We feel great pleasure to announce the FUUAST-International Conference on Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICNN-2014).

The conference is going to be held in Federal Urdu University of Arts Science & Technology Karachi, Pakistan on 3-5 March, 2014. More than 300 participants from different countries will participate in this event. The conference will comprise on a number of keynote, plenary and contributed lectures along with poster sessions and parallel sessions on tropical and most recent issues in Nanomaterials and nanotechnology.

Aims and Scope

Nanotechnology is an emerging field that has tremendous potential for vast spectrum of applications including the key areas such as energy, environmental science, information and communication technologies, medicine and industry. All technologically advanced countries have already gaining the benefits of this technology in order to raise living standards of their common man and improving their economic growth.

• This conference is intended to cover the most relevant nonmaterials and nanotechnologies for Pakistan as well as the challenges for their potential applications.

• The conference will provide a forum to our scientists and engineers where they can learn from international expertise from a range of technologically advanced countries where the nanotechnology already bringing unprecedented benefits.

• This conference will explore the ways is to develop and fine-tune the links between the groups working in the various fields of nanotechnology and nanomaterials both locally and internationally. The resulting interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge will definitely lead to an exponential boost in the economic growth of our country.

• Considerable amount of attention will be given on areas that are of immediate benefits for Pakistan. In particular, latest international trends in the application of nanotechnology in agriculture, water purification, disease diagnosis and treatment, drug delivery, textile, sports goods and leather industry will be addressed.