The biennial conference offers a broad interdisciplinary overview of advanced materials and nanotechnology, and provides an exciting forum to discuss new and exciting advances in the field. Technical symposia include: * nanoengineered materials and devices. * nanolithography. * nanoscale optics. * nanotube growth and device concepts. * nanoparticle synthesis and applications. * nanophotonics, electron microscopy. * biomolecular assembly. * bionano-technologies (including bioMEMs and microfluidics,). * conducting polymers and molecular materials. * functional nanocoatings. * hybrid materials. * novel semiconductor materials, * strongly electron correlated materials. * soft matter. * physics of clusters and cluster-based devices and new materials and devices for radiation imaging. * Plasmonics * Nanopore Science