nanoGe - NFM21

General Organizers

Here we invite the scientific community to join us for the Online NFM21, which will be celebrated between 17th to 22nd October 2021.

Sixto Giménez Julià

Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM), Universitat Jaume I

Nitin Padture

School of Engineering, Brown University

#PerNC21. Perovskites II: Synthesis, Characterization, and Properties of Colloidal
- Synthesis methods, core-shell structures, surface chemistry, self-assembly, structural characterization, lead-free metal halide nanocrystals
- Carrier dynamics at ensemble and single dot level, stimulated emission, photon statistics
- Exciton-phonon coupling, fine-structure splitting, molecular dynamics of ligands and structure dynamics
- LEDs, LCD displays, solar cells, lasers, photodetectors, scintillators
Symposium organizers:
Maksym Kovalenko
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich
Ivan Infante
Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT)
Lea Nienhaus
Florida State University
#PerEmer21. Perovskites III: Emerging Materials and Phenomena
- Molecular design and structural properties of low-dimensional perovskites
- Mixed ionic-electronic conductivity
- Photophysics of low-dimensional perovskites
- Correlating structural and optoelectronic properties
- Device engineering and theoretical insights
- Emerging properties and applications
Symposium organizers:
Moritz Futscher
EMPA - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology
Jovana Milic
University of Fribourg, Adolphe Merkle Institute
Aditya Mohite
Rice University, Houston, US
#RadDet21. Radiation Detection Semiconductor Materials, Physics, and Devices
- Organometallic halide perovskite for high radiation energy detectors
- Organic single crystals, polycrystals and plastic materials for direct and indirect ionizing detectors
- Theoretical prediction of new materials for high energy radiation detectors with high performance, low cost and low radiation dose on human body
Symposium organizers:
Michael Saliba
University of Stuttgart
Mahshid Ahmadi
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, US
#SolCat21. (Photo-)Electrocatalysis: From the Atomistic to System Scale
- Fundamental mechanistic kinetic and operando studies
- Design of new electrocatalysts
- New developments in modelling the electrochemical interface
- Mass transfer modelling of GDEs and MEAs
- Flow reactors for high-throughput electrocatalytic synthesis
- Industrial and commercial implementations
- Technoeconomic analysis
Symposium organizers:
Karen Chan
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
Sophia Haussener
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Brian Seger
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
#SolFuel21. Solar Fuel: In-situ and operando characterization of electrified interfaces
- Operando characterization of interfaces
- Reaction mechanism
- Active sites
- Heterogeneous interfaces
- Materials and interface design
Symposium organizers:
Bastian Mei
University of Twente
Jan Philipp Hofmann
Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
María Escudero-Escribano
Department of Chemistry, Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
#NCFun21. Fundamental Processes in Nanocrystals
- Nanocrystal synthesis: Composition, morphology, heterostructues, assembly, dispersion control, and mechanism
- Nanocrystal surface chemistry: Fundamental properties and targeted function
- Nanocrystal properties: New insights from spectroscopy, theory, and simulation
- Nanocrystal applications: From light emission to catalysis
Symposium organizers:
Brandi Cossairt
University of Washington, US
Jonathan De Roo
Department of Chemistry, University of Basel
#2DCat21. 2D Materials: Emerging Catalysts
- Synthetic control over morphology, atomic structure and composition
- Catalytic activity – electro-catalysis and photocatalysis
- Structure-Function relationship in 2D materials
Symposium organizers:
Maya Bar Sadan
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Stefano Agnoli
University of Padova, Department of Chemical Sciences
#PhotoDet21.Next Generation Photodetectors
- Perovskite photodetectors
- Organic photodetectors
- Nanocrystals and low dimensional systems for photodetection
- Color-selective and infrared photodetection
- Image sensors with new generation semiconductors
- Thermodynamic limit of the sensitivity of next generation photodetectors
- Photodetector characterisation methods
- Noise, from theory to experiment
- Photomultiplication and amplification
- New compound semiconductors for photodetection
- LiFi and optical wireless communication
- Special applications: X-ray detection, biological applications and wearable sensors
Symposium organizers:
Ardalan Armin
Sustainable Advanced Materials (Sêr-SAM), Department of Physics, Swansea University, UK
Edward Sargent
University of Toronto
#NewOPV21. Advances in Organic Photovoltaics
- Working principles of organic solar cells accessed through advanced characterization and modeling
- New materials for high efficiency OPV
- Advances in experimental techniques to study organic semiconductors and polymer blends at the nanoscale
- Required material and device properties for sufficient long term stability under different stress conditions
- Material strategies and printing concepts for eco-friendly organic solar cells
- Up-scaling: from small area cells to large area modules
- Indoor applications of OPV
Symposium organizers:
Uli Würfel
Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Germany
Jörg Ackermann
Aix-Marseille University, CINAM CNRS UMR
#NanoPrint21. Engineered Nanomaterials and Inks for Printed, Flexible and Interfacial Electronics
- Electronic skin
- Self-healable materials
- Soft robotics and actuators
- Flexible and stretchable materials and devices
- Wearable (on-body or in-body) sensors, devices and power sources
- Healthcare and biomedical applications
- Conformable hybrid sensors and devices
- Flexible inorganic hybrid electronics
- Mechanics and design of wearable and stretchable electronics
- Nature inspired devices and systems
Symposium organizers:
Shweta Agarwala
Aarhus University - DK
Victor Sans Sangorrin
Universitat Jaume I, Institute of Advanced Materials (INAM) - Spain
#SPEMn21. Visualising nanoscale phenomena in functional materials
- Scanning probe microscopy
- Optical microscopy and spectroscopy
- Electron microscopy
- Imaging
Symposium organizers:
Stefan Weber
Max Planck Institut for Polymer Research
Brian Rodriguez
University College Dublin
#LightMatter21. Light-Matter Interactions: From Fundamental Spectroscopy to Materials Design
- Light-matter interactions
- Excited states phenomena
- Materials design
- Ultrafast spectroscopy
- Novel spectroscopic methods
- Energy materials
Symposium organizers:
Linn Leppert
University of Twente
Marina Filip
Oxford University, Department of Physics
#ThermoElect21. New concepts in organic/hybrid thermoelectrics
- Modelling and theory of doping, charge transport and thermoelectrics
- Novel chemical structures for efficient thermoelectrics
- Organic/inorganic and hybrid thermoelectrics
- Dopants and Doping strategies
- Thermal transport
- Flexible and conformable thermoelectrics
- N-type materials for organic thermoelectrics
- Composites and blends for hybrid thermoelectrics
Symposium organizers:
L. Jan Anton Koster
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Derya Baran
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) - Saudi Arabia

Presentation #NFM21

You are invited to participate in the Online nanoGe Fall Meeting, a unique series of symposia focused on advanced materials preparation and fundamental properties and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy (photovoltaics, batteries), lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis and semiconductors fundamentals, bioimaging, etc.

The symposia are medium size and closely related to form an exciting, interdisciplinary event that attracts key players of the respective fields either as organizers, invited speakers, or as participants.

Dates: 2021 October 17th to 22nd