Wednesday, November 9
12:00 – 14:00
Registration
14:00 – 14:15
Maya Kiskinova (Elettra) and Sandro Scandolo (ICTP)
Welcome
14:15 – 14:25
Carla Bittencourt and Chris Ewels
Opening
14:25 – 14:50
Ralph Gebauer (ICTP)
Computer simulation of structural and optical properties of a dye sensitized
solar cell
14:50 – 15:15
Alessandro Baraldi (Trieste University)
Growth, interaction and thermal stability of epitaxial graphene
15:15 – 15:40
Silvano Lizzit (Elettra)
C1s band dispersion and thermal expansion of graphene
15:40 – 16:00
Rosanna Larciprete (CNR-ISS)
Dual path mechanism in the thermal reduction of graphene oxide
16:00 – 16:20
Stefano Fabris (CNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS)
Strain effects on the mechanisms for oxidative unzipping and cutting of
graphene
16:20 – 16:40
Andrea Goldoni (Elettra)
Macrocycle de-hydrogenation and remanent magnetization of metalated
2H-tetraphenyl-porphyrin on 3d magnetic substrates
16:40 – 17:00
Majid Kazemian Abyaneh (Elettra)
Exploring Individual Nanostructures by scanning photoemission
spectromicroscopy
17:00 – 17:20
Coffee Break
Wednesday, November 9
17:20 – 17:45
Alexei Barinov (Elettra)
Electronic structure from small scale with scanning angle resolved
photoemission microscopy tool
17:45 – 18:10
Andrea Locatelli (Elettra)
XPEEM and LEEM at Elettra
18:10 – 18:40
Peter Guttmann (HZB)
The HZB X-ray microscope: A tool for nano-tomography and nanospectroscopy
18:40 – 19:00
Florian Banhart (Strasbourg University)
In-situ electron microscopy of graphene-metal systems
19:00 – 19:30
Joachin Mayer (Aachen University)
Applications of Aberration Corrected TEMs in Nanoscience
19:30 – 21:30
Dinner around Posters
Thursday, November 10
8:30 – 10:45
Breakfast around Posters
8:55 – 9:00
Opening
9:00 – 9:30
John J. Boland (Trinity College Dublin)
Visualising and Quantifying Connectivity in Nanowire Networks
9:30 – 10:00
Maurizio Prato (Trieste University)
Functionalization of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Sheets
10:00 – 10:30
Marcella Bonchio (Padova University)
Shaping the Beating Heart of Artificial Photosynthesis: Oxygenic Nano-Hybrid
Interfaces
10:30 – 10:35
Coffee
10:35 – 11:05
Elena Bichoutskaia (Nottingham University)
Reactions of the inner surface of carbon nanotubes induced by transition
metals
11:05 – 11:20
Navaratnarajah Kuganathan (Nottingham University)
Interactions of Multiply-Charged Ions with Single Walled Nanotubes and
Graphene Oxide
11:20 – 11:35
Marta D. Rossel (ETH Zürich)
Chemical Imaging Of Individual Dopant Atoms In Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
11:35 – 11:55
Ioannis N. Remediakis (Crete university)
Equilibrium shape of Au nanoparticles from first-principles simulations
11:55 – 12:15
Dogan Erbahar (Gebze Institute of Technology)
Core level binding energy shifts in potassium covered carbon nanotubes: An
ab initio study
12:15 – 13:30
Lunch around Posters
Thursday, November 10
Schedule for non-MC attendees
13:30 – 14:30
Flash posters (2-5 minutes each)
14:30 – 20:00
Posters and discussion
Schedule for MC members
13:30 – 14:15
Travel to Elettra for the NanoTP Management Committee Meeting
14:15 – 14:30
Alfonso Franciosi (Elettra Director & CEO)
Welcome
14:30 – 15:00
Carla Bittencourt (NanoTP Chair)
Opening
15:00 – 15:30
Adoption of agenda
15:30 – 15:50
Polona Umek (Josef Stefan Institute)
WG1 report
15:50 – 16:10
Rolf Erni (Empa)
WG2 report
16:10 – 16:30
Eduard Llobet Valero (University Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona)
WG3 report
16:30 – 16:50
Elena Bichoutskaia (University of Nottingham)
WG4 report
16:50 – 17:10
Coffee Break
17:10 – 18:00
Discussion Workplan
18:00 – 19:15
Visit Elettra & FERMI labs
19:30 – 20:00
Travel to Adriatico Guesthouse
Friday, November 11
8:30 – 10:45
Breakfast around Posters
8:55 – 9:00
Opening
9:00 – 9:30
Silvia Giordani (Trinity College Dublin)
Purification, Oxidation and Functionalization of Single-Walled Carbon
Nanotubes
9:30 – 10:00
Nikos Tagmattarchis (National Hellenic Research Foundation)
Azafullerene-based Donor-Acceptor Dyads for Managing Charge-Transfer
Processes
10:00 – 10:30
Arkady V. Krasheninnikov (Helsinki & Aalto Universities)
Tailoring the atomic and electronic structure of 2D carbon and boron-nitride
materials by electron and ion beams
10:30 – 10:40
Coffee
10:40 – 11:10
Giovanni Pennelli (Pisa University)
Nanostructures and nanodevices for high efficiency thermal to electrical
energy conversion
11:10 – 11:35
Ivana Capan (Rudjer Boskovic Institute)
Electrical Characterization of Semiconductor Nanocrystals
11:35 – 12:00
Katarzyna Grochowska (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Plasmon Resonance Dephasing of the Au Nanoarrays
12:00 – 12:30
Vojislav Krstić (Trinity College Dublin)
Resolving conduction-channel-, specific-contact-, and current-crowdingresistivity in nanowire devices
12:30 – 14:30
Lunch around Posters
14:30 – 15:00
Eduard Llobet (University Rovira i Virgili Tarragona)
Nanostructured tungsten oxide gas sensors
Friday, November 11
15:00 – 15:30
Gregory Van Lier (Free University of Brussels)
Modelling Carbon Nanosystems for Composite Design
15:30 – 16:00
Sharali Malik (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Characterization of graphene nanosheets: from graphite to GO/RGO
16:00 – 16:30
Hyung G. Park (ETH Zurich)
Carbon nanotubes, graphene and their hybrids: our story of carbon
nanomaterials synthesis
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee Break
17:00 – 17:30
Loredana Casalis (Elettra)
Atomic Force Microscopy based Nanografting for creating novel assemblies
of biomolecules at the nanoscale for ultrasensitive biosensing
17:30 – 18:00
Marco Lazzarino (CNR-IOM)
MEMS based microstrategies for single cell proteomics
18:00 – 18:30
Meeting Summary & Closing
Saturday, November 12
9:00 – 12:00
NanoTP networking
Informal Scientific Discussions
12:00 – 14:00
Restaurant Adriatico Guesthouse