Proceedings of nanoGe Fall Meeting19 (NFM19)
Publication date: 18th July 2019
Excessive CO2 has been emitting from burning fossil fuels and has been leading to climate change. The transformation of CO2 to fuels and chemicals is of crucial importance for a sustainable carbon cycle and the long-term energy storage. Among many technologies, electrochemical transformation is considered particularly attractive since it can use renewable sources as energy input. This technology, although being very promising, confronts many challenges. The CO2 reduction reaction (CO2RR) can produce various products, such as carbon monoxide (CO), formic acid (HCOOH), methane (CH4), ethylene (C2H4), methanol (CH3OH) and so on, at similar standard electrode potentials. Hence, it is a big challenge to obtain satisfactory selectivity for a desired product.
Therefore, rationally designed electrocatalysts are essential to boost the CO2RR reaction and to tune the selectivity for a specific product. CuOx or CuMOx (M= Sn, Zn...) are highly potential for the CO2RR [1]. Tuning their structure and composition can easily change the selectivity for a specific product. Our previous work studied Cu-Sn bimetallic electrodes with different surface compositions and nano-architectures toward the CO2RR [2]. The ongoing work studies Cu with various oxide states for converting CO2 to tunable syngas. We are also exploring other Cu based bimetallic materials such as CuZn.
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.