Registration and abstract submissions for NT21 are now open!

Due to concerns around the coronavirus (COVID-19), and in accordance with health guidance from the CDC, WHO, and other health authorities, the International Conference on the Science and Application of Nanotubes Steering Committee have decided to host this year's conference (NT21) virtually from Houston, Texas, USA. 


The 2021 NT Conference will be hosted virtually June 6-11, 2021.


Rice University will remain as the host. Guest speakers and presenters will host virtual discussions, poster presentations, and networking opportunities remotely.


Registration and abstract submissions for NT21 are currently open. 

The deadline for oral presentation submissions is March 15th. 

The deadline for poster presentation submissions is April 16th.


Please email nanotube21@rice.edu if you have any questions or issues with registration. 


Please check this FAQ for more information.



Keynote Speakers


Pulickel Ajayan
Rice University
KaiLi Jiang
Tsinghua University
Ute Kaiser
Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, Electron Microscopy Group of Materials Science, Ulm University, Ulm 89081, Germany
Riichiro Saito
Keynote speaker
Tohoku University
Jana Zaumseil
Keynote Speaker
Heidelberg University
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Invited Speakers

The full list of speakers will be displayed here in due course.

Rajath Alexander
Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Jeff Blackburn
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Adam Boies
University of Cambridge
Yuan Chen
The University of Sydney
Shohei Chiashi
The University of Tokyo
Laurent COGNET
Institut d'Optique, CNRS - University of Bordeaux
Chris Ewels
CNRS Research Director at the Institute of Materials in Nantes, France
Université de Nantes - CNRS
Paul Finnie
Nationla Research Council Canada
Benjamin S. Flavel
Institute of Nanotechnology, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe 76021, Germany
Salome Forel
Nanostructured and Organic Optical and Electronic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Sarah Haigh
University of Manchester
Yoshihiro Iwasa
The University of Tokyo,Quantum-Phase Electronics Center,Department of Applied Physics,School of Engineering
Yoshihiro Iwasa
The University of Tokyo
Dawid Janas
Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Ute Kaiser
Central Facility for Electron Microscopy, Electron Microscopy Group of Materials Science, Ulm University, Ulm 89081, Germany
Esko Kauppinen
Aalto Univeristy
ANDREI KHLOBYSTOV
University of Nottingham
Seung Min Kim
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)
Jing Kong
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ralph Krupke
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Markita Landry
University of California Berkeley
Dmitry Levshov
Postdoctoral researcher
Nanostructured and Organical Optical and Electronic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
Min-Ken Li
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Nicola Marzari
EPFL
Rachel Meidl
Baker Institute for Public Policy
Aditya Mohite
Rice University
Suguru Noda
Waseda University
Alain Penicaud
senior researcher
Université de Bordeaux - CNRS
Emmanuel Picheau
Université de Bordeaux
Thomas Pichler
NT21_ISPEAKER
University of Vienna, Faculty of Physics, 1090 Wien, Austria
Daniel Roxbury
University of Rhode Island
Renu Sharma
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Ivan Sudakov
Department of Physics, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610 Antwerp, BE
James Tour
Rice University
Fei Wei
Tsinghua University
Zhiping Xu
Tsinghua University
Boris Yakobson
Rice University
Masako Yudasaka
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)
Jana Zaumseil
Keynote Speaker
Heidelberg University