Organizers:

Yanmin Jia (jiayanmin@xupt.edu.cn), Xi’an University of Posts and Telecommunications, China

Jiwei Zhai (apzhai@tongji.edu.cn), Tongji University, China

Scope and topics:

Piezoelectric materials get electrically polarized under macroscopic stress and enable sensing, actuation, mechanical energy harvesting and conversion, and biological activities. Piezoelectrics and their subclasses, ferroelectrics, can both operate as piezo- and piezophotocatalysts and speed up the conversion between mechanical stress, photon energy, and chemical energy. Recent researches have opened up to use piezoelectric and semiconducting nanomaterials for a range of catalytic reactions. Using the piezoelectric polarization and induced redistributions of surface free charges, various redox reactions have been studied for wastewater purification, organic synthesis, polymer polymerization, water splitting, and sonodynamic therapy, to mention a few. Here, the sub-forum focusing on piezocatalysis from AMF-13 & AMEC-13 aim to provide a platform for materials scientists, engineers, physicists, and chemists, etc. to share their recent developments in frontiers of Ferroelectrics and Electroceramics as well as applications in multifunctional devices and green energy technologies (such as hydrogen peroxide and hydrogen production) and exchange ideas. The conference will consist of plenary lectures, mini-symposia with invited and contributed oral presentations, and poster sessions. All researchers in ferroelectrics, electroceramics, computational physics/science and applications or related disciplines are cordially invited to attend this conference.

The topics of this Symposium include (but are not limited to) theories, experiments, and simulations in:

• Fundamentals of ferroelectric and piezoelectric semiconductors for piezocatalysis, including studies on domains, domain walls and polar nanoregions
• Photovoltaic effect based on ferroelectrics

List of keynote and invited speakers (to be updated):