Call for Papers

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This symposium will cover current and emerging developments in molecular electronic devices. Charge transport across molecules is ubiquitous in countless scientific disciplines including catalysis, biology, sensing and nanoelectronics, therefore understanding the mechanisms of charge transport across molecules and molecule-electrode interfaces is extremely important. The overall aim is to address fundamental questions regarding the mechanisms of charge transport, and how this knowledge can be applied to recent developments in new and upcoming areas including neuromorphic computing, single-molecule sensing, or biomolecular electronics. The first part of the symposium will focus on recent progress in understanding the fundamental aspects of charge transport. Topics will include new developments in theoretical approaches, collective electrostatic effects, quantum interference effects, and light-matter interactions in junctions. Also, the role of the environment and the dynamics of junctions will be covered which are important to understand redox-events in junctions. The second part of the symposium will cover new and exciting developments in molecular scale devices making it possible study new types of catalytic reactions, extremely high field enhancements important for sensing, or the dynamics of junctions important to develop new types of switches for neuromorphic computing, or reconfigurable electronics. Abstracts will be solicited in the following areas: biomolecular electronics, mechanisms of charge transport, theory, applications.

Topics will include:

• Dynamics of junctions
• Reconfigurable and neuromorphic molecular electronics
• mechanisms of charge transport
• theory and modelling methods
• light matter interactions in molecular junctions
• Sensing junctions
• Bio-active junctions
• Chemically and catalytically active junctions

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Jeremy Baumberg (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
• Lapo Bogani (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
• David Cahen (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• Ryan Chiechi (North Carolina State University, USA)
• Jérôme Cornil (Université de Mons, Belgium)
• longji Cui (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
• Ismael Díez-Pérez (King's College London, United Kingdom)
• Yonatan Dubi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
• Maria El Abbassi (Universität Basel, Switzerland)
• Sreetosh Goswami (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India)
• Xuefeng Guo (Peking University, China)
• Joshua Hihath (University of California, Davis, USA)
• Takhee Lee (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
• Sierin Lim (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
• Ran Liu (University of Central Florida, USA)
• Ron Naaman (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• Abraham Nitzan (university of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Spiros Skourtis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
• Gemma Solomon (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
• Yoeri van de Burgt (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
• Latha Venkataraman (Columbia University, USA)
• Ayelet Vilan (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
• Bingqian Xu (University of Georgia, USA)
• Li Yuan (Tsinghua University, China)

Symposium Organizers