S7: 17th International Symposium on Functional Nanomaterials and Thin Films for Sustainable Energy Harvesting, Environmental, and Health Applications

Functional nanomaterials with intrinsically new and tailored properties are key elements for developing sustainable solutions for energy, environment and health. Specifically, this symposium will focus on new energy technologies and devices based on inorganic, hybrid and composite materials. Particular emphasis will be given to novel synthesis approaches, surface functionalization, and heterostructuring of nanoparticles, nanowires, and nanoscopic films, fundamentally new properties, and energy-efficient materials synthesis.

Applications of nanostructures in photocatalysis, photovoltaic, energy, sensing and bio-medical applications that combine advanced processing with conceptual advancement will form the major thrust areas. Contributions related to energy applications such as perovskite materials, batteries, fuel cells, thermoelectric materials, water splitting, and carbon dioxide conversion as well as transparent conductors and challenges related to the large-scale production and integration of functional and structural nanomaterials are highly desired.

Proposed Session Topics

• Synthesis, functionalization and assembly of inorganic and hybrid nanostructures
• Nanomaterials for energy conversion and storage and catalysis
• Metal oxide nanostructures for sensing, batteries and water-splitting applications
• Nanomaterials for thermoelectrics, photocatalysis, electrocatalysis, and solar hydrogen
• Nanotoxicity, bio-imaging, drug-delivery and tissue engineering with tailored nano-bioconjugates
• Functional coatings on Glass & innovative thin film techniques (e.g., ALD, PECVD)
• Industrial production and application of nanomaterials & coatings
• Carbon nanostructures, 2D materials and metal chalcogenides
• Computational methods in the design of tailored nanostructured materials
• Interfacial materials and multi-material heterostructures & nanocomposites

 Symposium Organizers

• Muhammet S. Toprak, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Miso Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea
• Gang Liu, Institute of Metal Research, CAS, China
• Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, Germany
• Shashank Mishra, University of Lyon, France
• Sedat Ballikaya, Istanbul University, Turkey
• Andreu Cabot, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain
• Abdulhadi Baykal, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Saudi Arabia

 Points of Contact

• Muhammet Toprak: toprak@kth.se
• Miso Kim: smilekim@skku.edu
• Gang Liu: Gangliu@imr.ac.cn
• Andreu Cabot: acabot@irec.cat
• Sanjay Mathur: Sanjay.mathur@uni-koeln.de