YUCOMAT 2025 - Confirmed Plenary Speakers

  1. Takuzo Aida 
    Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, School of Engineering,The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Supramolecular Plastics for a Sustainable Future

  2. Pulickel Ajayan 
    RICE University, Houston, USA
    2D and 3D phases of boron-carbon-nitrogen compositions

  3. Khalil Amine 
    Argonne National Laboratory,USA; Imam Abdelrahman Ben Faisal University, Saudi Arabia & Stanford University, USA

  4. Frank Caruso
    The University of Melbourne, Australia

  5. Hui-Ming Cheng  
    Shenyang National Laboratory for Materials Science, Institute of Metal Research, CAS; Institute of Technology for Carbon Neutrality, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China
    Repairing and upcycling of electrode materials from spent lithium ion batteries

  6. Andrea C. Ferrari 
    University of Cambridge, UK

  7. Yury Gogotsi 
    Drexel University, Philadelphia, USA
    Assembly of MXene-Based Materials with a Multitude of Functionalities

  8. Horst Hahn 
    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Institute of Nanotechnology, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

  9. Yu Huang 
    University of California Los Angeles, Samueli School of Engineering, USA
    Accelerating catalyst design for sustainable energy future

     

  10. Joseph T. Hupp 
    Northwestern University and Argonne National Laboratory, USA

  11. Mercouri Kanatzidis 
    Northwestern University, USA
    Halide perovskites: Pioneering materials for clean energy and advanced technologies

  12. Luis M. Liz-Marzán 
    CIC biomaGUNE, San Sebastián, Spain
    New directions in colloidal metal nanoparticle synthesis

  13. Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin 
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

  14. Rishi Raj 
    University of Colorado, Cornell University, USA
    Electrification of materials synthesis

  15. Rui L. Reis 
     University of Minho, Portugal

  16. Robert O. Ritchie 
    University of California, Berkeley. USA

  17. Rodney  S. Ruoff 
    Institute for Basic Science, Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Ulsan, South Korea
    New syntheses of graphene and diamond

  18. Vladimir Torchilin
    Northeastern University, Boston, USA
    Novel materials for nanosized drug delivery systems

  19. Younan Xia 
    Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
    Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals: Moving from Academic Studies to Industrial Applications

  20. Hua Zhang 
     City University of Hong Kong; China