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SYMPOSIUM and ROUND TABLE TOPICS

The development of the future energy conversion and storage technologies requires understanding the mechanisms of energy transfer at the nanometer scale and the capacity to tailor the materials structure and composition at the same level. This symposium will focus on the synthesis, processing, characterization, and modeling of nanostructured materials and their potential use in energy conversion and storage devices and systems. Successful design of nanoscale materials, -nanoparticles, nanowires and nanotubes and related alternative nanostructured materials- could lead to a wide range of novel devices and technologies useful and essential for the new generation of alternative energy devices. The symposium will cover, but not limited to the following:
General Topics:

• Preparation of nanostructures and nanostructured materials for energy applications: e.g. nanowires, nanoparticles, nanocomposites, mesoporous structures, nano-engineered Materials
• Structural, morphological and functional characterization of nanomaterials for energy applications
• Photonic, electronic, ionic, phononic and chemical transitions, transfer and transport at the nanoscale
• Photocatalytic nanomaterials for solar fuels
• Nanomaterials and nanocomposites for thermoelectric applications
• Nanomaterials for Electric energy issues and applications
• Nanomaterials and devices for clean energy and energy conservation.

Specific Topics:

• Fullerene Electrochemistry
• Supramolecular Chemistry and Spectroscopy
• Monolayer Films, Endohedral Fullerenes: chemistry and electrochemistry
• Carbon Nanoonions: synthesis, derivatizations and fractionation
• Active cation transport through membranes
• Preparation of Novel Electronic Materials, Based on Reduction of Metal Cation Cryptates
• Chemical and Electrochemical switching of macrocycle-cation binding. Organic Metals
• Aggregation of Lipophilic Macrocycles
• Relationships between the synthesis, structure, and physical-chemical properties of solid inorganic compounds (in most cases), leading to a final compound with optimized properties such as advances in the synthesis routes, design of materials for sustainable energy production, advanced characterization techniques and applications, etc.