MATSUS & STECH

Scientific information

The Materials for Sustainable Development Conference (MATSUS23) dives into the progress that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy their own demands. The drive for sustainability in materials science and technology encompasses alternative energy technologies to mitigate problems with fossil-fuel technologies, and to increase energy efficiency, as well as the mitigation of undesirable environmental impacts from technology and economic growth; the efficient use of materials, the formation of a healthy and safe environment, and many others. The Conference consists on a combination of symposia of basic and multidisciplinary science, and applied symposia focused on Sustainable Development areas.

By the name of MATSUS (Materials for Sustainable Development) the conference will have two yearly editions, Spring Meeting and Fall Meeting.

The Sustainable Technology Forum València (STECH23) will be focused on the industrial application in areas like clean energy transition (decarbonisation, sequestration and use of CO2 in industry, and hydrogen generation), sustainable chemistry and circularity, expansion of photovoltaics and sustainable transport.

The following topics are highlighted:

Sequestration and use of CO2
Hydrogen generation
Recycling and circularity
Energy generation
Energy of green vehicles: Batteries and Fuel Cells
Strategies of innovation

General Prizes

🏅 Best Poster prize valued at 200€ from MDPI Nanomaterials Journal.

You can check the prize of every symposia on its page.

Symposia list

Electrocatalysis for the Production of Fuels and Chemicals (#e-FuelSyn)

Fundamental strategies to design new electrocatalysis
Mechanistic understanding
In situ and Operando Analyses
Molecular, inorganic, reticular, biologic and hybrid catalytic systems

Advances in Green Energy Carriers (#GreenE)

International perspectives on sustainable energy
Hydrogen production
Hydrogen conversion
Green environment: Gas reforming, greenhouse gas mitigation by hydrogen, gasification processes

Enabling Beyond Classical Li-ion Batteries through materials development and sustainability (#SusBat)

Earth abundant materials
Aqueous batteries
Electrolytes and interphases/interfaces for post-lithium energy storage
Metal-air Batteries
Novel methods for materials recycling, including but not limited to direct recycling

Metal Halide Perovskites Fundamental Approaches and Technological Challenges (#PerFut)

Optoelectronics applications
Technological feasibility. Materials processes and fabrication
Perovskite materials fundamentals
Frontier phenomena

Photophysics of halide perovskites and related materials – from bulk to nano (#PhotoPero23)

Photophysics of 2D & bulk 3D halide perovskites
Photophysics of perovskite nanocrystals, rods, platelets
Optoionics & halide migration
Defect photophysics & photochemistry

2D Perovskites: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (#2DPERO)

Synthesis of novel 2D perovskite phases
Challenges in film growth
Structure-property relationships: strain, light emission, ferroic behavior, photophysics
Applications: light emission, quantum information, random-access memory, photodetection, solar cells

New concepts for stable non-fullerene based organic solar cells and their applications (#NewOPV)

Development of highly efficient organic solar cells molecules
Stability of organic solar cells
Upscaling of solar cell devices
Novel application areas for organic solar cells

Advances in inorganic thin film semiconductors for solar energy conversion: From photovoltaics to solar fuels (#Adinos)

Rational design and synthesis approaches
New insights on materials growth and properties
Theory and computational studies on electronic structure and defects
New phenomena: photoferroelectrics, ultrathin nanocrystal absorbers

Characterisation and modeling of devices (#DeModeP23)

Electrical characterization: From frequency-domain to time transient methods
Understanding charge transport and recombination
Dynamical behavior of advanced materials
Ab initio molecular dynamics analysis
Elucidating the dominant role of energetic disorder in optoelectronic devices

Fundamental Processes in Nanocrystals and 2D Materials (#NCFun23)

Nanocrystal synthesis: Composition, morphology, heterostructues, assembly, dispersion control, and mechanisms
Nanocrystal surface chemistry: Fundamental properties and targeted function
Nanocrystal properties: New insights from spectroscopy, theory, and simulation
Nanocrystal applications

Chemistry of Nanomaterials (#ChemNano23)

Chemical design of nanomaterials: Advanced synthetic routes, experimental and theoretical studies
Interactions in nanomaterials: Chemical and physical properties of nanomaterials, interphases, and surfaces
Application of nanomaterials: the road ahead for nanotechnology and the key role of chemistry in engineering of better materials

2D Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy (#2DSUSY)

Fundamental science of 2D nanomaterials & new 2D nanomaterials
Electrical, optical, thermal and mechanical properties of 2D nanomaterials
Spectroscopy and microscopy of 2D nanomaterials. Theory and simulation of 2D nanomaterials
Quantum transport, magnetism, and spintronics

Materials for Quantum Technology (#QMat)