(And their presentation titles)

Piero Baglioni, University of Florence, Italy
Hybrid Lipid-DNA Self-Assemblies

Nitash Balsara, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Block Copolymers Membranes for Rechargeable Lithium Batteries

Eric Beckman, University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Design of Surfactants for use in Carbon Dioxide: Old Challenges & New Ones

Brad Chmelka, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Order and Disorder in Nanoscale Materials

Kenneth Dawson, University College Dublin, Ireland
Nanobiointeractions-the science of nanoparticle interactions between nanoparticles and living organisms-applications in Nanosafety and Nanomedicine

Steve Granick, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA
Janus Colloids

Masatake Haruta, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan
Preparation of Supported Gold Clusters for Green Chemistry

Eric Kaler, Stony Brook University, NY, USA
Structure, rheology, and network formation in wormlike micelle-nanoparticle mixtures

Luis Liz-Marzán, University of Vigo, Spain
Growth and Directional Assembly of Anisotropic Gold Nanoparticles

Matt Lynch, Procter & Gamble, Ross, OH, USA
Delayed Failure of Polymer Gels

Gabor Somorjai, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Colloid Chemistry Foundation of Nanocatalysis.  The Molecular View

Matt Trau, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia
Biomarkers & Nanotechnology:  New Approaches to Preventative, Personalised and “At Home” Medicine

Theo van de Ven, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Multilayer polymer nanotubes

Xi Zhang, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Superamphiphiles for Controlled Self-assembly and Disassembly