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Georgios K. Kertsopoulos is the inventor of this world patented invention "Magnetic system of three interactions" WO2013136097A4. Practical demonstrations of the effects produced by this novel technology have been made in front of researchers and academia, at seminars and conferences. His research includes physics, mathematics, electromagnetism, space-time experimentation, gravity-inertia measuring apparatus inventions. He has published in English, the book MAGNETIC SYSTEM OF MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS (Volumes I & II) 3+3 AND 5+5 = 16 INTERACTIONS IN TOTAL VS THE KNOWN TWO FROM 0 DISTANCE TO INFINITY and much more than that…, which includes the complete new scientific know-how of the technology.

Professor Bob Bradley has over 35 years experience in Materials Science and Surface Physics research and teaching, he is a visitor in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford; holds the University of Wyoming, School of Energy Resources Chair in Carbon Materials Engineering and is Chairman and Managing Director of Matsurf Sciences (UK) Ltd and Black Dog Carbons. He is an internationally recognized authority on carbon materials and surface science. His main areas of interest include surface structure, interfaces, fluid-solid interactions, adsorption, porosity, fibers, and polymers. His work has applications in energy storage, low energy and clean technologies, environmental protection, composites, and health care. He has authored over 200 scientific manuscripts; helped win over £13m in research funds and supervised over 400 projects and short studies by D.Phil., post-doctoral and ad-hoc research staff, he a is an active supporter of technology transfer and the ‘ideas to reality’ culture which promotes the development of sound basic science research toward technologies and products. Current research focuses on micro/mesoporous carbons for metal ion batteries and for pollution control, specific and non-specific interactions at carbon surfaces, photo-thermal energy harvest devices, the development of advanced materials from coal extracts and precursors and novel low-cost composites for automotive and aerospace applications. His research groups have hosted a number prominent scientific meetings including Carbon 2006 World Carbon Conference, he has served on the editorial boards of a number of international journals and the advisory boards of major international conferences - most recently Carbon 2019 at UKY Lexington – and he has multiple global collaborations with leading laboratories. He has just retired as Chairman of the Society of Chemical Industry Materials Division - a position he held for several terms over the past two decades – and has previously received the societies Distinguished Service Award and their Award for Services to Council.

Ephraim Suhir is the faculty of Portland State University, Portland, OR, USA, Technical University, Vienna, Austria, and James Cook University, Queensland, Australia. He is also CEO of a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) ERS Co. in Los Altos, CA, USA, is Foreign Full Member (Academician) of the National Academy of Engineering, Ukraine (he was born in that country); Life Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the Society of Optical Engineers (SPIE), and the International Microelectronics and Packaging Society (IMAPS); Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Institute of Physics (IoP), UK, and the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE); and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). Ephraim has authored 400+ publications (patents, technical papers, book chapters, books), presented numerous keynote and invited talks worldwide, and received many professional awards, including 1996 Bell Laboratories Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) Award (for developing effective methods for predicting the reliability of complex structures used in AT&T and Lucent Technologies products), and 2004 ASME Worcester Reed Warner Medal (for outstanding contributions to the permanent literature of engineering and laying the foundation of a new discipline “Structural Analysis of Electronic Systems”). Ephraim is the third “Russian American”, after S. Timoshenko and I. Sikorsky, who received this prestigious award. This year he received the 2019 IEEE Electronic Packaging Society (EPS) Field award for seminal contributions to mechanical reliability engineering and modeling of electronic and photonic packages and systems.

Manijeh Razeghi received the Doctorat d'État es Sciences Physiques from the Université de Paris, France, in 1980. After heading the Exploratory Materials Lab at Thomson-CSF (France), she joined Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, as a Walter P. Murphy Professor and Director of the Center for Quantum Devices in Fall 1991, where she created the undergraduate and graduate program in solid-state engineering. She is one of the leading scientists in the field of semiconductor science and technology, pioneering in the development and implementation of major modern epitaxial techniques such as MOCVD, VPE, gas MBE, and MOMBE for the growth of entire compositional ranges of III-V compound semiconductors. She is on the editorial board of many journals such as the Journal of Nanotechnology, and the Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, an Associate Editor of Opto-Electronics Review. She is on the International Advisory Board for the Polish Committee of Science and is an Adjunct Professor at the College of Optical Sciences of the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ. She has authored or co-authored more than 1000 papers, more than 30 book chapters, and fifteen books, including the textbooks Technology of Quantum Devices (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2010) and Fundamentals of Solid State Engineering, 3rd Edition (Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., New York, NY U.S.A. 2009). Two of her books, MOCVD Challenge Vol. 1 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1989) and MOCVD Challenge Vol. 2 (IOP Publishing Ltd., Bristol, U.K., 1995), discuss some of her pioneering work in InP-GaInAsP and GaAs-GaInAsP based systems. The MOCVD Challenge, 2nd Edition (Taylor & Francis/CRC Press, 2010) represents the combined updated version of Volumes 1 and 2. She holds 50 U.S. patents and has given more than 1000 invited and plenary talks. Her current research interest is in nanoscale optoelectronic quantum devices. Dr. Razeghi is a Fellow of MRS, IOP, IEEE, APS, SPIE, OSA, Fellow and Life Member of Society of Women Engineers (SWE), Fellow of the International Engineering Consortium (IEC), and a member of the Electrochemical Society, ACS, AAAS, and the French Academy of Sciences and Technology. She received the IBM Europe Science and Technology Prize in 1987, the Achievement Award from the SWE in 1995, the R.F. Bunshah Award in 2004, and many best paper awards.

Prof. Terry M. Tritt is a Professor of Physics at Clemson University. He is a graduate of Clemson University obtaining his BA in 1980 and Ph.D. in 1985. He then served as a National Research Council Fellow at the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC (1985-1989). From 1989 until 1996 he was a staff scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the faculty at Clemson University in Aug. of 1996. The focus of his current research centers on materials for thermoelectric (TE) refrigeration and power generation applications. He is considered an expert in the field of thermoelectric (TE) materials research and characterization. His primary research expertise lies in electrical and thermal transport properties and phenomena (especially in measurement and characterization techniques) in new and novel materials. His recent activities are focused on the synthesis and characterization of thermoelectric nanomaterials and nanocomposites & characterization of thermoelectric material’s parameters, especially thermal conductivity. Prof. Tritt has served as a symposium organizer of four Materials Research Society Symposia on Thermoelectrics Materials (MRS Volumes 478, 545, 626 and 1044). He was recently an author and lead editor of an MRS Bulletin Theme (March 2006) on Thermoelectric Materials and Devices. He edited a three-volume set on “Recent Trends in Thermoelectric Materials Research” (Academic Press-2000) and has also recently edited a book by Kluwer Press on Thermal Conductivity. He is a former member (1999-2008) of the Executive Board of the International Thermoelectric Society (ITS) and served as chairman and host of the 24th ITC-2005 at Clemson in June of 2005. He was recently elected as an Academy Fellow of the International Thermoelectrics Academy. In 2008 he was selected as the SCAS Governor’s Research Professor of the Year and the Clemson University Alumni Award For Outstanding Achievement In Research. In Spring 2009 he served as one of four Materials Research Society’s Meeting Chairs for the annual spring meeting in San Francisco that hosted over 5000 scientists from all over the world. He was recently promoted to the position of Alumni Distinguished Professor, one of 15 such positions at Clemson University. He has recently been appointed as a Guest Professor at Zhejiang University and the Wuhan University of Technology, both in China. He has written over 150 journal publications, over ten review articles and regularly gives invited presentations at national and international meetings as well as many university seminars.

Haruo Sugi graduated from the postgraduate school at the University of Tokyo with the degree of Ph.D. in 1962 and appointed to be an instructor in physiology at the University of Tokyo Medical School. He worked at Columbia University (New York) from 1995 to 1966 as a research associate, and in the National Institutes of Health from 1966 to 1967 as a visiting scientist. In 1973, He was appointed to be Professor and Chairman at the Teikyo University Medical School until 2004, when he became Emeritus Professor. Sugi was Chairman of the Muscle Commission in the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) from 1994 to 2004.

Dr. Koch received his Ph.D. in metallurgy from the Case Inst. of Technology (now Case Western Reserve University) in 1964. He joined Oak Ridge National Laboratory as a staff scientist in 1965. He was the group leader of the superconducting materials and then the alloying behavior and design group before he joined North Carolina State University, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, as a professor in 1983. He is Kobe Steel Distinguished Professor of materials science and engineering. He has made significant contributions to the understanding of mechanical alloying for the preparation of amorphous and nanostructured alloys. It is in this context that processing has become an important part of his research. He has published over360 papers and edited or co-edited 7 books. In October 1995 Dr. Koch was cited in Science Watch for the third-highest number of citations per paper in the world for high-impact articles in materials science for 1990 through 1994. He has achieved the rank of Fellow in professional societies, including the Minerals, Metals, and Materials Society (TMS), (the membership is limited to 100 living Fellows), the Materials Research Society (MRS), the American Physical Society (APS), ASM International, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He was elected into the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2013.

Guoqian Chen is a professor of systems ecology and sustainability science at Peking University, China. He has a wide spectrum of research interests including climate thermodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer, energy policy, systems ecological modeling, ecological economics, global and regional sustainability studies, systems input-output technique. With distinguished contributions as marked by around 300 publications in prestigious journals, Prof. Chen has won a series of awards and honors, including Elsevier Atlas Award, Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers Award, Thomson Reuters China Citation Laureate. He served as editor, associate editor or advisory member for 50 international journals.

Dr. Aloysius F. Hepp graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a B.S. in Chemistry and earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Chemistry in 1983. He is Chief Technologist of Nanotech Innovations LLC, Oberlin, OH and Consulting Editor for Elsevier Science and Technology Books. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board of Materials Science and Engineering B and Heliyon. He was Editor-in-Chief of Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing (2010-2015) and is currently Chair of the International Editorial Advisory Board. He was a senior research scientist at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, OH until his retirement in 2016. He has 200 publications in refereed journals, conference proceedings, technical publications, and book chapters in the areas of energy conversion and storage, precursors for spray pyrolysis of metal sulfides and carbon nanotubes, thin-film and nanomaterials for photovoltaics and batteries, materials processing of local resources for space exploration and flight experiments for Mars and small satellites. He has held multiple academic appointments and has served on advisory boards at Harvard University, Kent State University, University of Tulsa, University of Texas, Arlington, University at Albany, and Cleveland State University.

Dr. You Qiang is a professor of physics and core-faculty in the Nuclear Energy Program at the University of Idaho and Idaho National Laboratory (INL), USA. He is the director of Nanophysics and Nanomaterials Research Lab. He is also the Chairman (2019-2021) and a lifetime fellow of Idaho Academy of Science. He received an MS degree at the Harbin Institute of Technology and Chinese Academy of Space Technology in 1985, and a Ph.D. degree in 1997 at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He was a research faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln from 1999 to 2002. Dr.Qiang’s research focuses on magnetism and magnetic nanomaterials. He has studied magnetic nanoparticles and nanocomposites for more than 30 years. His expertise includes synthesis of monodispersive nanoclusters and nanocluster-assembled composites; characterization of magnetic and optical properties as well as transport properties by conductivity, optics, susceptibility and theoretical investigation of magnetic nanoparticle interactions. He applied magnetic nanoparticles in energy, environmental and biomedical nanoscience and nanotechnology. Presently Dr. Qiang’s research interests are a) Magnetic separation nanotechnology for used nuclear fuel recycling; b) High-temperature ferromagnetism and giant magnetoresistance of semiconductor oxide nanomaterials for spintronics; and c) magnetic nanoparticles for radiation detector and environmental remediation. He has published more than 100 refereed papers and 4 book chapters, more than 150 invited talks at national and international conferences, world-class universities and institutions, and served on national and international conference organizations and committees, including MMM, MRS, CleanTech, NanoTech, and IMC. He organized and chaired conferences and sessions for INTERMAG, MMM, APS and NW-APS meetings. He is also a member of the editorial board for scientific journals: IEEE Mag Letters, Nanomaterials and J. of Nanoparticles.

Dr. Nima Golsharifi is a serial entrepreneur and CEO creating value by approaching problems from an interdisciplinary perspective using new technologies, believing the best innovations often come from combining ideas from different (and often disparate) fields. He is specialized in energy storage devices, betavoltaics, diamond electronics, thin-film devices, and organic semiconductors. Dr. Nima Golsharifi is continuously looking for a way to transfer his academic knowledge and leadership skills to add value, grow companies by employing his fresh ideas and strong multi-disciplinary scientific and industrial experience alongside deep theoretical knowledge, technical background and the large network of academics and business individuals from around the world. Nima developed a cybersecurity software at the age of 17, where his startup managed to serve more than 60,000 clients. As the Founder and CEO of the newborn company, ORB; his initial success allowed him to expand the activities of ORB, worldwide into healthcare, oil and gas and power and energy in a decade. ORB, with its technological excellence, innovation, quality, reliability, and international focus, became a manufacturer and innovator of advanced solutions. Dr. Nima Golsharifi received his first M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and completed his second M.Sc. in Nanotechnology from University College London, where he did continue his Ph.D. studies in the same field. While he has been part of London Centre for Nanotechnology he has been an active diamond scientist where his areas of research included carbons, graphene, diamonds, nanodiamonds, supercapacitors, transistors, sensors and different spectroscopy techniques where he has made several publications and presented at several international symposiums or conferences including September 2012, Granada, Spain; Hasselt Diamond Workshop 2013, international materials research congress 2013 and 2014, Cancún, Mexico and MRS 2018, Arizona, USA. Nima worked as lead scientist of a supercapacitor project sponsored by Lockheed Martin and following that he has collaborated with Laurence Livermore National Laboratory (LNLL) to file his latest patent. Dr. Golsharifi provided consultations or developed his engineering and management skills in association with companies or organizations across the world including Reed Hycalog, Harington, Red Cross, Bosch, KBR, APS, KTZ, DANA, etc.

Biography: Dr. Longzhou Zhang is an associate professor of materials at Yunnan University (YNU), China. He got the degree of B.E. at Xi’ a Jiaotong University (XJTU) in 2012. Then he moved to Australia and obtained his Ph.D. from Griffith University in 2018. In the late of 2018, he joined the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Yunnan University as a research group leader. His research mainly focuses on the energy materials, including the none-metal materials and single metal atom materials, normally applied in the energy transform devices such as fuel cells. He has published more than 20 papers on prestigious journals, such as Nature Catalysis, Chem, Journal of the American Chemical Society, Angewandte Chemie International Edition and Advanced Materials.