4^th International Conference on Electrochemistry June 11-12, 2018 Rome, Italy

Biography

Research Interest

MARIA VALNICE BOLDRIN ZANONI is Professor of Analytical Chemistry at the Institute of Chemistry, UNESP, Araraquara. Doctor of Chemical Sciences from the Institute of Chemistry of the University of São Paulo, São Carlos (1989), Post-doctoral at the University of Loughborough, England; University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA and Oxford University. She was advisor of the Research Development from UNESP from 2009-2017. She is currently coordinating of “National institute for alternative technologies of detection, toxicological evaluation and removal of micropollutants and radioaticves”. She has experience in electroanalysis of micropollutants, photoelectrocatalytic processes and environmental electrochemical. In 2014 was honored with the Elsevier/CAPES Award, which highlighted 10 Brazilian researchers, which works had higher impact in the scientific community. Has 208 published papers, with 3624 citations.

Trends in photoelectrocatalysis: a powerful tool in environmental treatment, electroanalysis, water disinfection, hydrogen production and CO2 conversion

Shozo Yanagida is an emeritus professor of Osaka University and a research director of “Research Association for Technological Innovation of Organic Photovoltaics” (RATO) of University of Tokyo. Since he was promoted to a professor of newly established “Koza” (research course) of Graduate School of Engineering in Osaka University (1980), he had contributed to photochemical conversion of solar energy, e.g., excellent photocatalyses of both nano-sized (quantized) ZnS and poly- & oligo-paraphenylene. When he was staying at SERI (now ENREL) as a visiting professor of Dr. A. Nozik’s group in 1984, he understood that organic molecules and their aggregates are kinds of quantum dots themselves. He has his expertise in evaluation of dye-sensitized solar cells, i.e., molecular structured photovoltaics, and passion in improving photo-conversion efficiency and long-term durability of solar cells in view of unidirectional electron flow and electron lifetime in solar cell devices

Theoretical Verification of Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation Using Nanocrystalline TiO2 Electrodes

Doron Aurbach is a full professor in the department of A senate member and the Director of the cleantech center at the Bar-Ilan Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA)

Advances in non-aqueous oxygen electrochemistry, in connection to developing rechargeable Li and Na –oxygen batteries

Marie-Christine Record has completed her PhD in 1992 from Montpellier University (France) and postdoctoral studies from Ecole Centrale Paris (France). She was an associate professor at Montpellier University from 1996 to 2004 and from 2004, she is full professor at the Aix-Marseille University (France) where she works on the elaboration of thin films materials for energy. She has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and has been serving as an editorial board member of repute.

Electrochemistry

Vladimir Sergeevich Bystrov is a professor at Institute of Mathematical Problems of Biology RAS. He has his expertise in various fields of the Computational Molecular Modeling, Computational exploration and computer simulation of nonlinear multifunctional nanomaterials and ddifferent organic & bio-molecular nano-structures such as: Bioferroelectric & polymer PVDF/PVDF-TrFE thin ferroelectric films, graphene/oxide graphene and related polar composite nanomaterials; amino acids (glycine, etc.), peptides, peptides nanotubes, thymine and DNA, etc); hydroxyapatite (HAP) & nanoparticles, etc. Computational studies of such various nanostructures were made by using of the molecular mechanics, quantum-chemical calculations (ab initio, DFT, semi-empirical methods), molecular dynamics (MD) simulation & combined methods on the base of own software, as well several HyperChem, MOPAC, AIMPRO, VASP and Gaussian software (Linux clusters in Russia IMPB&KIAM, Linux cluster in University of Aveiro, Portugal). He is a Head of Group for Computer Modelling of Nanostructures and Biosystems of IMPB- KIAM RAS.

Computational exploration and computer simulation of nonlinear multifunctional nanomaterials and different organic & bio-molecular nano-structures such as: Bioferroelectric & polymer PVDF/PVDF-TrFE thin ferroelectric films, graphene/oxide graphene and related polar composite nanomaterials; amino acids (glycine, etc.), peptides, peptides nanotubes, thymine and DNA, etc); hydroxyapatite (HAP) & nanoparticles, etc.

James Y. Becker has his expertise in organic electro-synthesis (mostly in non-aqueous media) and mechanistic studies by electrochemical techniques. He is also involved in investigating electrochemical properties of various organoSilicon and organoGermanium compounds, including cyclic and unsaturated derivatives. Recently he has been involved in producing high surface area electrodes, mainly by porous Gold.

Organic Electro-Synthesis

Prof. Kamal K. Kar, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science is Umang Gupta Chair Professor from July 2014 to June 2017. He pursued higher studies from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India, and Iowa State University, USA before joining as a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials science at IIT Kanpur in 2001. Prof. Kar is an active researcher in the area of nanostructured carbon materials, nanocomposites, functionally graded materials, nanopolymers, and smart materials for structural, energy and biomedical applications. He has published more than 185 papers in international referred journals, 135 conference papers, 05 books on nanomaterials and their nanocomposites, 30 review articles/book chapters and more than 55 national and international patents. He has guided 17 PhD students and 77 M.Tech students. Currently 17 PhD students, 07 M.Tech students and few visitors are working in his group.

Nanostructured Carbons as Multifunctional Materials for the Advancement of Energy Storage Applications

Pascal Boulet has completed his PhD in 2001 from both the University of Lyon (France) the University of Geneva (Switzerland). He then moved to University College London (England) as a postdoctoral fellow for two years. Since 2003 he is associate professor at the Aix-Marseille University (France) where he works on materials for energy using computational chemistry tools. He has published over than 50 papers in reputed journals.

Electrochemistry