Invitation
It is our great pleasure to welcome you cordially to the
2017 International Workshop on Electrified Interfaces for Energy
Conversions (EIC2017) at Shonan (湘南) in Japan.
In the conference, we undertake to discuss the fundamental aspects and
future potentialities of the ordered interface electrochemistry and
energy conversion science in next generation. Many excellent and very
interesting lectures involving plenary talks are given and followed by
vigorous discussions. Those presentation and discussions, I believe,
contribute profoundly for the great development of these related
research fields.
Topics are related, but not limited to the design, construction, and
interrogation of functional electrochemical interphases with
atomic/molecular resolution for energy. Construction of ordered phases,
in situ characterization of their electronic/geometric structures and
controlling the electron transfer reactions at the solid/liquid
interfaces. Active groups constructed a variety of unique
atomically/molecularly ordered interphases such as electrochemically
grown atomic layer epitaxy and self-assembled monolayers, and studied
the structure of those novel materials and electron transfer reactions
at solid/liquid interfaces in an atomic/molecular resolution by various
in situ characterization methods based on scanning probe microscopy,
laser spectroscopy and synchrotron radiation techniques, developed by
themselves. Their interfacial approaches give highly ordered functional
phases with unique performance comparable to those constructed by much
more complicated and expensive vacuum processes. These electrified
interfaces enhance the efficiency of energy conversion processes for the
generation of energetic electrons, photons, and materials. Thus,
creation of novel electrified interfaces capable of providing novel
route for effective chemical reactions, which may promote scientific and
technological development of systems enabling the control of energy
conversion processes. We are confident that these studies make a
breakthrough in electrochemistry.
We sincerely hope that your particular contribution to the scientific
program and the subsequent discussion will help to make EIC2017 a
successful and memorable one. Finally, I am very grateful to NIMS for
supporting the conference organized successfully.
Chair of EIC 2017
Kei Murakoshi
Hokkaido University