Bharat BHUSHAN
The Ohio State University
United States

"Bioinspired Mechanically Durable Superliquiphilic/phobic Surfaces"

Phillip MESSERSMITH
University of California, Berkeley
United States

"Hydrogels and Coatings Inspired by Biological Polyphenols"

Clément SANCHEZ
Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris, UPMC
France

"Bioinspired Approaches to Advanced Nanostructured Materials"

Kristina WANIECK
Deggendorf Institute of Technology
Germany

"Biomimetics – Engineering, Creativity, Innovation and Sustainable solutions"

Prateep BEED
Biomimicry Germany
Germany

"NatureTech - how can biosphere inform the technosphere"

KEYNOTES SPEAKERS

Nicholas ABBOTT
University of wisconsin-madison
USA

"Biologically-Inspired Design of Hydrophobic Interactions using Chemical Nanopatterns"

Jas Pal BADYAL
Durham University
United Kingdom

"Bioinspired Water Harvesting"

Joel BARRAULT
University of Poitier
France

"Catalysis-based ecoefficient processes for biobased products: a few examples"

Mikhael BECHELANY
University of Montpellier
France

"Engineering of biobased nanostructured interfaces: properties and applications"

Georges BELFORT
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
United States

"Thiazoline Ring Formation in an Engineered Intein Serves as a Splicing Switch For Single Step Purification Platforms"

Joachim BILL
University of Stuttgart
Germany

"Generation of inorganic functional materials by molecular bionics"

Paul BRAUN
University of Illinois
United States

Jennifer CHA
University of Colorado
United States

Insung CHOI
KAIST
Korea

"Neurons on Nanotopographies"

Armando CORDOVA
Stockholm University
Sweden

"Eco-friendly design for scalable direct fabrication of nanocellulose"

Henri CRAMAIL
replaced by Océane LAMARZELLE
University of Bordeaux
France

"Fully bio-based Non-Isocyanate Polyurethanes (NIPU) via cyclic carbonate/amine route"

Thierry DARMANIN
Nice University
France

"Superhydrophobic and Superoleophobic Nanostructured Conducting Polymer Films: From Nanofibers to Nanotubes"

Tao DENG 
Shangai Jiao Tong University
China

"Localized Energy Conversion Inspired by Biological System"

John DUTCHER
University of Guelph
Canada

"Structure and Hydration of Monodisperse Polysaccharide Nanoparticles"

Catarina ESTEVES
Eindhoven University of Technology
The Netherlands

"Stimuli-responsive polymer coated cotton fibers"

Holger FRAUENRATH
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Switzerland

"Order and Disorder in Soft Matter Design"

Zhiguang GUO
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

"Biomimetic Multi-Functional Superamphiphobic FOTS-TiO2 Particles Inspired from Lotus Leaf"

Karsten HAUPT
Compiègne University of Technology
France

"Bioimaging with plastic antibodies"

Atsushi HOZUMI
AIST
Japan

"Bio-inspired Smart Surfaces Showing Anti-X Properties"

Olli IKKALA
Aalto University
Finland

"Bioinspired Materials towards Functions and Devices"

Raz JELINEK
Ben Gurion University
Israel

"Functionalized carbon quantum dots for biological studies"

Zhongyi JIANG
Tianjin University
China

"Biomimetic and Bioinspired Membranes"

Pascal JONKHEIJM
MESA, Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente
The Netherlands

"Dynamic interfaces for living matter"

Marleen KAMPERMAN
WU Agrotechnology & Food Sciences
The Netherlands

"Mussel-inspired polymer coatings"

Vadim KESSLER
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Sweden

"Metal oxide nanoparticles and nanostructures as functional constituents in smart drug delivery systems"

David KISAILUS
University of California at Riverside
United States

"From Biology to Bio-inspiration: Development of Next Generation Advanced Materials"

Nicholas KOTOV
University of Michigan
United States

"Biomimetic Nanoparticles and Chiral Nanoscale Assemblies"

Guojun LIU
Queen's University
Canada

"Fluorine-Free Clear and Durable NANOGLIDE Coatings for Anti-Smudge and Anti-Graffiti Applications"

Federica LO VERSO
Center of Materials Physics
Spain

"Designing a New Class of Functional Soft Materials through Single Chain Nanoparticles"

Cefe LOPEZ
Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (CSIC)
Spain

"Transport and emission of light in disordered selfassembled materials"

Xuehong LU
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore

"Mussel Adhesive-Inspired Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Nanomaterials: Structures, Morphologies and Potential Applications"

Avi MARMUR
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Israel

"From ocean foam to clouds to nanobubbles"

Elisa Martinelli
University of Pisa
Italy

"Nanostructure self-assembly and water responsiveness of amphiphilic surface-active polymers for biological applications"

Adam MECHLER
La Trobe University
Australia

"Towards self-assembling electronics: an oligopeptide-based conductive material"

Audrey MOORES
McGill University
Canada

"Atom economy in Nanoscience: Biomass as an avenues to access metal nanoparticles"

Hung D. NGUYEN
University of California, Irvine
United States

"Rational design of stimuli-responsive biomaterials using multiscale simulations"

Ralph NUZZO
California Institute of Technology
United States

"Biologically Compliant 4D Printing"

Richard PARKER
University of Cambridge
United Kingdom

Céline POCHAT-BOHATIER
Montpellier University
France

"Design of novel bio-based membranes made with gelatin"

Florence POPOWYCZ
INSA, Lyon University
France

"Isohexide, an unexpected multifaceted platform"

Damien QUEMENER
Institut Européen des Membranes, University of Montpellier
France

"Collective bursting of self-assembled ABA triblock copolymer vesicles: a new bioinspired route to isoporous polymer materials"

Frank QUINA
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Brazil

"Chemistry of Natural Plant Pigment Analogs"

John RABOLT
University of Delaware
United States

"Structure and Morphology of Biosynthesized and Biodegradable Polymer Nanofibers, Ultrathin Films and Single Crystals Using AFM-IR and Selected Area Electron Diffraction (SAED)"

Robin RAS
Aalto University
Finland

"Designing Surfaces that are Superhydrophobic under Oil and Superoleophobic under Water"

Thomas SCHEIBEL
Universität Bayreuth
Germany

"Biomimetic spider silk fibers with natural mechanical properties"

Anupama SHARMA
Panjab University
India

"High Performance Materials from Nanocellulose derived from Waste Lignocellulosic Biomass"

Alina SIONKOWSKA
Nicolaus Copernicus University
Poland

"Modification of film-forming properties of natural polymers for cosmetic application"

Yanlin SONG
Chinese Academy of Sciences
China

"Green Printing Nano-technology for Manufacturing Photonics and Electronics"

Francesco STELLACCI
EPFL
Switzerland

"Bio-inspired approaches to treat transmissible diseases"

Junqi SUN
Jilin University
China

"Self-healing/healable polymeric films"

Taolei SUN
Wuhan University of Technology
China

"Chiral Polymeric Biointerface Materials--From Recognition to Bio-Function"

Anna TAMPIERI
ISTEC-CNR
Italy

“Bio-inspired process to generate bioactive magnetic nanoparticles: a new platform for THERANOSTICS”

Vladimir V. TSUKRUK
Georgia Institute of Technology
United States

"Designing Flexible Laminated Bionanocomposite and Nanoshells"

Valentine VULLEV
University of California
United States

"Bioinspired molecular electrets"

Tak-Sing WONG
The Pennsylvania State University
United States

"Nature Inspired Super Slippery Surfaces"

Di ZHANG
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
China

"Morphology-genetic Materials Inspired from Nature Species"

Junping ZHANG
Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, CAS
China

"Durable superamphiphobic coatings with low sliding angle"

Liqun ZHANG
Beijing University of Chemical Technology
China

"Biobased and bioinspired elastomers with functional performance"