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Programme for :

International Conference on

NANO-MATERIALS: SYNTHESIS, CHARACTERISATION AND APPLICATION

November 4 – 6, 2004, Kolkata India

ALL EVENTS : IN HOTEL TAJ BENGAL, KOLKATA

Day 1: Thursday, 4^th November, 2004

10.00 – 11 hrs. : OPENING CEREMONY

Inaugural Address by S.Banerjee, BARC, MUMBAI, INDIA

11.00-11.30 hrs. : TEA

11.30 - 1330. PLANERY /KEYNOTE LECTURE SESSION : Chair Dr H S Maiti, India

* Martin A. Green, "Nanomaterials for Photovoltaic Applications, UNSW, AUSTRALIA

* Marie-Isabelle Baraton, “FTIR Spectroscopy”, SPCTS-UMR, FRANCE

Special Lecture

* Ganesh Scandan, “Commercial Strategies”, NEI Corp, USA

13.30 hrs : LUNCH

14.30 – 16.05 hrs

Technical Session 1A Co-Chair : Dr KGK Warrier, India & Prof S Seal, USA

14:30 : STUDY OF METAL NON-METAL TRANSITION IN

NANOPARTICLES AND NANOSHELLS

D. Chakravorty (I)

14:55 : SYNTHESIS OF ALUMINA-ZIRCONIA NANOCOMPOSITES BY

SOLGEL PROCESS (I)

S.K.Malhotra, Paramanand Singh and A. Thirunavukkarasu

15:20 : REVERSE MICELLE SYNTHESIS OF ZIRCONIA

NANOPOWDER (C)

Harpreet Singh, A. Olivia and Grave

15:35 : PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF PBS

NANOPARTICLE IN ORGANISED media (C)

I.Chakraborty and Satya P. Moulik

15:50 : SONICATION ASSISTED PREPARATION OF TIN-DIOXIDE

BASED COMPOSITION (C)

Nandini Das S.Chakraborty A.K.Halder and A.Sen

Technical Session 1B : Co-Chair : Prof R Kumar, USA & Prof P Gouma USA

14:30 : NANO-SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES FROM

A MATERIALS SCIENTIST (I)

K.Chattopadhyay

14:55 : MAGNETIC TRANSITIONS OF NICKEL NANOPARTICLES

IN SILICA GLASS (I)

H. Amekura, Y. Fudamoto, Y. Takeda, and N. Kishimoto

15:20 : SYNTHESIS OF NICKEL/NICKEL ALUMINATE SILICA –

ALUMINA NANOCOMPOSITES (C)

Sathi Mallick G.C.Das and S.Mukherjee and M.K.Mitra

15:35 : MAGNETIC & OPTICAL PROPERTIES OF g - FE₂O₃

NANOPARTICLES DISPERSED ON SOL-GEL SILICA SPHERES

(C)

S.Chakrabarti D.Ganguli and S.Chaudhuri

15:50 : AC CONDUCTIVITY STUDY IN NI-DISPERSED SILICAN

NANO-COMPOSITE PRODUCED BY SOL-GEL TECHNIQUE (C)

A. K. Meikap A. Bhattacharyya S.K.Chattopadhyay and

S.K.Chatterjee

16:05 hrs : TEA

16:25 – 18:00 hrs.

Technical Session 2A : Co-Chair : Prof H Amekura Japan & Dr Pradip India

16:25 : CATALYTIC CHARACTERISATION OF NICKEL

ALUMINIDES PREPARED BY MECHANICAL ALLOYING IN

H2O2 DECOMPOSITION (I)

P.K.Dey, M.Dutta Gupta and S.K.Pabi

16:50 : GRAIN BOUNDARY SOURCES OF DISLOCATION ACTIVITY

IN NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS (I)

Sergey V. Bobylev, Mikhail Yu. Gutkin, Ilya A. Ovid'ko, and

Nikolay V. Skiba

17:15 : INFLUENCE OF NANO-ENVIRONMENT ON LUMINE-SCENCE

OF RARE EARTH IONS IN NANO–CRYSTALS (C)

A. Patra

17:30 : PREPARATION, CHARACTERIZATION AND BIO-

DISTRIBUTION OF ALGINATE NANOCAPSULES AS AN ANTI

NEOPLASTIC DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM (C)

A. Bhattacharya

17:45 : GROWTH MECHANISM OF LONG INDIVIDUAL MULTI

WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES FABRICATED BY THE CVD

METHOD (C)

L.Stobinski, M-M.Lin,Y-C. Chang, Y-F. Hsiou, C-D.Chen

Technical Session 2B Co-Chair : Prof F Ebrahimi, USA Prof K Chattopadhyay, India

16:25 : MAGNETIC AND ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF ULTRA THIN

ORGANIC FILMS

Milan K. Sanyal (I)

16:50 : SHORT RANGE AND LONG RANGE ORDERS AND PHASE

MISCIBILITY OF NANOSTRUCTURED MAGNETIC MEDIA

FILMS (I) C.J. Sun, Y.Z. Zhou and G.M. Chow

17:15 : SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION

OF CDS NANOWIRES BY WET CHEMICAL ROUTE (C)

R.Maity, S.Kundoo , K.K.Chattopadhyay

17:30 : TAPE CAST MULTILAYER COMPOSITE OF NANO-ZIRCONIA

WITH HIGH TOUGHNESS (C)

S.Ghosh,A,Guha, K. M. Krishna, A.K.Mukhopadhyay

and H.S.Maiti

17:45 : MORPHOLOGY OF AU NANOPARTICLES FORMED BY

MAGNETRON SPUTTERING: ELLIPSOIDS AND RINGS (C)

S. Chattopadhyay, S. Sarkar , A. Datta,and P. Chakraborty

19.00 – 20.00 : Musical Program : A bouquet of songs in Sanskrit, Hindi, English & Bengali languages with live music accompaniment by leading professional musical band of Kolkata

Venue : Hotel Taj Bengal

20.00 – onwards CONFERENCE DINNER - Venue : Hotel Taj Bengal

Day 2: 5th November, 2004

9.30 – 11.05 hrs

Technical Session 3A Co-Chair : Prof MI Baraton, France & Dr R Radhakrishnan, USA

9:30 : NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS FOR SENSORS (I)

Prashant Jha, Arun K. Prasad, Katarzyna M. Sawicka, and

Pelagia I. Gouma

9:55 : CARBON NANOTUBES BASED DEVICES AND SENSORS (I)

A. Vaseashta

10:20 : ELECTRO CHEMICAL ENERGY STORAGE BY CARBON

NANO TUBES (C)

A.K. Chatterjee, M. Sharon, R. Banerjee, N. R. Bandyopadhyay

and S. Biswas

10:35 : SURFACE PLASMON POLARITONS IN NANO STRUCTURES

FOR FUTURISTIC NANO PHOTONIC COMPUTING (C)

Asit K.Datta, Sunit K. Sen

10:50 : ACTIVATION ENERGY CONTROLLED ELECTRO

CRYSTALLIZATION OF POLY-/ NANOCRYSTALLINE N –

CDSE SEMICONDUCTOR ANODE MATERIAL FOR THE

APPLICATIONS IN PEC SOLAR CELLS (C)

J. Datta,C. Bhattacharya and S. Bandyopadhyay

Technical Session 3B : Co-Chair : Prof S K Pabi India & Prof G M Chow Singapore

9:30 : TENSILE PROPERTIES OF ELECTRODEPOSITED

NANOCRYSTALLINE FCC METALS (I)

F. Ebrahimi, Z. Ahmed, and H. Q. Li

9:55 : NON-EQUILIBRIUM MD SIMULATION OF EFFECTIVE

THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY OF NANOFLUIDS (I)

Xuan Wu and Ranganathan Kumar

10:20 : STUDIES ON NANOCRYSTALLINE AG₂SE (C)

Sudip K. Batabyal, C. Basu, A. R. Das, G.S. Sanyal,Dipali

Banerjee, N. R. Bandyopadhyay

10:35 : STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF IRON OXIDE

NANOPARTICLES PREPARED THROUGH A GENTLE

CHEMISTRY ROUTE (C) : P.Deb andA. Basumallick

10:50 : SPARK PLASMA SINTERING AND TRIBOLOGICAL

CHARACTERIZATION OF WC-ZRO₂ NANOCOMPOSITES (C)

Bikramjit Basu and T. Venkateswaran

11.05 – 11.30 hrs. : TEA

11:30 – 13:30 hrs.

Technical Session 4A Co-Chair : Prof M Green, Australia & Prof S K Malhotra, India

11:30 : NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS SYNTHESIZED BY

MECHANICAL ALLOYING (I)

B. S. Murty, Jatin Bhatt1, S. S. Nayak,S. K. S. Parashar and S. K.

Pabi

11:55 : SYNTHESIS AND CHARACERIZATION OF MOLECULARLY

DESIGNED NANOMATERIALS (I)

M Oaten, Namita Roy Choudhury, Naba K. Dutta, R Knott

12:20 : THE METHOD OF LASER SYNTHESIS OF OXIDE

NANOMATERIALS (I)

M.G. Ivanov, Yu.A. Kotov, V.V. Osipov, V.V. Platonov, O.M.

Samatov

12:45 : SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERISATION OF CALCIUM

PHOSPHATE NANOPARTICLES VIA POLYMER INDUCED

CRYSTALLISATION (C)

S. Thomas P, Sabu Thomas, and Sri Bandyopadhyay

13:00 : SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NANOFLUID FOR

ADVANCED HEAT TRANSFER APPLICATIONS(C)

I. Manna, M.Chopkar , S. Kumar, P.K.Das

13:15 : SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF MAGNETITE

NANOPARTICLES (C)

G.Gnanaprakash, S.Mahadevan , T.Jayakumar, P.

Kalyanasundaram, John Philip, B.Raj

Technical Session 4B : Co-Chair : Prof A Vaseastha USA & Dr E Iwamura, Japan

11.30 : NANOCRYSTALLINE RERE EARTH PHOSPHATE

NANOPARTICLE AND COMPOSITES (I)

K.G.Kwarrier, R.Rohith, K.Rojesh and T.R.G.Kutty

11:55 : POLYMER/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE USING EPOXY BASED

MATRIX (I)

D. Ratna , B.C. Chakraborty, H. Dutta, A.K. Banthia

12:20 : POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES: PREPARATION, PROPERTIES

AND APPLICATIONS(I) Sabu Thomas

12:45 : ON THE SYNTHESIS OF INSITU NI-SIO₂ NANOCOMPOSITES

BY ISOTHERMAL AND NON ISOTHERMAL REDUCTION

TECHNIQUE. (C)

A.Basumallick, J. Sarkar, G.C.Das, S. Mukherjee

13:00 : IMPACT OF b - SHEET CONFORMATIONS ON THE

MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF PROTEIN IN BIO-COMPOSITES.

(C) : P. Ghosh, D. Katti , K. Katti

13:15 : FORMATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF UNIFORM

NANOSTRUCTURED POROUS SILICON (C)

P. Bhattacharyya, S.Ghosh , S. Chakraborty, H.Saha

13.30 – 14.15 hrs. : LUNCH

14:15 – 15:00 : POSTER SESSION

15:00 – 16:05

Technical Session 5A : Co-Chair : Prof A K Bhowmick India & Prof B S Murty India

15:00 : NANOPARTICLES AT THE NANOSUPPORT SURFACES (I)

Sergey P. Gubin, Maxim S. Korobov

15:25 Multifaceted applications of functional nanoparticles (I) : Sudipta Seal

15:50 EFFECT OF NANO-ENVIRONMENT ON GROWTH & PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF CONDUCTING POLYMERS AND METALS (C)

R.Gangopadhyay ,A. Rahaman , A.De ,M.K.Sanyal

Technical Session 5B : Co-Chair : Prof Sabu Thomas India & Prof Vimal Desai USA

15:00 : CORROSION OF NANOCRYSTALLINE METALLIC

MATERIALS (I)

R.K. Singh Raman

15:25 : CORROSION PROPERTIES OF MoSi2+Si3N4

NANOCOMPOSITES (I)

Prabhakar Mohan, C. Suryanarayana, and Vimal Desai

15:50 : DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF BULK ULTRAFINE-

GRAINED COPPER PREPARED BY SUB-ZERO ROLLING

AND CONTROLLED RECRYSTALLISATION (C)

D. Das, P. P. Chattopadhyay, A.Samanta

16:05 – 16: 25 : TEA

16:25 – 18:00

Technical Session 6A : Co-Chair : Prof I. Manna, India & Prof S P Gubin, Russia

16:25 : DEFORMATION MECHANISM OF MULTI-LAYERED HARD

COATINGS (I)

M. Hoffman , Z. H. Xie , A. Bendavid and P. J. Martin

16:50 : EPITAXIAL SELF-ASSEMBLED NANOSTRUCTURES ON

SILICON (I) : B. N. Dev

17:15 : MICROSTRUCTURAL EVOLUTION DURING MECHANICAL

ALLOYING OF ALUMINIUM AND 316 STAINLESS STEEL

POWDER BLEND (C)

A. Samanta, I. Manna, P.P.Chattopadhyay

17:30 : EFFECT OF NANO-CLAY MATERIALS ON THE THERMAL

AND FIRE PERFORMANCE OF PHOSPHORUS MODIFIED

EPOXY RESINS (C) : M. Hussain, G. P. Simon

17:45 BI-MODAL SIZE DISTRIBUTION AND SHAPE ANISOTROPY IN BALL MILLED NANO SIZED a-AL₂O₃ (C)

A.K.Deb, P.Chatterjee, S.P.Sen Gupta

18.00 ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPIC STUDIES ON BLOCK CO- POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES (C)

Anirban Ganguly, Mousumi De Sarkar and Anil K. Bhowmick*

Technical Session 6B : Co-Chair : Dr P Ayub India and TBA

16:25 Atomistic Simulation and Modeling of Nanostructures (I)

G.P. Das

16:50 : SYNTHESIS OF CARBON HYBRID STRUCTURES IN

AMORPHOUS CARBON THIN FILMS BY USING LOW-

ENERGY ELECTRON BEAM IRRDIATION (I)

Eiji Iwamura

17:15 : ROLE OF NANOCRYSTALLINE SPINEL ADDITIVE ON THE

PROPERTIES OF LOW CEMENT CASTABLE REFRATORIES (C) P.K.Das Poddar, S. Mukhopadhyay

17:30 : PALLADIUM NANO-PARTICLES IN IONIC LIQUIDS:

RECYCLABLE SYSTEM FOR CHEMOSELECTIVE

HYDROGENATION REACTIONS (C)

D. K. Mukherjee, Jean LeBras, Jacques Muzart

17:45 : BORATE BASED NANOCRYSTALLINE MAGNETIC

SEMICONDUCTOR ABOVE ROOM TEMPERATURE (C)

Mr. M. Pal

18.00 EFFECT OF SURFACTANT CONCENTRATION ON THE SIZE

AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS OF CERIA NANOPARTICLES .. (I)

Sushil Gupta, Peter Brouwer, Sri Bandyopadhyay, Swanand Patil

R. Briggs and Sudipta Seal

Day 3: 6th November, 2004

9:30 – 11:05 hrs

Technical Session 7A : Co-Chair : Dr B N Dev India, and Prof M Gutkin, Russia

9:30 : NANOCRYSTALLINE SEMICONDUCTOR THIN FILMS:

LINEAR AND NON LINEAR OPTICAL PROPERTIES (I)

Parinda Vasa, Bhanu P.Singh and Pushan Ayyub

9:55 : Indranil Manna (I)

10:20 : GROWTH OF NANOCRYSTALLINE SILICON THIN FILMS

AND ITS APPLICATION TO SOLAR CELLS (C)

S. Ray, S. Mukhopadhyay

10:35 : COLOURED COATINGS ON ORDINARY GLASS SUBSTRATES

USING DISPERSED AU NANOPARTICLES IN SIO₂-TIO₂ HOSTS

HAVING DIFFERENT REFRACTIVE INDEX VALUES (C)

S. K. Medda, S.De ,G. De

10:50 : EMBEDDING OF NANOSTRUCTURE INTO A SUBSTRATE

DUE TO ION BOMBARDMENT (C)

B.Satpati, P.V.Satyam, T.Som, B.N.Dev

Technical Session 7B Chair : Prof Namita Chowdhury & Prof N K Dutta Australia

9:30 : A MOLECULAR MODELING BASED RATIONAL DESIGN OF

DISPERSANTS FOR PROCESSING OF NANOPARTICLES (I)

Pradip, Beena Rai, and P. Sathish

9:55 : MAGNETO RHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS CONTAINING IRON

NANOPARTICLES (I)

R. Radhakrishnan

10:20 : RELIABLE NANOELECTRONIC DESIGN BASED ON NEURAL

NETWORKS (C)

G. Kaur

10:35 : LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT POLYMER BASED

NANOSTRUCTURE FERRITE MATERIALS (C)

Abhijit De

10:50 :THE EINSTEIN RELATION IN QUANTUM WIRE

SUPERLATTICES OF NANPARABOLIC SEMICONDUCTORS:

SIMPLIFIED THEORY AND A SUGGESTION FOR

EXPERIMENTAL DETERMINATION (C)

K.P Ghatak, D. De, S. Ghoshl, S.Chatterjee

11:05 – 11:30 hrs : TEA

11:30 – 13::30 hrs

Technical Session 8A : Prof D Chakraborty, India and Prof S P Gubin, Russia

11:30 : PHASE SEPARATED NANOMATERIALS BASED ON BLOCK

COPOLYMERS: DESIGN, PHASE-STRUCTURE CONTROL AND

CHARACERIZATION (I)

Naba K. Dutta, Sandra Thompson,Namita Roy Choudhury and

Robert Knott

11:55 : NANOPOLYMERS (I) : Anil K Bjowmick

12:20 : NANO TECHNOLOGY – SHAPING THE CHARACTER OF FUTURE

WARFARE (I)

U.P. Thakur

12:45 : CARBON-SUPPORTED PLATINUM CATALYST FOR DIRECT

ALCOHOL FUEL CELL ANODE (C)

S. Sen Gupta, N. R. Bandyopadhyay, J. Datta

13:00 : ENHANCEMENT OF PHOTOLUMINESCENCE INTENSITY OF NANO-

ITO BY DOPING WITH MN² (C)

P.K. Biswas,S. Kundu

13:15 : STUDY OF GIANT MAGNETO-IMPEDANCE BEHAVIOUR IN CO-FE

BASED AMORPHOUS / NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS (C)

S. Kumari,I. Chattoraj,S.K.Pal,A.Mitra

Technical Session 8B : Co-Chair : Dr D Ratna, India & Prof M Ivanov, Russia

11:30 : NANO-PARTICLES OF METALS (I)

D.K.Dutta

11:45 : PPREARATION OF NANO CRYSTALLINE ALUMINA PARTICLES BY

ATTRITION GRINDING (C)

M. S. Datta,A.K. Bandyopadhyay

12:00 : DEVELOPMENT OF NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS FOR HIGH

TEMPERATURE SOFT MAGNETIC APPLICATION (C)

A.Mitra,A, K. Panda

12:15 : SMART NANO SENSOR MATERIAL FOR DETECTING PROPANE 2-OL

(C) C.Divakar

12:30 : OPTIMISATION OF POROUS SILICON BIOSNESOR FOR DETECTION

OF TRIGLYCERIDES (C)

A. Mathew, R V Subramanian, V. Ganesh, A. Chadha,E. Bhattacharya

13:00 hrs : Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 hrs : Poster

15:00 – 15:15 hrs TEA

15:15 hrs : VALEDICTORY SESSION

17.00 Hr CONFERENCE ENDS

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