NanoMaterials for the Energy & Environment - NanoMatEn 2016
June 1 - 3, 2016, Paris - France
Nanoscience and nanotechnology are interdisciplinary fields that bring together physicists, chemists, materials scientists, and engineers to meet the potential future challenges that humankind will face, including the search for renewable energies for sustainable development and new technologies for carbon capture and environmental protection. Among the current subjects in nanoscience and nanotechnology, nanomaterials are developing fast and explosively and attracting a huge amount of attention. Nanomaterials and their manufacturing technologies have been seamlessly integrated into many applications. They continue to show promising potential and have found application in solar cells, fuel cells, secondary batteries, supercapacitors, air and water purification, and removal of domestic and outdoor air pollutants. Clean energy and environmental applications often demand the development of novel nanomaterials that can provide shortest reaction pathways for the enhancement of reaction kinetics. Understanding the physicochemical, structural, microstructural, and surface properties of nanomaterials is vital for achieving the required efficiency, cycle life, and sustainability in various technological applications.
Water treatment and purification is also a main challenge for the current and upcoming generations. Membrane processes, nanosized materials and the combination from both offer a wide range of possibilities and ways for water treatment by means of filtration and catalytic processes. This event will focus then on the recent Advances in Nanotechnology for Water Treatment.
This conference is an ideal opportunity to the researchers and industrials to show the recent efforts made through nanoscience and nanotechnology toward meeting the pressing energy and environmental challenges that humankind faces. It will be an opportunity for them to examine future directions of nanomaterial development and encourages future efforts. The conference program will include contributions from world-renowned specialists in the fields of nanomaterials, energy, and environmental science.
NanoMatEn 2016 Conference Topics
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Nanomaterials for Clean and Sustainable Technology
Nanotechnology for Solar Energy Collection and Conversion
Hydrogen and Fuels cells
Energy Storage and Novel Generation
Nanotech for Oil and Gas
NanoNuclear Materials
Nanomaterials for environment protection and remediation
Nanotech for Water Technologies
Nanotech for Smart Grid evolution
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NanoMatEn 2016 Symposia
In parallel to the conference sessions, we are organizing the following focused symposia:
Symposium 1: Nano Energy
Symposium 2: Nanotechnology for Photovoltaics
Symposium 3: Nanotechnology for Water treatment
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The International conference on Nano Materials for Energy and the Environment - NanoMatEn 2016 will be organized in Parallel to Nanotech France 2016, European Graphene Forum - EGF 2016 and NanoMetrology France 2016. It includes in addition to the technical sessions, many focused symposia.
Solar Energy Materials & Systems Group, IREC, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain
ICFO - Institut de Ciències Fotòniques Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, Barcelona, Spain
Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology IGB, Germany
Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry (TIPC), Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Solar Energy Materials & Systems Group, IREC, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Spain
Director, Nanotechnology for Sustainable Energy and Environment Lab University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA