Prof. Masahiro YOSHIMURA was graduated for B.S. at 1965, M.S. at 1967 and D. Sc. in Engineering at 1970 from Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. Then 1970,Research Assoc.,1978 Assoc. Prof. ,1985 Full Prof. in Materials and Structures Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology. During those periods, 1973-1975 Post Doc. in 3 CNRS Labs.(Odeillo, Orleans and Paris) in France, and 1975-1977 in Mass. Inst. Tech., USA. He was the Director of Center for Materials Design for 1996-2002. He retired at 2008, Professor Emeritus,from Tokyo Institute of Technology. After experienced several Visiting/Guest Profs. In Tohoku Univ., Japan, Univ. Limerick, Ireland, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, Inst. Metal. Res., CAS, Shenyang, China, etc. he has been in National Cheng Kung Univ., Taiwan since Feb. 2010 as a Visiting Chair Prof. then now Distinguished Chair Prof. and Director of Promotion Center for Global Materials Research , NCKU, since July 2011.

He received ,Academic Award (1993) from The Ceramic Soc. Japan, 10 th Fulrath Pacific Award(1987) and Fellow(1995) from The Amer. Ceram. Soc., International Award(2001) from European Ceramic Soc., IUMRS Somiya Award for International Collaborative Work, IUMRS(2002), Honorary Members in MRS –India (2003), Research Award, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Japan(2007), Lee Hsun Award, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, Shenyang, China(2008) and Honorable Permanent Resident Visa,Taiwan(2012), Honorary Fellow of European Ceramic Society(2017),Distinguished Life Member from Amer. Ceram. Soc.(2017)　.etc. He is nominated form Thomson-Reuter as ISI Highly-Cited Researcher(2001).

Now he has >730 peer-reviewed Papers, 84 Reviews,3 Books (44 Book Chapters) and 30 Patents, and >17,000 International. Citations with h-index >65.

He has served as 18 Organizing Chairs, i.e IUMRS-ICA, Chiba, 1997, IUMRS-ICAM, Yokohama, 2003, and International Conference in Hydrothermal Reactions,Sendai, 2006 , 6 th ISHA, 2016, Tainan, Taiwan. Mater Sci 2017, Valencia, Spain, etc. joined as 64 International Advisory/Organizing Committees, 23 Prenary Lectures, i.e. MS and T, San Francisco(2000), ICMAT, Singapore (2003) ,Hydrothermal/Solvothermal Symposia, Kochi, Japan(2000) Mysore, India (2004),Sendai,Japan (2006), Nottingham, UK (2008), Beijing, China (2010), etc. and gave >200 Invited/Keynote Lectures in International Meetings. He is the Editor in Chief of Mater Sci Letters(Sci Fed), one of Editors in Solid State Science(since 1988), J. Nanomaterials(since 2004), Nano Letters(2002-2005),etc. and Guest Editors in MRS Bull,Oct.1994 and Sept.2000, Euro. J.Solid State and Inorg. Chem. 1995, Solid State Ionics, 152/154,2002, J.Mater.Sci.2006 and 2007,etc.

He is Founding President(2006-2008), International Solvothermal and Hydrothermal Association (ISHA), President of the Advisory Board(2010-2014),. Chairman of the Nomination Committee,2002,2004 and 2006 in The World Academy of Ceramics (WAC), An Advisory Officer, IUMRS(Audit Elect 2007-2008, Former President of MRS-Japan),

He has cooperated with 24 visiting Professors(12 from abroad), 38 Postdoctoral Researchers, (27 from abroad),12 visiting Researchers from abroad, Supervised 56 Ph.D( 16 foreigners) Students and candidates, >70 Master Students, 30 Research Students during his professorship in Tokyo Institute of Technology,. In NCKU many cooperations have been going mostly based upon MOU with global academicians.i.e. Profs. Yury Gogotsi(Drexel Univ.,USA), Takayoshi Sasaki(NIMS,Japan),Jin-Ho Choy(Ewha Univ.,Korea),K. Byrappa(Mysore Univ.,India),Shu-Hong Yu(Univ. Sci. Tech. China,China)

Dr. Vladimir P. Torchilin, Ph.D., D.Sc. is a University Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutical Sciences and the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Nonomedicine at Northeastern University. He graduated from the Moscow University with MS in Chemistry, and also obtained there his Ph.D. and D.Sc. in Polymer Chemistry, Chemical Kinetics and Catalysis, and Chemistry of Physiologically Active Compounds in 1971 and 1980, respectively. In 1991 Dr. Torchilin joined Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School as the Head of Chemistry Program, Center for Imaging and Pharmaceutical Research, and Associate Professor of Radiology. Since 1998 Dr. Torchilin is with Northeastern University. He was there the Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1998-2008.

His main interests include drug delivery and targeting, nanomedicine, multifunctional and stimuli-sensitive pharmaceutical nanocarriers, biomedical polymers, experimental cancer therapy, cancer immunology, novel imaging agents.

He has published more than 400 original papers, more than 150 reviews and book chapters, wrote and edited 10 books, including Immobilized Enzymes in Medicine, The Handbook on Targeted Delivery of Imaging Agents, Liposomes: A Practical Approach, Nanoparticulates as Pharmaceutical Carriers, Multifunctional Pharmaceutical Nanocarriers, Biomedical Aspects of Drug Targeting, Delivery of Protein and Peptide Drugs in Cancer, and holds more than 40 patents. Google Scholar shows more than 37,000 citation of his papers with H-index of 86.

He is Editor-in-Chief of Current Drug Discovery Technologies, Co-Editor-in-Chief of Drug Delivery and on the Editorial Boards of many leading journals in the field including Journal of Controlled Release (Review Editor), Bioconjugate Chemistry, Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews, European Journal of Pharmaceutics and Biopharmaceutics, Journal of Drug Targeting, Molecular Pharmaceutics, Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology, and few others. Over the years Prof. Torchilin got more than $30 M from the governmental and industrial sources in research funding.

Among his many awards, Professor Torchilin was the recipient of the 1982 Lenin Prize in Science and Technology (the highest scientific award in the former USSR). He was elected as a Member of European Academy of Sciences. He is also a Fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS), and of the Controlled Release Society, and received the 2005 Research Achievements in Pharmaceutics and Drug Delivery Award from the AAPS, 2007 Research Achievements Award from the Pharmaceutical Sciences World Congress, 2009 AAPS Journal Award, 2009 International Journal of Nanomedicine Distinguished Scientist Award, 2010 Controlled Release Society Founders Award, 2012 Life Time Achievements Award from the Journal of Drug Targeting, 2012 Alec Bangham Life Time Award, and 2013 Blaise Pascal Medal for Biomedicine from the European Academy of Sciences.
In 2005-2006 he served as a President of the Controlled Release Society.
In 2011, Times Higher Education ranked him number 2 among top world scientists in pharmacology for the period of 2000-2010.

Prof. Ajayan Vinu is a Professor of Nanomaterials at the Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia since October 2015. Before moving to University of South Australia, he was working as a full professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (Level 3, Professorial Level) at the University of Queensland from September 2011 to September 2015. Prior coming to Australia, he had been working as a senior researcher and research group leader at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan since 2006 after he successfully completed two years of the ICYS fellowship at the same institute and a few years of research at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern (TUK), Germany. During these 15 years of research, Prof. Vinu has made a tremendous contribution in the field of nanoporous materials and their application in sensing, energy storage, fuel cells, adsorption and separation, and catalysis.

Important Awards and Honors: The quality of his research has been recognised with several international awards including Scopus Young Researcher Award 2014, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel award by the Humboldt Society (2010), JSPS Senior Invitational Fellow for the year 2014, Australian Future Fellowship (Professorial Level) for the year 2010, Indian Society for Chemists and Biologists award for excellence for the year 2010, Catalysis Society of India Young Scientist award for the year 2010, Chemical Society of Japan Award for the Young Scientist for the year 2008, Laureate of Khwarizmi International Award 2008, Asian Excellent Lectureship Award, and ICYS fellowship. Prof. Vinu is honoured with the fellow of Royal Australian Chemical Institute, RACI, Royal Society of Chemistry, FRSC (UK) and Foreign Fellow of Maharashtra Academy of Sciences, FFMAS. Because of his outstanding performance and collaboration activities, he was offered honorary/adjunct/visiting professor position from leading universities including EWHA Womans University, South Korea, Hokkaido University, Japan, Yonsei University, South Korea, Kyungpook National University, South Korea, Fudan University, China, Jilin University, China, Mangalore University, India, and Anna University, India, and Adjunct Principal Researcher from Korean Research Institute for Chemical technology, Daejeon, South Korea. He was also appointed as the NIMS ambassador to India (2006-2010).

Publications including Patents and Funding: Prof. Ajayan Vinu's contribution in the field of nanoporous materials is also clearly reflected by his international ranking by Science Watch as one of the top 15 researchers in the field and has led to more than 325 original research papers in high impact factor journals with ca. 14,200 google scholar citations and a H-index of 62. His research has been published in top journals like Angew. Chemie, Nano Letters, J. Am. Chem. Soc., Adv. Mater, Adv. Funct., Mater. Chem., Eur. J., Chem. Mater., etc. with an average of 750 citations per year. At least 40 of his papers have been cited more than 100 times (17 papers have been cited more than 200 times) and 70 papers have been cited more than 50 times. The innovative nature and commercial potential of his research is evidenced in the 28 national and international patents he has been awarded for novel mesoporous carbon, silica and carbon nitride materials. Prof. Vinu has received more than $8.0 million AUD from both industry and government funding agencies. He has also been invited to write several chapters by respected publishers including Wiley, Elsevier and American Scientific. This numerical data reveals the high quality of his research, innovative ideas and creativity.

International Scientific Network He has a network of collaborations with researchers in 15 countries. He has a strong collaborative links with the researchers from National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Japan. One of the active collaborations he has is with Prof. Katsuhiko Ariga and Toshiyuki Mori from NIMS, Japan, mainly on the development of novel porous nanostructures for the fuel cells and sensing. He has also developed a strong collaboration with the professors from top Korean Universities including Yonsei University, Pusan National University, EWHA Womans University, Kyungpook National University and KRICT. He also established a strong collaborative network with top universities around the world: Prof. Dongyuan Zhao (Fudan University, China), Prof. Jin-Ho Choy (EWHA Womans University), Prof. Mietek Jaroniec (Kent State University, USA), Prof. Martin Hartmann (University of Erlangen, Germany), Prof. Markus Antonietti (Max Planck Institute, Potsdam, Germany), Prof. A.K. Tyagi (BARC, India), Prof. R. Jayavel (Anna University, India) and Prof. S. Sampath (IISC, India). He has also organized numerous international conferences and workshops. In 2012, he organized an International Conference on Emerging advanced Materials (ICEAN-2012) in Brisbane Australia that attracted more than 650 participants from ca. 25 different countries including 550 researchers from abroad.

Memberships, Editorials and Lectures: Prof. Ajayan Vinu is the Editor of Science of Advanced Materials and Australian Editor of Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology and recently, was invited and appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Advanced Porous Materials by the American Scientific Publishers for a period of five years. He has been recently appointed as the Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group and Chemical Record, a Wiley Journal for three years and Heliyon, an Elsevier Journal. Professor Vinu is also in the Editorial board of several journals namely Journal of Nano Science and Nanotechnology, Current Science, Journal of Nanomaterials, etc.

Prof. Hee-Je Kim received his PhD in 1990 from Kyushu university. He was appointed as Professor of Pusan National University (1995-10) and, He currently works as the leader of BRL(Basic Research Lab.) Group. Now he is working as an Associate Editor of NJC(New Journal of Chemistry) and RSC Advances.

Our research area is dynamic, multi-objective, practical solution based research with a focus on highly efficient solar energy conversion and effective energy storage. Our research work is related to mainly four area: i) Fabrication and commercialization of next-generation solar cells i.e Dye synthesized solar cells, Quantum- dot, and perovskite solar cells). ii) Improving efficiency of existing solar PV systems using different tools and techniques. iii) High energy and power density flexible supercapacitor for hybrid energy storage system.