Nanomaterials are ubiquitous, bringing energy efficiency, device miniaturization and unique functionality to a wide range of applications, from general consumer products to high-end memory and energy technologies. The progress of nanotechnology relies majorly on chemical design of basic building blocks, such as nanoparticles, nanoplates, clusters, MOFs, thin films and superlattices. This symposium is a continuation of successful series, inviting contributions on recent challenges to enhance the nanomaterials performance. The symposium will cover a wide range of topics for metal oxides, chalcogenides, halide perovskites, and (inter)metallic nanomaterials. The discussions will be centered on the fundamental chemical processes during the synthesis of nanomaterials, the engineering of the surface for various morphologies and characterization techniques for the structural origin of nanomaterials functionality. The proposed topics will target to link the structure- composition design with physical properties of nanomaterials and therefore to accelerate their use for a broad range of technologies.
- Advanced synthetic routes to engineer functional nanomaterials in various forms (colloids, nanopowders, nanomaterials on templates, nanoporous materials) and various morphology (nanoparticles, nanoplates, clusters, thin films).
- Surface engineering of nanomaterials to enable a device functionality (ligand exchange, surface reactions, core/shell growth).
- Characterization techniques to study the structural features of nanomaterials, their surface and the mechanism of the reaction pathway (in-situ and ex-situ methods).
- Theoretical calculations to elucidate the reaction mechanism and structural origin of nanomaterials functionality.
Maksym Yarema received his master degree in Chemistry from Lviv National University (Ukraine) in 2007. From 2008 to 2012, he worked towards his doctorate degree at the Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria) under supervision of Prof. W. Heiss. In 2012, he joined the research group of Prof. M. V. Kovalenko at EMPA as Marie-Curie fellow. Since 2013, he is working in the Institute for Electronics, ETH Zurich (the research group of Prof. V. Wood), where he received the SNSF Ambizione Fellowship in 2016 and the ERC Starting Grant in 2019. His research interest spans various topics of solid-state and physical chemistry as well as chemical engineering. Particular focus is given for colloidal nanomaterials, their synthetic approaches and applications into optoelectronic devices, memory cells, and lithium-ion batteries.
Mircea DincaOleg GangMaria Ibáñez was born in La Sénia (Spain). She graduated in physics at the University of Barcelona, where she also obtained her PhD in 2013, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Cabot and Prof. Dr. Morante. Her PhD thesis was qualified Excellent Cum Laude and awarded with the Honors Doctorate by the University of Barcelona. Her PhD research was funded by a Spanish competitive grant (FPU) which supported her to conduct short-term research stays in cutting-edge laboratories. In particular she worked at CEA Grenoble (2009), the University of Chicago (2010), the California Institute of Technology (2011), the Cornell University (2012) and the Northwestern University (2013). In 2014, she joined the group of Prof. Dr. Kovalenko at ETH Zürich and EMPA as a research fellow where in 2017 she received the Ružička Prize. In September 2018 she became an Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at IST Austria and started the Functional Nanomaterials group.
Lucio Isai
Giuseppe Portale is associate professor at the Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. degree in Chemistry from the University La Sapienza, Rome and he carried out postdoc research at the ESRF in Grenoble. From 2009 to 2015 he was beamline responsible at the ESRF and in 2015 he was appointed as professor at the University of Groningen. He is the head of the Polymer Physics group, focusing on the study of structure-property relationship in polymer-based materials and on the influence of processing conditions on the final structure of polymer specimens and devices.
Professor Wendy L. Queen received her Ph.D. from Clemson University (USA) in 2009. Afterwards, she accepted a postdoctoral fellowship from the National Research Council, which was carried out at the NIST Center for Neutron Research (USA). In 2012, she took a scientific position at the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and in 2015 she accepted an Assistant Professorship in the Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her research is focused on the synthesis and characterization of novel porous adsorbents, namely metal-organic frameworks, that are of interest in a number of host-guest applications. The ultimate goal of her research is to contribute knowledge towards solving globally relevant problems, like reducing energy consumption, cutting CO2 emissions, and water purification. Her desire is to help train a new generation of researchers that have the knowledge and scientific skill set necessary to become future frontrunners in energy-related research.
Adam Slabon