Special Session 4
INNOVATIONS AND COMMERCIALISATION OF NANOTECHNOLOGY USING NANOMATERIALS (SS4)
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical importance of scientific innovation, technological resilience, and the rapid translation of research into practical solutions. At the same time, humanity continues to face interconnected global challenges, including climate change, energy security, environmental degradation, public health, emerging diseases, resource scarcity, and geopolitical and economic instability.
Addressing these challenges requires sustained investment in advanced and emerging technologies, together with stronger pathways for translating scientific discoveries into scalable, sustainable, and commercially viable solutions. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a broad framework for understanding the complexity and urgency of these global challenges.
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are strategically positioned to contribute to this transformation. The ability to engineer materials and structures at the nanoscale enables the development of materials with novel physical, chemical, electronic, optical, biological, and mechanical properties. These capabilities are opening new opportunities across healthcare, energy, environmental protection, communications, manufacturing, and other technology-intensive sectors.
This Special Session provides a multidisciplinary platform for scientists, researchers, engineers, innovators, and industry stakeholders working at the forefront of nanoscience, nanotechnology, and nanomaterials. The session will showcase novel research, emerging technologies, advanced materials, and translational innovations with the potential to address significant scientific and societal challenges.
Particular emphasis will be placed on research that demonstrates a clear pathway from scientific discovery to technological innovation, application, scale-up, and commercialisation. Contributions presenting genuinely transformative concepts, disruptive technologies, novel applications, and approaches capable of delivering measurable societal, environmental, or economic impact are especially encouraged.
The session will also explore the challenges associated with translating laboratory-scale nanotechnology into real-world applications, including scalability, nanomanufacturing, reproducibility, sustainability, safety, regulatory considerations, intellectual property, technology readiness, investment, and market adoption.
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Contributions are particularly welcomed in, but are not limited to, the following areas:
- Nanotechnology for climate change mitigation and environmental sustainability
- Nanomaterials for clean and sustainable energy
- Nanomedicine, healthcare, diagnostics, and therapeutics
- Advanced, functional, and smart nanomaterials
- Nanotechnology-enabled communications and electronic technologies
- Emerging and convergent technologies
- Novel applications of nanomaterials and nanotechnology
- Nanomanufacturing, scale-up, and advanced processing
- Sustainable and responsible nanotechnology
- Commercialisation and technology translation
- Intellectual property, technology transfer, and innovation ecosystems
- Industry–academia collaboration
- Research-to-innovation and research-to-market pathways
- Disruptive and transformative nanotechnology solutions
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