The research interests of Professor Young are in all aspects of the relationships between structure and mechanical properties of polymers and composites, and he has published a number of books and more than 450 papers in the field. He is listed in HighlyCited and has an H-index of 90. He has a number of research programmes in collaboration with academics and industrial companies in the UK, Mainland Europe and China. The application of the technique of Raman spectroscopy to monitor deformation processes in high-performance fibres and composites has been developed and now extended to other materials such as carbon nanotubes and spider silk. More recently he has been concerned using Raman spectroscopy to follow the deformation of graphene in composites in collaboration with Professor Novoselov of the School of Physics and Astronomy. This is now the main activity of his research group which investigates all aspects of the structure and deformation of graphene and other 2D materials in nanocomposites.

Prof IR Lim is currently a registered professional engineer (RPE). He received a first degree from Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, a Master's Degree and PhD from National University of Singapore and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Prior to joining CityU, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Department of Civil Engineering, The University of Queensland and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong. Prof. Lim is also a visiting professor at various universities including the University of Western Sydney, Dalian University of Technology, etc. He has expertise in vibration of plate and shell structures, dynamics of smart piezoelectric structures, nanomechanics and symplectic elasticity. He is the Editor for Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures (JoMMS), Associate Editor (Asia-Pacific Region) for Journal of Vibration Engineering & Technologies (JVET), Associate Editor for International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos (IJBC), International Subject Editor for Applied Mathematical Modelling (AMM), and also on the editorial board of some other international journals. He has published among one of the well-selling titles in Engineering Mechanics entitled "Symplectic Elasticity", co-authored with W.A. Yao and W.X. Zhong, as recorded in April 2010 by the publisher, World Scientific. He has published more than 300 international journal papers, accumulated more than 3000 independent citations, and one of the papers was granted the IJSS 2004-2008 most cited article award. He was also awarded Top Referees in 2009, Proceedings A, The Royal Society.

Dr. Jianli Hu is a Chair Professor and the Director of Shale Gas Center at West Virginia University. He leads an interdisciplinary team carrying out cutting edge research in natural gas conversion and renewable energy utilization. His research interests span across the fields of reaction engineering, surface chemistry, plasma and microwave-enhanced catalytic reactions. Before joining WVU, Dr. Hu led innovation efforts at Koch Industries, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and BP Oil. He has been granted 40 U.S. patents and published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and 200 conference papers.

James Vig Sherrill is the President and CEO at General Graphene. He is a serial entrepreneur who has led a number of successful technology companies in East Tennessee over the past 30 years. Most recently, he is serving as President and CEO of General Graphene. He has also helped found GridSmart, which has recently been acquired by Cubic Corporation; ASIC International, which was acquired by Flextronics; and Trade Winds, which was acquired by Sirit. He has raised more than $50 million in venture capital for his startups, which produced more than $150 million in revenue in East Tennessee. Sherrill earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University, with a focus on digital signal processing.

Zhongfan Liu completed his PhD from University of Tokyo in 1990 and postdoctoral study from the same university and Institute for Molecular Science (IMS), Japan. His current research interests include the CVD growth, mass production and equipment manufacturing, and unique applications of graphene. He is the founding Director of Beijing Graphene Institute (BGI) and a BOYA chair professor of Peking University. He is the member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the fellow of TWAS.

Professor Raman Singh’s expertise includes: Alloy Nano/Microstructure-Corrosion Relationship, Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC), Corrosion/SCC of Biomaterials, Corrosion Mitigation by Novel Material (e.g., Graphene), Advanced and Environmentally Friendly Coatings, High Temperature Corrosion. He has supervised 50 PhD students. He has published over 260 peer-reviewed international journal publications, 15 books/book chapters and over 100 reviewed conference publications. His professional responsibilities include Guest Professorships at ETH Zurich, US Naval Research Lab, Indian Isntitute of Science, and University of Connecticut, editor-in-chief of an Elsevier and an MDPI journal, Fellow ASM International and Fellow Engineers Australia, nearly 50 keynote/plenary talks at international conferences (besides numerous invited talks), leadership (as chairperson) of a few international conferences.

Suk-Ho Choi is a professor in Department of Applied Physics at Kyung Hee University. He received BS degree from Seoul National Univ. and MS/PhD degrees from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology. He spent sabbatical years at National Institute of Standards and Technology in USA, Australian National University, and Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology. He worked as a director at Institute of Natural Sciences at Kyung Hee University for 10 years, and was appointed as Fellow Professor from 2009. Prof. Choi has been involved in areas of fabrication and characterization of semiconductors over the last 4 decades. During this time, he has designed, developed, and constructed various chemical vapor deposition (CVD) systems including graphene/2D materials CVD, and PL/EL, I-V, C-V, dark- and photo-conductivity systems. In recent years, Prof. Choi has established two major areas of research, one on the optical and electrical properties of low-dimensional materials such as quantum dots/nanowires/graphene/2D materials and their heterostructures, and the other on fabrication/characterization of the low-dimensional-materials-based electronic and optical devices including LEDs, solar cells, piezoelectric cells, photodetectors, non-volatile memories, and sensors. He has published over 230 papers in the relevant research area.

Michel de Ruiter has a long history of working with graphene. He is the winner of the first Global Graphene Call and many other prizes. He has been invited all over the world to share his visions of a better world with this wonder material. With his company Graphene Pioneer, he is actively shaping this vision into a real world.

Katsumi Kaneko was a professor at Chiba University until March, 2010. He performed research on the characterization and structural analysis of confined nanospaces and nanoporous materials. From April 2010 he has been a distinguished professor at Shinshu University working with the JST J-RISE project on Exotic Nanocarbons.

Prof. A.K. Sood is the Year of Science Chair Professor in the Department of Physics at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India. He was the President of the Indian National Science Academy (2017-2019), President of the Indian Academy of Sciences (2010-2012)and the Secretary-General of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2013-2018). Currently, he is a member of the Science, Technology, and Innovation Advisory Council (PM-STIAC) of the Prime Minister of India. Prof. Sood’s research interests include the Physics of Nano systems such as graphene and other 2D materials and soft condensed matter, with a strong focus on innovative experiments. He has published morethan 450 papers in international journals and holds a few national and internationalpatents. His work has been recognized by way of many honors and awards. These include the Fellowship of the Royal Society ( FRS), all the three science academies of India and TWAS; the civilian honour, Padma Shri by Government of India, S.S. Bhatnagar Prize, G.D. Birla Award, TWAS Prize in Physics, FICCI Prize, Goyal Prize, M.N. Saha Award and Millennium Gold Medal of Indian Science Congress, Sir C.V. Raman Award of UGC, Homi Bhabha Medal of Indian National Science Academy

Mineo Hiramatsu is a full professor in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the Director of Research Institute, Meijo University, Japan. He served as the Director of The Japan Society of Applied Physics. His main fields of research are plasma diagnostics and plasma processing for the synthesis of thin films and nanostructured materials. He is an Author of more than 100 scientific papers and Member of organizing and scientific committees of international conferences on plasma chemistry and plasma processing. He is the Fellow of Japan Society of Applied Physics

He received my PhD degree in physics in 2013 from Mohamed V University in collaboration with Moroccan Foundation of Advanced Science, Research and Innovation (MAScIR), Rabat. My research interests focus on the modelling and fabrication of biosensors based surface plasmon resonance.

Dr Niloufar Raeis-Hosseini (PhD., Alumni Fellow of the Royal Society and Member of IEEE) is an assistant professor at Cranfield University and is affiliated with the Composites and Advanced Material Centre. Niloufar has been awarded her Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from POSTECH, with honours and awards. She fulfilled her postdoctoral fellowship by winning professional research funding from the Korean government and joined the Nanoscale Photonics and Integrated Manufacturing lab. She is a former honorary research fellow at Imperial College London (ICL), granting a Newton International fellowship (NIF).

Siu-Wai Chan studies size-dependent properties of nano-ceramics and crystalline interfaces. Chan’s research has focused on nano-ceramics and crystalline interfaces. Many working devices such as varistors use novel electrical transport properties of grain boundaries which is a type of crystalline interface.

Dr. Khashayar Ghandi received his PhD in Radiation Chemistry from Simon Fraser University in 2002. He worked as a research associate both under supervision of Professor Fleming at TRIUMF and he worked as a visiting scientist at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the Oxford shire, UK. In 2005, he went on the work as an Associate Assistant professor at Mount Allison University and received early tenure. He joined the University of Guelph as a tenured Associate Professor in 2018.

Soon-Gil Yoon received his Ph.D. from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Korea in 1988. He is a professor in Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Chungnam National University, Republic of Korea. His current research interests are Thin film capacitor, Fusion technology of Solar cell, Thermoelectric, and Piezoelectric using one structure, In situ graphene growth without transfer at 150 oC, Flexoelectric properties using Zn-Al:LDHnanosheets. Perovskite dye thin films such as MAPbI3, MASnI3, and MAPbCl3, etc by CVD. He published SCI papers of about 300 including Nano Letters, Advanced Materials, J. Mater. Chem. A, and Scientific Reports.

Victor Ryzhii is a principal researcher at the Institute of Ultra-High-Frequency Semi - conductor Electronics, Russia, and a visiting professor at the Research Institute of Electrical Communication, Tohoku University, Japan. He has authored or coauthored more than 400 research publications. Dr. Ryzhii has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (since 1987) and is also an IEEE and APS fellow.

Research and Facilities Program Director at ND Energy, University of Notre Dame. Direct a facility of 30 advanced analytical and synthetic instruments in an open facility (Materials Characterization Facility at the Center for Sustainable Energy at Notre Dame). Responsible for training and assisting a user base of ~250 active researchers as well as a number of external clients (analytical techniques, standard operating procedures and safety training/protocols). Provide analytical testing and consulting for analysis process development in many different fields, with an emphasis in graphene materials and carbon-based composites. Conduct training and workshops on a variety of analytical techniques. Repair and maintain many instruments (mcf.nd.edu for instrument list). Direct a research group designing graphene composite materials for thermal management applications.

Dr. Nilanthy Balakrishnan is a Lecturer in Physics at the School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Keele University, UK (October 2019 - now). She obtained BSc Hons degree in Physics from the University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka in 2008, and an MSc by Research and PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the University of Nottingham in 2012 and 2015, respectively. Following her PhD, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher for 3 years at the University of Nottingham and 18 months at the University of Manchester. Dr. Balakrishnan's main areas of expertise are semiconductor physics, material science, and nanotechnology. Her research focuses on understanding the fundamental properties and applications of novel 2D materials.

Dr. Marjan Entezar Shabestari just started her new work as an Associated Professor, at the College of Chemistry and Environmental Engineering, Sichuan University of Science and Engineering, China. She received her Ph.D. in Material Science & Engineering from Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain in 2019. Her research focuses on synthesize and applications of novel 2D materials.

Mª Ángeles Moreno Fernández obtained her bachelor degree in Physics at the University of Valladolid in 2010. During her last year, she carried out her bachelor thesis at the University of Gent in Belgium. The research was focused on the study the impact of laser and mechanical cutting in the magnetic properties of electric steels. In 2012, she completed her Master’s degree in “Energy and Fuels for the Future” at the University Autónoma of Madrid. The goal of her Master’s Thesis was the study of intermetallic compounds for hydrogen storage. In December 2012, she started her PhD in the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM). The research performed during her PhD was focused on the study of different types of electrolytes for carbon-based supercapacitors. In 2014, she joined the Institute of Physical Chemistry-MEET (Germany) for a PhD Internship. In 2015, she moved for a second PhD Internship of three months in Helmholtz-Institute Ulm (HIU) (Germany). The motivation of both PhD Internships was the study of different ionic liquids as electrolytes for supercapacitors. In February 2016, after obtaining her PhD degree, she stayed for eleven months as a Postdoctoral researcher in the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid working in supercapacitors field. In March 2018, Mª Ángeles Moreno joined CIC energiGUNE (Miñano, Spain) as Postdoctoral researcher, where is currently working on the development of graphene-based materials for double-layer, pseudo and hybrid supercapacitors.

Emilia Visileanu is a scientific researcher in the first degree and a Ph.D. in sciences since 1996. During 1997-2011 General Manager of INCDTP Bucharest. The research activity focused on topic of more than 100 national and international projects (FP V, FP VI, FP VII, EUREKA, MANU NET, ERASMUS + etc.) both as project manager and member in the inter and transdisciplinary teams. Expertise in smart textiles materials obtained by classical and unconventional (electrospinning) technologies, technologies for functionalization textile materials with NP and studies on the influence of NPs on the human health, textile medical devices (bandages, 3D textile structures for hernias and eventration, composite structures for healing burns etc.).The research activity was disseminated by publishing of over 100 scientific papers in journals and proceedings volumes indexed ISI/BDI, 5 books and chapter of specialized books, 27 patents

Dr. Woo has a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering, and he has obtained PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M. He majors in energy system such as HVAC and its heat transfer, optimal design and control of refrigerator, reliability design of thermal components, and failure Analysis of thermal components in marketplace using the Non-destructive such as SEM & XRAY. In 1992.03–1997 he worked in Agency for Defense Development, Chinhae, South Korea, where he has researcher in charge of Development of Naval weapon System. He was working as a Senior Reliability Engineer in Refrigerator Division, Digital Appliance, SAMSUNG Electronics. Now he is working as associate professor in mechanical department, Ethiopian Technical University.

Dr. Hicham Fakhry PhD at Ibn Tofail University in Laboratory of Separation Processes, and Laboratory of Materials, Nanotechnology and Environment, Faculty of Sciences, Mohammed V University (Rabat-Agdal). We are working on the study of the inhibition performance of the newly synthesized quinoline derivatives on Carbone steel corrosion in acid medium, by gravemitric and the electrochemical techniques such as, impedance spectroscopy, potentiodynamic polarization. We theoretically study this phenomenon with simulation software such Montecarlo, DFT and MD simulation.

Researcher In Materials Science and Energy (MSN/UM6P). OCP Professor / Pool Expert energy (OCP Group). Volunteer Vacancy Professor (UH-II- Act4community). MSN Sustainable Development Ambassador (UM6P).

Valeri Ligatchev was born in Russia in 1959. He had obtained his MS, PhD and Doctor of Science (equivalent of Habilitation) degrees in Moscow Power Engineering Institute (MPEI, Russia) in years 1982, 1988 and 1998, respectively. In MPEI he worked as a researcher (senior researcher) and lecturer from 1988 till 1999. Since 1999 he is working (till 2014) and living in Singapore: in Nanyang Technological University, (1999 – 2005), NanoScience Innovation Pte. Ltd. (2005 – 2006), and Institute of High Performance Computing, A*STAR, (2006 – 2014). He became an author (co-author) of 82 referred journal articles, 104 conference abstracts and proceeding articles as well as of 7 books and book chapters. He is a member of The Electrochemical Society since 2007. His name had been included in 2011 Edition of Marquis Who's Who in the World. His areas of scientific interest and expertise comprise of experimental, computational and theoretical investigations on electronic, optical, vibrational, relaxation time and defect states spectra as well as thermal properties of various (predominantly spatially non-homogeneous) semiconductors (including low-dimensional ones), insulators and even superconductors, including nominally undoped and heavily doped polycrystalline and nano-crystalline diamond(s), flakes of two-dimensional semiconductors, silicon-germanium ‘quantum dots’, silicon micro- and nano-wires and ‘molecular wires’, amorphous hydrogenated silicon-based semiconductor films, porous ‘low-k’ organic and inorganic insulating layers, as well as ceramic insulators with ‘gigantic dielectric response’, GDR.