Important
Due to the prevailing COVID-19 situation, the conference will be held in ONLINE mode only.
Introducing
NECSA-2022 will bring renowned researchers and industries to a common platform for sharing the knowledge and discussing how to achieve a reasonable distribution of benefits, risks and the role of responsible stewardship in addressing energy conversion and storage applications.


About the University
Located in Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, PDEU is spread over an impressive campus of about 100 acres and offers necessary infrastructure of a world-class institute. About the University Pandit Deendayal Energy University, Gandhinagar, is a domain specific university in the field of energy education and research. The university is recognized by UGC with “A” grade NAAC accreditation. PDEU addresses the need for trained and specialized human resource predominantly for Oil & Gas, Solar and Nuclear sectors worldwide. It intends to expand the opportunities for students and professionals to develop intellectual knowledge-base with leadership skills to compete in the global arena. This objective is being addressed through a number of specialized and well planned undergraduate and postgraduate energy education programs and intensive research initiatives.
Solar Research and Development Center
The Solar Research & Development Center (SRDC) at PDEU was established as a centre of excellence by the government node in 2013, has been working on the development of fundamental and applied research on solar photovoltaic, solar fuel, fuel cell and energy storage. Also, there are research projects undertaken in the area of Concentrated Solar Thermal, concentrated Solar Photovoltaics and Balance of Systems for off-grid and distributed solar. With tremendous efforts in R & D at the module level, field data validation, R & D in CSP, Energy policy and analysis, SRDC aims to be one of the strongest and the best research centres for executing advanced research and providing suitable solutions for harnessing cheaper solar energy. Moreover, SRDC is highly involved in monitoring the performance of the multi-technology 1MW PV power plant at PDEU. A PV Module Production line with R&D capability and of annual capacity of 45 MW is expected to be operational by early 2022.


About the Conference
The rapid increase in the energy consumption and the demand of the fossil fuels encourages the world to move towards the other clean energy sources i.e. Photovoltaic, Hydrogen generation, Fuel cells and Batteries. Solar Research and Development Center and the Department of Solar Energy has taken an initiative by organizing an International Conference on Nanomaterials for Energy Conversion and Storage application. The objective is to exchange information in order to help raise the awareness of participants to the potential new opportunities, the new challenges and the new risks posed by nanotechnology in the field of Energy Conversion and Storage. This conference will bring the researchers and industries to a common platform for sharing the knowledge. This platform will also be an opportunity to discuss the potential contributions of nanomaterials to sustainable development of energy conversion and storage devices, and to discuss how to achieve a reasonable distribution of benefits, risks and role of responsible stewardship in addressing energy storage applications.
Conference Themes
Design and Development of 0D, 1D and 2D nanomaterials
Nanomaterial characterization techniques
Computational methods for the nanomaterials
Nanostructured Materials for Energy Conversion
Nanostructured Photocatalysts and Photoelectrochemical devices for solar fuel production and environmental remediation
Innovative semiconductor materials for new generation solar cells including
Perovskite, thin films and organic solar cells
Nanomaterials for Energy Storage System
Nanostructured electrode materials for efficient energy storage systems including
rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors
New nanomaterials for electrocatalysis and fuel cell applications
Our Speakers

Dr. Amit Paul
Professor,
Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Bhopal, India

Prof. Michael N. Spallart
Professor,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Prof. Rodolphe Antoine
Professor,
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France

Further list will be updated
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International Advisory Committee

Prof. Prashant V. Kamat
USA

Prof. Vijay Modi
USA

Prof. Yishay Manassen
BGU Israel

Prof. Reshef Tenne
WIS Israel

Prof. Shinji Kawasaki
NIT Japan

Prof. Frank Endres
TUC Germany

Prof. Ajayan Vinu
Australia

Prof. Govindasamy TamizhMani
USA

Dr. Rajesh Sardar
IUPUI USA

Prof. Jong Sung Yu
DGIST Korea

Prof. Krishnan Rajeshwar
UTA USA

Prof. Greg Jackson
CSM USA
National Advisory Committee

Prof. Vikram Kumar
IIT Delhi

Prof. A. K. Shukla
IISC Bangalore

Prof. Srinivas Sampath
IISC Bangalore

Prof. Amitava Das
IISER Kolkata

Prof. Sagar Mitra
IIT Bombay

Prof. Chandramouli Subramaniam
IIT Bombay

Dr. Kingshuk Mukhopadhyay
DRDO

Dr. Divyesh N. Srivastava
CSMCRI

Dr. Arvind Kumar
CSMCRI

Prof. D. G. Kuberkar
Saurastra University

Dr. Govind Gupta
CSIR-NPL

Dr. S. K. Dhawan
CSIR-NPL

Dr. N Selvakumar
CSIR-NAL

Prof. Bonamali Pal
Thapar University

Dr. Jyotishman Dasgupta
TIFR
Local Advisory Committee

Prof. Utpal Joshi
Gujarat University

Prof. Tapas K. Chaudhary
SVNIT

Dr. Rupak Banerjee
IIT Gandhinagar

Dr. Ramakrishna Rane
FCIPT

Dr. Vipul Kheraj
SVNIT

Dr. Subroto Mukherjee
FCIPT

Prof. Saurabh Soni
SP University

Dr. Sanjeev Gupta
St. Xavier College

Dr. Dharamashi Rabari
Ahmedabad University

Dr. Chinmay Ghoroi
IIT Gandhinagar
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