2017 International Workshop on Electrified Interfaces for Energy Conversions

 Kanagawa, Japan, May 18-21, 2017

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