Symposium NM4-Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion

The direct conversion of solar energy to electricity, heat 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:

Photoelectrochemical cells and photocatalyst water splitting
Nanostructures for light absorption enhancement
Band structure engineering for matching the solar spectrum
Charge transfer and transport
Solar thermal conversion, solar steam generation
Photo enhanced thermionics
Nanomaterials in perovskite, dye-sensitized solar cells, quantum dot-sensitized solar cells and hybrid PV
Emergent technologies in nanostructure solar devices (e.g., plasmonics, upconversion, multiple exciton generation)

Invited Speakers:

NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _0 (California Institute of Technology, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _1 (Lund University, Sweden)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _2 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _3 (Princeton University, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _4 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _5 (Stanford University, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _6 (Stanford University, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _7 (University of Minnesota, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _8 (Rice University, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _9 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _10 (University of Wisonsin-Madison, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _11 (University of Ottawa, Canada)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _12 (Stanford University, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _13 (Duke University, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _14 (Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _15 (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _16 (University of Toronto, Canada)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _17 (Boston College, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _18 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _19 (Nanjing University, China)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _20 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
NM4_Nanomaterials-Based Solar Energy Conversion _21 (Peking University, China)