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5th International solar fuels conference
2025-09-01 - 2025-09-05 | Newcastle, Frederick Douglass Centre, Newcastle University, Newcastle, United Kingdom
📍 Newcastle, UK
📅1st – 5th September 2025
You are invited to the 5th International solar fuels (ISF) conference. The first meeting of this internationally renowned conference was held in Uppsala, Sweden in 2015 and since then the meetings have been a highlight for the global solar fuels community. This fifth iteration of the conference is organized by the UK Solar Chemicals Network together with the Royal Society of Chemistry and members of the organising committees.
The 5th ISF conference includes:

a programme for early-career researchers on 1-2 September
a full programme with three parallel sessions for all solar fuels researchers 2-5 September
invited and contributed oral presentations
networking, poster sessions, social programmes
panel sessions on careers in chemistry, journals publishing, and more!

1-2 September for early-career researchers (ECRs)
The programme aims to give as many ECRs as possible the opportunity to present through oral and poster presentations. We invite students, post-docs and early-career researchers from around the world, working in all areas of solar fuels research, to submit an abstract, join-in and meet your peers.
2-5 September for all solar fuels researchers
Oral and poster presentation opportunities are available to researchers of all career stages in all areas of solar fuels research from across the world. We invite you to submit an abstract to make your contribution alongside our Plenary and Keynote speakers.
Abstract submission and registration are separate for both parts of the programme. When submitting/registering you will have the opportunity to indicate which programme you are interested in. You may submit to/register for one or both programmes.
Themes
Solar fuels production is the use of sunlight to drive the formation of high energy molecules (e.g. H2, CH3OH, NH3) from abundant feedstocks (e.g. H2O, N2, CO2). The field of solar fuels has the potential to deliver carbon free fuels and chemicals with applications ranging from energy storage, heating, transportation and manufacturing.
Inorganic photocatalysts and photoelectrodes
The discovery and study of inorganic materials and molecules for light driven solar fuels and chemicals production
Organic photocatalysts and photoelectrodes
Devices and catalysts based on polymers and organic molecules
Electrocatalysis for sustainable fuels and chemicals
Advances in experimental and theoretical studies of electrocatalysis in integrated solar to X or power to X pathways. Including but not limited to water splitting, CO2 and N2 conversion
Biological and bioinspired solar fuels approaches
Biological systems, biohybrid systems and bioinspired systems
Advanced methods for the study and discovery of Solar to X materials
Approaches to discovery and mechanistic analysis, fundamental studies of existing materials to high throughput and digitally enabled discovery approaches
Devices to deployment
The science and engineering challenges around developing deployable devices and how they are measured/assessed

Please find more information about the event here.

SP9 - 9th International Conference on Semiconductor Photochemistry
2025-09-09 - 2025-09-12 | Madrid, Spain
📅 September 9 – 12, 2025
📍 Madrid, Spain
Launched in 2001 in Glasgow, the international meeting series SP progressively gained over the last 20 years its renown among the most relevant meetings in semiconductor photochemistry and photocatalysis by travelling around Europe. Hosted in Aberdeen (2007), Glasgow (2010), Prague (2013), Saint Petersburg (2015), Oeldenburg (2017), Milan (2019) and Strasbourg (2023), SP will take place in Madrid in 2025.

The SP9 conference will be preceded by a one-day thematic school to the attention of doctoral students and young researchers.

Scientific Topics
In the fields of photocatalysis, photothermal catalysis, photoelectrochemistry or photovoltaics, topics of interest for submission to SP9 include, but are not limited to:

solar to electricity conversion
air and water remediation
solar fuels
organic synthesis and solar chemicals
modelling and mechanistic studies
chemical engineering
new materials
operando/in-situ characterization
commercial applications and standardization
functionalized and self-cleaning surfaces

Additional topics in related areas are strongly encouraged.

Through plenary and keynote lectures, oral presentations, poster talks and poster sessions, the ambition of the SP9 conference is to report on the most advanced research progresses in semiconductor photochemistry and photocatalysis, and to pave the way for future research and challenges.

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Organisers:

Renewable Materials Conference 2025
2025-09-22 08:00 - 2025-09-24 17:00 UTC | Siegburg/Cologne, Siegburg/Cologne, Germany
The Renewable Materials Conference (RMC), organised by the nova-Institute, will present leading solutions and innovations for replacing fossil carbon with biomass, CO₂ utilisation and recycling.
The growing success of RMC demonstrates that its unique concept of presenting all solutions for renewable materials at a single event is proving successful.
In just a few years, the conference has established itself as the global meeting place for the renewable carbon economy.
During the conference, the winner of the innovation award “Renewable Material of the Year 2025” will be elected by the audience.

📎 Read more and register here!

49th Materials Processes Applications Conference
2025-10-06 - 2025-10-08 | Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
📅 October 6th – 8th 2025📍 Stuttgart, Germany
The intricate interaction between materials, processes, and applications is the backbone of innovation and performance optimization. Materials must be carefully selected and designed to meet the specific demands of various applications, considering factors like strength, durability, and thermal resistance. In contrast to their continuum mechanical models, real materials have a real microstructure with imperfections, anisotropy, segregations, discontinuities, pores and residual stresses.
These result from the respective manufacturing process of the material or component and have a significant influence on the material behavior and structural integrity in safety-critical applications. This dynamic relationship among materials, processes, and applications is a key focal point in advancing several sub-fields in mechanical engineering, with each element influencing the overall success of mechanical engineering endeavors.

Materials:

At the core of the MPA conferences attention lies the pivotal role of materials, where they confront a host of complex challenges. While steel in various forms as austenitic or martensitic continues to play a crucial role, evolving applications necessitate the use of other materials like nickel-based alloys, titanium and high-strength aluminum.

Processes:

At the MPA seminar, processes are not only understood as manufacturing processes in the classic sense. Instead, complex load cases are also regarded as processes resulting from the application and having a decisive influence on the structural integrity and life time of components.

Applications:

Applications in materials and mechanical engineering vary widely, each demanding specific attributes from materials and (manufacturing) processes. These requirements include specific strength, creep resistance, and the ability to perform in high and low-temperature environments.
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