Many promising semiconductors and device architectures have been explored towards photoelectrochemical transformations and waste valorization. Despite rapid developments in the material systems, architecture schemes, and demonstration of versatile reactions, the prevailing hurdles related to instability, scalability and uncertain cost estimations inhibit their practical deployment. The symposium invites contribution involving novel concepts for solar to fuels technology. This includes photocatalytic, photoelectrochemical and PV-driven electrolysis or combined topics and its technoeconomic assessments.
The symposium focuses on addressing limiting factors from material-to-device-to-system level components.
In addition, advanced machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) assisted materials discovery approaches to address current materials limitations, and rapid diagnostics are also welcome.
- • Testing of solar fuels/artificial photosynthesis devices and benchmarking.
- • Photocatalysis, photoelectrochemistry and PV-electrolysis
- • Solar fuels devices stability and failure analysis.
- • Theory-augmented AI approaches for new photoelectrode and catalyst discovery.
- • Life-cycle, technoeconomics and industrial adaptation
Sudhanshu Shukla is a senior researcher at Interuniversity Microelectronics Centre (IMEC), Belgium and formerly a Marie Skłodowska–Curie fellow at IMEC. He obtained his PhD from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2017 in the group of Prof. Qihua Xiong. He was a visiting research scholar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of California, Berkeley, USA (2016) in the group of Prof. Joel Ager. After his PhD, he joined Prof. Susanne Siebentritt's group at Univeristy of Luxembourg before joining IMEC. His research interest includes fundamental understanding and application of novel compound semiconductors for photovoltaics and photoelectrochemical solar fuels generation.