Frontiers in Nano Science,

Technology and Applications

2
nd
International Conference on
FiNSTA14
http://www.fnstaa.org/
December 20-22, 2014
Venue
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning,
Prasanthinilayam, A.P., India
Organised by
Endorsed by
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N
anotechnology is at the forefront of technological discussions, de-
bates and developments as scientsts, policy makers and entrepre-
neurs endeavor to fully harness its unlimited capabilites and unleash
a broad range of novel utlites. Despite having a myriad of well estab-
lished scientfc and technological tools and processes at its disposal,
exploraton into the nanotechnology realm has been limited. Research-
ers with open minds, metculous ability and willingness to think out-
of-their-box are needed to facilitate advances in various disciplines by
amalgamatng their ideas into new theories and products that can po-
tentally improve our lifestyle in the 21
st
century. Yet, at the same tme,
researchers must be cognizant of the possibility of nanomaterials en-
dangering our health and environment and act in a responsible manner
while striving for scientfc advancements. Such concerns have led to a
debate among advocacy groups and governments on whether special
regulaton of nanotechnology is warranted. A regulatory road map de-
scribing steps to deal with these shortcomings has to be identfed and
implemented. Despite these potental concerns, the nanotechnology
market is growing and is predicted to create revenues of over 1 trillion
dollars per annum by 2015. Over 1300 manufacturer-identfed nano-
tech products are publicly available, with new ones hitng the market
at a pace of 34 per week. The task of convertng basic discoveries into
safe marketable products for societal beneft is the need of the hour.
F
iNSTA14 is the second in the series of conferences intended to be
held every year at diferent locatons across the globe to bring to-
gether the internatonal community from diverse areas of the nano-
research to showcase the cutng edge research to the stakeholders,
and aid the ongoing process of developing and extending the collabora-
tve vision through emerging research partnerships. The conference is
intended for all stakeholders of nano-research, and in partcular for its
practtoners, researchers, teachers and students.
About
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Energy
Environment
Life Sciences
Medicine
Scalable Manufacturing
Modeling
Photonics
Smart Materials
Venue
The venue Sri Sathya Sai Insttute of Higher Learning is a beacon for
integral educaton. Its founder Chancellor Sri Sathya Sai Baba says This
Insttute will be a temple of learning where youth are shaped into self-
reliant, contented and enterprising heroes of acton and self-sacrifce,
for the purpose of serving humanity.
The nearest airport is Bangalore (BLR) Internatonal airport. If you are
coming by rail, you need to alight at Sri Sathya Sai Prashanthi Nilayam
(SSPN) staton.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission deadline July 31, 2014
Acceptance of abstracts August 15, 2014
Full manuscripts September 15, 2014
Acceptance of full manuscripts October 15, 2014
Copyright form and fnal manuscript submission October 15, 2014
Registraton of authors* September 30, 2014
Registraton deadline October 30, 2014
Conference December 20-22, 2014
Registration
Registraton of presentng and partcipatng delegates is mandatory.
Please note that there is no registraton fees for partcipatng in FiN-
STA14. The registraton is only to confrm the partcipaton for logistc
purposes. The registraton module shall be accessed through the con-
ference website htp://www.fnstaa.org as a separate link. Partcipants
are strongly encouraged to complete the registraton process and sub-
mit online before the registraton deadline as mentoned in the earlier
secton
Focus Areas
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Professor Apparao M Rao, Clemson Uni., USA
Professor J Sashidhara Prasad, SSSIHL, India
Professor K Venkataramaniah, SSSIHL, India
Dr S Siva Sankara Sai, SSSIHL, India
Professor M Muruganant, CDC, Australia
General Chairmen
Presentations and Publications
The conference will host plenary, invited and contributory speakers from the
internatonal research community. All oral presentatons are by invitaton
only. Please read more about poster awards in the separate secton below.
Manuscripts of papers presented at this conference shall be published in in-
dexed and peer-reviewed journals and proceedings. It is not mandatory to
submit a full manuscript, however, authors are highly encouraged to submit
their manuscripts and help bring out a collecton of important papers in a
single volume. Informaton on the manuscript submission will be made avail-
able on the conference website.
Accepted manuscripts shall be published either in a peer-reviewed journal or
FiNSTA proceedings depending on the number and quality of submited man-
uscripts. Those manuscripts that are considered for journal publicaton shall
be reviewed independently by the editorial board of the respectve journals,
the communicaton of which will be sent directly to the authors.
Posters and Poster awards
All posters need to be prepared in a legible format. Posters need to be
a maximum size of 100 cm width with a length of maximum 120 cm.
Posters which do not cater to 100 cm X 120 cm dimension will not be
acceptable.
Posters are evaluated and ranked according to their content and pre-
sentaton quality. The ranked posters will be awarded three prizes.
The poster awards are sponsored by the Materials Research Society
(MRS), Singapore.
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Professor Challa Kumar,
Director, Nanofabricaton & Nanomaterials
Center for Advanced Microstructures and Devices
Louisiana State University
6980 Jeferson Hwy,
Baton Rouge, LA 70806, USA
Publications chair
Publications committee
Dr Y Y Chen, Taiwan
Dr Rim Cherif, Tunisia
Prof. B V R Chowdari, Singapore
Dr Jian He, USA
Dr Indira K Hewlet, USA
Dr Anne Kahru, Estonia
Prof. Challa Kumar, USA
Prof. Noriyoshi Matsumi, Japan
Prof. M Muruganant, Australia
Prof. Apparao M Rao, USA
Dr S M D Rao, Taiwan
Dr Siva Sankara Sai, India
Prof. K Venkataramaniah, India
Prof. Qihua Xiong, Singapore
Local Organising committee
Mr Saikiran Aditha
Dr Krishna Chaitanya
Mr Avinash Chunduri
Mr M Denny
Dr R Gowrishankar
Mr Rajkumar Jain
Dr Sai Muthu Kumar
Mr Nanjundan Kumar
Mr Muralikrishna Molli
Mr Pradyumna Mulpur
Mr Sandeep Patnaik
Mrs C Prathibha
Prof Mukunda Rao
Prof Dwaraka Rani Rao
Dr Tanu Ratan
Prof D Sahoo
Dr Vijaya Sai
Dr Deepa Seetharaman
Dr S Sivasubramaniyan
Prof P C Sood
Dr Shailesh Srivastava
Mr P Suresh
Dr K Sanakara Umesh
Mrs V Vedhavathi
Programme chairs
Professor B V R Chowdari, NUS, Singapore
Dr Indira K Hewlet, FDA, USA
Dr S Neeleshwar, GGSIPU, India
Professor Ajay K Sood, IISc, India
Professor M K Wu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
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International Scientific committee
Dr S Ajayram,Italy
Prof S Annapoorni,India
Dr Praveer Asthana,India
Dr D K Avasthi,India
Dr John Ballato,USA
Dr V Bhujangarao,India
Dr Jared M Brown,USA
Dr Mario Caironi,Italy
Prof Tony Cass,UK
Dr Krishna Chaitanya,India
Prof Dipankar Chakravorty,India
Dr Rama Chari,India
Dr Y Y Chen,Taiwan
Dr Rim Cherif,Tunisia
Prof B V R Chowdari,Singapore
Dr Chiara Daraio,Switzerland
Prof Narayana Rao Desai,India
Prof Keya Dharamvir,India
Prof Mildred Dresselhaus,USA
Prof Morinobu Endo,Japan
Dr Maurizio Ferrari,Italy
Dr P K Gupta,India
Dr Jian He,USA
Dr Indira Hewlett,USA
Prof Richard Jackman,UK
Prof Chennupati Jagadish,Australia
Prof Ramasamy Jayavel,India
Dr Anne Kahru,Estonia
Prof Ramanujachary V Kandalam,USA
Dr Dinakar Kanjilal,India
Prof Dr Michael Kraf,Germany
Dr M Krishnamoorthi,India
Prof Challa Kumar,USA
Dr H Kumar,USA
Dr Raavi Sai Santosh Kumar,Singapore
Dr G Ravindra Kumar,India
Dr V Lakshminarayanan,India
Prof Noriyoshi Matsumi,Japan
Prof Somenath Mitra,USA
Dr V Mohan,India
Prof M Mukundarao,India
Dr Anil Mulpur,India
Prof B S Murty,India
Dr Sai Muthukumar,India
Dr Srinivas Nadella,UK
Dr N Nalla,Singapore
Dr K Narayan,India
Dr Paramasivan Natarajan,India
Dr S Neeleshwar,India
Dr Charlie Oomen,India
Dr Roberto Osellame,Italy
Dr B K Panigrahi,India
Dr A Phani,India
Dr Reji Philip,India
Dr Vijayamohanan K Pillai,India
Dr Ramakrishna Podilla,USA
Dr P S R Prasad,India
Prof Nini Pryds,Denmark
Dr Baldev Raj,India
Prof S Ramaprabhu,India
Prof Roberta Ramponi,Italy
Dr Tata Narasinga Rao,India
Prof Apparao M Rao,USA
Dr S M D Rao,India
Prof M S Ramachandra Rao,India
Prof S Sampath,India
Prof D D Sarma,India
Prof M Seehra,USA
Prof Avinash C Sharma,India
Dr Vandana Sharma,India
Dr Venugopal Soma,India
Prof Ajay Sood,India
Dr Koji Sugioka,Japan
Dr G Sundararajan,India
Prof M K Sundaresan,Canada
Dr Tersilla Virgilli,Italy
Dr Nirmal Viswanathan,India
Dr Ashok Vudayagiri,India
Prof M K Wu,Taiwan
Prof Qihua Xiong,Singapore
Prof Dr Henning Zoz,Germany
Dr Srikanth Nadadur, USA
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Plenary Speakers
Dr Jared M Brown, USA
Dr Y Y Chen, Taiwan
Dr Chiara Daraio, Switzerland
Prof Morinobu Endo, Japan
Dr Anne Kahru, Estonia
Dr Tata Narasinga Rao, India
Prof M Seehra, USA
Prof Ajay Sood, India
Dr Koji Sugioka, Japan
Prof M K Wu, Taiwan
Keynote Speakers
Dr V Mohan, India
Dr Reji Philip, India
Prof S Sampath, India
Prof Qihua Xiong, Singapore
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For more information contact
Professor K. Venkataramaniah
Alexander von Humboldt Fellow
Senior Professor of Physics
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
Prasanthinilayam 515134, A.P. India
Phone: +91 (8555) 286324, +91 8333 897 820
Professor M Muruganant,
Cambridge Commonwealth Fellow,
Coordinator, FiNSTA International Committee
Director, Conference Development Center, Australia
PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India
Professor Apparao M Rao
Director, Clemson Nanomaterials Center
R. A. Bowen Professor of Physics
Department of Physics and Astronomy
202C Kinard Laboratory, Clemson University
Clemson, SC 29634
Ph: (864) 656-6758; 656-1624
E-mail: secretariat@fnstaa.org, chairman@fnstaa.org
Dr S Siva Sankara Sai
Head, Department of Physics,
Sri Sathya Sai Insttute of Higher Learning,
Prasant Nilayam, Putaparthi, India
E-mail: secretariat@fnstaa.org
Phone: +91 (8555) 286 324, +91 949 047 4571
Secretariat
What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and
this right decision should be carried out by the hands. Tis should be
the primary product of the educational process.
Sathya Sai Baba