Symposium Sessions

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Multi-excitonic processes in conjugated organic molecules and quantum confined semiconductor nanocrystals potentially allow the energy in photons to be directed as desired. Design of the molecular framework or material nanostructure will allow a wide range of optical, electronic and mechanical properties to be engineered for energy conversion. This symposium will emphasize the diverse applications of excitonic materials, including colloidally synthesized quantum dots, pi-conjugated systems, and their hybrid constituents, in applications ranging from photovoltaics to bioimaging. There will also be sessions focusing on fundamental materials properties correlating structure to photophysical properties, nano- and mesoscale order and composition to optoelectronic properties of thin films. The symposium will highlight recent progress and identify new directions in emerging, interdisciplinary areas of nanoscience.

Topics will include:

• Computational methods for excitonic materials
• Exciton-based photon upconversion
• Multiple exciton generation in QDs
• Singlet fission in molecules or polymers
• Exciton-charge dynamics in organic/QD hybrid systems
• Optoelectronic devices (e.g. transistors, photodetectors) based on exciton or charge transport
• Role of the interface in energy and charge transport
• Hierarchical order at the nano- and mesoscale (e.g. organic or QD thin films)
• Emerging applications incorporating colloidally-synthesized QDs, e.g. Biological: in-vivo and in-vitro; Photocatalysis: solar fuel production; Next-generation photovoltaics with the lead chalcogenides and perovskites

Invited Speakers:

• Pete Sercel (California Institute of Technology)
• Dirk Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
• Sean Roberts (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Maksym Kovalenko (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Ryu Abe (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Edward Sargent (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Marc Baldo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• Bruno Ehrler (AMOLF, Netherlands)
• Daniel Gamelin (University of Washington, USA)
• Neil Greenham (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
• Kathryn Knowles (University of Rochester, USA)
• Maria Antonietta Loi (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
• Kenji Matsuda (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Hunter McDaniel (UbiQD, Inc., USA)
• Ivan Mora-sero (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
• Zhijun Ning (Shanghai Tech University, China)
• Matthew Panthani (Iowa State University, USA)
• Alina Schimpf (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Tomohiro Shiraki (Kyushu University, Japan)
• Susanna Thon (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• Mark Wilson (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Vanessa Wood (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Joel Yuen Zhou (University of California, San Diego, USA)
• Xinhua Zhong (East China University of Science and Technology, China)

Symposium Organizers