SRM brings home global academics for ICONN 2019

The conference is aimed at providing a platform for researchers and scientists to assess recent trends and developments in nanoscience and nanotechnology for promising applications. Scientific sessions of the conference include nanostructures materials and thin films, nanoelectronics, nanosensors and NEMS, nanophotonics and plasmonics, nanomagnetism, to mention a few.

More than 90 scientific sessions were held with eminent speakers from renowned international institutions such as Massachusetts Institute of Technology-USA, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-USA, Shizuoka University-Japan, University of Rome Tor Vergata-Italy, Kyung Hee University-South Korea, Russian Academy of Sciences-Russia and also from premier Institutes of India such as IIT Madras, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Guwahati, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science and CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory.

The total number of participants in the conference were about 2000. SRMIST also honoured eminent scientists Dr Yasuhiro Hayakawa, Professor, Research Institute of Electronics, Shizuoka University, with SRM-ICONN Life Time Achievement Award for Research Promotion; C Nithya, Department of Science and Technology-Woman Scientist, National Institute of Technology, Trichy with SRM-ICONN Outstanding Woman Researcher Award and D Mallikarjuna Rao, Scientist D, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, with SRM-ICONN Young Researcher Award. In order to encourage young researchers, best research awards for poster presentations were presented by Springer Nature Nano.