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Preface

Organising Committee

Symposia Chairs and Co-Chairs

Conference Hosts

Plenary Speakers

Conference Sponsors

Welcome Page

Symposium List

Table of Contents

Author Index: Brief or Detailed

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1 Detecting and Identifying Aqueous Solutions of Hydrocarbons with a Gold Nanoparticle Chemiresistor Sensor Array

(James S. Cooper,Edith Chow,Lee Hubble,K.-H. Müller,Burkhard Raguse,Lech Wieczorek)

4 Bacterial Interactions with Optical Fibre Surfaces

(Natasa Mitik-Dineva,Russell J. Crawford,Elena P. Ivanova)

7 Synthetic Aerosols from Fine Carbon Nanotubes of 10 Nanometres Diameter

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Symposium 2 – Nanomaterials

10 Photocurrent Response from Vertically Aligned Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Arrays

(Mark Bissett,Ingo Koper,Joseph G. Shapter)

14 Fluorescent Gold Nanoparticles Produced by Femtosecond Laser Ablation with CTAB as

a Surfactant

(Mushtaq A. Sobhan,Michael J. Withford,Ewa M. Goldys)

17 Spinning CNT Based Composite Yarns Using a Dry Spinning Process

(Canh-Dung Tran,Shaun M. Smith,G. Higgerson,Anh Bui,Lakshman K. Randeniya, Thanh Tran-Cong)

21 ZnS Nanostructures for Field Emitters

(Zhi-Gang Chen,Jin Zou,Gaoqing Lu)

24 Characteristics of Niosomes Entrapped with Rice Bran Bioactive Compounds Prepared

by Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

(Aranya Manosroi,Romchat Chutoprapat,Masahiko Abe,Jiradej Manosroi)

29 Hierarchical Anodic Alumina Template-Assisted Fabrication of Nanowires

(Jeremy P. Wu,Ian W.M. Brown,Tim Kemmitt,Mark E. Bowden)

33 Metal Organic Frameworks with Exceptional Gas Storage Capacity

(Matthew R. Hill,Aaron Thornton,Kate M. Nairn,Kenji Sumida,Anita J. Hill)

37 Electrical Noise in Gold Nanoparticle Chemiresistors: Eﬀects of Measurement

Environment and Organic Linker Properties

(Lee Hubble,Lech Wieczorek,K.-H. Müller,Edith Chow,James S. Cooper,Burkhard Raguse)

41 Superior Electrochemical Platforms Based on Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composite

Electrodes

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45 Thiol Functionalisation of Gold-Coated Magnetic Nanoparticles: Enabling the Controlled Attachment of Functional Molecules

(Ian Y. Goon,Leo M.H. Lai,Xiaoling Wang,May Lim,Dónal Leech,Rose Amal, J. Justin Gooding)

49 Nanocatalytic Eﬀects in Gold/Tin Functionalized Tin Oxide Nanowires for Enhanced CO

Sensing

(R. Ganesan,N. Donia,S. Mathur,I. Johnson)

51 Solution Processed Al-Doped ZnO Nanostructures

(Tim Kemmitt,Rachael Linklater)

55 Incorporation of Colloidal Quantum Dots into Silicon Photonic Structures

(Hong Qiao,Mike Gal,J. Justin Gooding,Peter Reece)

58 Pt/TiO2Nanotubes/SiC Schottky Diodes for Hydrogen Gas Sensing Applications

(Mahnaz Shaﬁei,Abu Z. Sadek,Jerry Yu,Rashidah Arsat,Kay Latham, Kourosh Kalantar-zadeh,Wojtek Wlodarski)

62 Theoretical Prediction for the Encapsulation of TiO2 Nanoparticles into Carbon

Nanotubes

(Duangkamon Baowan,Wannapong Traimpo,Darapond Traimpo,James M. Hill)

66 Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes of 200nm Diameter and Carbon Micro-Balloons

(V.-T. Truong,P.J. McMahon,C.L. Olsson-Jacques,A.R. Wilson,G.I. Mathys)

70 Highly Luminescent LaF3:Eu3+Nanoparticles Through Surface Modiﬁcation

(David Clarke,Stefaan Janssens,Grant Williams)

73 Amphiphilic Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery: Synthesis and

Characterization

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Symposium 2 continued …

77 The Controlled Engineering of Photocatalyst Nanostructures

(John A. Stride,Nam T. Tuong)

80 Elastic Conducting Carbon Nanotube-Laden SIBS Fibers

(Alberto J. Granero,Joselito M. Razal,Gordon G. Wallace,Marc in het Panhuis)

84 GaSb Quantum Dots and its Microanalysis Using X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

(XPS)

(Ari Handono Ramelan,Pepen Ariﬁn,Ewa M. Goldys)

87 A Mathematical Investigation into Nanoscale Gas Separation: Eﬀects of Pore Size and

Temperature

(Aaron Thornton,Anita J. Hill,James M. Hill)

91 Synthesis and Analysis of the Properties of Ferro-Fluids

(Nahid Maleki-Jirsaraei,Bahare Ghane-Motlagh,Farzin Ghane-golmohamadi, Reyhane Ghane-Motlagh,Shahin Rouhani)

94 Synthesis and Studies of APTES Functionalized Magnetite Nanoparticles

(Dipak Maity,Prashant Chandrasekharan,Si-Shen Feng,Ding Jun)

98 Gold Nanotube Membranes; Fabrication of Controlled Pore Geometries and Tailored

Surface Chemistries

(L. Velleman,F. Guillaume,J.L. Bruneel,Dusan Losic,Joseph G. Shapter)

102 Superhydrophobic Carbon Onion Coatings

(Mohammad Choucair,Matthew R. Hill,John A. Stride)

105 Investigating Preparation Parameters During Titanium Oxide Nanoribbon Synthesis

(Kunlanan Kiatkittipong,Jason Scott,Changhui Ye,Rose Amal)

108 Silver Nanostructure Coated Beads Enhance Fluorescence for Sensitive Immunoassays

and Bioimaging

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112 Engineering of New Nanoscale Materials from Diatomaceous Earth (DE) (Yang Yu,Jonas Addai-Mensah,Dusan Losic)

116 Modifying Gold with 4-(Trimethylammonio)-Phenyl by Aryl Diazonium Salts via

Reductive Deposition

(Alicia L. Gui,Muthukumar Chockalingam,J. Justin Gooding)

120 Radio Frequency SF6Plasma Modiﬁed Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes: Synchrotron

Spectroscopy and Plasma Characterisation Studies (A.J. Barlow,Jamie S. Quinton)

124 Peptide Modiﬁed SWNT Array-Based Copper Sensor

(Monessha Nambiar,Joseph G. Shapter)

128 Pressure Dependence of Particle Transport Through Resizable Nanopores

(Geoﬀ R. Willmott,Samuel S.C. Yu,Robert Vogel)

132 Optimising Surfactant Aided Dispersions of Carbon Nanotubes in Aqueous Solution

(A.J. Blanch,C.E. Lenehan,Jamie S. Quinton)

136 Metal Nanoparticles as Catalysts for Carbon Nanotube Synthesis at Low Reaction

Temperatures

(Kirsten Edgar,Shaun Hendy,Richard Tilley)

140 Eﬀect of Nano-Sized Particles on Bond Strength in Accumulative Roll Bonding

(Lihong Su,Cheng Lu,Tim McNeice,A. Kiet Tieu)

143 The Loading and Release Property of Nanoporous Anodic Alumina for Delivery of

Drugs and Drug Carriers

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146 Determination of Alkanes in Aqueous Solution Using Gold Nanoparticle Chemiresistors:

Dynamic Response Characteristics

(Edith Chow,Burkhard Raguse,K.-H. Müller,Erika Davies,Lech Wieczorek,James S. Cooper, Lee Hubble)

150 Production of Green Nanomaterials

(Takuya Tsuzuki,Liyuan Zhang,Richa Rana,Qingtao Liu,Xungai Wang)

154 Synthesis of High Surface Area Amorphous Tin-Zinc Oxides by a Sol-Gel Method

(Rongliang He,Takuya Tsuzuki)

158 Electrochemical Formation of Platinum Nanostructures for Fuel Cell Applications

(Blake J. Plowman,Anthony P. O’Mullane,Samuel J. Ippolito,Vipul Bansal, Suresh K. Bhargava)

162 The Inﬂuence of Seawater Ions on the Structural Features of MFI, FAU and LTA Zeolites

(Bo Zhu,Linda Zou,Y.S. Lin,Anita J. Hill,Huanting Wang,Yi Huang,Mikel Duke)

166 DNA Hybridization for Nanocube Functionalization

(Bakul Gupta,Will Rouesnel,Ian Y. Goon,Rose Amal,J. Justin Gooding)

171 Single Walled Carbon Nanotube Array as Working Electrode for Dye Solar Cells

(Daniel D. Tune,Christopher T. Gibson,Jamie S. Quinton,Amanda V. Ellis, Joseph G. Shapter)

174 Fabrication of ZnO/SiO2Composite Nanospheres with High Core-Loading Levels

(Jinfeng Wang,Takuya Tsuzuki,Lu Sun,Xungai Wang)

178 Silicon (100) Surfaces Modiﬁed by Osmium Bipyridine Complexes

(Simone Ciampi,Leo M.H. Lai,J. Justin Gooding)

182 Indium Tin Oxide Surface Topography on Monolayer Formation and Stability

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186 Towards Controlled Growth of Carbon Nanotubes from Germanium on Nanoindented Silicon Substrates

(Andrea Capasso,Eric Waclawik,John M. Bell,Simon Ruﬀell,Anna Sgarlata, Manuela Scarselli,Maurizio De Crescenzi,Nunzio Motta)

189 Synthesis and Characterization of Lanthanide Halide Scintillating Nanocrystals for

Gamma Radiation Detection

(Marek Osi´nski,John B. Plumley,Nathan J. Withers,Brian A. Akins,Gloria Medina, Antonio C. Rivera,Gennady A. Smolyakov)

193 The Anionic Conventional Surfactants Eﬀect on the Nanostructures and

Microstructures Properties in Cationic Gemini Surfactants Aqueous Solution (B. Sohrabi,P. Moradi,A.R. Tehrani-Bagha)

196 Water Transport Through Nanoporous Materials: Porous Silicon and Single Walled

Carbon Nanotubes

(Cameron Shearer,L. Velleman,Fernando Acosta,Amanda V. Ellis,Nicolas H. Voelcker, Davide Mattia,Joseph G. Shapter)

200 Controlling the Surface Functionalities of Nanoporous Alumina Membranes

(Abdul Mutalib Md Jani,Ivan M. Kempson,Dusan Losic,Nicolas H. Voelcker)

203 Hierarchal Silica Nanowire Growth via Single Step Annealing

(A. Shalav,R.G. Elliman)

207 Cathodoluminescence Characterisation of Vapour Transport Grown ZnO Structures

(Matthew Foley,Cuong Ton-That,Matthew R. Phillips)

210 Size Controlled Growth of Silica Nanowires by Thermal Decomposition of Thin Gold

Films on Silicon

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214 Methods Developed for the Fabrication of a Thermally-Induced Polypyrrole Bilayer

Micro/Nanoactuator

(C.C. Lee,B. Gaihre,Geoﬀrey M. Spinks,G. Alici,Julie M. Cairney)

218 APDMS Mediated Self-Assembly of Alumina Nanospheres

(Mohammadreza Khorasaninejad,Simarjeet Singh Saini)

222 Optical Surface Proﬁlometry and AFM of Orb Weaver Spider Silks

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225 Gadolinium-Containing Inorganic Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications: Cytotoxic Aspects

(Eva Hemmer,Tomoyoshi Yamano,Hidehiro Kishimoto,Kohei Soga)

230 Strategies for Fabricating a Biorecognition Interface for a Label Free Electrochemical Immunosensor

(Sook Mei Khor,Guozhen Liu,Jason B. Harper,Sridhar G. Iyengar,J. Justin Gooding)

234 Diﬀusion of Vitamin B12in Gellan Gum-Carbon Nanotube Hydrogels

(C.J. Ferris,Marc in het Panhuis)

237 Patterning of Polymer-Encapsulated Optical Oxygen Sensors by Electron Beam

Lithography

(Volker Nock,Lynn M. Murray,Maan M. Alkaisi,Richard J. Blaikie)

241 Delivery of Smaller Gold Nanoparticles by Liposomal Incorporation

(B. Devika Chithrani,Michael Dunne,James Stewart,Christine Allen,David Jaﬀray)

244 Preparation of Thiol-Terminated Monolayers on Silicon(100) Surfaces Using

Thioacetyl-Protected Alkynethiol

(Cheuk Chi Albert Ng,Guillaume Le Saux,Muthukumar Chockalingam,Simone Ciampi, Jason B. Harper,J. Justin Gooding)

248 Physichemical Property and Morphology of 5-Fluorouracil Loaded Chitosan

Nanoparticles

(Puwang Li,Yichao Wang,Zheng Peng,Mary F. She,Lingxue Kong)

251 Nanostructured Electrically Conducting Bioﬁbres Produced Using a Reactive

Wet-Spinning Process

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253 Bacterial Attachment Response to Nanostructured Titanium Surfaces

(Vi Khanh Truong,James Y. Wang,Wang Shurui,Francois Malherbe,Christopher C. Berndt, Russell J. Crawford,Elena P. Ivanova)

257 Printed Hydrogel Materials

(Don McCallum,C.J. Ferris,Paul Calvert,Gordon G. Wallace,Marc in het Panhuis)

261 Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Thiol Appended Terpyridines on Gold

(Daniel C. Goldstein,Lip Son Chin,Pall Thordarson)

264 Cell Growth and Attachment to AlGaN Surfaces for Biosensor Applications

(Anna Podolska,Ruth M. Seeber,Martin Kocan,Martina Kocan,Kevin D.G. Pﬂeger, Giacinta Parish,Brett D. Nener)

268 Modiﬁcations to Surface Chemistry and Nanotopography of Poly(ethylene

Terephthalate) by Marine Bacteria

(Hayden K. Webb,Russell J. Crawford,Elena P. Ivanova)

271 Biological Shape-Controlled Synthesis of Silver Nanoplates

(Rajesh Ramanathan,Anthony P. O’Mullane,Peter M. Smooker,Suresh K. Bhargava, Vipul Bansal)

274 Fabrication of Micro-Nanoprojection Arrays and the Eﬀect of Morphing on the Needle

Proﬁle

(Muhsen Aljada,Derek W.K. Jenkins,Christopher Flaim,Simon Corrie,Mark A.F. Kendall)

278 Formation of Tin(IV) Protoporphyrin Reconstituted Myoglobin and its Stability Toward

Light

(Ben Lewis,Shiva Prasad,Pall Thordarson)

282 Target DNA Recognition Using Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy

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285 Enhanced Oral Cefotaxime Sodium Bioavailability After Administration of

Cefotaxime-Loaded Eudragit S100 Nanoparticles and its Inﬂuence on the Lymphatic Transport

(Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed,Rosa E.V. Pereira,Tommy B. Julianto,Kah H. Yuen)

289 Nanostructure of the “Protein-Nanoparticle Corona” an Indicator of Toxicity?

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Symposium 4 – Nanoelectronics, Spintronics, Nano-Magnetics, Organic

Electronics and Quantum Computing

293 Structural and Electrical Properties of Tb2TiO5 Charge Trapping Layer Memories

(Tung-Ming Pan,Fa-Hsyang Chen,Ji-Shing Jung)

296 Characteristics of Novel Titanium Oxide Thin Film Used for Nonvolatile Memories

(Liang Fang,He Sun,Yaqing Chi,Xuan Zhu,Chao Zhang,Yong Li)

298 Eﬀect of Self and Cross-Coupling Capacitance on Stability Diagram in a Metallic

Double-Dot Device

(Bingcai Sui,Liang Fang,Yaqing Chi)

302 Step by Step Fabrication and Characterization of Au (111) Exposed Single Crystals

(Nadim A. Darwish,Paul K. Eggers,Wenrong Yang,Michael N. Paddon-Row, J. Justin Gooding)

306 A Three-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework Showing Long-Range Magnetic

Ordering

(John A. Stride,M. Arif Nadeem)

308 Comparing the Electrochemical Performance of Pyrolysed Photoresist Film Electrodes

to Glassy Carbon Electrodes for Sensing Applications

(Callie Fairman,Guozhen Liu,D. Brynn Hibbert,J. Justin Gooding)

312 Conducting Polymer Discotic Hybrids for Organic Semiconductor Applications

(Thomas K. Ellis,John A. Stride)

316 Electron Transport in Nanoparticle Assemblies

(K.-H. Müller,J. Herrmann,G. Wei,Burkhard Raguse,Lech Wieczorek)

319 A Novel Kondo Eﬀect in Single Atom Transistors

(15)

322 Electrically Controlled Piezo-Rotator for Studying Semiconductor Nanostructures at milli-Kelvin Temperatures and High Magnetic Fields

(A. Srinivasan,L.A. Yeoh,T.P. Martin,Oleh Klochan,Adam P. Micolich,Alex R. Hamilton)

326 Fabrication of Undoped AlGaAs/GaAs Electron Quantum Dots

(Andrew M. See,Oleh Klochan,Adam P. Micolich,Alex R. Hamilton,Martin Aagesen, Poul Erik Lindelof)

329 Characterisation of an Ultra-Thin Multilayer Structure for Spintronic Materials (Kevin K.F. Chan,Michael Hambe,Tim Petersen,Simon P. Ringer,Julie M. Cairney)

333 Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy Study of Defects at Si/SiO2and Si/Si3N4Interfaces

(B.C. Johnson,H.U. Rahman,E. Gauja,R. Ramer,J.C. McCallum)

337 Novel Annealing Processes for Soluble Acenes

(K. Muhieddine,Adam P. Micolich,Alex R. Hamilton,J.E. Anthony)

340 Suspended Single-Electron Transistor as a Detector of its Nanomechanical Motion

(16)

Symposium 5 – Nano-Optics, Nano-Optoelectronics, Nano-Photonics,

Plasmonics

343 Preparation and Characterization of Rare Earth (Pr, Nd) Doped ZnO Nanoparticles

(D. Venkatesan,D. Deepan,M. Velavan,R. Sankar,R. Jayavel,R. Dhanasekaran)

348 Use of Instantaneous Frequency Measurement to Determine the Injection Current

Range Giving Valid Relaxation Oscillation Frequency Values in Quantum Well Lasers (C.J. McMahon,D.M. Kane)

351 Fabrication of Nano-Structured Substrates for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy

(Danmar Gloria,Alex H.F. Wu,Grainne Moran,D. Brynn Hibbert)

355 Nanophosphors Based on CdSe/ZnS Colloidal Quantum Dots for Daylight-Quality White

LEDs

(Marek Osi´nski,Brian A. Akins,Gloria Medina,Tosifa A. Memon,Gennady A. Smolyakov)

358 Fast Evaporation Aided Coating of Densely Packed and Short Microprojection Patches

for Enhanced Vaccine Delivery to the Skin

(X. Chen,G.J.P. Fernando,H. Corbett,T.W. Prow,M.L. Crichton,Mark A.F. Kendall)

362 Development of Incoherent EUV/VUV Light Sources: Tailoring the Output Pulse

(17)

365 Geometric Model of Silicon Nanotubes (Richard K.F. Lee,Barry J. Cox,James M. Hill)

368 Mimicking Biological Ion Channels Using Boron Nitride Nanotubes

(Tamsyn A. Hilder,Dan Gordon,Shin-Ho Chung)

372 Determination of Mechanical Property of Nanostructure Using Nano-Macro Equivalent

Mechanics Method

(Chao-Jen Huang,Chung-Jung Wu,Hung-An Teng,Kuo-Ning Chiang)

376 Eﬀect of Loading Phase Angle on Interfacial Fracture Toughness for Circumferentially

Notched Tensile Specimens

(Joe Elambasseril,Raafat Ibrahim,Raj Das)

380 Heat Generation in Illuminated Gold Nanoparticles on a Flat Surface

(Nan Zeng,Anthony B. Murphy)

384 Stokesian Dynamics Simulation of Sub-Micron Hydrodynamically Interacting

Nonspherical Particles (Ramzi Kutteh)

388 Eﬀect of Gold-Coating on the Plasmon Properties of Silver Nanostructure Arrays

(Shaoli Zhu,Wei Zhou)

392 Friction Law for Water Flowing in Carbon Nanotubes

(Ming Ma,Luming Shen,John Sheridan,Zhe Liu,Chao Chen,Quanshui Zheng)

396 A Two-Flux Model of the Optical Properties of Gold Nanoparticles on a Porous Polymer

Substrate

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Symposium 7 – Nano-Manufacturing, Metrology and Standards

400 On Cutting Mechanisms During Nano Machining of Metals

(Sumaiya Islam,Raafat Ibrahim,Raj Das)

404 Printing Nanomaterials Using Non-Contact Printing

(Charles A. Mire,Marc in het Panhuis,Paul Calvert,Gordon G. Wallace)

407 Improved Method for Atomic Force Microscope Cantilever Calibration