Topics will include:

• Materials for solar-driven water desalination and purification

• Materials for waste water remediation and produced water treatment

• Materials for dew and fog collection, and rainfall enhancement

• Solar-driven water oxidation

• Photocatalytic materials and nanostructures

• Nanophotonic coatings and structures for spectrally-selective solar absorbers

• Abundant material solutions for desalination and water-splitting technologies

• Modeling of optical, electronic, plasmonic, and heat transfer properties of emerging materials and metamaterials for solar water treatment and photocatalysis

Invited Speakers:

• Gang Chen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

• Junhong Chen (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA)

• Yi Cui (Stanford University, USA)

• Bin Ding (Donghua University, China)

• Gideon Grader (Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

• Naomi Halas (Rice University, USA)

• Liangbin Hu (University of Maryland, USA)

• Victor Klimov (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)

• Gibum Kwon (The University of Kansas, USA)

• Shigeo Maruyama (University of Tokyo, Japan)

• Baoxia Mi (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Suzana Nunes (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia)

• Ralph Nuzzo (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

• Dimos Poulikakos (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

• Zuankai Wang (City University of Hong Kong, China)

• Omar Yaghi (University of California, Berkeley, USA)

• Ronggui Yang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)

• Selcuk Yerci (The Middle East Technical University, Turkey)

• Jackie Ying (A*STAR, Singapore)

• Zongfu Yu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

• Xuehua Zhang (RMIT University, Australia)

• Yongmei Zheng (Beihang University, China)

• Lin Zhou (Nanjing University, China)

• Linda Zou (Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates)

Symposium Organizers