analysis form the basis of future individual therapies. In the field of pharmacy, nanotechnological applications have become increasingly important in the field of drug design and delivery. Medical technology and medical products offer a wide range of optimised procedures based on nanotechnology to maintain and promote health. Thus, nanomedicine, nanomedical technology and nanohealth are to be the topic for one session.
Electronics / Optoelectronics / Information / Communication / Neural Networks
Information and communication technologies have become a decisive factor for industry and the society as a whole. The continuing process of miniaturisation as described by Moore’s Law has come close to its physical limits. New concepts of nanoelectronics have to follow a “More than Moore” strategy to open up innovative solutions for entirely new system architectures. In contrast, many products of organic electronics have already found their way into everyday life. Nanotechnology and its applications in electronics and optoelectronics are a theme for another session.
Energy Efficiency / Efficiency / Smart production / Additive manufacturing
Efficient use, conversion and transmission of energy are crucial to enable a long-term breakthrough of renewable energy sources. But also the conventional energy supply benefits from numerous research approaches of nanotechnology. Furthermore, lightweight design and nanotechnological innovations in construction industry improve efficient use of energy. This and much more about nanoenergy is to be the focus of a further session.
Batteries: Materials / Manufacturing / Recycling
Enlarging the usage of nanotechnology and advanced materials in the manufacture of batteries can lead to an increase in available battery power as well as to a decrease in the charging time for instance by coating the surface of an electrode with nanoparticles. This, in the end, can increase the efficiency of (hybrid) vehicles by reducing the weight of the needed batteries. But more elaborate battery materials and manufacturing processes also lead to increasingly complex recycling processes which are more and more important due to the increasing number of (large) batteries. Battery (nano) technology allows for another interesting session.
Quantum Technology: Computing / Simulation / Sensing / Communication / Enabling technologies
Our world consists of quanta – particles subject to laws and physical principals which seem to contradict our everyday understanding. Today there is the opportunity to bring scientific knowledge from this area of knowledge into industrial use. Examples of applications of second generation quantum technologies are significantly more precise measuring devices, a greatly increased security in data communication or extremely powerful computers. The international race for the industrial implementation of such technologies has already begun. Current developments in the field of quantum technologies provide the basis for another session.
Characterisation & Simulation: Enablers for Nanotechnology and Materials
Characterisation techniques used on nanomaterials and nanostructures allow for understanding the way atoms and molecules are arranged. This knowledge as well as simulation tools for multi-scale materials modelling of the composition and characteristics of a material can be used to assess the value of a material for distinct applications. Characterisation and simulation techniques as well as innovations in their theories and backgrounds are to form another session.
Functional Surfaces & Layers / Tailor-made Properties of Surfaces & Layers / Techniques of Functionalisation
The functionalisation of surfaces and layers, i.e. the targeted modification of the surface properties to desired functions, allows the deployment of established materials with improved surface properties. Tailor-made surface properties for arbitrary applications can be generated, for example, by nanostructuring, by photonic processes or custom-fit coatings, as some important material properties such as wettability, adhesion, tribological or electro-optical properties and biocompatibility are determined only by the chemistry and topography of the surface. Such functional surfaces as well as their generation are the focus of one of the sessions.
Fibres & Composites: Generation / Application / Properties / Characterization / Recycling
Innovative fiber-based and (composite) materials enable completely new applications. The combination of two or more components generates in total more advantageous properties in the resulting composite material compared to the separate use of individual materials and their components and is at the same time resource-saving, sustainable and efficient. In particular, size effects, for example by introducing fibers with diameters in the nanometer range, and the geometry of the components play a crucial role in the properties of the composites. The topic of fibers and composites is the content of a further session.
Regulations, Safety & Societal Acceptance
Every new technology involves new challenges for mankind and the environment. Risks and hazards must be analysed and socially relevant issues have to be considered adequately. The industrial use of nanomaterials requires an analysis of potential risks related to workplace, end users and the environment. For this reason, a number of projects in industry and universities are relating to safe handling and regulations of nanotechnology. The results of these projects and societal acceptance are a major research field and thus form the basis for a session.
NRW Innovation Projects & INTERREG/EU Innovation Projects
(NRW Actor(s) should be member of the project)For the economically strong industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), it is of highest priority to be present in the leading markets worldwide with economically viable products. Innovation projects within NRW or in cooperation with companies or research institutes from Europe e.g. within the INTERREG programme are crucial to the development of these products and their manufacturing. The sessions focusing on NRW innovation projects on the one hand and on European innovation projects on the other hand highlight successful project proposals and projects by giving insights into the R&D projects based on key enabling technologies.
Miscellaneous
The call for presentations for the 8th NRW Nano-Conference is open to all submissions from the field of nanotechnology. If you want to present your ideas, your research or your projects at the conference, feel free to sort them into one of the above described exemplary topics. However, topics will be formed in accordance with all submitted presentations, so that you are encouraged to submit your contribution and mark it as “miscellaneous” if these exemplary topics do not fit to your submission. We will evaluate all submission equally and try to consider them for the conference if appropriate and possible.
Call for Presentations
Deadline | 11.10.2020 @ 23:55 |
Selected by an expert jury, scientists and entrepreneurs have the opportunity to present their ideas, projects and insights in a presentation during the sessions of the 9th NRW Nano Conference. The thematic focus points of the sessions of the 9th NRW Nano Conference depend solely on the submissions for the Call for Presentations.
The conference language is English, the oral contributions should have a total duration of 20 minutes, whereof 17 minutes are reserved for the talk and 3 minutes to questions from the audience. (Contributions in the NRW Innovation Projects & INTERREG/EU Innovation Projects sessions have a duration of 15 minutes, whereof 12 minutes are reserved for the talk and 3 minutes to questions from the audience.) Please use the template to format the abstract and summary of the abstract (available only as .docx: Guidelines for writing an abstract and Guidelines for writing the summary of an abstract).
Examples for possible topics are described in the following and are hopefully helpful to give you a hint for the scope of the conference. Should your planned contribution fall into one of these topics, we ask you to classify it in the submission process.
Health / Medicine / Medical technology / Diagnostic Analysis
Demographic development is a major challenge for the health sector. Innovative, nanotechnology-based approaches in regenerative medicine and diagnostic analysis form the basis of future individual therapies. In the field of pharmacy, nanotechnological applications have become increasingly important in the field of drug design and delivery. Medical technology and medical products offer a wide range of optimised procedures based on nanotechnology to maintain and promote health. Thus, nanomedicine, nanomedical technology and nanohealth are to be the topic for one session.
Electronics / Optoelectronics / Information / Communication / Neural Networks
Information and communication technologies have become a decisive factor for industry and the society as a whole. The continuing process of miniaturisation as described by Moore’s Law has come close to its physical limits. New concepts of nanoelectronics have to follow a “More than Moore” strategy to open up innovative solutions for entirely new system architectures. In contrast, many products of organic electronics have already found their way into everyday life. Nanotechnology and its applications in electronics and optoelectronics are a theme for another session.
Energy Efficiency / Efficiency / Smart production / Additive manufacturing
Efficient use, conversion and transmission of energy are crucial to enable a long-term breakthrough of renewable energy sources. But also the conventional energy supply benefits from numerous research approaches of nanotechnology. Furthermore, lightweight design and nanotechnological innovations in construction industry improve efficient use of energy. This and much more about nanoenergy is to be the focus of a further session.
Batteries: Materials / Manufacturing / Recycling
Enlarging the usage of nanotechnology and advanced materials in the manufacture of batteries can lead to an increase in available battery power as well as to a decrease in the charging time for instance by coating the surface of an electrode with nanoparticles. This, in the end, can increase the efficiency of (hybrid) vehicles by reducing the weight of the needed batteries. But more elaborate battery materials and manufacturing processes also lead to increasingly complex recycling processes which are more and more important due to the increasing number of (large) batteries. Battery (nano) technology allows for another interesting session.
Quantum Technology: Computing / Simulation / Sensing / Communication / Enabling technologies
Our world consists of quanta – particles subject to laws and physical principals which seem to contradict our everyday understanding. Today there is the opportunity to bring scientific knowledge from this area of knowledge into industrial use. Examples of applications of second generation quantum technologies are significantly more precise measuring devices, a greatly increased security in data communication or extremely powerful computers. The international race for the industrial implementation of such technologies has already begun. Current developments in the field of quantum technologies provide the basis for another session.
Characterisation & Simulation: Enablers for Nanotechnology and Materials
Characterisation techniques used on nanomaterials and nanostructures allow for understanding the way atoms and molecules are arranged. This knowledge as well as simulation tools for multi-scale materials modelling of the composition and characteristics of a material can be used to assess the value of a material for distinct applications. Characterisation and simulation techniques as well as innovations in their theories and backgrounds are to form another session.
Functional Surfaces & Layers / Tailor-made Properties of Surfaces & Layers / Techniques of Functionalisation
The functionalisation of surfaces and layers, i.e. the targeted modification of the surface properties to desired functions, allows the deployment of established materials with improved surface properties. Tailor-made surface properties for arbitrary applications can be generated, for example, by nanostructuring, by photonic processes or custom-fit coatings, as some important material properties such as wettability, adhesion, tribological or electro-optical properties and biocompatibility are determined only by the chemistry and topography of the surface. Such functional surfaces as well as their generation are the focus of one of the sessions.
Fibres & Composites: Generation / Application / Properties / Characterization / Recycling
Innovative fiber-based and (composite) materials enable completely new applications. The combination of two or more components generates in total more advantageous properties in the resulting composite material compared to the separate use of individual materials and their components and is at the same time resource-saving, sustainable and efficient. In particular, size effects, for example by introducing fibers with diameters in the nanometer range, and the geometry of the components play a crucial role in the properties of the composites. The topic of fibers and composites is the content of a further session.
Regulations, Safety & Societal Acceptance
Every new technology involves new challenges for mankind and the environment. Risks and hazards must be analysed and socially relevant issues have to be considered adequately. The industrial use of nanomaterials requires an analysis of potential risks related to workplace, end users and the environment. For this reason, a number of projects in industry and universities are relating to safe handling and regulations of nanotechnology. The results of these projects and societal acceptance are a major research field and thus form the basis for a session.
NRW Innovation Projects & INTERREG/EU Innovation Projects
(NRW Actor(s) should be member of the project)For the economically strong industrial state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), it is of highest priority to be present in the leading markets worldwide with economically viable products. Innovation projects within NRW or in cooperation with companies or research institutes from Europe e.g. within the INTERREG programme are crucial to the development of these products and their manufacturing. The sessions focusing on NRW innovation projects on the one hand and on European innovation projects on the other hand highlight successful project proposals and projects by giving insights into the R&D projects based on key enabling technologies.
Miscellaneous
The call for presentations for the 9th NRW Nano-Conference is open to all submissions from the field of nanotechnology and innovations in materials and applications. If you want to present your ideas, your research or your projects at the conference, feel free to sort them into one of the above described exemplary topics. However, topics will be formed in accordance with all submitted presentations, so that you are encouraged to submit your contribution and mark it as “miscellaneous” if these exemplary topics do not fit to your submission. We will evaluate all submission equally and try to consider them for the conference if appropriate and possible.