Nano-/Molecular Photosciences and Clean Energy
Call for Papers
This special issue on “Nano-/Molecular Photosciences and Clean Energy” is composed of selected, full-length versions of papers presented at the International Conference on Nano/Molecular Photochemistry, Photocatalysis and Solar Energy Conversion (Solar '08). The highly successful Solar conference series, started in 1991, provide a place where researchers interested in fundamental and applied aspects of photochemistry can meet and inspire one another. The Solar conference recognizes that successful photochemical applications go hand in hand with advancement of fundamental understanding of photoinduced processes and excited states.
This conference was held in Cairo, Egypt, during the period 24–28 February 2008. It aimed to discuss in an interdisciplinary sense the newest trends, break-through, discoveries and applications in photochemistry, photocatalysis, solar energy conversion, environmental aspects, and related nanoscience and nanotechnology.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- The state-of-the-art solar energy conversion technologies (photovoltaic, nanomaterials for efficient thermal systems of clean electric power generation) and the great complexity of the global energy scenario
- Fundamental and applied aspects of photochemistry, optical and fluorescent sensors, nano-LEDs and OLEDs, photobiology, artificial light harvesting systems, supramolecular nanomaterials and lithography, polymers and materials, and so forth
- Photostability of drugs, sunscreens, and cosmetics
- Nanotechnology of energy conversion devices
- Semiconductor nanoparticles for solar light energy conversion: dye-sensitized solar cells
- Clean fuels: generation and storage
- Photocatalysis and applications in drinking water, industrial wastewater and reuse, agricultural hazardous, and self-cleaning building construction nanomaterials: photocatalytic glass, windows, paints, ceramics, and so forth
- Second-generation photocatalytic nanomaterials; carbon nanomaterials
- Environmental and medical impact of photochemical singlet oxygen generation
- Advanced oxidation technologies for treatment of water, air, and soil
Submission to this special issue is limited to the participants of the Nano-/Molecular Photochemistry, Photocatalysis and Solar Energy Conversion (Solar '08) who have been invited to submit to this issue.
Authors should follow the International Journal of Photoenergy manuscript format described at the journal site http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijp/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:
| Manuscript Due | May 1, 2008 |
| First Round of Reviews | August 1, 2008 |
| Publication Date | December 1, 2008 |
Guest Editors:
- Mohamed Sabry Abdel-Mottaleb, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Abbassia, Cairo 11566, Egypt
- Jean-Marie Herrmann, Laboratory of Applied Environmental Chemistry, Lyon University, 69622 Villeurbanne, France