Symposium ED5-Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures

Photoactive molecules (e.g., chlorophyll, heme) with well-defined size and chemistry are essential pigments in many biological energy transduction processes in plants, algae, and bacteria including light harvesting, photo-catalytic synthesis, water splitting. Inspired by their utility and function, in recent years, there has been a widespread interest in the synthesis and integration of complex photoactive nanoparticles and nanostructures, such as noble metal (Au, Ag, etc.) and semiconductor nanoparticles (TiO(2), ZnO, TaON, etc.), porphyrins arrays, etc., aiming to emulate natural light harvesting processes and energy conversion and storage and to develop new functional nanostructured materials. Through major advantages in fabrication, functionalization and assembly technologies, both photoactive nanoparticles and nanostructures have shown tremendous impacts on the fundamental and applied material research in optoelectronics, energy conversion, sensing and imaging fields. Specific attentions have been focused on photovoltaic cells, photoelectrochemical cells, photocatalytic redox and water splitting, phototherapy and imaging. The overarching goal of this symposium has been planned as an interdisciplinary platform for research addressing challenges in development of efficient synthesis of photoactive nanoparticles and nanostructures to create new materials with capabilities rivaling those in living things and integration of these materials for optical and electronic applications. Specifically, the interdisciplinary sessions will include both oral and poster presentations that explore novel physical phenomena of photoactive nanoparticles and nanostructures, the synthesis/fabrication and characterization of nanoparticles and nanostructures with tailored optoelectronic properties, and the application of these materials in photoelectrical conversion devices. Of particular interests are efforts motivated by the development of next-generation technologies for highly efficient energy generation or usage.

Topics will include:

Plasmonic resonance of noble metal nanoparticles
Self-organization and hierarchical structures
Novel synthesis and fabrication routes for photoactive nanoparticles and nanostructures
Tuning of size, shape and composition and correlated optical and electronic properties
Band and energy structure tuning by doped with optically and/or electronically active impurities
Ultrafast optical processes (e.g., charge transfer, carrier trapping and recombination)
Optoelectronic devices (e.g., photovoltaics, photodetectors, photoelectrochemical cells and photocatalysts)
Bio-related application of nanoparticles (e.g., bioimaging, biosensing, photodynamic and photothermal therapy)

Invited Speakers:

ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_0 (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_1 (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_2 (University of Washington, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_3 (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_4 (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_5 (North Carolina State University, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_6 (Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_7 (University of Twente, Netherlands)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_8 (Technische Universität München, Germany)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_9 (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_10 (University of Florida, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_11 (Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_12 (Temple University, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_13 (Beijing University of Technology, China)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_14 (Yanshan University, China)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_15 (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institude of Microelectrnics, China)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_16 (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_17 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_18 (University of California, Riverside, USA)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_19 (University of Science and Technology China, China)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_20 (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China)
ED5_Photoactive Nanoparticles and Nanostructures_21 (Beijing Institute of Technology, China)