INVITED SESSIONS
IS1: Wearable Multifunctional Micro/Nanosystems
Session Chair: Wei GAO, California Institute of Technology, USA
Description: This session covers the topics related to the new generations of wearable and flexible micro/nanosystems for energy harvesting, health monitoring, and robotic applications. This session aims to facilitate discussion on the challenges in the field of wearable micro/nanosystems at materials, devices, and system levels. Interdisciplinary research related to fundamental mechanisms, materials development, device optimization, system level engineering, and practical biomedical applications will be connected by invited talks to facilitate the development of these multifunctional microsystems toward practical applications.
IS2: Microbiosensors
Session Chair: Gwo-Bin LEE, Nat’l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Description: This session consists of five invited talks which cover the topics from nanosensors using triboelectricity, magneto-electrochemistry, microfluidic peptide enrichment, paper-based approach and impedance-sensing for a variety of biological applications, including liquid biopsy, peptide detection, COVID-19 and cancer diagnosis. Multi-disciplinary integration of sensing techniques may open up a new route for biosensing2
IS3: Nanomaterials and Nano-/Micro-Devices for Biosensing
Session Chair: Jun LI, Kansas State Univ., USA
Description: This session consists of three invited speakers to present their leading research to interface engineering and biomedical studies. The presentations are focused on the recent development in biosensors based on nanomaterials and nano-/micro- devices for manipulation and detection of biomarkers and pathogens. The scope covers biosensing platforms using nanoscale materials based on different electrical and electrochemical transducing mechanisms.
IS4: Active Biomateirals for Diagnosis and Therapies
Session Chair: Hyunjoon KONG, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; Sung Gap IM, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology, Korea
Description: This session aims to introduce current top-notch studies on the “Active Biomaterial” used in diagnosis and therapies. Active material encompasses natural or synthetic materials that exhibit autonomous machinery activities including propulsion, pumping, actuation, and transformation. Due to these unique properties and functions, these materials are increasingly garnering attention in biomedical studies. Therefore, this session plans to put experts together and discuss novel strategies to improve nanoscale assembly and functionality of active biomaterials towards enhanced diagnosis or treatment of various diseases. This session would offer a good opportunity to allow the audience to hear current advancements and future perspectives in active biomaterials.
IS5: Impedance Based Biosensors
Session Chair: Mahmoud ALMASRI, Univ. of Missouri, USA
Description: This session will focus on the design, fabrication, and validation of biosensing technologies that are based on Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) as the main transduction mechanism. The sensor can be used for single or simultaneous detection of pathogenic cells, toxins, and viruses under field conditions or point-of-care applications. It utilizes a broad range of biological recognition components such as antibodies, enzymes, nucleic acids, cells, or receptors, novel electrode designs and surface functionalization techniques to achieve high sensitivity and selectivity. Both experimental and theoretical works are welcome.
IS6: Emerging Materials and Flexible Electronics
Session Chair: Yunlong ZI, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Description: Flexible electronics can be achieved by either assembling electronics and circuits in flexible substrates or making electronic devices flexible by themselves. The development of these flexible electronics highly relies on the emerging materials, which have intensively studied in recent years. This session will introduce several emerging developments in material, device, and even system levels.
IS7: Advances in 2D Materials and Their Applications
Session Chair: Dong LIN, Kansas State Univ., USA
Description: This session focus on 2D materials and their broader applications. Since the first successful synthesis of graphene over a decade ago, a variety of 2D materials (e.g., transition metal-dichalcogenides, hexagonal boron-nitride, etc.) The semiconductor industry embraces the advent of 2D materials due to their superior electric, optic, chemical, and thermal properties. This session will invite speakers to share their latest discovery in their groups.
IS8: Micro/Nano Engineering for Advanced Bio/Medical Systems
Session Chair: Yoshikazu HIRAI, Kyoto Univ., Japan
Description: Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) researchers interact across disciplines to enhance and strengthen the potential of micro/nano technologies in revolutionizing the fields of medicine and biological sciences through the development of new tools, devices, and technologies. This session is organized six energetic MEMS researchers in Japan and highlights recent advances in the field of microfabrication technologies and the state of the art in bio/medical applications such as Sensors/Microrobots for clinical use, and Microfluidic Platforms for biotechnology.
IS9: Micro-Nano Engineering and Smart Electronics
Session Chair: Xiaosheng ZHANG, Univ. of Electronic Science & Technology of China, China
Description: As the fundament and essence of MEMS/NEMS, the intensive innovation of micro-nano engineering greatly promoted it to experience a blooming development in the past decade. Consequently, the emerging electronic devices and systems, which could autonomously monitor and respond the environmental stimulus, including advanced sensors, self-driven actuators, self-powered microsystems, etc., are proposed and widely investigated. Therefore, this session focuses on the latest development and findings of micro-nano engineering and smart electronics.
IS10: Single-Cell Analysis
Session Chair: Tuhin Subhra SANTRA, Indian Institute of Technology at Madras, India
Description: This session will deliberate the research related to micro or nanosystems dealing with single-cell manipulation, separation, lysis, dynamics of a single cell with the use of micro/nanofluidic devices combined with various detection schemes. Single-cell therapy using different physical approaches and its applications in medicine, as well as deep learning model to classify breast cancer cell types will also be discus. The future challenge for single-cell analysis with their advantages and limitations will elaborate.
IS11: Smart Sensors for Healthcare Applications
Session Chair: Zong-Hong LIN, Nat’l Tsing Hua Univ., Taiwan
Description: Smart sensors with various advantages in comparison to conventional sensors have triggered increasing research efforts from both industry and academia. Many intelligent or medical sensors have shown their capabilities to continually analyze different activities and help to predict diseases before serious conditions happen. And active/self-powered sensors with no external input power, are mini-sized and lightweight. The development of these smart sensors have pushed their feasible applications in a wide range of fields. This session will attempt to cover the recent achievements of smart sensors, which include physical/chemical sensors, biosensors, microfluidics for medical & biological applications, and self-powered sensors/systems.
IS12: Energy Harvesting and Smart Systems
Session Chair: Yunlong ZI, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Description: With the rapid development of smart systems, trillions of devices are widely distributed in every corner of the world. Energy harvesting technologies are being rapidly developed to satisfy the power needs of electronic devices, through which energy in the ambient environment can be converted into electricity through various mechanisms. This session will focus on various types of energy harvesters toward development of smart systems.