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MRS Spring Meeting 2019 – Excitonic Materials & Quantum Dots for Energy Conversion

31 Jan 2019

Symposium ES19 – Excitonic Materials and Quantum Dots for Energy Conversion

Multi-excitonic processes in conjugated organic molecules and quantum confined semiconductor nanocrystals potentially allow the energy in photons to be directed as desired. Design of the molecular framework or material nanostructure will allow a wide range of optical, electronic and mechanical properties to be engineered for energy conversion. This symposium will emphasize the diverse applications of excitonic materials, including colloidally synthesized quantum dots, pi-conjugated systems, and their hybrid constituents, in applications ranging from photovoltaics to bioimaging. There will also be sessions focusing on fundamental materials properties correlating structure to photophysical properties, nano- and mesoscale order and composition to optoelectronic properties of thin films. The symposium will highlight recent progress and identify new directions in emerging, interdisciplinary areas of nanoscience.

Nanoscale Advances is delighted to sponsor this session.

Topics will include:

Computational methods for excitonic materials
Exciton-based photon upconversion
Multiple exciton generation in QDs
Singlet fission in molecules or polymers
Exciton-charge dynamics in organic/QD hybrid systems
Optoelectronic devices (e.g. transistors, photodetectors) based on exciton or charge transport
Role of the interface in energy and charge transport
Hierarchical order at the nano- and mesoscale (e.g. organic or QD thin films)
Emerging applications incorporating colloidally-synthesized QDs, e.g. Biological: in-vivo and in-vitro; Photocatalysis: solar fuel production; Next-generation photovoltaics with the lead chalcogenides and perovskites

Invited Speakers:

Ryu Abe (Kyoto University, Japan)
Marc Baldo (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Bruno Ehrler (AMOLF, Netherlands)
Daniel Gamelin (University of Washington, USA)
Neil Greenham (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
Dirk Guldi (Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg, Germany)
Kathryn Knowles (University of Rochester, USA)
Maksym Kovalenko (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, Switzerland)
Maria Antonietta Loi (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
Kenji Matsuda (Kyoto University, Japan)
Hunter McDaniel (UbiQD, Inc., USA)
Ivan Mora-sero (Universitat Jaume I, Spain)
Zhijun Ning (Shanghai Tech University, China)
Matthew Panthani (Iowa State University, USA)
Sean Roberts (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Edward Sargent (University of Toronto, Canada)
Alina Schimpf (University of California, San Diego, USA)
Pete Sercel (California Institute of Technology)
Tomohiro Shiraki (Kyushu University, Japan)
Susanna Thon (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Mark Wilson (University of Toronto, Canada)
Vanessa Wood (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Xinhua Zhong (East China University of Science and Technology, China)
Joel Yuen Zhou (University of California, San Diego, USA)

Symposium Organizers

MingLee Tang

University of California, Riverside

Joey Luther

National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Wanli Ma

Soochow University

Institute of Functional Nano and Soft Materials

Nobuhiro Yanai

Kyushu University

Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry

Further Information

More details are available on the event website: https://www.mrs.org/spring2019/registration

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CECAM Workshop – Challenges in modeling and simulations of nanoparticles in complex environments

29 Jan 2019

May 29, 2019 to May 31, 2019

Location

CECAM-IT_SIMUL, Italian Institute of Technology – Genoa, Italy

Organisers

Zoe Cournia (Academy of Athens, Greece)
Adam Pecina (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
Marco De Vivo (Istituto Italiano di Technologia, Italy)

Supports

CECAM

Nanoscale Horizons

Nanoscale

Nanoscale Advances

and more.

Description

Practical information:

The deadline for registration is April 12^th(with final answers given on April 30^th)

Our workshop will host ~20 invited talks of 35 min (including Q&A). In addition to planned poster session, a few slots (~5) for short talks of ~25 min are available. If you would like to present your results, please mention your preferred format (contributed talk or poster) with your application.

This workshop will focus on the current challenges in computational simulations of nanoparticles, including their functionalization, from catalysis (nanozymes) to membrane interacting nanoparticles. In addition, the workshop will take advantage of several experimentalists working on nanoparticles interacting with materials and biological environment. Ultimately, we will discuss and debate on how computational methods can further evolve to build novel tools for a deeper understanding of nanostructures and nanomaterials.

Sessions will focus mainly on the methodological improvements for studying nanoparticles and their interaction with complex realistic environments, including protein membranes. We will discuss our models and approaches with experimentalists throughout the workshop’s sessions:

Nanoparticles and membranes
Functionalized Nanoparticles
Experiments meet simulations for nanoscience
Nanoparticles for health and technology

For more information please visit the workshop website: https://www.cecam.org/workshop-0-1823.html

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International Nanophotonics School, June 2019

22 Jan 2019

The Center for Nanophotonics at AMOLF is organizing an International Nanophotonics School for PhD students and postdocs that will focus on hot topics in modern fundamental nanophotonics science. A unique line-up of top-scientists have agreed to serve as lecturers for the school, all of whom are also known to be excellent teachers, see the draft program below. The number of attendees is limited to 80.

Unique program format
The school has a unique format: each lecturer is asked to give a one-hour tutorial, that is specially prepared for the school. The tutorial is built up of from basics for students that are new in the field, and then covers more complex concepts. Lecture slides will be made available to the attendees. The tutorial is followed by a 30 min. highlight talk by the lecturer.

Speakers will include:

Femius Koenderink, AMOLF, Amsterdam
Jean-Jacques Greffet, Institut dÓptique, Paris
Nathalie de Leon, Princeton University
Allard Mosk, Utrecht University
Jenny Nelson, Imperial College, London
Ewold Verhagen, AMOLF, Amsterdam
Javier Aizpurua, Materials Physics Center, San Sebastian
Stepfan Goetzinger, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen
Elaine Li, University of Austin, Texas
Mark Wilson, University of Toronto
Isabelle Staude, Abbe Center of Photonics, Jena
Mikael Rechtsman, Pennsylvania State University

Who can attend?
PhD students and postdocs are welcome to register for the School. The number of attendees is limited to 80.

Student/postdoc presentations
All school attendees are invited to present a poster about their research. In addition, a total of 10 slots is available in the program for oral presentations. Abstracts can be submitted to apply for these talks.

Important Dates

Early-bird registration ends 1 March 2019

Oral abstract submission ends 1 April 2019

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Congratulations to Dr Matthew Otten: 2018 Best NST Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation Awardee

07 Jan 2019

The nanoscience and technology (NST) Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation Series is an opportunity at Argonne National Laboratory for postdocs to present their research in order to facilitate networking between postdocs and staff scientists. The best presentation is selected annually through ballots available to anyone who attends a talk.

The winner of the 2018 edition was announced at the NST division holiday lunch on December 14, 2018. Dr Matthew Otten has been awarded the 2018 NST Best Postdoctoral Fellow Presentation Award and has received $200 prize sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry journal Nanoscale, a high impact international journal that publishes the experimental and theoretical articles across the breadth of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

Matt received his bachelor degree from Illinois Institute of Technology and PhD in physics from Cornell. He joined the NST division in the fall of 2017 as a recipient of prestigious Maria Coepper Mayer Fellowship available at Argonne National Laboratory to top science and engineering young talents. Matt is working on the theory and modeling of quantum information and sensing processes in nanoscale systems such as metallic nanostructures interacting with quantum dots the dynamics of NV centers in diamond.

Congratulations Matt!

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