Symposium BM7-Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies

Nanostructured polymers have emerged as a technologically important class of materials that provide unique solutions toward many applications in electronics, energy, and healthcare technologies. The increasing level of synthetic control over the multidimensional structure and hierarchical self-assembly of polymers enables the design of next-generation devices with unprecedented multifunctionality and high performance, especially for many energy devices and systems. In the past decade, there has been tremendous interest in nanostructured polymer-based energy devices for energy harvesting, conversion and storage. There are still grand challenges for fundamental research devoted to accelerating the understanding of new macromolecular materials and structures with delicately tailored properties, tuning the functionality and mechanical flexibility of these materials, and enabling their system-level integration into novel devices.

This symposium will provide a forum for scientists and engineers working in the field of polymer nanoscience and nanotechnology to communicate recent progress on novel synthesis methods and advanced characterization techniques for nanostructured polymeric materials, to demonstrate their application in energy technologies, and to exchange ideas about new polymeric material synthesis and integration methods for self-assembly techniques to control and tune their electronic, optical, electrochemical, thermal, mechanical, and transport properties.

Abstracts on both fundamental and applied aspects of the modeling, synthesis, self-assembly and characterization of nanostructured polymers and hierarchically nanostructured inorganic/polymer hybrids, and their application within energy conversion and storage devices (e.g., solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, thermoelectrics, piezoelectrics) and other key energy technologies, such as energy-efficient membranes for gas and liquid separation and carbon capture, are encouraged.

• Design, synthesis and self-assembly of nanostructured polymers (e.g., block/multi-block copolymers, nanoporous polymers, other 1D/2D/3D nanostructured polymers, hybrid organic/inorganic polymers, hydrogels, etc.)
• Theoretical modeling (e.g., structure-property-performance relationship studies) and advanced characterization (e.g., structural/physical characteristic studies) of nanostructured polymeric materials
• Nanostructured polymer-based energy storage devices and systems (e.g., batteries, supercapacitors and their hybrids)
• Nanostructured polymer-based energy conversion devices (e.g., solar cells, fuel cells, thermoelectrics and piezoelectrics)
• Other key energy technologies with nanostructured polymeric materials as critical component (e.g., membranes for gas and liquid separation, carbon capture or desalination)
• Fabrication and patterning of flexible energy devices based on nanostructured polymers and their nanocomposites

• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_0 (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_1 (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_2 (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_3 (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_4 (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_5 (U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_6 (Texas A&M University, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_7 (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_8 (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_9 (Tianjin University, China)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_10 (Nanjing University, China)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_11 (Karlsruhe Institut fur Technologie (KIT), Germany)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_12 (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_13 (Tsinghua University, China)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_14 (Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc., USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_15 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_16 (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• BM7_Functional Nanostructured Polymers for Emerging Energy Technologies_17 (University of Houston, USA)