This symposium addresses recent advances in nanomaterials and advanced materials for energy conversion and energy harvesting. The focus is on understanding and controlling material properties across length scales, from nanoscale architectures to bulk systems with engineered microstructures.

Nanostructured materials enable novel approaches for energy harvesting technologies. The ability to control composition, morphology, and structure across scales opens opportunities for improving efficiency, stability, and scalability in next-generation materials.

Particular emphasis will be placed on the integration of computational modelling (first-principles, multiscale, machine learning) with advanced experimental characterization, enabling the establishment of structure–property relationships and guiding materials design.

The symposium aims to bring together researchers working in modelling, synthesis, and characterization to discuss materials development strategies for energy-related applications.

Targeted topics :

• nanomaterials and advanced materials for energy conversion and harvesting

• superconducting materials and nanoscale superconducting devices

• charge transport, heat transport and energy transfer at the nanoscale

• surface chemistry and catalytic processes in nanostructured materials

• first-principles and multiscale simulations of nanomaterials

• machine-learning-assisted materials discovery and optimization

• modelling–experiment integration for materials design

Organizers:
• Paolo Mele (Shibaura Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan)
• Cristina Artini (University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy)