The recent years witnessed the surge of waterborne organic semiconductors for energy conversion and storage The extreme tunability and unique properties of organic semiconductors have stimulated intense research efforts, spanning from photocatalytic applications to water-processed (photo)electrode materials.. This symposium aims to highlight the most recent breakthroughs in the field of organic photocatalysis, organic photoelectrochemical cells and waterborne organic materials.
We invite contributions on a wide array of topics, including the development of novel organic semiconductors in aqueous media, tailor-made photocatalysts (i.e. for hydrogen evolution reaction, oxygen evolution reaction, CO2 reduction, N2 fixation, H2O2 production, pollutant degradation), photophysics, nanoengineering, interfacial engineering, surface chemistry, and mechanistic exploration of photocatalytic reactions. Furthermore, photoelectrocatalysis, organic photoelectrochemical cells, or water-processed organic semiconductors for energy conversion and storage will be considered.
Through this symposium, we aim to bring together expertise spanning from organic synthesis, nanoengineering, photocatalytic processes, photophysics, organic photoelectrochemistry, and water-processed organic semiconductors. To this end, leading researchers in the related topics will present their most exciting work. We actively seek for the participation of early-career and young researchers through oral and poster contributions, promoting interactions, exchanges and the development of the next generation of leading researchers.
- Organic photo(electro)catalysts
- Conjugated polymer nanoparticles
- Conjugated porous polymers (CPP)
- Covalent Organic Frameworks (COFs)
- Conjugated polyelectrolytes
- Organic photocatalysts for Hydrogen Evolution Reaction
- Organic photocatalysts for CO2 reduction
- Water splitting systems
- Organic materials for electrode materials
- Organic photoelectrochemical cells
Marta Liras is Senior Researcher in the IMDEA Energy Institute in the Photoactivated Processes Unit.. She got her PhD in 2003 at UCM by her works is solid state laser dyes based on BODIPY developed at IQOG-CSIC and ICTP-CSIC. During 2004 she enjoyed a postdoctoral fellowship, funded by Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid (CM) at IQFR-CSIC. Next, she was awarded with a postdoctoral grant into the Juan de la Cierva Programme (2005-2007) at Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche. She was postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa (Canada) under the supervision of J. C. (Tito) Scaiano (2008-2009). She come back to ICTP-CSIC with a JAE-Doc award (2009-2012) and she continues her research within both ICTP-CSIC (2012-2013) and IQOG-CSIC (2013-2015). At the end of 2015 she enjoys IMDEA energy Institute to work in the Photoactive Processes Unit. The same year she was awarded with a Ramon y Cajal Grant (2015 call) being promoted to Senior Assistant Researcher. Since 2022 she is Senior Researcher at IMDEA Energy Institute. She leads the Specialized Photochemistry Group of Spanish Royal Society of Chemistry GRUFO-RSEQ. Nowadays, she is using her expertise, in special in the polymer science, to develop new technologies in the energy field such as the design of multifunctional hybrid photo(electro)catalyst as well as the design of energy storage systems. She is co-author of more than 85 peer review journals. Attending to Google Scholar she holds h-index of 32 and i10 of 63. She has participated in a large number of Project at regional, national and European level (ERC-CoG, ERC -PoC (2), FET-Proactive, CSA-flagship, supervisor of Marie Curie grand). Currently, she is PI of two national project. During her career she has supervised more than 8 post-doctoral researchers and co-directed 4 PhD Thesis (3 of them on going). Also, during last five year she has supervised 8 master thesis works as well as 11 FP students