Symposium 8
Electrochemical Nano/Micro-Science

Sponsoring Division: Division NTC (New Topics Committee)

This symposium aims to present recent fundamental, methodological and applied aspects that bridge research in micro/nanoscale science with advances in electrochemistry. The symposium will place special emphasis on correlating advances in theory with experiment and addressing particular issues of size and confinement effects on electrochemical properties.

Topics include but are not limited to:
- Electrochemistry at nano-sized electrodes and in confined systems including nanofilms, quantum dots, nanopores, nanochannels and nanogaps
- Size effects of nanomaterial electrocatalysts on their electrochemical, spectroscopic, and electrocatalytic properties for reactions in energy conversion, for instance, oxygen reduction and CO and methanol oxidation in state-of-the-art fuel cells
- Electrochemistry of nanoparticles, nanostructures and molecular wires, including experimental and theoretical studies of electron transfer reactions involving nanoparticles and molecular wires. We wish to include a dedicated substantive discussion session on key topics
- Electrochemical scanning probe microscopy spectroscopies, including the advances in manipulation and characterization of electrochemical interfaces from micro- to nanoscale
- Nanoelectrochemistry in the life sciences. Topics include single cell detection, effects resulting from the incorporation of nanoparticles in cells, cell membrane processes, biomimetic membranes and electron transfer to redox enzyme-nanoparticle structures

Symposium Organizers:
Shengli Chen, (Coordinator) Wuhan University, China
slchen@whu.edu.cn
Juhyoun Kwak, Korea Advanced Inst. of Science and Technology, Korea
Juhyoun_Kwak@kaist.ac.kr
Takeo Ohsaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
ohsaka@echem.titech.ac.jp
David Schiffrin, University of Liverpool, UK
d.j.schiffrin@liv.ac.uk