You are invited to participate in the International Conference on Advances in Semiconductors and Catalysts for Photo electrochemical Fuel Production (SolarFuel16), to be held in Berlin, Germany, from 5-6 September 2016. This conference focuses on the photo-electrochemical(PEC) and photo-catalytic conversion of cheap and abundant resources, such as water and CO2, to chemical fuels. Although much progress has been made in recent years, several bottlenecks remain to be solved before practical and scalable PEC solar fuel converters become a reality. The challenges range from developing new light absorbers and catalysts with high efficiency and stability to the design, modeling, and optimization of (photo-)electrochemical reactors and devices.

A key aspect is the understanding and optimization semiconductor/catalyst and catalyst/electrolyte interfaces, where advanced characterization method sand theoretical modeling offer new insights into the chemical structure and the electronic charge transfer processes in these systems.