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Symposium Z: Conjugated Organic Materials for Energy Conversion, Energy Storage, and Charge Transport

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Conjugated Organic Materials for Energy Conversion, Energy Storage, and Charge Transport

This symposium will focus on advances in materials science and engineering of conjugated organic and polymeric materials and structures for energy conversion, storage, and charge transport.  The emphasis will be placed on materials synthesis, crystallization, processing, and characterization related to solar cells and energy-storage electrodes.  Among the recent developments that will be presented in this symposium are novel p- and n-type materials, strategies (processes) of directing self-assembly and nanostructure formation, surface grafting/modification chemistries, and bulk and interfacial properties on the nano/micro-scale.  Our goal is to merge similar concepts and approaches related to organic electronic material design and fabrication from energy-related fields to develop and refine structure-property relationships.

Session topics will include:

• New organic electronic materials and structures
• Organic nanostructures/nanowires
• Polymeric battery and supercapacitor electrodes
• Organic/polymer photovoltaic cells
• Materials patterning and printing
• Fundamentals of optical and electronic properties
• Surfaces and interfacial phenomena
• New device concepts
• Low-bandgap polymers

Invited speakers (tentative) include:

Michael Arnold (Univ. of Michigan), Jean-Luc Bredas (Georgia Inst. of Technology), Martin Brinkmann (Univ. of Strasburg, France), Paulette Clancy (Cornell Univ.), William Dichtel (Cornell Univ.), Antonio Facchetti (Polyera Corp.), Dan Frisbie (Univ. of Minnesota), Russell Gaudiana (Konarka Technologies), Enrique Gomez (Pennsylvania State Univ.), Wenping Hu (Beijing National Lab for Molecular Sciences), Rene Janssen (Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Netherlands), Anton Kiriy (Leibniz Inst., Germany), Jian Li (Arizona State Univ.), Zhiqun Lin (Iowa State Univ.), Lynn Loo (Princeton Univ.), Christine Luscombe (Univ. of Washington), Stefan Mannsfeld (Stanford Synchroton Radiation Lightsource), Tobin Marks (Northwestern Univ.), Marina Mastragostino (Univ. of Bologna, Italy), Iain McCulloch (Imperial College London, United Kingdom), Michael McGehee (Stanford Univ.), Qian Miao (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong), Thuc-Quyen Nguyen (Univ. of California, Santa Barbara), Vitaly Podzorov (Rutgers Univ.), John Reynolds (Univ. of Florida), Thomas Russell (Univ. of Massachusetts), Alberto Salleo (Stanford Univ.), Rachel Segalman (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Graeme Snook (CSIRO, Australia), Takao Someya  (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), John Strenger-Smith (U. S. Navy, NAWC), Maria Stromme (Uppsala Univ., Sweden), Luping Yu (Univ. of Chicago).

Symposium Organizers

Alejandro L. Briseno
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering
Amherst, MA 01003
Tel 413-577-1213
abriseno@mail.pse.umass.edu 

Jason Locklin
University of Georgia
Faculty of Engineering
Dept. of Chemistry
Athens, GA 30602
Tel 706-542-2359
jlocklin@uga.edu 

Wei You
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dept. of Chemistry
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
Tel 919-962-6197
wyou@email.unc.edu 

Zhenan Bao
Stanford University
Dept. of Chemical Engineering
381 North South Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-5025
Tel 650-723-2419
zbao@stanford.edu 

Mark E. Roberts
Clemson University
Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
204 Earle Hall
Clemson, SC 29634-0001
Tel 864-656-6307
mrober9@clemson.edu