Proceedings of September Meeting 2016 (NFM16)
Publication date: 14th June 2016
A great scientific and technological challenge facing humanity this century is the development of a clean, secure and sustainable energy source. H2 has been proposed as a major energy carrier for the future, and can be produced via a photosynthetic process from water. Today, however, H2 is produced mainly from steam reforming of natural gas, which contributes to CO2 emission. It is widely believed that the electrocatalytic process driven by photovoltage, namely photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting, will play a key role in next-generation technologies for sustainable-energy conversion, enabling clean hydrogen production.
Semiconductors and catalysts are essential components at the photoanode for PEC water oxidation. Semiconductors absorb solar light and generate electron-hole pairs; catalysts extract holes and catalyze water oxidation via a kinetically-slow four-electron process. The critical bottlenecks currently lie in improving the kinetics of electron transfer between the semiconductor and solution, decreasing the absorption of sunlight by the catalyst layer, and understanding interfacial energetics of the semiconductor/catalyst/solution system. The lack of success in the pursuit of efficient photoanode clearly indicates that new materials, chemistries and strategies are imperative. In this presentation, the focus will lie on the surface and interfacial engineering of semiconductor/catalyst/solution system.
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.