Symposium OO-Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion

The direct conversion of solar energy to electricity or fuels is becoming increasingly important as global demand for energy grows, environmental constraints on pollution, and climate change tighten. In recent years, nanostructuring has emerged as a route to enhanced conversion efficiency through control of light propagation, carrier collection, and heat transport. Through nanoscale design, properties including the bandgap, composition, light absorption and scattering can be controlled and arranged into complex and novel energy conversion schemes. This symposium will focus broadly on the role of nanomaterials in current and future solar energy conversion technologies, including biological and biomimetic conversion, organic and inorganic photovoltaics, photoelectrochemistry, and solar thermal conversion.

Topics will include:

Nanostructures for light absorption enhancement
Charge transfer and transport
Nanomaterialsin dye-sensitized solar cells, quantum dot-sensitized solar cells, perovskiteand hybrid PV
Photoelectrochemicalcells and photocatalyst water splitting
Band structure engineering
Solar thermal conversion
Emergenttechnologies in nanostructure solar devices (e.g., upconversion, multipleexciton generation)

Invited Speakers:

OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _0 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _1 (California Institute of Technology, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _2 (Lund University, Sweden)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _3 (University of Washington, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _4 (Princeton University, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _5 (Australian National University, Australia)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _6 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _7 (Stanford University, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _8 (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _9 (AMOLF, Netherlands)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _10 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _11 (IBM Research Center, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _12 (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _13 (University of Southern California, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _14 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _15 (Freie Universität Berlin, Germany)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _16 (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _17 (Oxford University, United Kingdom)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _18 (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA)
OO_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _19 (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)