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International Session on Nanomaterials:
fabrication, characterisation and applications

October 14th, Friday

Venue: Lithuanian Academy of Science, Gedimino pr. 3, Vilnius. Small hall

Organising Committee

Valentinas Snitka, Chairman
Artūras Ulčinas
Carles Cane
Harri Lipsanen
Mervyn Miles
Ingrida Bružaitė, Executive secretary

Contributors: 

EU FP7 NANOMAT project, Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology

Scope of the Scientific session: to stimulate the scientific exchange and collaboration on instrumentation and applications of nanotechnology in the materials and life sciences.
The meeting creates an environment to discuss current developments and to generate new ideas.

Opening

10.00-10.05

Overview of the EU FP7 project "Center of Excellence for Nanostructured materials" (NANOMAT)
Valentinas Snitka
EU FP7 NANOMAT project coordinator

Oral presentations

10.10-10.30

BREAKING THE SPEED LIMIT IN AN AFM - WITH A LIGHT TOUCH
L. Picco, R. Harniman, M. Antognozzi, A. Ulcinas, O. Payton, D. Engledew, D. Carberry, D.B. Phillips, J. Grieve, J. Vicary, ¹M. Padgett, M. J. Miles
Centre for Nanoscience & Quantum Information, H.H. Wills Physics Laboratory,  University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, ¹Department of Physics & Astronomy, Glasgow University, Glasgow

10.35-10.55

COMBINING SCANING PROBE AND OPTICAL MICROSCOPY TECHNIQUES
J. K. H. Hoerber
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK

11.00-11.20

EFFECT OF ANNEALING ON THE ELECTRICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CNT BASED TRANSISTORS WITH ALUMINA COATING
K. Grigoras
Department of Micro and Nanosciences, Aalto University School of Science and Technology, Finland

SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE AT THE NANOSCALE: HOW DOES THAT WORK ?
B. A. Snopok
V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine

12.00-12.20

AFM MAPPING OF BIOMOLECULAR FORCE AND SURFACE INTERACTIONS: APPLICATIONS IN BIOLOGY AND GEOCHEMISTRY
T. McMaster
H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol Centre for Functional Nanomaterials, UK

12.25-12.40

SURFACE CHEMISTRY MAPPING WITH TIP-ENHANCED RAMAN MICROSCOPY
V. Snitka
Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania

12.45-13.00

FEELING THE SQUEEZE: SHEAR VISCOELASTICITY OF NANOCONFINED WATER
¹A. Ulčinas, ²G. Valdre, ¹V. Snitka, ³M. J. Miles, ⁴P. M. Claesson, and ³M. Antognozzi
¹Research Centre for Microsystems and Nanotechnologies, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania; ²Department of Earth and Geoenvironmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy; ³H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TL and Nanoscience and Quantum Information Centre, University of Bristol, Bristol,UK; ⁴Department of Chemistry, Surface and Corrosion Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

 14.00-14.20

SILICON NANOGRASS FOR IMPROVED GALVANIC CONTACT TO MICRO FUEL CELL GASS DIFFUSION LAYER
^1,2G. Scotti, ²M. Mäkinen, ³P. Kanninen, ³T. Kallio and ²S. Franssila
¹Department of Micro and Nanosciences, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; ²Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland; ³Department of Chemistry, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland

14.25-14.45

NANOOPTO MECHANICAL SYSTEM FOR BRAILLE DISPLAYS
J. Esteve
Centro Nacional de Microelectrónica. IMB-CNM (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

14.50-15.10

HIGH SPEED, HIGH THROUGHPUT, SPM IMAGING AND NANOMECHANICS
S. C. Minne, L. Mininni, A. Slade, S. Hu, J. Kindt, H. Stadler, and C. Su
Bruker Nano Surfaces, Santa Barbara, USA

15.15-15.35

AFM-RAMAN-SNOM AND TIP ENHANCED RAMAN STUDIES OF MODERN NANOSTRUCTURES
P. Dorozhkin, A. Shchokin, E. Kuznetsov, V. Bykov, I. Bykov
NT-MDT Co, Zelenograd Moscow, Russia

ADVANCED INSTRUMENTATION FOR NANOTECHNOLOGY
A. Kulinczak
Agilent Technologies Inc., Santa Clara, CA 95051 USA

16.15-16.30

CHEMICAL IMAGING AND GRAPHENE-ENHANCED RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY OF TiO₂ NANOPARTICLES
¹D. Naumenko, ¹V. Snitka, ²H. Lipsanen
¹Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania; ² Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Finland

16.30-17.30

Poster session

SYNTHESIS OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES USING PHYTOEXTRACTS FROM HIGHER PLANTS
¹Ya. Pirko, ¹I. Danylenko, ²O. Kolomys,  ²P. Smertenko, ²V. Strelchuk, ¹Ya. B. Blume
¹Institute of Food Biotechnology and Genomics, Natl. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine; ²Institute of Semiconductor Physics named V.E. Lashkaryov, Natl. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

FABRICATION OF INTERFACIAL GOLD NANOSTRUCTURES BY SIZE-CONTROLLED CHEMICAL ETCHING
P. M. Boltovets, S. A. Kravchenko, B. A. Snopok
V.Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine

FUNCTIONAL ARCHITECTURES BASED ON GOLD NANOPARTICLES BOUND TO THE SURFACE OF SILVER BY A COORDINATION BRIDGE
¹S. A. Kravchenko, ²A. Shanzer, ¹B. A. Snopok
¹V. Lashkaryov Institute of Semiconductor Physics, National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv, Ukraine;
²Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

SYNTHESIS OF NANO-CARBON BY THE ELECTROCHEMICAL DEPOSITION IN LIQUID OF ALCOHOL
¹A. Štogrin, ²I. Bružaitė
¹Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania;
²Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Deparment of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Vilnius, Lithuania

THE INFLUENCE OF ZnO NANOPARTICLES ON THE VIABILITY OF THE SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE YEAST CELLS
¹S. Komarovskaja, ^1,2I. Bružaitė
¹Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Deparment of Chemistry and Bioengineering, Vilnius, Lithuania
²Research Center for Microsystems and Nanotechnology, Kaunas University of Technology, Kaunas, Lithuania;

17.15-17.30

Questions from the audience and Discussion

17.30

Conclusion session and closing remarks