THURSDAY 16th OCTOBER
Oral presentations: 15 min (10 + 5min discussion)

Session 7 A
Chairman: Prof. Fernando Guiberteau, Departamento de Electrónica e Ingeniería Electromecánica, Escuela de Ingenierías Industriales, Universidad de Extremadura, SPAIN.

9:00

Plenary Talk:

Structural and Electronic Properties of Nanotubes: Technological Applications
Professor Angel Rubio Professor of Condensed Matter Physics, Universidad del Pais Vasco UPV/EHU  and Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) , Spain

10:00

A NEW METHOD FOR CHARACTERIZING SOFT VISCOELASTIC MATERIALS
 YANLING YIN School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 e-mail: yinyl@pmail.ntu.edu.sg SHIH-FU LING School of Mechanical and Production Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639798 e-mail: msfling@.ntu.edu.sg

10:15

STUDY OF THE STRUCTURE AND MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CERAMIC LAYERS ON Ti AND Ti-BASED ALLOY
 B. SUROWSKA, J. BIENIAS, M. WALCZAK Department of Materials Engineering, Lublin University of Technology, ul. Nadbystrzycka 36, 20-618 Lublin, POLAND E-mail: sur@archimedes.pol.lublin.pl K. SANGWAL Department of Applied Physics, Lublin University of Technology, ul. Nadbystrzycka 38., 20-618 Lublin, POLAND E-mail: sangwal@antenor.pol.lublin.pl A. STOCH Faculty of Materials Science and Ceramics, University of Mining and Metallurgy, Al. Mickiewicza 30, 30-059 Kraków, POLAND E-mail: astoch@uci.agh.edu.pl

10:30

ASSESSMENT OF BIOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF BONE BY ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY
 IRENE RUSPANTINI AND PIETRO CHISTOLINI Department of Health and Technology, Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161-Rome, Italy. E-mail: irene.ruspantini@iss.it

10:45

INTERACTION OF CHARGED SURFACES OF POLARIZED 45S5-TYPE BIOACTIVE GLASSES WITH BLOOD FROM PHYSICAL AND BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS
 A.OBATA, S.NAKAMURA, Y.SEKIJIMA AND K.YAMASHITA Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda, Tokyo, 101-0062 JAPAN. E-mail: obata.bcr@tmd.ac.jp

11:00

OPTICAL ENZYME SENSORS BASED UPON SILICON PLANAR WAVEGUIDE COATED WITH COMPOSITE POLYELECTROLYTE FILM
 A.V. NABOK, S. HARON, A.K. RAY School of Engineering, Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Pond Street, Sheffield, S1 1WB, UK. E-mail: a.nabok@shu.ac.uk

11:15

Energoactivated nanoclaster structures of dispesible solids during producing selective biomaterials
 D.Shvets*, V.Strelko Institute for sorption and endoecology problems, NAS of Ukraine, General Naumov str. 13, Kiev. Ukraine

11:30

POSTER SESSION, COFFE BREAK AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

13:00
POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) CHEMICALLY MODIFIED HYDROGELS: SYNTHESIS AND SEM ANALYSIS
 H.MANSUR AND R.ORÉFICE Department of Metallurgy and Materials Engineering, UFMG, Rua Espirito Santo, 35/2º andar, Centro, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil E-mail: hmansur@demet.ufmg.br
 

13:15
SYNTHESIS AND APPLICATION OF HYDROXYAPATITE/POLYLACTIDE COMPOSITE BIOMATERIAL
 NENAD IGNJATOVIC AND DRAGAN USKOKOVIC Institute of Technical Sciences of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts K.Mihailova 35/4, 11000 Belgrade, SERBIA and MONTE NEGRO E mail:its@itn.sanu.ac.yu
13:30
 Biocompatible polymer developed by plasma polymerization of glucose
 D. Sakthi Kumar and Yasuhiko Yoshida Bio Nano Electronics Research Center Department of Applied Chemistry, Toyo University, Kawagoe, Saitama 350-8585 JAPAN E Mail: sakthi@cc.eng.toyo.ac.jp or drsakthi@yahoo.com and yoshida@eng.toyo.ac.jp A. Jayakrishnan Polymer Chemistry Division, Bio Medical Technology wing Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology Poojapura, Trivandrum 695 012, INDIA E Mail: jayan@sctimst.ker.in
13:45
PROTON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES OF ELECTRICALLY POLARIZED HYDROXYAPATITE CERAMICS WITH ENHANCED BIOACTIVITIES
 SATOSHI NAKAMURA AND KIMIHIRO YAMASHITA Institute of Biomaterialss & Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical & Dental University, 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-0062 Japan. E-mail: nakamura.bcr@tmd.ac.jp
14:00

END OF SESSION

 

Session 7B 
Chairman:
To be assigned

16:00
ADSORPTION OF POLYELECTROLYTE MULTILAYERS ON PLASMA-MODIFIED POROUS POLYETHYLENE
 GEORGE GREENE AND RINA TANNENBAUM School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332, U.S.A. E-mail: rina.tannenbaum@mse.gatech.edu
16:15
AMPLITUDE AND PHASE MEASUREMENT OF PLASMA HARMONICS IN A PHOTORESIST ETCHING PROCESS
 A. Pagliarani, T. Kenyon, N. Thornhill, K. Lee, V. Law University College London, Torrington Place, London, WC1 7JE UK Leslie Lee STS plc Imperial Park Wales NP10 8UJ UK a.pagliarani@ee.ucl.ac.uk
16:30

RAMAN MICROSCOPY INVESTIGATIONS OF STRUCTURAL PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS IN CRYSTALLINE AND AMORPHOUS SILICON DUE TO INDENTATION WITH A VICKERS DIAMOND INDENTER AT ROOM TEMPERATURE AND AT 77

 MAHA M. KHAYYAT, GODSWAY K. BANINI, DAVID G. HASKO, AND M. MUNAWAR CHAUDHRI Cavendish Laboratory, Department of physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE. E-mail:mmok2@cam.ac.uk

16:45

STRUCTURAL FEATURES IN GRANULAR AND AMORPHOUS MICROWIRES

 J. GONZALEZ Dpto. Física de Materiales, Univ. País Vasco, Apdo. 1072, 20080 San Sebastián, SPAIN. E-mail: wapgoesj@sq.ehu.es J. J. DEL VAL Dpto. Física de Materiales, Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU, Univ. País Vasco, Apdo. 1072, 20080 San Sebastián, SPAIN. E-mail: wapvaalj@sq.ehu.es A. ZUKHOV Inst. Ciencia de Materiales, CSIC, 28049 Cantoblanco, Madrid, SPAIN. E-mail: arcadyzh@icmm.csic.es

17:00

TIME EVOLUTION OF THE PHYSICO-CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF MO/SI MULTILAYER INTERFERENTIAL MIRRORS

 P. JONNARD, I. JARRIGE, R. BEN BALAGH, J.-M. ANDRE Laboratoire de Chimie Physique – Matière et Rayonnement, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, UMR-CNRS 7614, 11 rue Pierre et Marie Curie, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, FRANCE. E-mail: jonnard@ccr.jussieu.fr

17:15

FORMATION OF ZN-ZNO POLYGON PRISMATIC NANOCRYSTALS BY LIQUID SOURCE VIA THERMAL VAPOR TRANSPORT

 KUN-HO LIU*, CHIN-CHING LIN, AND SAN-YUAN CHEN Department of Materials Science and Engineering National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.. E-mail: bonaanob@yahoo.com.tw SYH-YUH CHENG Materials Research Laboratories, Industrial Technology Research Institution, Chutung. Taiwan, R.O.C E-mail: sycheng@itri.org.tw

17:30

POSTER SESSION  AND COMMERCIAL EXHIBITION

19:00
QUENCHED GROWTH OF GAS SENSITIVE NANOSTRUCTURED LEAD FILMS
 VLADIMIR BOCHENKOV, VYACHESLAV ZAGORSKY AND GLEB SERGEEV Department of Chemistry, Moscow Sate University, Leninskie gory 1-3, 119992 Moscow, Russia. E-mail: boch@kinet.chem.msu.ru PETER KARAGEORGIEV AND LUDWIG BREHMER Institute of Physics, University of Potsdam, Am Neuen Palais 10, 14469 Potsdam, Germany E-mail: brehmer@rz.uni-potsdam.de
19:15

CVD DIAMOND NUCLEATION: A NANOTHEREMODYNAMIC APPROACH

 C Y Zhang and G W Yang State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, School of Physics and Engineering, Zhongshan University, Guangzhou 510275, P. R. China E-mail:stsygw@zsu.edu.cn J JB Wang Department of Physics, Xiangtan University, Xiangtan 411105, P. R. China E-mail:jbwang@zsu.edu.cn

19:30

CONTROL AND MONITORING OF THE POLIMERIZATION EVOLUTION AND STRUCTURAL MODIFICATIONS OF SURFACE CONSERVATION TREATMENTS APPLIED TO LIMESTONES

 M. ALVAREZ DE BUERGO, R. FORT, M.J. VARAS AND M. GOMEZ-HERAS Instituto de Geología Económica. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas-Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, SPAIN. E-mail: alvarezm@geo.ucm.es C. DOMINGO, J.V. GARCÍA-RAMOS AND S. SÁNCHEZ-CORTÉS Instituto de Estructura de la Materia. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Serrano 121, 28006 Madrid, SPAIN. E-mail: cdomingo@iem.cfmac.csic.es

19:45

FROM EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY TO SOFT METALLURGY

 G.DEMORTIER Laboratoire LARN, Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix, 61 rue de Bruxelles, B-5000 Namur (Belgium) E-mail : guy.demortier@fundp.ac.be

20:00 END OF SESSION
 

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