Over the past decade, the rapid development of halide perovskites has transformed the fields of optoelectronics and photovoltaics. Nevertheless, concerns regarding stability, toxicity, and processability have stimulated growing interest in perovskite-inspired materials, which preserve the desirable properties of halide perovskites while providing greater structural versatility and improved environmental compatibility. This symposium will provide a comprehensive forum to discuss recent advances in the design, synthesis, characterization, and applications of halide perovskites and related structural analogues including chiral systems. We welcome contributions which explore both fundamental materials chemistry and cutting-edge device integration, spanning diverse application areas such as solar energy conversion, photocatalysis, light emission, and photodetection. Particular emphasis will be placed on novel synthetic approaches, stability enhancement strategies, electronic structure engineering, advanced spectroscopic techniques, computational modelling, and machine learning, as well as on the influence of dimensionality, defect chemistry, and heterostructure design in tailoring material performance and advancing the understanding of structure-property relationships.
- Synthesis of thin films, nanocrystalline and low dimensional materials of halide perovskites and perovskite-inspired
- Advanced spectroscopy studies, hot carriers, polarons, excitons
- Computational insights on emerging perovskites and perovskite-inspired materials materials
- Defect chemistry, ionic dynamics, defect passivation
- High-throughput screening, automated and machine learning approaches to material discovery
- Photocatalytic applications of perovskites and perovskite-inspired materials
- Indoor photovoltaics
Dr. Galian received her Ph.D in Chemistry at the National University of Cordoba, Argentina in 2001. Then, she was a postdoc researcher at the Polythecnic University of Valencia, University of Valencia and University of Ottawa. During those years, she has studied photosensibilization processes by aromatic ketones using laser flash photolysis techniques and was involved in photonic crystal fiber/semiconductor nanocrystal interaction projects. In 2007, Dr. Galian came back to Spain with a Ramon y Cajal contract to study the surface chemistry of quantum dots and since 2017 she has a permanent position as Scientist Researcher at the University of Valencia. Her main interest is the design, synthesis and characterization of photoactive nanoparticles and multifunctional nanosystems for sensing, electroluminescent applications and photocatalysis.
Lorenzo obtained his PhD in Chemistry in 2003 and since 2008 is Assistant Professor at the Chemistry Department of the University of Pavia. In 2021 he was appointed Full Professor in the same department. He was the recipient of the Young Scientist Award for outstanding work in the field of perovskites at the International Conference on Perovskites held in late 2005 in Zürich, of the “Alfredo di Braccio” Prize for Chemistry 2008 of Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei awarded to distinguished under 35-year-old chemists and contributed the Journal Materials Chemistry and Chemical Communications“Emerging Investigator” issues in 2010 and 2011. He is working in several areas of solid state chemistry with particular interest in the investigation of structure–properties correlation in different kinds of functional materials, in particular electrolyte materials for clean energy, hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites and catalysis materials. He is author of more than 200 papers on international peer-reviewed journals. Since 2018 he is member of Academic Senate and Vice-Director of the Chemistry Department. He is Director of the INSTM Reference Center “PREMIO” devoted to the synthesis of innovative materials and member of the Directive Board of INSTM. Since 2014 he is member of the Academic Board of the PhD in Chemistry of Pavia University. He is Editor of Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids.