For responsible climate change and to combat global warming, the development of carbon-neutral energy technologies based on renewables and earth-abundant resources is inevitable. Solar-assisted energy conversion processes have the potential to provide sustainable energy solutions, however, sunlight cannot be utilized directly due to its intermittent and diffuse nature. The direct conversion of solar energy to platform chemicals acting as energy carriers needs efficient photoabsorbers and photocatalysts that can convert photonic energy to drive chemical reactions for activating small molecules such as water, nitrogen and carbon dioxide to generate carbon-neutral fuels. This symposium will put the spotlight on the discovery of functional materials such as perovskites, thermoelectrics and heterostructured photoabsorbers. Synthetic routes to produce new materials (including f-block elements) and their assembly for device applications are the key domains for this interdisciplinary symposium.
This symposium will focus on synthesis, processing, modeling and device integration of multifunctional inorganic materials for energy harvesting and conversion processes. It will showcase recent progress on renewable energy sources and various aspects of carbon-neutral sustainable development, providing an opportunity to actively discuss recent research trends and seek opportunities for collaboration.
Proposed sessions and topics of interest:
- Innovative processing of functional nanomaterials by solution and vapor phase techniques
- Two dimensional materials and thermoelectrics for energy harvesting & storage
- Materials for solar fuels, electrocatalysis and electrochemical energy storage systems
- New generation perovskite-based photovoltaic cells
- Piezoelectric nanostructures for self-powered systems
- Advanced in situ and operando techniques
- Modeling and computational studies on energy harvesting materials
- Conceptual advances in green technologies and materials circularity approaches
Organizers:
- Sanjay Mathur, University of Cologne, Germany; sanjay.mathur@uni-koeln.de
- Gunnar Westin, Uppsala University, Sweden; Gunnar.Westin@kemi.uu.se
- Sehun Kwon, Pusan National University, Korea
- Ahsan Qurashi, Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates
- Tohru Sekino, Osaka University, Japan
- Ravi Kumar, IIT Madras, India
- Wenbin Cao, USTB, Beijing, China
- Graziella Malandrino, University of Catania, Italy
- Ji-Hyun Jang, UNIDST, Ulsan, Korea
- Flavio de Souza, CNPEM, Brazil
- Daniel Chua, NUS, Singapore
- Xun Shi, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, China
- Katalin Balázsi, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, Hungary
- Qinghong Zhang, Donghua University, China
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