Featured Invited Speakers: 

• Prof. Christoph Gerber, University of Basel, Switzerland
• Prof. Mark Hersam, Northwestern University, Evanston
• Prof. Christine Ortiz, Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge
• Prof. Philippe Leclère, Universite de Mons, Belgium
• Prof. Toshio Ando, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
• Dr. Chanmin Su, Bruker Nano, Santa Barbara
• Prof. Julius Vancso, University of Twente, Netherlands 
• Prof. Paul Weiss, University of California, Los Angeles 
• Prof. Steve Dudek, University of Illinois, Chicago

The symposium will provide an informative, intellectually stimulating and mutually beneficial forum on the below topics: 

1. review  the progress in and prospects for the emerging field of SPM application in energy storage, polymers for photovoltaic applications, energy harvesting and energy dissipation imaging,
2. explore emerging application of SPM in quantitative biomechanics of cellular and sub-cellular structures, and to develop therapeutic strategies along with in-vitro imaging, and
3. discuss the rapid development in high-speed AFM and real-time dynamics of biomolecules in action, true 3D nanometrology with controlled environments to offer SEM-like user experience and instrumentation for high speed AFM development.