This conference brought together national and international speakers from the research and industrial communities, who  demonstrated how nanoscience research is impacting a range of industry sectors. High profile researchers and senior industry figures from multinationals and SMEs  presented their experiences of transforming university research to industrial impact. The thematic areas covered wereMaterials, Medical Devices and Electronic Devices and Sensors.

Presentations:

• Prof Mark Ferguson, Director General, SFI - Excellence and Impact
• Dr Christos Tokamanis, Head of Unit "Nano and converging Sciences and Technologies", DG Research, European Commission (Belgium) - Developments in Nanoscience/Nanotechnologies:a European perspective and innovation strategy
• Prof Bengt Kasemo, Professor of Physics at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg - Instrument Start up Companies from Research
• Prof Valeria Nicolosi, CRANN - Materials in the Flatland: processing, characterisation and beyond. Towards high efficiency energy storage
• Prof Tony Cass, Institute of Biomedical Enginering, Imperial College London - 30 years of Glucose Sensing. Where were we, Where are we now and Where are we Going?
• Prof Stefano Sanvito - Device Design with a Computer
• Prof Mick Morris, UCC/CRANN - Block Copolymer Nanolithography
• Prof Martyn Pemble, Tyndall - Atomic Layer Deposition for Next Generation CMOS Devices
• Dr Paul Galvin, Tyndall - NanoEnabled Biosensing
• Prof Jim McLoughlin, University of Ulster - The Advances in Nanotechnology Applied to the Bio-interfaces of Medical Sensors

The conference included a poster session and opportunity to attend Science Gallery’s exhibition, “Magical Materials”, which runs from September 14th – November 4th.

The winners of the Nanoweek 2012 Poster competiion were:

1. Probing the interaction between bilayer of QDs and gold nanoparticles with extended nanometal surface energy transfer theory. Xia Zhang et al., School of Physics and CRANN, Trinity College Dublin.
2. Nano‐structured vanadium oxide electrodes for rechargeable lithium‐ion batteries. David McNulty, MSSI, University of Limerick.
3. Investigation of nanostructure and doping on the electrochemical responce of Si(100) and Si nanowires as anodes for lithium-ion batteries. W. McSweeney et al., Department of physics and energy, University of Limerick.