Symposium O-Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion

Plasmonic nanomaterials have been extensively investigated because of their fascinating optical properties and broad applications ranging from sensing to energy to medicine. This symposium focuses on the utilization of plasmonic nanomaterials for energy conversion. Plasmonic nanomaterials can drastically concentrate the electric field under resonant excitation which leads to enhanced efficiency of photovoltaics. This field enhancement effect is used to improve the photocatalytic activity for a variety of important reactions such as photocatalytic water splitting. The decay of the plasmon excitation also results in the excitation of high energy carriers, which can subsequently inject into reactant molecules or semiconductors to initiate chemical reactions. Carefully controlling the electron injection processes can potentially open up new possibilities of highly selective catalysis which are otherwise impossible using traditional catalysts. Furthermore, plasmonic materials can efficiently convert light energy to generate heat. The heat generation has been demonstrated for solar vapor generation, for driving a variety of chemical reactions as well as for novel biomedical applications. Finally, the recent discovery of plasmoelectric potentials in metal nanostructures may enable the use of plasmonic materials to directly convert light to electrical energy.

• Plasmonic enhanced photovoltaics and light emitting devices
• Plasmonic enhanced photocatalysis (for watersplitting, CO₂ conversion, pollution remediation, etc.)
• Plasmonic materials for light to heat conversion
• Plasmonic enabled drug delivery and therapy
  
• Synthesis of plasmonic nanostructures andplasmonic material/semiconductor heterostructures for energy conversion
• Characterization of plasmonic related energyconversion processes
• Theory and modeling of plasmonic related energyconversion processes

• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _0 (California Institute of Technology, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _1 (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _2 (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _3 (University of Southern California, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _4 (Stanford University, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _5 (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _6 (Ohio University, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _7 (University of Chicago, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _8 (Rice University, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _9 (University of Michigan, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _10 (National Energy Technology Laboratory, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _11 (University of Texas, Austin, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _12 (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _13 (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _14 (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _15 (National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, China)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _16 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _17 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _18 (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _19 (Fuzhou University, China)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _20 (University of California, Riverside, USA)
• O_Plasmonic Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion _21 (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)