Talks

CONFERENCE: ACTIVITY & PARTICIPATION 

Invited Talks

1.      10th International Congress on Biomaterials and Biosensors (BIOMATSEN 2025), Turkey (April 8-11, 2025). Invited speaker: Ojodomo J. Achadu. “Designing Nanobiosensors with Optimized Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Hotspots for Ultra-Sensitive Detection of Food and Water-Borne Viral Pathogens”. https://www.biomatsencongress.org/speakers/plenary-invited-speakers.

2.   Lab Innovations Conference (October 30 - 31, 2024), National Exhibition Centre, Birmingham, UK. Ojodomo J. Achadu. Recycling Ambient Magnetic Noise into Sustainable Energy through Magnetic Nanogenerator Innovations. Invited talk by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

3.   EUR(O)PTRODE XVI Conference, University of Birmingham, UK (24th to 27th March 2024). Ojodomo J. Achadu.  “Tripledemic” viruses' detection using new molybdenum-based quantum dots.

4.   Health and Well-Being Sandpit Meeting of the UK Metamaterials Network (September 20, 2023). Manchester Metropolitan University. Ojodomo J. Achadu.  Nanomaterials-Based Diagnostic Biosensors for Infectious Diseases Detection.

5. BioFutures Symposium (July 4 - 7, 2023), Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK. Ojodomo J. Achadu. Nanostructured Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) as a Filler in Piezoelectric Polymers for the Design of Sustainable Bio-Engineered Energy Harvesters.

6.   JSPS London Symposium and Seminar (April 27, 2022). UK and Northern Ireland Alumni Association Members. Ojodomo J. Achadu. Life in Japan as a Foreign Researcher.

7.  Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Science Dialogue Lecture (January 28, 2021), Shizuoka University, Japan. Ojodomo J. Achadu. The World of Nano: The Smaller, the Better.

Presentations at National and International Conferences (Oral/Poster)

8.       2nd International Conference on Advanced Materials for Bio-Related Applications (AMBRA 2024) (May 19 -23, 2024), Wrocław, Poland. Njemuwa N. Nwaji, Ojodomo J. Achadu, Michael Giersig.

9.   Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Virtual Poster Conference (Feb. 28 – March 1, 2023). Poster Presentation: Plasmonic Molybdenum Trioxide Quantum Dots/Nanocubes for Raman-Based Detection of Hepatitis E and Norovirus. Ojodomo J. Achadu; Enoch Y. Park.

10.   Materials Science and Technology Technical Meeting and Exhibition, American Ceramic Society (ACerS) 124th Annual Meeting (October 9 – 12, 2022), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Oral Presentation: 3D Metal Oxide Magnetic Nanostructures for The Design of Nanosensors and Magnetic Actuators. Ojodomo J. Achadu & Peter Scott.

11.   American Ceramic Society (ACerS) 5th Annual Energy Harvesting Society Meeting (EHS 2022) (September 7–9, 2022), Baltimore, MD, USA. Oral Presentation: Sustainable Bio-Engineered Magnetoelectric Nanogenerator to Convert Ambient Stray Magnetic Noise to Electricity. Ojodomo J. Achadu & Peter Scott.

12.   inVISIBLE Conference (July 8, 13, and 15, 2022), organized by Warwick Black Chemistry Society/Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK. Oral Presentation: Sustainable Magnetoelectric Nanogenerator to Convert Ambient Stray Magnetic Noise to Electricity. Ojodomo J. Achadu. (Awarded Best Oral Presentation).

13.   Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Exchange (WIRE), Climate Change and Sustainability Workshop (June 21, 2022), University of Warwick, UK.

14.   Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) Virtual Poster Conference (March 1–2, 2022). Poster Presentation: 3D Magnetic Nanostructures for the Fabrication of Sensors/Actuators for Energy Harvesting Devices. Ojodomo J. Achadu & Peter Scott.

15.   Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) Fest Conference (March 14–18, 2022), University of Warwick, UK.

16.   NANOPOSTER 2022 - 11th Virtual Nanotechnology Poster Conference, organized by the International Nanoscience Community. Poster Presentation: 3D Hierarchically Porous Magnetic Nanostructures for Biosensing and Energy Harvesting Applications. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Enoch Y. Park, Peter Scott.

17.   Research Symposium and Funding Program (April 27, 2022), organized by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), London. Invited Speaker: The World of Nano: The Smaller, the Better. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

18.   Annual Meeting of Japan Society for Bioscience, Biotechnology and Agrochemistry (JSBBA) 2022 (March 15–18, 2022), Japan. Oral Presentation: Development of new coronavirus detection method using fluorescence enhancement by quantum dot-gold nanoparticle complex interaction. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Maehata Shuei, Enoch Y. Park.

19.   6th International Conference on Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICONN 2021) (February 1–3, 2021, Virtual). Oral Presentation: Molybdenum-Based Quantum Dots, Nanocubes, and Integrated 2D Nanostructures for Virus Detection. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

20.   e-Workshop on Biosensors 2021 (January 22, 2021, Virtual). Oral Presentation: Recent Developments in Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering-Based Virus Detection: Smart Nanotags Payload System, "Hotspots" Engineering, and Opportunities for Future Technologies. Ojodomo J. Achadu & Enoch Y. Park.

21.   Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Science Dialogue Lecture (January 28, 2021), Shizuoka University, Japan. Invited Lecture: The World of Nano: The Smaller, the Better. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

22.   NANOPOSTER 2020 - 9th Virtual Nanotechnology Conference (April 20–26, 2020), organized by the International Nanoscience Community. Poster Presentation: Molybdenum-Based Magnetic Nanostructures/Polymeric Nanogels Composites: Towards Developing Sustainable Materials. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

23.   Young Scientist Symposium (May 23–24, 2019), IECB - European Institute of Chemistry and Biology, University of Bordeaux, France. Oral Presentation: Tannic Acid-Derivatized Graphitic Carbon Nitride Quantum Dots as Fluorescent Nanoprobe for Ascorbic Acid. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

24.   International Conference on Surfaces, Coatings, and Nanostructured Materials (NANOSMAT-Africa) (November 19–23, 2018), Cape Town, South Africa. Oral Presentation: In-situ Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles on Graphene Quantum Dots-Phthalocyanine Nanoplatforms: Photophysical and Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Behavior. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Nnamdi Nwahara & Tebello Nyokong

25.   Royal Society of Chemistry - Department for International Development (DFID) Africa Initiative Annual Meeting and Seminar (July 30–31, 2018), University of Zululand, South Africa. Oral Presentation: Nanohybrid of Graphene Quantum Dots and Au@Ag Core-Shell Nanoparticles. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

26.   10th International Conference of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-10) (July 1–6, 2018), Berlin, Germany. Oral Presentation: Photodynamic Therapy Application of Pluronic F127 Micelles Encapsulated Graphene Quantum Dots - Pyrene-Derivatized Porphyrins Conjugates. Muthumuni Managa, Ojodomo J. Achadu, Tebello Nyokong.

27.   Rhodes University Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Conference (November 29–30, 2017), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa. Oral Presentation: Ascorbic Acid Detection Using Fluorescent Graphitic Carbon Nitride Quantum Dots. Ojodomo J. Achadu.

28.   9th International Conference of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-9) (July 2–9, 2016), Nanjing, China. Poster Presentation: Novel Nanocomposites of Graphene Quantum Dots and Phthalocyanines for Nanosensors Fabrication. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Tebello Nyokong.

29.   28th International Conference on Photochemistry (ICP 2017) (July 16–21, 2017), Strasbourg, France. Session: Spectroscopy of Single Molecules and Nanostructures. Oral Presentation: Insitu One-Step Synthesis of Graphene Quantum Dots-Metal Free and Zinc Phthalocyanines Conjugates: Investigation of Photophysicochemical Properties. Ojodomo J. Achadu, Gertrude Fomo & Tebello Nyokong.

30.   9th International Conference of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines (ICPP-9) (July 2–9, 2016), Nanjing, China. Oral Presentation: An Examination of Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer between Phthalocyanines and Nanomaterials. J. Britton, Z. Watkins, I. Uddin, Ojodomo J. Achadu, T. Nyokong.

31.   18th Annual Meeting of the Israel Analytical Chemistry Society (January 14–15, 2015), Tel Aviv, Israel. Oral Presentation: Micellar Aided Chromogenic Reagents for Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Determination of Aluminium and Iron. Ayejuyo, Olusegun & Ojodomo J. Achadu.

32.   National Laser Centre: Basic Laser Safety Course & Conference (April 13, 2015), Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

33.   4th International Science Congress (December 8–9, 2014), Udaipur, India. Poster Presentation: Micellar Aided Chromogenic Reagents for Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Determination of Aluminium and Iron. Ayejuyo, Olusegun & Ojodomo J. Achadu.

34.   36th Annual International Conference of Chemical Society of Nigeria (Minna - 2013), Minna, Niger State, Nigeria. Poster Presentation: Physico-Chemical and Microbiological Quality of Harvested Rainwater in Different Storage Media in Wukari, Taraba State, Nigeria. Ojodomo J. Achadu; Ako, F.E., and Dalla, C.L.

35.   6th Research Conference and Exhibition of University of Lagos (2012), University of Lagos, Nigeria. Poster Presentation: Simultaneous Spectrophotometric Determination of Aluminium and Iron Using Micellar Aided Mixed Chromogenic Reagent. Ojodomo J. Achadu & Ayejuyo, Olusegun.