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Materials for sustainable energy and sensing

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NAnoMaterials for Energy applications

This symposium addresses nanomaterials and nano-architectured systems tailored for energy harvesting, conversion, and management in next-generation devices.

Scope:

The development of nanostructured materials for energy harvesting, conversion, storage, and management is a rapidly growing research area, driven by the need for sustainable and high-efficiency solutions. At the nanoscale, unique physical properties emerge due to confinement effects, interfacial phenomena, and quantum interactions, offering new opportunities for controlling charge, heat, and mass transport.

This symposium will explore how nanomaterials, hybrid structures, and nano-architectured systems can enhance energy-related functionalities. A fundamental challenge is to understand the mechanisms governing energy transport and dissipation while simultaneously addressing scalability, reliability, and environmental impact.

We welcome contributions covering theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to the design, synthesis, and characterization of materials with optimized energy properties. Special attention will be given to multiscale modeling, in-operando and in-situ characterization, and innovative synthetic strategies enabling precise control over nanostructure morphology and interfaces.

By fostering interactions between physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers, this symposium aims to create an interdisciplinary platform for discussing the latest advances, identifying key challenges, and defining future research directions in nano-engineered energy materials.

Participation of early-career researchers will be strongly encouraged to promote knowledge transfer and establish new collaborative networks for the next generation of sustainable energy technologies.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

  • T1. Advanced Quantum and Topological Nanomaterials
  • T2. Thermoelectric and thermal barrier nanomaterials
  • T3. Nanostructured materials for energy harvesting and storage
  • T4. Controlling interfacial and confinement effects on transport
  • T5. Multiscale modeling of phonon, electron, and exciton dynamics
  • T6. Advanced synthesis routes and nano-coating strategies for enhanced energy efficiency
  • T7. In-situ and in-operando techniques for energy materials characterization
  • T8. Thermal management and dissipation phenomena in nanoscale electronic devices
  • T9. 2D and heterostructured materials for thermal energy applications
  • T10. Near- and far-field radiative heat transfer

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Symposium organizers
Alexandros EL SACHATNational Center for Scientific Research Demokritos

Patr. Gregoriou E & 27 Neapoleos Str, 15341 Agia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece

a.elsachat@inn.demokritos.gr
F-Xavier ALVAREZAutonomous University of Barcelona (UAB)

Physics Department, Edifici C, Campus Bellaterra, 08193 Barcelona, Spain

xavier.alvarez@uab.cat
Giorgia FUGALLO (Main organizer)Laboratoire de Physique de l’École Normale Supérieure Paris France, ENS,

Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, 24, rue Lhomond 75005 Paris, France

giorgia.fugallo@ens.fr
Konstantinos TERMENTZIDISCETHIL Laboratory, CNRS and INSA of Lyon

9, rue de la Physique, 69100 Villeurbanne, France

konstantinos.termentzidis@insa-lyon.fr