November 7th – 8th 2019

Workshop venue

Sydney Nanoscience Hub
Physics Road,
The University of Sydney NSW 2006

Program at a glance

Thursday, May 7th 2019

09:00 – 10:00                            Registration & coffee

10:00 – 10:15                            Dr. Daniel Day – Product Manager, Warsash Scientific

Opening Remarks

10:15 – 10:40                            Dr. Michelle Wood – Senior Technical Officer, Sydney Analytical

Material characterization at Sydney Analytical Core Research Facility

10:40 – 11:25                            Dr. Adrian Cernescu – Senior Application Engineer, neaspec GmbH, Germany

Basics of s-SNOM: nanoscale imaging and spectroscopy tutorial

11:25 – 11:55                            Prof. Saulius Juodkazis – Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne

IR and nano-FTIR orientation spectroscopy in biomaterials applications

12:00 – 13:15                            Lunch  


13:15 – 14:00                          Dr. Sergiu Amarie – Senior Application Engineer, neaspec GmbH, Germany

neaSNOM applications and configurations

14:00 – 14:30                          Dr. Qingdong Ou – Monash University, Clayton Melbourne

                                                        Polaritonics and optoelectronics of 2D materials with infrared nano-imaging

14:30 – 15:00                          Prof. Stefano Palomba – The University of Sydney, Nano Institute

Ultimate performance of Kerr nonlinear plasmonics nanostructures

15:00 – 15:30                            Coffe break 

15:30 – 17:00                            Equipment demonstration

Evening Program

19:00                                         Dinner at Duck Inn Pub and Kitchen

Meeting point: 74 Rose St, Chippendale NSW 2008

Friday, Nov 8th 2019

8:30 – 9:00                          Coffe 

9:00 – 12:30                        neaSNOM imaging and spectroscopy: Equipment demonstration

Session 1: Applications on biological materials & polymers:

– AFM, IR Imaging and nano-FTIR spectroscopy of hair sample
– Nano-FTIR spectroscopy and imaging of cellulose nanocrystals
– Resolving secondary structure in single protein fibers using nano-FTIR spectroscopy
– Nano-chemistry of 10nm thick polymer monolayer

Coffe break

Session 2: Applications on inorganics, 2D materials and semiconductors:

– Mapping nanoscale distribution of H-Apatite nanocrystals in human bone
– Polariton mapping in 2D materials – hBN & graphene
– Nano-IR imaging of free carriers in doped semiconductors

12:30 – 13:45                     Lunch 

13:45 – 14:00                     Dr. Adrian Cernescu & Dr. Daniel Day – neaspec GmbH and Warsash Scientific

Closing remarks

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