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ADVANCED
MATERIALS
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Structure, synthesis &
processing, characterization,
advanced-state properties
and applications of materials
Copyright © 2012 VBRI Press
Editor-In-Chief
Ashutosh Tiwari
THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
NANOTECHNOLOGY (ICNANO 2011)
LBB, together with the International Association of
Advanced Materials (IAAB), the University of Delhi
and the journal Advanced Materials Letters,
organised ICNANO in Delhi in December 2011. Dr
Ashutosh Tiwari was General Secretary of the
Conference and over 1,500 delegates attended
sessions on optoelectronics, biomaterials and
biomedicine, advanced materials, fabrication, green
energy and the environment, computational
simulation and theory, materials characterisation and
applications of nananotechnology. Prof Turner was
the Honorary Chair and he, Prof May Griffith
(IGEN) and Dr Raeann Gifford presented Plenary
Lectures.
THE WORLD CONGRESS ON BIOSENSORS
LBB is the co-organiser, together with Elsevier, of
the 22 nd Anniversary World Congress on Biosensors,
which will be held in Cancun, Mexico 15-18 May
2012. The World Congress is the largest and most
prestigious event in the field and is expected to host
a thousand delegates. LiU will present a number of
scientific papers at the conference and will also
mount an exhibition stand to promote the activities
of LiU.
www.biosensors-congress.elsevier.com
EU NETWORK FOR INITIAL
TRAINING IN CHEMICAL
BIOANALYSIS ITN264772: CHEBANNA
This Marie Curie Initial Training Network (ITN)
commenced in December 2010 for four years and is
being carried out in collaboration with Cranfield
University in the UK, Roche Diagnostics and ten
other European partners.
CHEBANA provides a European hub for research
and training in the fast developing field of Chemical
Bioanalysis with co-supervised PhD theses,
postdoctoral training, workshops and summer
schools to help furnish the highly specialised experts
that are urgently required by European industry.
Chemical Bioanalysis aims to retrieve selective
information out of complex biological systems.
Sensors, probes and devices are the future tools of
medicinal diagnostics, environmental monitoring,
food analysis and molecular biology. CHEBANA
provides interdisciplinary research training for both
early stage and experienced researchers and focuses
on the most important techniques in the field:
electrochemistry, fluorescence and mass
spectrometry. The research activities are divided into
four overlapping areas:
• Sensor development for the detection of
small analytes
• Monitoring of biomolecular interactions
• Analysis of cellular function
• Development of diagnostic tools
EU COST ACTION TD1003: BIO-INSPIRED
NANOTECHNOLOGIES: FROM CONCEPTS
TO APPLICATIONS
This four-year COST action commenced in 2010,
with Professors Turner and Lundström as the
Swedish representatives. This cross-disciplinary
research consortium is constructing multi-scale
structures in order to organise functional materials in
nanodevices. The marriage of top-down and bottomup
fabrication methods paves the way to arrange
complex molecular nano units, to electronically
address them and integrate them into functional
devices.
Several national and international networks and
foundations are participating in the COST action
including C’Nano GSO, NanoSpain, Portugal Nano,
Phantoms Foundation, SUDOE Interbio, nanoICT
(bioICT Working Group). These networks have the
technical facilities and power to provide technical
support to the summer schools, give international
workshops and hold meetings with businesses and
governmental organisations. LBB and LIST will
host a joint workshop on Bioinspired
Nanotechnologies for Distributed Diagnostics,
together with the COST Action, in Linköping, 26-27
April 2012.
INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS
The Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre signed an
Erasmus agreement with the Universitat Rovira I
Virgili, Tarragona, Spain and with the Institute for
bioengineering of Catalonia (Ibec), Barcelona, Spain
for the exchange of postgraduate students.