SOCIAL IMPACT & ETHICS

Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy: Advanced Materials, Micro/Nano Fabrication and Packaging Nanotechnology is a key enabling technology for the development of next-generation sustainable energy systems, while also driving innovation across a broad range of advanced electronic and microsystem applications. Advanced nanomaterials, together with innovative micro- and nano-fabrication processes, are enabling significant progress in energy conversion, storage, and harvesting devices, while simultaneously supporting the development of photonic devices, high-performance sensors, wearable systems, biomedical devices, flexible electronics, and intelligent integrated systems through enhanced efficiency, miniaturization, multifunctionality, and reliability. Advanced packaging and heterogeneous integration strategies are becoming equally essential to transform novel materials into robust, high-performance devices and multifunctional microsystems.
Despite these advances, the transition from laboratory-scale research to industrial implementation remains a major challenge together with the advanced characterization of such large-scale devices which is far from small-scale prototypes and their characterization under operation. Scalable manufacturing, process reproducibility, heterogeneous integration, packaging reliability, long-term stability, and cost-effective production continue to limit the widespread adoption of nanotechnology-enabled devices across multiple application domains, including energy technologies.
This symposium will bring together researchers from academia and industry to discuss recent advances in nanomaterials, micro- and nano-fabrication technologies, characterization under operative conditions, advanced packaging, and heterogeneous integration. Particular attention will be devoted to manufacturing challenges, process scalability, device integration, reliability, and design-for-manufacturing approaches, including the development of new modelling and simulation strategies based on existing commercially available tools to support the design of devices that can be effectively transferred to industrial production. By fostering interdisciplinary collaboration, the symposium aims to accelerate the translation of innovative materials and fabrication technologies into robust, manufacturable, and commercially viable devices and systems for sustainable energy as well as emerging applications in electronics, sensing, healthcare, and smart systems.

X-ray absorption spectroscopy applications on a versatile laboratory X-ray diffractometer