315 Final Programme

17:00 - 19:30

Registration at ESF Desk

19:30

Welcome Drink

20:00

Dinner

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome Address
Michael Graetzel - EPFL, CH
Kenneth Ruud - ESF Representative, University of Tromsø, NO

Session 1: Nanomaterials

09:00 -  09:50

Bengt Kasemo - Chalmers University of Technology and Göteborg University, SE
Plasmonics for Energy Applications: Solar Energy, Hydrogen Storage and Sensors

09:50 - 10:40

Klaus Kern - Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, DE
Nanoscale Electronic Contacts

10:40 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Session 2: Nanomaterials: Contributed Papers

11:00 - 11:20

Dominik Eder - University of Cambridge, UK
Carbon nanotube-inorganic hybrid materials
(short talk)

11:20 - 11:40

Davide Mattia - University of Bath, UK
Wetting and Flow of Liquids inside Carbon Nanotubes
(short talk)

11:40 - 12:00

Ramani Venugopalan - Homi Bhabha National Institute, IN
A comparative study of hydrogen storage properties of various transition metal-carbon nanotube nanocomposites
(short talk)

12:00 - 12:20

Sayed Hadi Mousavi - Shahrood University of Technology, IR
Synthesis and optical investigation of wurtzite Zinc-Oxide nanorods
(short talk)

12:20 - 12:40

Shana Kelley - University of Toronto, CA
Bioinspired, bioenabled, and biofunctional nanomaterials
(short talk)

12:45

Lunch

Session 3: Nanostructured Solar Cells

16:00 - 16:50

Peidong Yang - University of California, US
Semiconductor nanowires for direct solar to fuel conversion

16:50 - 17:40

Edward Sargent - University of Toronto, CA
Depleted-Heterojunction Colloidal Quantum Dot (DH-CQD) solar cells

17:45 - 18:00

Coffee Break

Session 4: Catalysis

18:00 - 18:50

Doron Aurbach- Bar-Ilan University, IL
On the science behind R&D of novel rechargeable batteries

19:00

Dinner

Session 5: Contributed Talks from Sponsors

20:30 - 20:50

Bengt Kasemo - Q-sense, SE

20:50 - 21:10

Keith Brooks - DyeSol

21:10 - 21:30

Kevin Tabor - G24 Innovations, UK

Session 6: Solar Cells

09:00 – 09:50

Gary Hodes - Weizmann Institute, IL
ZnO as electron conductor in semiconductor-sensitized solar cell

09:50 - 10:40

Kazuhiro Noda - Sony Corporation, JP
Development of high-performance dye-sensitized solar cell

10:40 - 10:45

Group Photo

10:45 – 11:00

Coffee Break

Session 7: Dye Solar Cells: Contributed Papers

11:00 - 11:20

Shahzada Ahmad - Max-Planck-Institute for Polymer Research, DE
Electrical field assisted growth of poly (3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) in ionic liquids: as counter electrode in dye-sensitized solar cells
(short talk)

11:20 - 11:40

Giorgio Bardizza - CIMaINa and University of Milano, IT
Integration of a porous TiO2 layer deposited by FlameBeamTM in dye-sensitized solar cells
(short talk)

11:40 - 12:00

Yiming Cao - Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN
Efficient Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with an Organic Photosensitizer Featuring Orderly Conjugated Ethylenedioxythiophene and Dithienosilole Blocks
(short talk)

12:00 - 12:20

Rui Cruz - University of Porto, PT
Carbon-based nanomaterials as counter electrondes for dye-sensitized solar cells
(short talk)

12:20 - 12:40

Catherine Henrist - University of Liege, BE
Repeated thermal treatments applied to ordered TiO2 mesoporous thin film: effect of on the film crystallization and surface area
(short talk)

12:45

Lunch

Session 8: Nanostructured Solar Cells

16:00 - 16:50

Gavin Conibeer - University of New South Wales, AU
Nanostructures for thirds generation photovoltaics

16:50 - 17:40

Efrat Lifshitz - Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, IL
Multiple excitons in blinking-free core/alloy-shell colloidal quantum dots

17:45 - 18:00

Coffee break

Session 9: Hydrogen Storage

18:00 - 18:50

Patrice Simon - University Paul Sabatier, FR
Ion adsorption in carbon nanopores: towards the next generation of high energy density electrochemical capacitors

19:00

Conference dinner

Session 10: Poster Session I

20.30 - 21.00

Poster Session

Session 11: Solar Cells

09:00 - 09:50

Rene Janssen- Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Polymer solar cells: new materials, tandem devices and 3D morphology

09:50 - 10:40

Emilio Palomares - ICREA research Professor and ERCstg Fellow at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ), ES
Charge transfer dynamics at the nanoscale in molecular photovoltaic devices

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee Break

Session 12: Solar Cells: Contributed Papers

11:00 - 11:20

Ajay Singh - University of Limerick, IE
Aligned Nanorod Solar cells
(short talk)

11:20 - 11:40

James Cahoon - Harvard University, US
Single nanowires as high-efficiency photovoltaic elements
(short talk)

11:40 - 12:00

Thomas Faunce - Australian National University, AU
Regulating plasmonic solar cells and artifical photosynthesis for sustainable energy
(short talk)

12:00 - 12:20

Thomas Kempa - Harvard University, US
Pushing the efficiency limits for single nanowire photovoltaics
(short talk)

12:20 - 12:40

Niels Benson - University of Duisburg-Essen, DE
Si-Nanoparticles and their potential for photovoltaic devices
(short talk)

12:45

Lunch

Session 13: Thermoelectrics

16:00 16:50

Joseph Heremans - The Ohio State University, US
Optimization of the efficiency of thermoelectric energy converters using resonant impurity levels

16:50 - 17:40

Anke Weidenkaff - EMPA Materials Science & Technology, DE
Development of high temperature ceramic thermoelectric converters

17:45 - 18:00

Coffee break

Session 14: Batteries

18:00 - 18:50

Flemming Besenbacher - University of Aarhus and Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO), DK
Catalytic model systems studied by high-resolution, video-rate scanning tunneling microscopy

19:00

Dinner

Session 15: Poster Session II

20:30 - 21:30

Poster Session

Session 16: Hydrogen Storage

09:00 - 09:50

Raphael Janot - University of Picardie Jules Verne, FR
Amide-hydride combinations for hydrogen storage

09:50 - 10:40

Andreas Züttel - EMPA Materials Science & Technology, DE
Hydrogen storage and the role of nanomaterials

10:45 - 11:00

Coffee break

Session 17: Contributed Papers

11:00 - 11:20

Christopher Jaworski - Ohio State University, US
Lead Telluride for Automotive Waste Heat Recovery
(short talk)

11:20 - 11:40

Andrii Ryzhkov - Tavria State Agrotechnological University, UA
The technology of electromagnetic stimulation of fermentation processes in biogas production
(short talk)

11:40 - 12:00

Jiefang Zhu - Uppsala University, SE
Noble metal modified TiO2 photocatalysts: preparation, characterization and photocatalytic activity
(short talk)

12:00 - 12:20

Maurin Cornuz - EPFL, CH
Nanostructured alpha-Fe2O3 photoanodes, controlling the morphology to improve the photo-electrochemical performances
(short talk)

12:20 - 12:40

Laura Meda - ENI SpA, IT
Photoelectrodes based on electrochemical anodization for PEC water splitting
(short talk)

12:45

Lunch

Session 18: Contributed Papers

16:00 - 16:20

Pardis Simon - CEA Saclay, FR
Titanium oxide nanoparticles synthesised by laser pyrolysis - optical properties and application to photovoltaics and photocatalysis
(short talk)

16:20 - 16:40

Lioz Etgar - EPFL, CH
Solid State PbS/PbSe Quantum Dot sensitized Solar Cell
(short talk)

16:40 - 17:00

Shihe Yang - The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, CN
New Photoanode Architectures of Dye Sensitized Solar Cells Based on Nanotetrapods and Other Nanostructures of Metal Oxides
(short talk)

17:00 - 17:20

Hen Dotan - Technion University, IL
Probing the photoelectrochemical properties of a-Fe2O3 electrodes using hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) as a hole scavenger
(short talk)

17:20 - 17:50

Coffee Break

Session 19: Supercapacitors

17:50 - 19:00

Forward Look Plenary Discussion

19:00

Dinner

08:00

Breakfast and Departure