SYMPOSIUM PROGRAMME

Thursday 10th September

8:30am	Registration Venue: S208
9:30pm	Welcome Address and Introduction Prof. Eugene O’Kennedy (Vice President for Research, DCU) Prof. Dermot Diamond (Director of the National Centre for Sensor Research, DCU)

CHAIR: Prof. Dermot Diamond
10:00am	Prof. AP De Silva (Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland) “2009: A Small Space Odyssey with Luminescent Molecules”
10:30am	Prof. Lo Gorton (Lund University, Sweden) "Effect of Nanostructured Carbon Electrode Surfaces on the Percentage of Adsorbed Redox Enzyme Molecules in Direct Electron Transfer Contact"
11:00am	Coffee

CHAIR: Prof. AP De Silva
11:30am	Dr. Robert D. Allen (IBM Almaden Research, California) "Design of Functional Materials:  From Electronics to New Membranes for Water Purification"
12:00am	Dr. Thomas Phely-Bobin (Foster-Miller, Massachusetts) "Nanostructured materials: from hyperadsorptive and self decon to electrochemically active"
12:30pm	Lunch and Poster Session

Conducting polymer
nanofibres imaged using
Atomic Force Microscopy
© Emer Lahiff

CHAIR: Prof. Gordon Wallace
2:00pm	Dr. Alan Dalton (University of Surrey, UK) "Carbon Nanotube Assemblies as Active Tissue Scaffolds and Drug Delivery Vectors for Manipulation of Stem Cell Proliferation and Differentiation"
2:30pm	Dr. Donal Leech (Biomolecular Electronics Research Lab, National University of Ireland, Galway) “Mediated enzyme reactions: integration of enzymes and mediators at surfaces to provide bioelectrochemical devices”
3:00pm	Coffee

CHAIR: Dr. Steven Bell
3:30pm	Prof. Jonathan Coleman (CRANN, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) “Liquid phase exfoliation of nanotubes and graphite: The route to functional nano-composites”
4:00pm	Prof. He Tian (East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai) "Bright molecules with switching and sensing functions"
4:30pm	Dr. Michael Higgins  (Intelligent Polymer Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia) "Dynamic Polymer Interfaces for Control of Protein and Cell Interactions"
7:00pm	Symposium Dinner 1838 Club in DCU

Friday 11th September

CHAIR: Prof. Jonathan Coleman
9:30am	Prof. Wolfgang Schuhmann (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany) "Nanostructured electrode materials in biosensors and biofuel cells"
10:00am	Prof. Gordon Wallace (Director of the Intelligent Polymer Research Centre, University of Wollongong, Australia) “Organic Conductors for Regenerative Medical Bionics”
10:30am	Prof. John Boland (Director of CRANN, Trinity College Dublin) "Designing materials from Nanoscale Building Blocks; The search for Flexible Transparent Conductors"
11:00am	Coffee

CHAIR: Dr. Michael Higgins
11:30am	Prof. Dermot Diamond (Director of the National Centre for Sensor Research, Dublin City University, Ireland) "Beads, Boats and Switches - Making things happen with Ionic Liquids and Molecular Photoswitches"
12:00am	Prof. Gareth Redmond (University College Dublin, Ireland) "Organic Nanowires and Nanotubes: Novel building blocks for nanoscale electronics and photonics"
12:30pm	Lunch and Poster Session

CHAIR: Dr. Donal Leech
2:00pm	Dr. Steven Bell (Director of the Innovative Molecular Materials Group, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland ) "Preparation and Application of Superhydrophobic Metal Coatings"
2:30pm	Prof. Xuhong Qian (East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai) "Non-cyclic Fluorescent Sensors with High Sensitivity and Selectivity"
3:00pm	Coffee

CHAIR: Prof. Dermot Diamond
3:30pm	Prof. Jim McLaughlin (University of Ulster, Northern Ireland) "Nanopatterning and the growth of CNT’s for medical sensing applications"
4:00pm	Prof. Jim Rusling (University of Conneticut, USA) “Carbon Nanotube-based Drug Delivery for Targeted Cancer Therapy”
4:30pm	Prof. Joe Wang (University of California San Diego, USA) "Can man-made nanomotors compete with biomotors?"
5:00pm	Closing Reception, Launch of WANDA and Poster Prize Presentation (E150)

This is a draft programme and is subject to change.