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PRESENTATION

You are invited to participate in the International Conference Nanoscale Materials and Devices for Energy Conversion, Storage and Biosensors that will take place in Natal, Brasil, 3-6 april 2011.

The goal of this meeting is to bring together researchers around the world working on new physical and chemical methods for the design and characterization of more efficient nanomaterials and devices destined specifically for energy conversion, storage and biosensors devices.

Research and industrialization of energy devices based on nanoscale materials (solar cells, batteries, supercapacitors, as well as others such as sensors) is booming. But improvements in novel methods of preparation in emerging nanostructures and organic materials, in the connection between morphology and functionality, and in the key elements of devices such as substrates and ionic liquid conductors, often have a broad impact over several classes of devices and promote further innovations. This multidisciplinary meeting joins experts on semiconductor nanostructure synthesis, metal oxide ordered and disordered nanoarchitectures, organic conductors and nanostructure design and synthesis, optical and transport characterization of devices in order to put the most recent innovations in a common and general perspective and discern the central goals of research in the near future.

The focus is to provoke discussions on the common aspects of these areas through discussion on nanoscience and nanotechnology concepts and properties of the material in nanoscale. Therefore, novel strategies that exploit nanoscale architectures to enhance the efficiency of alternative energy conversion, storage and biosensor devices, as well as the basic physical and chemical models and principles governing the effects of nanoscale on electrodes and electrolyte will be treated.

Topics to be covered by the Conference

Nanostructure Impact and Effects on DyeSensitized Solar Cells and hybrid organic-inorganic solar cells (focus on physical electrochemistry of DSC devices and inorganic semiconductor/organic solar cells).
Nanostructured Materials and Applications in Nanoscale Energy Storage Technology (nanostructured supercapacitors, nanoscale batteries and fuel cells).
Nanostructured Materials for Design of Biosensor Devices (focus on FET technology, electrochemical nanostructured biosensors, Carbon Nanotube biosensors) and Electrochemical actuators.

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