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Materials for sustainable energy and sensing

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Photo and electrochemical systems for value added synthesis

The energy transition requires innovative methods to convert renewable energy into sustainable chemicals for industry and to store energy. This symposium explores (photo)electrochemical routes for synthesizing industrial base chemicals and for storing energy, highlighting the tools and models essential for understanding and optimizing these processes.

Scope:

Achieving the ambitious CO2 emissions reduction targets set by the Paris Agreement for 2050 requires urgent and strategic research to eliminate our dependence on fossil fuels for energy and chemical production. While renewable energy is now the most competitive power source, its intermittency remains a challenge. Hydrogen is a promising energy carrier, but its storage and transport pose significant hurdles. This symposium will discuss alternative strategies for storing hydrogen in chemical bonds, such as liquid and solid hydrogen carriers

Currently, the chemical industry relies heavily on fossil fuel derivatives as feedstocks, leading to long-lived waste materials that threaten ecosystems, contribute to microplastic pollution, and ultimately disrupt the food chain. Incinerating these residuals further exacerbates CO2 emissions. A shift toward biomass-derived building blocks offers a sustainable alternative, yielding biodegradable and carbon-neutral products. This symposium will also highlight emerging (photo)electrocatalytic routes for converting biomass and its derivatives into green chemicals and industrial feedstocks.   

Additionally, we will discuss the latest characterization techniques and modeling approaches essential for understanding and optimization of (photo)electrochemical materials and systems.

Hot topics to be covered by the symposium:

  • Value added (photo)electrochemical synthetic routes
  • Biomass transformations to building block chemicals
  • Green hydrogen production and storage
  • Nitrogen and carbon cycles
  • Particle-based photocatalysis
  • Materials for (photo)electrosynthesis
  • (Photo)electrochemical systems for synthesis
  • Characterization techniques.
  • Computational modelling of (photo)(electro)catalysts

Tentative list of invited speakers :

  • Zhenmeng Peng - University of South Carolina
  • Philippe Vernoux - CNRS, France
  • Christophe Coutanceau - Université de Poitiers
  • Kathryn Toghill - Lancaster University, United Kingdom
  • Nuria López - ICIQ, Spain
  • Federico Calle-Vallejo - UPV/EHU, Spain
  • Frédéric Chandezon - CEA Grenoble, France
  • Sara Barja - UPV/EHU, Spain
  • Cristina Scheu - Max Plank SusMat, Germany
  • Mohamed Nawfal - Université Paris Saclay

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Symposium organizers
Alba GARZON MANJONCatalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)

UAB Campus, 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona

alba.garzon@icn2.cat
David TILLEYUniversity of Zurich

Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland

david.tilley@chem.uzh.ch
Elena MAS MARZA (Main organizer)Institute of Advanced Materials, Universitat Jaume I

Avda. V. Sos Baynat s/n, 12006 Castelló de la Plana, Spain

emas@uji.es
Max GARCIA-MELCHORCIC energiGUNE

Parque Tecnológico, C/Albert Einstein, 48, 01510 Vitoria-Gasteiz (Álava), Spain

maxgarcia@cicenergigune.com