Asia Nano Forum


Introduction

The Asia Nano Forum (ANF) became a registered society in Singapore on Oct 2007. It’s headquarter is located at the Singapore ASTAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering (IMRE). ANF connects 15 economies in the Asia Pacific region and the middle east to promote regional cooperation in nanotechnology strategy, research and development, education (especially supporting young generation of nanotechnology workforce), and standardization/risk assessment. The 15 economies include: Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Korea, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, and United Arab Emirates. The ANF website is the Nanotech Portal Site for Nano Science and Technology in the Asia Pacific region.

Executive Committee Member

Bearer: President M.K. WU (Sinica, Taiwan) Vice President K.W. LIM (IMRE, Singapore) Treasurer H. YOKOYAMA (AIST, Japan) Secretary Lerwen LIU (NanoGlobe. Singapore) Executive Members (one from each economy) M.K.WU (Sinica, Taiwan) Terry TURNEY (Monash Univ.,Australia) Sirirurg SONGSIVILAI (NANOTEC, Thailand) Shrikant JOSHI (ARCI, India) Nurul Taufiqu ROCHMAN (LIPI, Indonesia) Ali BEITOLLAHI(INIC, Iran) Halimaton HAMDAN (UTM, Malaysia) Simon Brown (Univ. of Canterbury, New Zealand) Ali Dawood (KUSTAR, UAE) Nguyen Xuan Phuc (VAST, Vietnam) Founding Members: K. TANAKA (Japan) Jane NIALL (Australia) Phan Hong KHOI (Vietnam) Hiroshi YOKOYAMA (USA) Wiwut Tanthapanichakoon (Thailand) Venkatesh Rao AIYAGARI (DST, India)

Current official member organizations

The ANF network is coordinated by government organization, leading R & D organization or a national nanotech coordination office in each participating economies which are as following: 1. Australia : Australia Research Council Nanotechnology Network & Australian Nano Business Forum Limited 2. China : The National Center for Nanoscience and Technology(NCNST) of China 3. Hongkong: Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Institute (NAMI) 4. India: Advanced Research Centre International (ARCI) 5. Indonesian : Indonesian Institute of Sciences 6. Iran: Iran Nanotechnology Initiative Council (INIC) 7. Japan: National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) 8. Korea: Korea Institute of Science &Technology Information(KIST) and Korean Nanotechnology Researchers Society (KoNTRS) 9. Malaysia : Academy of Sciences Malaysia 10. New Zealand : Victoria University of Wellington & The MacDiarmid Institute 11. Singapore : Institute of Materials Research & Engineering (IMRE) 12. Taiwan : Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica 13. Thailand : National Nanotechnology Centre 14. Vietnam : Institute of Materials Science -Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) 15. UAE : Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research




Group Photo of ANFoS2009 @ Taipei, Taiwan

Group Photo of ANFoS2004 @ Phuket, Thailand

Group Photo of ANFoS2007 @ Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Group Photo of ANFoS2006 @ HongKong, China

Group Photo of ANFoS2005 @ Melbourne, Australia