Invited Speakers

PCNSPA 2020 is cancelled due to COVID-19

Please stay safe and well and we hope to see you as soon as possible 

 

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Professor Paul O'Brien​ Professor Françoise Winnik and Professor Nikolai Gaponik.

 

Alexander Eychmüller (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)  

Mechanistic Studies on Metal Aerogels and their Application in 
Electrocatalysis 

 

Alf Mews (Universität Hamburg, Germany)  

Synthesis and Electrical Properties of Photoactive, Two-Dimensional SnS and SnSe Nanosheets

 

Andrey Rogach (City University of Hong Kong, SAR China)

Carbon Dots, Rods, and Molecular Fluorophores

 

Andries Meijerink (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Luminescence Nanothermometry: Fundamentals and Applications

 

Anna Rodina (Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Russia)

Carrier and Exciton Spin-Flip Processes in Colloidal Nanocrystals

 

Celso de Mello-Donegá (Utrecht University, The Netherlands)

Colloidal Cd-Free Nanocrystals: Emergent Materials for Optoelectronic Applications

 

David Lewis (The University of Manchester, UK)

Soft Processing toward Layered and 2D Materials: Expanding the Palette

 

Dietrich R. T. Zahn (Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany)

Vibrational Spectroscopy of Binary, Ternary, and Quaternary Colloidal Quantum Dots

 

Dmitri Yakovlev (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)

Spin Sensitive Techniques to Address Charging of Colloidal Nanocrystals

 

Fabien Delpech (Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier and Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, ToulouseFrance)

Metal Phosphide Quantum Dots: the Challenge of the Surface Control

 

Gabriel Bester (Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Excitonic Fine Structure and Vibronic Coupling in Colloidal Quantum Dots

 

Gleb Sukhorukov (Queen Mary University of London, UK)

Patterned Structures Made of Responsive Polymers: Sensing, Chemical Feedback, and Delivery Systems

 

Hedi Mattoussi (Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA)

Characterizing Nanocolloids Using NMR Spectroscopy Techniques

 

Igor Nabiev (Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, France and National Research Nuclear University MEPhI, Russia)

FRET-Based Diagnostics and a Strong Light-Matter Coupling Regime

 

Jin Zhong Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)

Metal Halide Perovskites: from Quantum Dots to Magic Sized Clusters and Quantum Dot Solids

 

Jochen Feldmann (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany)

Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: from Platelets to Supercrystals

 

Liberato Manna (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)

Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Their Synthesis and Chemical, Structural, and Surface Transformations

 

Manfred Bayer (Technische Universität Dortmund, Germany)

Coherent Spin Dynamics in Quantum Dots

 

Michel Goldmann (Institut des NanoSciences de Paris, Sorbonne Université, France)

Inducing and Controlling the Radiolytic Synthesis of Organo-metallic Nano-objects with Organic Molds Using X-rays

 

Mingyuan Gao (Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)

Functional Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications

 

Nikolai Gaponik (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany)

Colloidal Nanocrystals in Robust and Processable Polymer or Inorganic Matrices

 

Peter Reiss (Université Grenoble Alpes, France)

Synthesis and Surface Engineering of Metal Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals for Photovoltaics and Photocatalysis

 

Peter Sercel (California Institute of Technology, USA)

Quasicubic Model for Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals: Excitonic Structure and Optical Properties

 

Philippe Guyot-Sionnest (The University of Chicago, USA)

Infrared Photophysics and Applications of Mercury Chalcogenide Quantum Dots

 

Robert H. Blick (Center for Hybrid Nanostructures, Universität Hamburg, Germany)

Nanowires for Single Cell Actuation

 

Rongchao Jin (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Toward Atomic Precision in Nanoscience

 

Thomas Pons (École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris, France)

Designing Functional Quantum Dot Surface Chemistries for Bio-Imaging

 

Ute Resch-Genger (Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und –prüfung, Berlin, Germany)

Photophysics of NIR-Emissive Luminescent Nanocrystals and Multiplexing Applications

 

Yurii Gun'ko (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)

Chiroptically Active Nanomaterials