Sunday
2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRC Chair
7:40 pm - 9:30 pm
Synthesis Science
Discussion Leader: Brandi Cossairt (University of Washington, United States)
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Opening Remarks
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
7:50 pm - 8:20 pm
Uri Banin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
"Coupled Colloidal Quantum Dot Molecules"
8:20 pm - 8:35 pm
Discussion
8:35 pm - 9:05 pm
Delia Milliron (The University of Texas at Austin, United States)
"Controlling Defects Across Length Scales: Tuning Optical Properties of Nanocrystals and their Assemblies"
9:05 pm - 9:20 pm
Discussion
9:20 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Monday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Optoelectronics
Discussion Leader: Milena Arciniegas (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:30 am
Sohee Jeong (Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea)
"Chemistry of III-V Colloidal Nanocrystals for Optoelectronic Applications"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:05 am
Hilmi Volkan Demir (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and Bilkent University, Turkey)
"Semiconductor Nanocrystal Optoelectronics using Colloidal Quantum Wells: Pushing the Limits, Breaking Records"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Andrey Rogach (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR China)
"Perovskite Nanocrsyatsl for Light-emitting Devices"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:45 am
Victor Klimov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States)
"Recent Progress Toward Colloidal Quantum Dot Laser Diodes"
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
Sergio Brovelli (University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
"Photon Management with Nanoscale Architectures: New Frontiers from Renewable Energy to Radiation Detection with Semiconductor Quantum Dots"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Group Photo / Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢
The GRC Power Hourâ„¢ is designed to address diversity and inclusion in the scientific workplace by providing a safe environment for informal and meaningful conversations amongst colleagues of all career stages. The program supports the professional growth of all members of our communities, including ethnicity, race and/or gender identity by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Gordana Dukovic (University of Colorado, Boulder, United States) and Efrat Lifshitz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Assemblies and Collective Phenomena
Discussion Leader: Elizabeth Gaulding (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:05 pm - 6:30 pm
Christopher Murray (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Building with Artificial Atoms: The Design of Multifunctional Nanomaterials and Devices Through Nanocrystal Self-Assembly"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Nuri Yazdani (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Quantifying Phonons and their Coupling to Optical and Electronic Transitions in Colloidal Quantum Dots and Assemblies"
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:40 pm
Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (University of Utrecht, Princetonplein 5, 3844 CC Utrecht, The Netherlands, The Netherlands)
"Dirac-type Electronic Band Structure and Flat Bands in the Honeycomb Geometry: Artificial Lattices, Nanocrystal Self-Assembled Lattices, and Lithographically Engineered Lattices"
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Tuesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Photophysics
Discussion Leader: Mikhail Zamkov (Bowling Green State University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:30 am
Daniel Gamelin (University of Washington, United States)
"Unique Spectroscopic Properties Arising from Dopants and Defects in Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:05 am
Lea Nienhaus (Florida State University, United States)
"Photon Upconversion: The Effect of Material Dimensionality"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Patanjali Kambhampati (McGill University, Canada)
"Quantum Drop Formation in Bulk Perovskite Nanocrystals"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:45 am
Peter Sercel (Center for Hybrid Organic Inorganic Semiconductors for Energy, United States)
"Quasicubic Model for Excitons in Colloidal Lead Halide Perovskite Nanocrystals and Nanoplatelets"
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
Zeger Hens (Ghent University, Belgium)
"Exciton-Phonon Coupling in Semiconductor Nanocrystals"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Charge, Energy and Heat Transport
Discussion Leader: Vanessa Wood (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:05 pm - 6:30 pm
Maria Ibáñez (Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Austria)
"Solution-Processed Thermoelectric Materials: Engineering Performance Through Surface Chemistry"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Marcus Scheele (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
"Nanocrystals, Mesocrystals, Supercrystals – A Toolbox for Materials with Collective Optoelectronic Effects"
7:05 pm - 7:15 pm
Discussion
7:15 pm - 7:40 pm
Cherie Kagan (University of Pennsylvania, United States)
"Charge Transport in Ligand- and Cation-Exchanged Semiconductor Nanocrystal Solids"
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:00 pm
General Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Wednesday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Photochemistry and Energy Conversion
Discussion Leader: Raffaella Buonsanti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:30 am
Jillian Dempsey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States)
"Restructuring PbS Nanocrystal Surfaces through Reactivity with L-type Ligands"
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:05 am
Prashant Kamat (University of Notre Dame, United States)
"Photoinduced Energy and Electron Transfer Processes in Perovskite Nanocrystals"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Susanna Thon (Johns Hopkins University, United States)
"New Materials and Spectroscopies for Colloidal Quantum Dot Solar Cells"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:45 am
Mark Wilson (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Understanding the Synthesis of Metal Sulfide Quantum Dots to Advance Nanocrystal-Sensitized Triplet Fusion Upconversion Photochemistry"
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
Arjan Houtepen (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
"Electrochemistry with Colloidal Semiconductor Nanocrystals: Applications, Challenges and (Clear) Limitations"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Bioapplications
Discussion Leader: Carlos Toro (American Chemical Society, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:25 pm
Inge Herrmann (ETH Zurich and Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa), Switzerland)
"Designing Nanocrystals for Molecular Labelling and Radiotherapy Enhancement"
6:25 pm - 6:35 pm
Discussion
6:35 pm - 7:00 pm
Teresa Pellegrino (Italian Institute of Technology, Italy)
"Multimodal Semiconductor Nanoplatforms for Tackling Cancer and/or Neuron Diseases"
7:00 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:35 pm
Allison Dennis (Boston University, United States)
"Engineering Semiconductor Quantum Dots for Biomedical Imaging Applications"
7:35 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Thursday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
8:30 am - 9:00 am
Business Meeting
Nominations for the Next Vice Chair(s); Complete the GRC Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Dates and Venue; Election of the Next Vice Chair(s)
9:00 am - 12:30 pm
Nanocrystals for the Infrared
Discussion Leader: Javier Vela (Iowa State University, United States)
9:00 am - 9:05 am
Introduction by Discussion Leader
9:05 am - 9:30 am
Philippe Guyot-Sionnest (University of Chicago, United States)
"Mid-Infrared Colloidal Quantum Dots and the Energy Gap "Law""
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Discussion
9:40 am - 10:05 am
Wolfgang Heiss (Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
"Colloidal Nanocrystals for Infrared Plasmonics and Photovoltaics"
10:05 am - 10:15 am
Discussion
10:15 am - 10:45 am
Coffee Break
10:45 am - 11:10 am
Christophe Delerue (Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology (IEMN), CNRS, France)
"Theoretical Studies on PbS Nanocrystals for Photodetector Applications"
11:10 am - 11:20 am
Discussion
11:20 am - 11:45 am
Emmanuel Lhuillier (CNRS, France)
"Infrared Active Nanophotonics using Nanocrystals: Is Hopping Conduction Still an Issue?"
11:45 am - 11:55 am
Discussion
11:55 am - 12:20 pm
Epimitheas Georgitzikis (IMEC, Belgium)
"Colloidal Quantum Dot Photodectors for Next-Generation Infrared Imaging"
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm
Discussion
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Free Time
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Towards Quantum Light Sources
Discussion Leader: Matthew Sheldon (Texas A&M University, United States)
6:00 pm - 6:05 pm
Introduction by Discussion Leader
6:05 pm - 6:30 pm
Dan Oron (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
"Photon Statistics Based Spectroscopy at the Single Nanocrystal Level"
6:30 pm - 6:40 pm
Discussion
6:40 pm - 7:05 pm
Hendrik Utzat (UC Berkeley, United States)
"Assessing and Controlling Single-Photon Emitters by Optical Means"
7:05 pm - 7:10 pm
Discussion
7:10 pm - 7:35 pm
Brahim Lounis (University of Bordeaux, France)
"Optical Properties of Charge Complexes in Single Perovskite Nanocrystals"
7:35 pm - 7:40 pm
Discussion
7:40 pm - 7:50 pm
Short Talk Selected from Poster Abstracts
7:50 pm - 7:55 pm
Discussion
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Closing Remarks
8:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dinner
Friday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Departure