Felix Castellano , Bowling Green State University, Department of Chemistry and, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Bowling Green, Ohio, US, 43403 | Vivian Wing-Wah Yam | Tetsuro Majima

This symposium encompasses the fundamental and applied aspects of the interaction of light with a variety of molecular species, focusing predominately on those molecules and molecular assemblies containing transition metals. In current state-of-the-art research projects, the photochemistry and photophysics of molecular inorganic systems lies at the heart of fundamental electron and energy transfer processes in addition to numerous emerging applications including solar energy conversion, catalysis, chemical sensing, photonics, biophotonics, and photonic materials. This symposium will be representative of this diversity, including topics ranging from the fundamental aspects of metal-organic chromophores and materials, their associated photochemistry and photophysics, to applications in energy-relevant technologies and photonics. The invited and contributed abstracts will represent a balance of these topical areas and importantly will exemplify many pertinent world-wide contributions of research in this exciting area.