Beilstein Nanotechnology Symposium - Nanocrystal Surfaces and Defects

This symposium provides an interdisciplinary platform for discussing developments in the understanding of the roles that nanocrystal surface chemistry and defects play in mophology and function. Topics will encompass development of new synthetic routes that control the suface chemistries and defect structures of nanocrystals, either directly or through exchange processes. Experimental and theoretical tools that illuminate surface and defect structures will be discussed, as well as applications of surface and defect chemistry in a broad range of applications including the design of surface cataytic sites, and in energy conversion applications including solar cells.

The following aspects will be covered at the symposium:

surface chemistry and defects in perovskites
doping and surface states
characterization including electron microscopy of defects
modeling of nanocrystal surfaces
applications in catalysis and energy conversion

Speakers Include

Uri Banin / The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Sergio Brovelli / University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Raffaella Buonsanti / École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Shelley Claridge / Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Zeger Hens / Ghent University, Belgium
Ivan Infante / Basque Center on Materials, Bilbao, Spain
Maksym Kovalenko / ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Maria Antonietta Loi / University of Groningen, Netherlands
Liberato Manna / Italian Institute of Technology, Genoa, Italy
Delia Milliron / The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Angshuman Nag / Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Pune, India
Jonathan S. Owen / Columbia University in the City of New York, USA
Francisco Palazon / Technical University of Cartagena, Spain
Lakshminarayana Polavarapu / University of Vigo, Spain
Narayan Pradhan / Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, India
Richard D. Robinson / Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Jonathan De Roo / University of Basel, Switzerland
Nadine Schrenker / University of Antwerp, Belgium
Ming Lee Tang / The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
Zhiguo Xia / South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China