Proceedings of MATSUS Fall 2024 Conference (MATSUSFall24)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.29363/nanoge.matsusfall.2024.207
Publication date: 28th August 2024
Conducting polymers have a number of unique properties relative to conventional photoelectrode materials. The mixed electrical-ionic transport properties present a complex polymer/electrolyte interphase that if understood, could provide control over local environments afforded through synthesis, long-lived charge carrier lifetimes, and flexible, low-cost, and scalable thin film formats which circumvent the shortcomings of inorganic materials (surface states, grain boundaries, challenges in processing, and mechanically unstable platforms).
Creating organic semiconductor-based photoelectrodes is not as simple as interfacing optimized organic photovoltaic materials with an electrolyte. Durable and high performing organic photoelectrodes require balancing the photojunction properties with charge transport, attention to catalytic attachment, and a strong emphasis on mitigating parasitic chemical reactions and resistances.
The Center for Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems (SPECS) is an Energy Frontier Research Center focused on the basic science questions that underpin the development of low-cost, robust energy conversion and energy storage technologies based on new organic polymer (plastic) electronic materials. These materials are predicted to fill a critical position in the U.S. energy portfolio, providing for next-generation fuel-forming platforms (energy conversion) and batteries (energy storage) that cannot currently be achieved with conventional (hard) inorganic materials. A number of emerging in situ/operando spectroelectrochemical and scanning electrochemical cell microscopy approaches will be discussed for this exciting new area of energy conversion.
This work was supported as part of the Center for Soft PhotoElectroChemical Systems (SPECS), an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences at Georgia Institute of Technology, under award # DE-SC0023411.
nanoGe is a prestigious brand of successful science conferences that are developed along the year in different areas of the world since 2009. Our worldwide conferences cover cutting-edge materials topics like perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, solar fuel conversion, surface science, catalysis and two-dimensional materials, among many others.
Previously nanoGe Spring Meeting (NSM) and nanoGe Fall Meeting (NFM), MATSUS is a multiple symposia conference focused on a broad set of topics of advanced materials preparation, their fundamental properties, and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy, photovoltaics, lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis, charge carriers dynamics, microscopy and spectroscopy semiconductors fundamentals, etc.
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV) is celebrated yearly in May. The main topics are the development, function and modeling of materials and devices for hybrid and organic solar cells. The field is now dominated by perovskite solar cells but also other hybrid technologies, as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and dye-sensitized solar cells and their integration into devices for photoelectrochemical solar fuel production.
Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
The main topics of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP) are discussed every year in Asia-Pacific for gathering the recent advances in the fields of material preparation, modeling and fabrication of perovskite and hybrid and organic materials. Photovoltaic devices are analyzed from fundamental physics and materials properties to a broad set of applications. The conference also covers the developments of perovskite optoelectronics, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.
The International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO) is the best place to hear the latest developments in perovskite solar cells as well as on recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.