February 24-28, 2008, Cairo, Egypt

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Organizing Partners

Nano/Photochem & Solarchem Lab.

Sponsors

R.D.I.

Speakers

    Plenary
  • Detlef Bahnemann (Germany)
    Photocatalysis in Europe: Research Issues, Industrial Products and Standardized Activity Measurements

  • Ignazio Renato Bellobono (Italy)
    Recent advances in photocatalytic membrane processes for air and water purification, and standardization of immobilized photocatalytic materials

  • Leif A. Eriksson (Sweden)
    Molecular photochemistry in medicine - results from computational modeling

  • Masamichi Fujihira (Japan)
    Single-molecule devices for PVs

  • Martin A. Green (Australia)
    Advanced tandem and hot carrier solar cells based on silicon quantum dots in dielectric matrices

  • Jean-Marie Herrmann (France)
    Environmental Photocatalysis in Fine and “Green “chemistry

  • Sylvie Lacombe (France)
    Singlet Oxygen Generation for Environmental and Bactericidal Treatments

  • Kyung B. Yoon (Korea)
    Quantum Confinement Effects of 1D and 2D Titanates and Novel Solar Cells

  • Minjoong Yoon (Korea)
    Surface modifications and optoelectronic characterization of TiO2 nanoparticles: Design of new photo-electronic materials

    Keynote
  • Alaa S. Abd-El-Aziz (Canada)
    Design of highly colored organic and organometallic monomers and polymers.

  • Maria Bardosova (Ireland)
    Photonic crystal thin films – their preparation, post-processing techniques and optical properties of final structures

  • László Biczók (Hungary)
    Fluorescent properties of berberine alkaloid in self-assembled systems

  • Seong Soo Choi (Korea)
    Development of High Effciency Plasmonic Nano-Probe and Its Possible Application to LED

  • Frantisek Hartl (The Netherlands)
    Light-driven Dihydrogen Production in [2Fe2S]–Metalloporphyrin Supramole-cular Assemblies

  • Ladislav Kavan (Czech Republic)
    Mesoporous titanium dioxide for dye SensitIzed solar cells

  • Yong-Rok Kim (Korea)
    Manipulation of Energetic Properties in Nanodomain

  • Stefan Lis (Poland)
    Luminescence, Chemiluminescence and Electrochemiluminescence Studies of Chosen Lanthanide(III) Systems

  • James T. McLeskey (USA)
    Solar cells from a water-soluble polymer

  • Mehrab Mehrvar (Canada)
    Combined photochemical and biological processes for the treatment of selected wastewater systems

  • Werner Nau (Germany)
    Metal-Assisted Photocatalysis with Macrocycles

  • Steven Novack (USA)
    Nano Antenna Electromagnetic Collectors

  • Michael Oelgemöeller (Ireland)
    Solar Photochemistry: The Synthesis of Fine-Chemicals with Sunlight; including a tribute to Prof. Alexander Schoenberg

  • Soo Young Park (Korea)
    Highly Luminescent Organic Nanoparticles and Nanowires

  • Marek Pietraszkiewicz (Poland)
    Highly Photoluminescent Eu(III) Ternary Complexes involving 1,3-Diketonates and Elaborated Phosphinoxide Ligands

  • Raquel Portela (Spain)
    Odor and corrosion control by TiO2-photocatalysis in wastewater treatment plants

  • Francesco Scotognella (Italy)
    One Dimensional Polymer Photonic Crystals for Laser Applications

  • Elena Sheka (Russia)
    Nanophotonics of fullerenes

  • Wenjing Tian (China)
    White Organic Light- emitting Diodes Based on Electroplexes

  • Anatoly Tsygankov (Russia)
    Hydrogen photoproduction by immobilized purple bacteria using artificial and real fermentation broth

  • Veronica Vaida (U.S.A.)
    Recent results of some Solar Projects

  • Antonín Vlcek, Jr. (UK)
    Probing Medium Relaxation Dynamics with Re(L)(CO)3(a-diimine) Complexes

  • Isao Ike Yukawa (Japan)
    Think solar and act beyond

  • Klaas Zachariasse (Germany)
    New aspects of intramolecular charge transfer

    Lectures
  • Alsayed Abdel Aal Ibrahim (Egypt)
    Nanostructured Thin Films for Environmental and Gas Sensing Applications

  • R. Alexandrescu (Romania)
    Photochemistry aspects of the laser pyrolysis addressing the preparation of oxide semiconductor photocatalysts

  • Xavier Allonas (France)
    Reappraisal of the Norrish I photodissociation of aromatic ketones

  • Ismail A. Alkskas (Libya)
    Synthesis and Properties of Thermotropic Liquid Crystalline Polyesters with Pendant p-Methoxyphenyl Groups

  • Angelo Angelo (Italy)
    Low power upconversion-induced delayed fluorescence: kinetics considerations and exchange interactions role

  • Dinko Chakarov (Sweden)
    Photoreactions at the graphite/ice interface

  • Jean-Marc Chovelon (France), Presented by: Mohamad Sleiman
    TiO2 photocatalysis for removal of pesticides in gas phase: a study of adsorption, reaction parameters, intermediates and mineralization using FTIR, ATD-GC-MS and GCPDPID

  • Hsiao-yen Chung (Taiwan)
    Analysis of Surface Texturization of Ga As Solar Cells by Molecular Dynamics Simulations

  • Christos Comninellis (Switzerland)
    Preparation of nanoparticles on boron-doped diamond substrate for electrocatalysis

  • Claire Costa Coquelard (France)
    Modification of titanium dioxide with platinum and iron clusters : Application in photocatalysis.

  • Igor Dolamic (Switzerland)
    Photocatalysis of dicarboxylic and amino acids over TiO2 studied by in situ ATR-IR spectroscopy

  • Elena Gaeva (Russia)
    Photo- and ionochromic behaviour of new diphenyioxazole containing spiropenzopyrans

  • Sergo V. Gotoshia (Georgia)
    Laser Raman Spectroscopy of Thin Nanothickness Layers of Surface gas after Ar,B,AI Ions Implantation

  • M. Saif and H. Hafez (Egypt)
    Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells based on Doped TiO2

  • Thorsten Kampen (Germany)
    Surface analysis of photovoltaic and photoelectrochemical devices

  • Jerzy Karpiuk (Poland)
    Ultrafast electron transfer, triarylmethane lactones, rhodamine lactones, white light generation

  • Ekaterina Kozlova (Russia)
    Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution from water solution of organophosphorous compounds

  • Darren J. Le Clere (UK)
    Mechanism of Growth of Titanium Dioxide Nanotubes with application to Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells

  • Boris Lukyanov (Russia)
    Polyfunctional spirocompounds as potential light-sensitive components of nanoswitches

  • Giorgio Macchi (Italy)
    Versatile bottom-up approach to nano-structured functional materials

  • Katarzyna Michalow (Switzerland)
    Photoactivity of Donor Doped TiO2 Nanoparticles.

  • I. Morjan (Romania)
    Recent developments of photocatalytic TiO2 and Fe-doped TiO2 nanopowders prepared by laser pyrolysis

  • E. Morozov (Russia)
    Organic molecular stacks for solar cells

  • Evgeny Morozov (Russia)
    Homeotropic alignment of molecular films

  • Elena Neburchilova (Russia)
    N-peller photovoltaic

  • Leonardo Palmisano (Italy)
    Photocatalytic activity of nano-crystalline TiO2 (brookite, rutile and brookite-based) powders

  • Natalie Plank (UK)
    An investigation of nanostructured ZnO/MEH:PPV hybrid solar cells

  • Nikolay Polyakov (Russia)
    Photostability of supramolecular complexes of some drugs and vitamins

  • Tarek Sadek (Canada)
    Poor Confinement of e-h Recombination Zone in Blue OLEDs

  • S.M. Shaahid (Saudi Arabia)
    Exploitation of Renewable Energy Resources for Environment-Friendly Sustainable Development in Saudi Arabia

  • Sébastien Sorgues (France)
    Photocatalytic Reduction of Ag2SO4 by porphyrin-polyoxometalate complexes

  • Elias Stathatos (Greece)
    Highly Efficient Quasi-Solid State Dye Sensitized Solar Cells employing nanocrystalline TiO2 films prepared in Room or in High Temperature.

  • Judita Sukyte (Lithuania)
    Chalcopolythionic compounds as precursors for formation of semiconducting layers on polymers

  • Koji Takeuchi (Japan)
    Development of air purification test methods for photocatalytic materials: Removal of volatile organic compounds

  • Timothy T. Y. Tan (Singapore)
    Study of Highly Luminescent Rare-Earth Doped and Co-Doped Y2O3 Nanocrystals for Potential Bio-Imaging Applications

  • Gordon Thompson (Australia)
    Advantages of Dye Solar Cells for BIPV in Hot Climates

  • Christos Trapalis (Greece)
    Structure and Photoconductivity of Modified TiO2, Sol-Gel Coatings

  • Satoshi Uchida (Japan)
    YMicrowave processing for full-plastic dye-sensitized solar cells

  • Boris Mikhailovich Uzhinov (Russia)
    The peculiarities of the fluorescence of crowned dyes and their metal complexes

  • Guillaume Vincent (France)
    Kinetic study of gaseous 1-propanol photocatalytic degradation

  • Sebastian M. Waitaa (Kenya)
    Optical characterization of sputtered TiO2 compact under layers for dye-sensitized solar cell applications

  • Barbara Wandelt (Poland)
    Fluorescence studies of molecularly imprinted polymers with incorporated pyrazolequinoline receptor

  • Avery Yuen (Canada)
    Blend Composition Analysis of PQT-12/PCBM Solution Processed Organic Solar Cells


  • ...more to come

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