Sunday, April 25th                                                          Day 2       Day 3
09:00-09:15 Opening: Yehiam Prior, Dean of the chemistry Faculty, WIS
  MORNING SESSION I | Session Chair R. Tenne
09:15-10:00 Keynote Speaker: M. Naffakh
Institute of Polymer Science and Technology, Madrid, Spain
Polymer Nanocomposites Based on Inorganic Fullerene-like WS2 Nanoparticles: Opportunities and Challenges
10:00-10:30 Invited: F. Dassenoy
Laboratoire de Tribologie et Dynamique des Systèmes, Ecole Centrale of Lyon, France
Influence of the Size, Morphology, Structure and Crystalline on the Tribological Properties and the Lubrication Mechanism of IF-MeS2 (Me=W, Mo) Nanoparticles
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
  MORNING SESSION II | Session Chair C. Gadermaier
11:00-11:30 Invited: A. Gedanken
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Novel Techniques for the Preparation of Transition Metal Chalcogenides
11:30-12:00 A.Kis
Electrical Engineering Institute, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
Electronic Devices with Dichalcogenide Nanolayers
12:30-14:00 Lunch
  AFTERNOON SESSION I | Session Chair M. Remskar
14:00-14:45 Keynote Speaker: T. Heine
School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, Germany
Recent developments in the fields of Clay Mineral Nanotubes and Zn1-xFexO nanoparticles
14:45-15:15 Invited: D. Aurbach
Department of Chemistry, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Chevrel phases: amazing chalcogenide materials and interesting cathode materials for rechargeable Mg batteries
15:15-15:45 W. Tremel
Institut für Anorganische Chemie und Analytische Chemie, Universität Mainz, Germany
Synthetic Approaches to Functionalized Chalcogenide Nanotubes
15:45-16:05 M. Weidenbach
Institute of Solid State Research, Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Recognition of the atomic coordination in multiwalled inorganic nanotubes by means of atomic-resolution TEM
16:05-16:25 A. Shmeliov
University of Oxford, Department of Materials, UK
Structural Characterization of Two-Dimensional Atomic Crysta
 16:30-18:30 POSTER SESSION and REFRESHMENTS
 
Monday, April 26th
  MORNING SESSION I | Session Chair G. Seifert
09:00-09:30 Invited: T.Dumitrica
Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Electromechanical Characterization of Carbon and MoS2 Nanotubes via Objective Molecular Dynamics
09:30-10:00 Invited: O. Hod
School of Chemistry, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Stacking and Registry Effects in Layered Materials: The Case of Hexagonal Boron Nitride
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-11:00 A. Enyashin
Department of Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Dresden, Germany and Institute of Solid State Chemistry, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Electronic Properties of n- and p-doped MoS2 Nanotubes
11:00-11:20 M. Baldoni
Fachbereich Chemie, Technische Universitaet Dresden Germany and ISTM-CNR and Department of Chemistry, University of Perugia Italy
Theoretical Investigations on the Formation and Structure of AgI Nanocrystallites by Encapsulation in Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanotubes Junctions
11:20-12:05 Keynote Speaker: A. Rubio TBA
12:05-12:30 Lunch
12:30-20:00 Excursion to Jerusalem by bus with an English-speaking guide
20:00 Conference Dinner at Abu Gosh
(A village close-by to Jerusalem)
 
Tuesday, April 27th
  MORNING SESSION I | Session Chair W. Tremel
09:00-09:45 Keynote Speaker: F. Besenbacher
Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), Aarhus University, Denmark
Probing the atomic-scale details of molecular adsorption on MoS2 and CoMoS nanoclusters by STM
09:45-10:15 E. Joselevich
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Torsional Stick-Slip Behavior in WS2 Nanotubes
10:15-10:35 A. Gomathi
Chemistry and Physics of Materials Unit, Theoretical Science Unit and International Centre for Materials Science, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bangalore, India
Graphene Analogues of MoS2 and WS2
10:35-11:00 Coffee Break
  MORNING SESSION II | Session Chair T. Heine
11:00-11:30 C. Gadermaier
Department of Complex Matter, Jozef-Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Recent Progress in MoSI Nanowires
11:30-12:00 L. Kulyuk
Institute of Applied Physics, Chisinau, Republic of Moldova
Intercalated Halogen Molecules as Radiative Centers in
Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Layered Compounds
12:30-14:00 Lunch
  AFTERNOON SESSION I | Session Chair A. Kis
14:00-14:45 Keynote Speaker: T. Odom
Department of Chemistry, and Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Large-scale Synthesis of TaS2 Nanotubes from Ta2O5 Nanotube Templates
14:45-15:15 Invited: J. Gordon
Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Israel
Novel non-coherent optics for generating nanomaterials by photothermal ablation
15:15-15:45 M. Remskar
Jozef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The MoS2 Nanotubes and Products of their Exfoliation
15:45-16:05 S.J. Denholme
WestCHEM, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Glasgow, UK
Growth and Low Dimensional Properties of Novel Transition Metal Trichalcogenide Nanostructures
16:05-16:30 Coffee Break
  AFTERNOON SESSION II | Session Chair F. Besenbacher
16:30-17:00 Invited: G. Hodes
Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Sb2S3 as a light absorber in nanoporous solar cells
17:30-18:00 M. Bar Sadan
Institute of Solid State Research, Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Progress in Synthesis and Characterization of IF Structures
18:00-18:20 Closing Remarks