PCNSPA
Photonic Colloidal Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

SAINT-PETERSBURG, RUSSIA

 

Welcome to Saint Petersburg - the cradle of quantum dots!

 

This website is the living memory of the PCNSPA conference series.

Here, you can find the programmes of all past conferences, updated information about our Invited Speakers, and insights into the nanoscience that brought together the fantastic PCNSPA community. This way, we wish to honour everyone's achievements and keep the PCNSPA community connected.

 

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2023 was awarded to

Aleksey Ekimov, Louis E. Brus and Moungi G. Bawendi

"for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots"

The PCNSPA organisers 

congratulate the

 2023 Nobel Prize laureates in Chemistry

and all our colleagues!

 

The international conference Photonic Colloidal Nanostructures: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications (PCNSPA) was a major forum for discussion and dissemination of new results on all topics concerning fundamental and applied research on photonic colloidal nanomaterials, with an emphasis on semiconductor and plasmonic colloidal crystalline nanostructures. PCNSPA 2020, cancelled due to COVID-19, should have been the third meeting in this series of nanoscience conferences initiated in 2016. Explore the profiles and contributions of the pioneers who shaped our conference sessions as Invited Speakers: 2016, 2018, and 2020.

 

PCNSPA was delighted to support the International Day of Light and contribute to its aims, in particular"Emphasise the importance of basic research in the fundamental science of light, the need for investment in light-based technology to develop new applications, and the global necessity to promote careers in science and engineering in these fields".

 

PCNSPA topics included, but were not limited to:

  • Advances in synthesis of photonic colloidal nanoparticles

  • Optical, electronic, and magnetic properties of photonic colloidal nanostructures

  • Interfacial phenomena and engineered self-assembly of photonic colloidal nanostructures

  • Chirality in photonic colloidal nanostructures

  • Hybrid photonic colloidal nanostructures: interactions between colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals, plasmonic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles, molecules, and ions 

  • Advances in theoretical modeling of photonic colloidal nanostructures

  • Applications of photonic colloidal nanostructures: light harvesting and photovoltaics, imaging and sensing, diagnostics and therapy, lasing, photocatalysis, optoelectronics, optical limiters, infrared emitters and detectors 

 

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