Symposium EC5-Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications

Proton transfer plays an important role in many biological processes, for example in photosynthesis and proton-activated bioluminescence. Furthermore, many technologies rely on proton conduction, including fuel cells, and certain batteries and electrochemical transistors.

Recently, there has been considerable progress in employing proton conduction in biocompatible materials for the development of sensing or stimulating devices that can interface with biological systems. Proton conduction in electrolytes for energy conversion and storage applications can be exploited in a wide range of temperatures using materials from polymers to ceramics. Thus, it is a common interest of various disciplines to understand and control proton transfer and transport in a wide range of systems and it will be useful to bridge the different scientific communities in a common ground for discussion.

• Fundamentals of proton transfer and transport
• Proton transfer in photosynthesis
• Proton-activated bioluminescence
• Nanoionic and protonic transport properties
• Hydrated acidic polymers
• High temperature proton transport in ceramics
• Protons in chemical and biological sensors
• Protonic transistors
• Electrolyte-gated transistors
• Mixed electronic-protonic conduction
• Structural and advanced characterization of proton conducting materials
• DFT simulations and theoretical studies of proton transfer and transport
• Proton conductivity for electrochemical energy conversion and storage
• Protons in membranes: hydrogen permeation and fuel production

• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _0 (Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _1 (CNR-ITAE, Italy)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _2 (Wuhan University of Technology, China)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _3 (University of Padua, Italy)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _4 (Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _5 (Northwestern University, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _6 (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _7 (Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft, mbH, Austria)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _8 (Université de Montpellier, France)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _9 (CNRS Grenoble, France)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _10 (University of Queensland, Australia)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _11 (University of Tennessee, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _12 (Vanderbilt University, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _13 (University of Washington, Seattle, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _14 (Nanjing Tech University, China)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _15 (Università di Bologna, Italy)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _16 (Clemson University, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _17 (Chalmers University, Sweden)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _18 (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _19 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
• EC5_Proton Transfer and Transport—From Biological Systems to Energy Applications _20 (Beihang University, China)