Here are the challenges proposed by invited scholars. They will be the topics of the X-Idea workshops.
Prof. Morinobu Endo and Prof. Feng Ding: Challenge to Nanostructure Control of Carbon Nanotubes Leading to Innovation.
Prof. Gabriel Aeppli: Antibiotic Resistance Challenge.
Prof. Xiuling Li: Semiconductor Nanowires: Can a Decades-old Nanotechnology Building Block Bring New Life to Quantum Technology?
Prof. Guoqiang Chen: Microbial Factory-Using synthetic biology to solve plastic crisis.
Prof. Hongwei Wang: The Physics and Chemistry Principles of Origin of Life.
Prof. Gang Chen and Prof. Bai Song: How to create and control a gap between two surfaces in the near-contact regime and probe heat and force interactions between the two surfaces.
Prof. Nai-Chang Yeh: Advances and Challenges in the Research and Applications of Two-Dimensional van der Waals Materials.
Prof. Younan Xia: Colloidal Metal Nanocrystals: Birding the Gap between Academic Studies and Industrial Applications.
