Electronic, Photonic, Nano, Low-dimensional and Quantum Materials
SNanomaterials of the future: advancements in energy and sensing
This symposium will gather researchers to explore the latest advancements in growth, nanofabrication, and modeling of cutting-edge nanomaterials, emphasizing their exceptional physical and chemical properties for energy, photonics, and sensing technologies.
Scope:
Innovative materials are the cornerstone of several technological advancements. Their unique properties enable breakthroughs in light harvesting and photoconversion, optoelectronic devices, and optical sensing.
The symposium spans the synthesis, modelling and applications of innovative nanomaterials that will revolutionize future technology and enhance our understanding of physical phenomena, focusing on nanomaterials for the following applications:
- Energy: Developing high-efficiency materials for energy generation, storage, and conversion is crucial for addressing global energy challenges. Topics include photovoltaics, light harvesting, hydrogen production, and supercapacitors.
- Photonics: Light managing for various technologies, from telecommunications to medical imaging, exploring innovations in photonic crystals, metamaterials, plasmonic nanoantennas, 2D materials, optoelectronic devices, novel electrolytes, and catalysis.
- Sensing: Materials with exceptional sensitivity and specificity are essential for the detection of biochemical substances, low-concentration molecules, particles or photons.
The symposium emphasizes a comprehensive research approach, encompassing:
- synthesis methods for materials with tailored properties, including large area approaches, such as chemical vapor deposition, molecular self-assembly, and innovative nanofabrication techniques.
- optical spectroscopies, plasmon enhanced spectroscopies, scanning near field optical microscopies, electronic and confocal microscopies, photochemical measurements.
- computational models predicting material behavior to guide experimental efforts, leveraging advances in optical and electrical responses, like plasmonics, light management, battery interfaces.
Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:
- Nanomaterials synthesis and nanofabrication (e.g. large area approaches, self-assembly, nanolithography, cluster system, 2D materials).
- Materials for energy production and storage (e.g. hydrogen production, photovoltaic, semiconductor, hybrid systems, perovskites)
- Materials for photonics, and optoelectronics applications (light transport, diffusion, absorption, 2D Van der Waals heterostructures)
- Advanced nanomaterials for sensing (e.g. plasmonic nanoantennas and metasurfaces, photoluminescence, Raman and SERS spectroscopy)
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