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Solar Energy Conversion

Life and Matter Sciences International Symposium May 20, 2016 Valencia

General information

Venue: Salón de actos Escuela de Industriales Universidad Politécnica de Valencia Camino de Vera - Edificio 5F, s/n 46022 Valencia
All sessions will take place in English

Organized by:

Fundación Ramón Areces

Coordinator/s:

Avelino Corma Canós Institute of Chemical Technology. UPV-CSIC. Valencia. Spain

Programme

Friday, 20

9:00

Opening ceremony

9:30

Perovskite solar cells: A new paradigm in Energy sector

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin
Head of the Group for Molecular Engineering of Functional Materials. Institut des Sciences et Ingenierie Chimiques. Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne. Sion. Switzerland.

10:30

Carbon Nitrides as Substrates and active semi conductors for (Photo)-Catalysis

Markus Antonietti
Director of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. Postdam. Germany.

11:30

Break

12:00

Rational design of visible-light driven photoatalysts for solar fuels

Tierui Zhang
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry. Chinese Academy of Science. Beijing. China.

13:00

Third generation photovoltaics: Analysis of efficiency Losses

Emilio Palomares
ICREA Research Professor. Chemical Research Institute of Catalonia (ICIQ). Tarragona. Spain.

14:00

Break

16:00

Gas-Phase Light-Assisted Heterogeneous Catalytic Conversion of CO₂ to Chemicals and Fuels

Geoffrey Ozin
Ozin Materials Chemistry Research Group. University of Toronto. Ontario. Canada.

17:00

Design of photocatalytic nanomaterials: Lights and shadows of sustainable world

Paolo Fornasiero
Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. University of Trieste. Trieste. Italy.

18:00

Oriented metal nanoparticles supported on graphene as photocatalysts for solar fuel production

Hermenegildo García
Instituto de Tecnología Química. UPV-CSIC. Spain.

19:00

Concluding remarks

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see past activities

Latent heat thermal energy storage by urea-based eutectic mixtures 2016 Senior Researcher : Álvaro Campos Celador Research Centre or Institution : Universidad del País Vasco (UPV-EHU).
Heterogeneous biomimetic catalysts based on functionalized organic-inorganic hybrid networks to produce hydrogen 2016 Senior Researcher : Mª Dolores Esquivel Merino Research Centre or Institution : Instituto de Química Fina y Nanoquímica. Universidad de Córdoba.
Sunlight on nanocatalysts to lower global energy use, emissions and pollution 2016 Senior Researcher : María González Béjar Research Centre or Institution : Instituto de Ciencia Molecular. Universidad de Valencia.