Dimensional reduction of 3D semiconducting crystal lattices has brought tremendous input into the discovery of new electronic and optical properties in the resulting nanostructures. Functionality in these last ones can be fundamentally different from the bulk and can be designed by controlling shape, size and interactions at the nanoscale. The library of synthetic methods that have been developed in parallel to produce them, provides today access even to atomically precise structures. At the same time, advanced manufacturing and processing have paved the way towards their integration into macroscale architectures like thin films and porous scaffolds, to prospect use in real applications such as energy harvesting/storage and optoelectronics. This symposium will bring together chemists, physicists and materials scientists active in the synthesis, processing, study of structure-property relationships and application in energy and optoelectronic research of low-dimensional semiconductors, spanning from the 0D realm (with the fascinating quantum/carbon dots and different types of nanocrystals) up to the 2D one (with the wide range of 2D materials produced from both top-down and bottom-up approaches).
- From 0D to 2D materials - synthesis, production and processing
- Modelling and determination of electronic and optical properties in 0D and 2D materials
- 0D and 2D materials for energy conversion and storage
- Hybrid 0D-2D materials for emerging applications – synthesis, physical chemistry, photophysics, processing and device integration
- Optoelectronic devices based on 0D and 2D materials
Stefano AgnoliFrancesco BonaccorsoJi MaDr. Ji Ma is the research group leader in the Chair of Molecular Functional Materials at Faculty of Chemistry and Food Chemistry, Technische Universität Dresden. He received his Master's degree in Polymer Chemistry in July 2015 from Fudan University, China. In August 2015, he joined the group of Prof. Xinliang Feng in Technische Universität Dresden as a PhD student, and received his doctorate degree in Synthetic Chemistry in November 2019. After that, he was appointed as a research group leader for the synthetic carbon subgroup in the Chair.
Bio Professional Preparation M.S. in Chemistry, with Honours, University of Bari, Italy, 1996 Ph.D. in Chemistry, University of Bari, Italy, 2001 Research interests Prof. L. Manna is an expert of synthesis and assembly of colloidal nanocrystals. His research interests span the advanced synthesis, structural characterization and assembly of inorganic nanostructures for applications in energy-related areas, in photonics, electronics and biology.
Hernán Míguez (born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971) is Research Professor of the Spanish Research Council (CSIC) in the Institute of Materials Science of Seville. He studied Physics in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and did his PhD in the Institute of Materials Science of Madrid. After a postdoctoral stay at the University of Toronto in the group of Prof. Ozin, he returned to Spain and joined the CSIC in 2004. He leads the group of Multifunctional Optical Materials, whose activities are devoted to the development, characterization and modeling of new photonic architectures for applications in different fields, among them solar energy conversion and light emission. He has received an ERC starting grant (2012, Consolidator Modality) and the “Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA 2017” Prize in the modality of “Physics, Innovation and Technology”.
Akimitsu NaritaSilvio OsellaProf. R. Robinson received his PhD in Applied Physics from Columbia University. After his PhD, Prof. Robinson was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Berkeley/LBNL in the research group of Paul Alivisatos. There, he worked on nanoparticle synthesis, chemical transformations of nanoparticles, and advanced property characterizations of nanoparticles. In 2008 Richard began a faculty position at Cornell University in the Materials Science Department, and is currently an associate professor. His primary research interests are: (I) Synthesis and chemical transformations in nanocrystals, (II) Nanocrystals in energy applications, and (III) Synchrotron x-ray characterization of nanomaterials.
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Andrea Toma has a long-standing experience in the fabrication and characterization of 3D nanostructures, facing cutting-edge issues in light-matter interaction and nanophotonics. He is staff scientist at the Italian Institute of Technology where he coordinates the Clean Room Facility and the ERC CoG grant "REPLY - Reshaping Photocatalysis via Light-Matter Hybridization in Plasmonic Nanocavities".
Andrea Toma is Adjunct Professor at the University of Genova and, since 2012, member of the Proposal Study Panel at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He published more than 100 scientific papers in some of the most impacting Journals of the field, with an h-index of 41. In 2017 he has been awarded with a Visiting Scientist - Full Professorship position by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (under the President's International Fellowship Initiative) with both research and training responsibilities.
He works as referee for many international journals and international funding agencies, serving as program committee member/organizer of conferences on light-matter interaction and nanofabrication.