Publication date: 15th December 2025
Keywords: Photocatalysis, Homogeneous Catalysis, Heterogeneous Catalysis, Single Atom Catalyst
Background and motivation. Among various solar energy conversion techniques, photocatalysis is deemed as a promising, environmentally benign, and cost-effective strategy to generate both fuels and high-value chemicals. While in this domain homogeneous photocatalysts prevail due to higher selectivity but the reutilisation of the catalyst is next to impossible. On the other hand, heterogeneous photocatalysts are recyclable but not highly selective. Therefore, to make a bridge between these two, a new strategy has been developed by synthesizing single metal atom photocatalysts that are selective as well as recyclable. In general, single-atom photocatalysts (SACs) have shown their compelling potential and arguably become the most active research direction in photocatalysis due to their fascinating strengths in enhancing light-harvesting, charge transfer dynamics, and surface reactions of a photocatalytic system.
Materials and methods. Based on the advantages of photocatalysis, we have synthesized several homogeneous catalysts as well as heterogeneous catalysts such as COFs by following routine techniques. However, for the SACs, we have designed our new synthetic technique.
Results and discussion. Based on this, recently we have developed several photocatalytic strategies for the synthesis of fuels as well as high valued chemicals via C-H bond functionalization, CO2 utilisation, water oxidation, plastic valorisation where the catalysts exhibited excellent selectivity as well as recyclability.
nanoGe is a prestigious brand of successful science conferences that are developed along the year in different areas of the world since 2009. Our worldwide conferences cover cutting-edge materials topics like perovskite solar cells, photovoltaics, optoelectronics, solar fuel conversion, surface science, catalysis and two-dimensional materials, among many others.
Previously nanoGe Spring Meeting (NSM) and nanoGe Fall Meeting (NFM), MATSUS is a multiple symposia conference focused on a broad set of topics of advanced materials preparation, their fundamental properties, and their applications, in fields such as renewable energy, photovoltaics, lighting, semiconductor quantum dots, 2-D materials synthesis, charge carriers dynamics, microscopy and spectroscopy semiconductors fundamentals, etc.
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics
International Conference on Hybrid and Organic Photovoltaics (HOPV) is celebrated yearly in May. The main topics are the development, function and modeling of materials and devices for hybrid and organic solar cells. The field is now dominated by perovskite solar cells but also other hybrid technologies, as organic solar cells, quantum dot solar cells, and dye-sensitized solar cells and their integration into devices for photoelectrochemical solar fuel production.
Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics
The main topics of the Asia-Pacific International Conference on Perovskite, Organic Photovoltaics and Optoelectronics (IPEROP) are discussed every year in Asia-Pacific for gathering the recent advances in the fields of material preparation, modeling and fabrication of perovskite and hybrid and organic materials. Photovoltaic devices are analyzed from fundamental physics and materials properties to a broad set of applications. The conference also covers the developments of perovskite optoelectronics, including light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.
The International Conference on Perovskite Thin Film Photovoltaics Perovskite Photonics and Optoelectronics (NIPHO) is the best place to hear the latest developments in perovskite solar cells as well as on recent advances in the fields of perovskite light-emitting diodes, lasers, optical devices, nanophotonics, nonlinear optical properties, colloidal nanostructures, photophysics and light-matter coupling.