Recent Advancements in Solar Energy Conversion

Seminar
Recent Advancements in Solar Energy Conversion 
EcoStor, Solar2X Seminar 

Programme:

9:00 - Opening

Section 1 - Molecular systems

9:15 - Antonín Vlček, Stanislav Záliš, Filip Šebesta, Martin Pižl, Femtosecond stimulated Raman and vibrational coherence expose excited-state dynamics of binuclear metal complexes
9:40 - T. Pavlovska, R. Cibulka, Photocatalytic flavin-mediated carbon dioxide fixation through carboxylation of arenes and alkenes
10:05 - Stanislav Záliš, Martin Melčák, Filip Šebesta, Jan Heyda, Antonín Vlček, Multiscale QM/MM molecular dynamics simulations of photoinduced electron transfer through solvated metalloproteins.
10:30 - Martin Pižl, Greg Greetham, Mary T. Pryce, František Hartl, Ultrafast time-resolved infrared spectroelectrochemistry: A new tool for understanding the photocatalytic processes
10:55 – break, discussion

Section 2 – Hybrid solar cells

11:30 - Bohuslav Rezek, Role of chlorine in chalcogenide solar cells in a microscopic perspective

11:55 - Egor Ukraintsev, Pinpointing contact failure in solar cells with correlative microscopy

12:20 - Branislav Dzurňák, Lukáš Gdula, Štěpán Štafl, Tom Markvart, Energy transfer and light management in silicon hybrid structures

12:55 - Jakub Holovský, Meng-Hsueh Kuo, Naini Jain, Štěpán Štafl, Tereza Staňková, Lucie Landová, Neda Neykova, Recent advances in perovskite solar cell technology

13:00 – lunch

Section 3 – Solid state photoelectrocatalysts

14:00 - T. Imrich, T. Nakata, T. Ohno, J. Krýsa, Photoelectrochemical generation of H2O2 using hematite (α-Fe2O3) and gas diffusion electrode (GDE)

14:25 - J. Rosenkranzova, V. Burtsev, O. Lyutakov, V.Svorcik, Plasmonic nanoantennas for water splitting and green hydrogen production

14:50 - Š. Paušová, M. Neumann-Spallart, D. Bhagat, J. Krýsa, I. Mukhopadhyay, Electrodeposited p-Cu2O films – role of redox active compounds under photoelectrochemical operation

15:15 – Concluding remarks and discussion, end of the conference