Speakers 

 Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb (SabryCorp, Egypt)

Nanotechnology Applications and Roadmap for the Oil and Gas Industry

Mohamed Abdel-Mottaleb, Ph.D. is one of the leading figures facilitating the introduction of nanotech to the Middle East. He is CEO and Founder of SabryCorp Ltd. (Cairo, Egypt), the first company in the Middle East and Africa to specialize in nanotechnology. Prior to founding SabryCorp, Dr. Abdel-Mottaleb worked in research labs both Belgium (K. U. Leuven) and in Germany (U. Ulm, TU Chemnitz) where he specialized in using Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) and Atomic Force Microscopy applications in surface modifications and device fabrication. Both represent powerful techniques for viewing and manipulating surfaces at the atomic-level.

In addition to his work on STM, Dr. Abdel-Mottaleb also worked on constructing molecular nano-wires as well as investigated the blinking phenomenon of quantum dots. Dr. Abdel-Mottaleb's research has been at the forefront of nanotechnology developments. He has 24 peer-reviewed publications (including papers in Accounts of Chemical Research and Nano Letters) and has recently co-authored a chapter for NATO on the commercial applications of nanotechnology. Further, he has organized and chaired the first nanotech conference in the Middle East (NanoTech Insight, in 2005, 2007), and is currently organizing a host of other industry-specific nanotech events and workshops in the region. In addition, Dr. Abdel-Mottaleb has a strong background in alternative energy as well as sensor technologies.

 Joyce Wong

Joyce Wong (Schlumberger-Doll Research, USA)

Nanoscale Devices for Probing Oil Reservoir Properties

Joyce Wong is a Principal Research Scientist in the Sensor Physics Department at Schlumberger’s research center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is also a Visiting Associate at the California Institute of Technology, where she received her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering. Since joining Schlumberger in 2000, her research interest involves applying various micro- and nano-technologies for sensing applications in downhole environments.

In collaboration with colleagues at the research and technology centers as well as several university research groups, Joyce has worked on topics including microelectromechanical sensors for harsh environments, microfluidic lab-on-a-chip, carbon nanotube based probes, and silicon nanophotonic devices for a variety of sensing applications. Within the technical communities of Schlumberger, Joyce is also currently a co-leader of the Micro-Nano-Technologies special interest group which facilitates knowledge sharing among its members through workshops and seminars on emerging topics related to micro- and nano-technologies.

 Stanislav R. Stoyanov

Stanislav R. Stoyanov (National Research Council of Canada)

Multiscale Modeling of Bitumen Extraction and Upgrading: Disaggregation, Purification, and Catalysis

Stanislav R. Stoyanov, Jeffrey M. Stryker, Murray R. Gray, Cindy-Xing Yin, Jeremy Gauthier, Sergey Gusarov, and Andriy Kovalenko

Stanislav R. Stoyanov is an Assistant Research Officer at the Theory and Modeling Group, National Institute for Nanotechnology of Canada. His research interests are in the area of multiscale modeling of chemical reactivity, supra-molecular self-assembly, solvation thermodynamics, and transport phenomena. Currently, he works on rational design of molecular electronic junctions and catalysts for bitumen hydrotreatment as well as on statistical-mechanical modeling of modified nanocrystalline cellulose solvation. Dr. Stoyanov’s involvement in these projects has lead to the formulation of a reactivity prediction methodology based on advanced definitions of reactivity indices and Koopmans theorem. He has co-authored more than 20 peer-reviewed articles.

Previously, in the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Chicago he worked on rational design of nanomechanical, nanoelectronic, and light-harvesting systems, including computational investigation of the binding of ions to metal-doped carbon nanocone tips controlled by using external electric field. He graduated with a Ph.D. from Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, USA. His dissertation was on modeling of solvent effects on excited electronic states for understanding the luminescence behavior of transition metal complexes.

URL:http://www.cein.ualberta.ca/research/kovalenko/people/stanislav.html

 Barry Drayson

Barry Drayson (NanoComposites Inc. , USA)

NanoComposites and Nanoenergy opportunities

Barry Drayson has built a career at the forefront of financial and technology expansion on three continents. As a foreign exchange and Eurodollar broker, he developed European relationships that underpinned the expansion of London as the World’s premier financial centre. He came to Singapore to help develop Singapore as Asia’s offshore banking hub. He transferred to New York, opening key broking operations for the development of an international money market. After 10 years, he was appointed CEO of MKI Securities Corp.

Barry spent the 1990’s with Reuters PLC as Managing Director, Global Sales and Marketing. Barry’s work resulted in all 1,000 of the world’s largest banks using Reuters information and transaction services to support their trading operations. Since 2000, Barry has been involved in private equity, technology start ups. Barry is CEO and a founding shareholder of NanoComposites Inc., a Texas based Nanomaterials Company and Chairman and founding shareholder of Paramata Ltd., in Cambridge, England, a developer of sensing technologies.

 Klaus-Viktor Peinemann

Klaus-Viktor Peinemann (KAUST, Saudi Arabia)

Nano-engineered composite membranes for hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide separation

(PhD from the University of Kiel 1982) is currently Scientist at the Institute of Material Research at GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, Germany. He has more than 25 years industrial and academic experience in membrane development and he coordinated a number of European projects in this field. K.-V. Peinemann is co-founder of the company GMT-Membrantechnik GmbH located in Rheinfelden and he served as President for European Membrane Society from 2002 to 2004. He is currently Honorary Professor at the University of Hannover. K.-V. Peinemann authored or co-authored around 100 papers in refereed journals and holds 16 patents. In Fall 2009 Peinemann will start a position as Principal Research Scientist at KAUST in Saudi Arabia.

Selected recent Publications:

• S.P. Nunes, K.-V. Peinemann (Eds.), Membrane Technology in the Chemical Industry (2nd Edition), Wiley-VCH 2006
• Car, A., Stropnik, C., Yave, W., Peinemann, K.-V.: Tailor-made polymeric membranes based on segmented block copolymers for CO2 separation, Advanced Functional Materials (2008) 18, 2815-2823
• K-V. Peinemann, V. Abetz, P. Simon: Asymmetric superstructure in a blockcopolymer via phase separation, Nature Materials (2007) 6(12) 992-996
• Yave.,W.; Shishatskiy, S.; Abetz, V., Matson, S.;Litvinova, E. S..; Khotimskiy,V.; Peinemann, K.-V: A novel poly(4-methyl-2-pentyne)/TiO2 Hybrid nanocomposite membrane for natural gas conditioning: butane/methane separation, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (2007) 208(22) 2412-2418
• Yave, W., Peinemann, K.-V., Shishatskiy, S., Khotimskiy, V., V.;Chirkova,M.;Matson, S.;Litvinova, Lecerf, N.: Synthesis, characterisation and membrane properties of poly(1-trimethylgermyl-1-propyne) and its nanocomposite with TiO2. Macromolecules (2007), 40(25) 8991-8998

 Joe Wood

Joe Wood (Chemical Engineering, The University of Birmingham, UK)

Nano-particulate Catalysts: Production, Testing and Environmental Effects

Dr Joe Wood is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He gained his B.Eng in Chemical Engineering with Environmental Protection from Loughborough University and PhD from the University of Cambridge, England. Dr Wood leads the Reaction Engineering and Catalysis Research Group, which is located in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham.

The group work on the development, characterisation and testing of catalysts in a diverse range of applications. Earlier studies concerned the effect of operating variables and mass transfer upon the rates of selective hydrogenation of alkynes. More recently Dr Wood worked on the testing of nano-catalysts prepared by immobilisation of palladium particles upon dead bacterial cells. He also works on several projects in the area of energy research, including upgrading of heavy oil and bitumen using novel CAPRI reactor, and step change adsorbents for carbon dioxide capture. Dr Wood has published 32 journal papers and 26 conference papers.

Further details can be found at his webpage:
http://www.eng.bham.ac.uk/chemical/about/wood.shtml

 S.C. Edman Tsang

S.C. Edman Tsang (Wolfson Catalysis Centre, Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, UK)

New Nanocatalysts For Cleaner Energy Provisions

S.C. Edman Tsang was born in Hong Kong. He is a Professor of Chemistry and Head of Wolfson Catalysis Centre at the University of Oxford, UK (2007-). Before that he was appointed as Lecturer and Royal Society University Fellow (1996-2000), Reader (2000-2004) and Professor (2004-2007) at Reading University. Prior to his academic appointments he was educated at the University of Oxford. His interests include Nano-materials and Catalysis, focused on energy and the environment, including CO2 activation, biomass and fine chemical catalysis, and has authored more than 180 research papers including Nature, Angew Chem, JACS and numerous patents in these areas (has a h-index of 32). He serves in the editorial board of ChemCatChem and Catalysis Today.

He was presented IChemE-iAc Award (2004) from Institute of Chemical Engineers (Institute of Applied Catalysis), UK for the recognition of his contributions on developing new classes of nanocatalysts. He enjoys a close collaboration with a number of chinese universities. He was selected an Outstanding Young Researcher (NSFC-B, 2005) and ChangJiang visiting chair professor from China educational ministry (MoE 2008-).

Further details can be found at his webpage:
http://www.chem.ox.ac.uk/researchguide/scetsang.html

 Yasmine Abdelraouf

Yasmine Abdelraouf (Teaching & Research assistant in Petroleum and Energy Department, American University in Cairo, Egypt )

Nanocatalysis for the Oil and Gas Industry

Granted Degrees:

Bachelor of chemical engineering – Cairo University - 2005 with a cumulative rate of distinction with honor degree.
Master of Science in chemical engineering – Cairo University – 2009.

Published Papers:

• Khater H.A., Abdelsalam O.E. , Abdelraouf A.M., Abdelraouf Y.A., " Analytical Simulation of Rich Hydrogen Gas - Air Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell System Fueled by Natural Gas", presented in 2nd International conference on Thermal Issues in Emerging technologies Theory and Applications – ThETA held in Cairo, December 2008.
• Khater H.A., Abdelsalam O.E. , Hanafy.M., Abdelraouf Y.A., " Parametric Investigation and Economic Analysis of Stand-alone and Hybrid Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) Fuel Cell System", presented in International conference on American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics – AIAA held in America, August 2009.

 Henrique E. Toma

Henrique E. Toma (Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)

PETROBRAS initiatives in nanotechnology in Brazil

Henrique E. Toma is Professor of Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, University of Sao Paulo. He got his PhD in 1974, and is currently working on nanotechnology based on molecular, supramolecular and heterohybrid materials. He has been the head of the Department of Chemistry (2000-2004), director of Millenium Institute of Complex Materiais (2005-2009), and member of the PETROBRAS-Nanotechnology scientific committee, accumulating a dozen of national and international prizes, 60 doctoral theses, and about 300 ISI indexed papers encompassing 4700 citations.

 Ahmed Magdy Motawie

Ahmed Magdy Motawie (Prof. of Polymer Chemistry, Petroleum Research Institute, Egypt)

EPRI's Planning way to nanotechnology and petroleum industry

Ahmed Magdy Motawie is Professor of Polymer Chemistry at the Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute. He got his PhD in 1983 from faculty of science, Al-Azhar university, Cairo, in Polymer Chemistry , thesis entitled : Synthesis of Epoxy Polymer and Copolymer from Methyl-Substituted Diphenols.

His appointments and Experience:

• Emeritus professor in polymer Lab. , Petrochemical Dep. , Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI) from 11/9/2005 till now.
• Member of board of directors of Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI) from 18/3/2004 till 18/3/2006.
• Head of Petrochemical Dep. , Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI) from 28/10/2003 till 10/9/2005.
• Prof. Researcher in polymer Lab. , Petrochemical Dep. Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute from 25/ 12/ 2994.
• Assist. Prof. Researcher in polymer Lab. Petrochemical Dep. Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute from 25/ 12/ 1989.
• Researcher in polymer Lab. , Petrochemical Dep. , Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute (EPRI) from 24/12/1984.

Patents:

• Egyptian Patent No: 9445 / 1968, entitled: Adhesives Used in Different Purposes.
• Egyptian Patent No: 18476 /1992, entitled: Education and Instruction Boards by Electrical Circuits.

Medals:

The Medal of Scientific Culture, June 1996 , Academy of Scientific Research and Technology.

Books:

Author of 7 published books by Arabic language in polymer fields.

Committees:

• Head of national committee of plastics, Egyptian Authority of Specifications and Quality.
• Head of national committee of Nanotechnology, Egyptian Authority of Specifications and Quality.
• Head of Scientific Media in Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute.
• Member of Many Scientific Committees in Egyptian Academy of Sciences & Technology.

Publications:

More than 80 Papers in Polymer and Composites field published in universal and national journals, more than 40 papers in local and universal conference proceedings.

Supervision on Scientific Thesis:

Supervisor on more than 20 thesis for MSc & DPh degree from Egyptian Universities.

Some Activities in Nanotechnology Fields:

Preparation and studies of Polymer Nanocomposites which used in wide range in petroleum fields and modified petrochemical industries.

• Research Projects: Head of Egyptian Teem in Project ( Adhesives Based on Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites) in the frame of the bilateral Agreement on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the Hellenic Republic and the Arab Republic of Egypt, 2008 -2010. Between Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute( EPRI) EGYPT & Ministry of Development, GREECE, National Technical University of Athens ( NTUA ).
• Patents: Apply Patent No. 1120102009 in 25/1/2009 entitled : ( Egyptian Modified Organo - Bentonite for polymer nanocomposites use ).
• Scientific Thesis: Super visor on 4 MSc & DPh degree , entitled : Physical Behavior Studies of Some Polymeric Nanocomposites , Synthesis and Study of Poly methyl methacrylate Nanocomposites , Some Studies on Prepared PVC Nanocomposites , Synthesis and Study of Some Polymeric Nanocomposite Emulsions.
• Published Research: - Article entitled ( Nanotechnology and Environment) , The 12th International Conference on Petroleum & mineral Resources and Development, Egyptian Petroleum Research Institute, 7 – 9 Feb. , 2009.
- Article entitled (Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites) , Tiba International Chemistry Conference 2009, Tiba Univ. El – Madina El Menawara , Kigdum of Saudi Arabian , 23 – 25 March 2009.
• The national committee: Head of national committee of Nanotechnology, Egyptian Authority of Specifications and Quality.
• Scientific Books: Finished from book entitled ( Nanotechnology) under publication for Egyptian & Lebanon Pub.