Invited Speakers
Prof. Chihaya Adachi (Kyushu University, Japan)
Organic Light Emitting Diodes Using Exciton Up-Conversion Mechanism of Thermally Stimulated Delayed Fluorescence
Prof. Rigoberto C. Advincula (University of Houston, USA)
Dendrimer Templated Conjugated Polymer Nano-objects, Networks, and Surfaces
Prof. Ayyappanpillai Ajayaghosh (National Institute for Interdisciplinary Science and Technology, CSIR, India)
Self-Assembly of Molecular Wires
Prof. Fernando M. Araujo- Moreira (Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos, Brazil)
The Search for Stable Room-Temperature Bulk Ferromagnetic Graphite
Dr. Katsuhiko Ariga (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Hand-Operating Nanotechnology: Supramolecular Trick for System/Process Integration
Prof. Yoshio Aso (Osaka University, Japan)
Branched Oligothiophenes: Synthesis, Properties and Electronic Applications
Prof. Guillermo C. Bazan (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Synthesis and Novel Applications of Conjugated Polyelectrolytes
Prof. James S. Brooks (Florida State University, USA)
Magnetic Field Dependence of Coupled Spin-Peierls and Charge Density Wave States in Per2 [Pt(mnt) 2]
Prof. Stuart Brown (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
NMR Studies of Superconductivity in k-(BEDT-TTF)2Cu(NCS)2 Beyond the Pauli Limiting Field
Prof. Xiaodong Chen (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Chemically Enabled Fabrication of Molecular Transport Junctions
Prof. Yoshiki Chujo (Kyoto University, Japan)
Mainchain-Type Organoboron Quinolate Polymers: Synthesis and Photoluminescence Properties
Prof. Valentin A. Dediu (Institute of Nanostructured Materials, CNR, Italy)
Organic Spintronic Devices: Multifunctional Effects
Dr. Renaud Demadrille (Institute for Nanoscience and Cryogenics, CEA, France)
Pi-Conjugated Oligomers for Organic Solar Cells: From Synthesis to Electrical Performances.
Prof. Celso Pinto de Melo (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Water-soluble Fluorescent Polyaniline Nanoparticles: Synthesis and Characterization
Prof. Martin Dressel (Universität Stuttgart, Germany)
Tuning Dimensionality in Organic Conductors
Prof. Jean Luc Duvail (CNRS-University of Nantes, France)
Coaxial Hybrid Nanowires for Magnetic Manipulation of Luminescent Polymeric Building Blocks
Prof. Vladimir Dyakonov (University of Wuerzburg, Germany)
Oxygen Induced Degradation in Polymer:Fullerene Bulk-Heterojunctions and Solar Cells
Dr. Goki Eda (Imperial College London, UK)
Structural Disorder and Field-Dependent Electronic Transport Properties of Chemically Derived Graphene
Prof. Eitan Ehrenfreund (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Low Magnetic Field Effect in Organic Devices: Evidence for Spin Pairs
Dr. Harald Hoppe (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany)
Visualization of Charge Transport in Polymer Solar Cells
Prof. Olle Inganäs (Linköpings Universitet, Sweden)
Collecting Light and Generating Photovoltage with Donor-Acceptor Polymers and Alternative Device Geometries
Prof. Shinzaburo Ito (Kyoto University, Japan)
Dye-Sensitized Bulk Heterojunction Polymer Solar Cells
Dr. Peter Jeglic (Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia)
Non-BCS superconductivity in Cs3C60
Prof. Samson A. Jenekhe (University of Washington, USA)
High Performance Polymer Solar Cells: Tailoring Materials and Devices
Prof. Jinsoo Joo (Korea University, Korea)
Nanoscale Characteristics and Applications of Organic Nanostructures
Prof. Alan B. Kaiser (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)
Electronic Conduction in Different Forms of Graphene
Prof. Richard B. Kaner (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Synthesis, Characterization and Applications of Conducting Polymer Nanofibers
Dr. Hiromichi Kataura (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
High-Efficiency Metal / Semiconductor Separation of Single-Wall Carbon Nanotubes
Dr. Reizo Kato (RIKEN, Japan)
Frustration, Valence Bond Formation, and HOMO-LUMO Interplay in a Dimer Mott System, Pd(dmit)2 Salts
Prof. Takashi Kato (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Nanostructured Functional Liquid Crystals Having pi-Conjugated Moieties
Prof. Norio Kawakami (Kyoto University, Japan)
Mott Transition in Triangular Lattice Systems: Some Implications for Frustrated Organic Materials
Mr. Daisuke Kitazawa (Toray Industries, Inc., Japan)
Newly Developed Donor Polymers for Organic Thin Film Solar Cells
Dr. Hagen Klauk (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
Low-Voltage Organic Thin-Film Transistors and Complementary Circuits
Prof. Akiko Kobayashi (Nihon University, Japan)
Single-component Molecular Conductors New Multi-frontier π-d System
Prof. Takayoshi Kobayashi (University of Electro-Communications, Japan)
Observation of Breather and Soliton in a Novel Polythiophene with a Degenerate Ground State
Prof. Kwanghee Lee (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
High Efficiency Polymer Tandem Solar Cells
Prof. Myongsoo Lee (Seoul National University, Korea)
Self-Assembly of Amphiphilic Rods into Dynamic Nanostructure
Prof. Karl Leo (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)
Highly Efficient White OLED
Prof. Yunqi Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Design and Synthesis of New Conjugated Molecules and Their Application in Field-Effect Transistors
Prof. Nazario Martin (Universidad Complutense, Spain)
Molecular Receptors for Carbon Nanostructures
Dr. Fabrice Mathevet (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie/CNRS, France)
Self-Organized Side Chain Liquid Crystal Polymer Based on Pi-Conjugated Backbone for Organic Electronics
Dr. Michele Muccini (Institute of Nanostructured Materials, CNR, Italy)
Transparent Ambipolar Organic Light Emitting Transistors with 5% External Quantum Efficiency
Prof. Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
Nanoscale Phase Separation and High Efficiency in Solution-Processed, Small-Molecule Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells
Prof. Colin Nuckolls (Columbia University, USA)
Electrical Measurements on Molecules Using Nanoscale Carbon as a Scaffold
Prof. Yutaka Ohmori (Osaka University, Japan)
Polymeric High Speed Photodetectors Utilizing Poly(alkylfluorene) and Fullerene Derivatives
Prof. Hiroshi Okamoto (University of Tokyo, Japan)
New Aspects of Photoinduced Neutral to Ionic Phase Transitions in Organic Molecular Compounds
Prof. Masanori Ozaki (Osaka University, Japan)
High Carrier Mobility in Columnar and Polycrystalline Phases of Discotic Mesogenic Molecules
Dr. Dario Pisignano (National Nanotechnology Laboratory INFM-CNR, Università del Salento, Italy)
Light-Emitting Organic Nanofibers
Dr. Cedric Plesse (University of Cergy-Pontoise, France)
Conducting IPNs Based Electrochemical Actuators: From Chemistry towards Biomimetic Integration
Prof. Adam Pron (CEA Grenoble, France)
New Arylene Bisimides Containing Thienylene Moiety in Their N-Substituent: Synthesis, Characterization and Application to N-Channel Field Effect Transistors
Prof. Fumio Sanda (Kyoto University, Japan)
Synthesis and Secondary Structure of Poly(1-methylpropargyl-N-alkylcarbamate)s
Prof. Albert Schenning (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Self-Assembled p-Conjugated Systems
Prof. Zhigang Shuai (Tsinghua University, China)
Multiscale Modeling of Organic Photovoltaic Process: Nanostructure and Efficiency
Prof. Elisabeth Smela (University of Maryland, USA)
An Overview of the Performance of Conjugated Polymer Actuators
Prof. Takao Someya (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Foldable and Stretchable Electronics Using Organic Transistors
Prof. Tadashi Sugawara (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
Interplay between Conduction Electrons and Localized Spins in Organic Spin Systems
Dr. Kazuyuki Takahashi (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Development of Bistable Molecular Materials Based on a Spin Crossover Phenomenon
Prof. Kazuo Takimiya (Hiroshima University, Japan)
New Thienoquinoidal Compounds for Solution-Processed n-Channel Organic Thin Film Transistors
Prof. Ben Zhong Tang (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China)
Aggregation-Induced Emission in Conjugated Polymers
Prof. Shinya Uji (National Institute for Materials Science, Japan)
Magnetic Torque Measurements in Superconducting Phase of λ-(BETS)2FeCl4
Dr. Lydie Valade (Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination, CNRS, France)
Conductive and Photochromic Molecular Nanomaterials in Films and Composites
Dr. Hsing-Lin Wang (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
Design Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers and Fullerene Derivatives with Sensing/Energy Implications
Prof. Shu Wang (Chinese Academy of Science, China)
Water-Soluble Conjugated Polymers for Biomacromolecule Sensing and Cell Imaging
Prof. Chung-Chih Wu (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Utilizing Surface Plasmon Polariton Mediated Energy Transfer for Tunable Double Emitting OLEDs
Prof. Jun-ichi Yamada (University of Hyogo, Japan)
Structural and Physical Properties of Molecular Conductors Derived from Stereoisomers of DMDH-TTP
Dr. Hiroshi Yamamoto (RIKEN, Japan)
Field Effect Transistor Based on an Organic Mott-Insulator
Dr. Takeshi Yamao (Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan)
Electrically-Excited Spectrally-Narrowed Emissions from an Organic Crystal on a Transistor Device
Dr. Ichiro Yamashita (Panasonic Corporation, Japan)
Wet Nanotechnology: A New Nanostructure Fabrication Process in Aqueous Solution by Protein Supramolecule
Dr. Kiyoshi Yase (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Large-Area and Printed Organic TFT Arrays for Flexible Display
Dr. Masako Yudasaka (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
Drug Delivery Application of Carbon Nanohorns
Prof. Katsumi Yoshino (Shimane Institute for Industrial Technology, Japan)
Progress of Fundamental Research and Development of Large Size Organic Solar Cells