NanoDay 2025: The Light of Science Shines at UNAM on May 23 Bilkent University UNAM will be hosting and organizing its annual NanoDay on Friday, May 23, 2005. The event brings together leading figures from the international scientific community, as well as researchers, students, and industry professionals from Turkey and around the world. As part […]
Talha Erdem Abdullah Gül University Reducing the greenhouse gas emissions have already been accepted as the straightforward way to limit the environmental effects of the global warming. Toward this aim, significant efforts have been put forward in the field of photonics as well. For example, solar energy became a significant source of energy and light-emitting […]
Ayşe Aslıhan Gökaltun Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Advancements in biomaterials and biopreservation technologies are critical to overcoming key bottlenecks in clinical care, from wound management to organ transplantation. To highlight the state-of-the-art in these fields and reflect on current challenges and opportunities, this talk will first present our development of stimuli-responsive supramolecular hydrogels […]
Ahmad Rashad Elsebahy 1- Center of Translational Oral Research, Department of Clinical Dentistry, University of Bergen, Norway. 2- Bioengineering Graduate Program, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, United States. 3- Terasaki Institute for Biomedical Innovation, Los Angeles, California, United States. Despite significant advances in science and technology, we are still unable to fully overcome […]
Willem L. Vos University of Twente The study of the propagation of light through complex composite materials – e.g., paint, foam, bio-logical tissue - is a topic that has become a field of its own . This may seem surprising: if a material is so opaque that it scrambles images, how can one see through? […]
Alexander Holleitner Technical University of Munich Heterostructures made from two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides exhibit a very large light-matter interaction , and they are ideal platforms to explore excitonic phenomena ranging from correlated moiré excitons to degenerate interlayer exciton ensembles with a spatially extended coherence at cryogenic temperatures . I will highlight the experimental signatures of […]
Biplab Sanyal Uppsala University Two-dimensional (2D) materials have gained a dominating position in the world of quantum materials due to their high potential for advanced applications in flexible electronics, optoelectronics, energy storage, catalysis, spintronics, etc. An enormous playground exists in developing 2D van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures by combining a variety of 2D materials for […]
Begüm Yarar Kaplan Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM), Turkey Padova University, Italy Electrospinning is a highly versatile and powerful technique for producing nanostructured materials, particularly suited to energy storage and conversion applications . It enables the fabrication of nanofibrous electrodes and membranes with exceptionally high surface area, uniformly distributed ionically conductive phases, […]
Yusuf Karlı University of Cambridge Quantum networks promise fundamentally new ways to communicate and process information by harnessing the laws of quantum mechanics. Semiconductor quantum dots offer a practical and scalable platform for realizing many of the key components required for such networks. Because quantum dots confine charge carriers in all three spatial dimensions, they […]
Dear Members of the Bilkent Community, Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) embraces scientific excellence alongside the principles of equality, inclusivity, and a safe academic environment, and considers gender equality an integral part of its institutional culture. UNAM actively supports initiatives that promote gender equality and contribute to the fight against violence against women. […]
Dear Members of the Bilkent University Community, Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) is pleased to host a special panel discussion titled “Diversity in Science. Excellence in Research.” in celebration of International Women’s Day. Bringing together four members of the UNAM community, including two faculty members, a team leader engineer, and a doctoral researcher, […]
Carlos A. Dorao Norwegian University of Science and Technology Manipulating micro- and nanoscale particles is fundamentally challenging because, at small scales, conventional forces behave very differently. Particles are dominated by viscous drag, Brownian motion, and surface forces, making them difficult to control precisely without physical contact or chemical labeling. Traditional mechanical or optical methods can […]
