Conference Description
Solar fuels are molecular fuels and chemical feedstocks that are photosynthesized from carbon dioxide and water by harnessing the energy of sunlight to drive the synthesis of molecular fuels and chemical feedstocks – artificial photosynthesis has enormous potential as a scalable approach for reducing our dependence on fossil fuel resources. Research in this field has greatly accelerated since the start of the Gordon Research Conference series on "Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels" in 2007, for example in the areas of light absorbers and catalysts for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen, and reducing carbon dioxide to carbon based fuels, including C2 and C3 organic products. The 2022 GRC will explore the most recent advances at the leading edge of research in this field, reporting both state of the art materials, catalyst and system design and performance, and discussing advances in our understanding of their function. The Conference will bring together young and established investigators who are at the forefront of their fields to explore these interdisciplinary themes. Participants, including students and postdocs, are encouraged to present their results in poster sessions, and some poster presenters will be selected for short talks. The collegial atmosphere of this conference, with programmed discussion sessions and informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides a unique international forum in which the academic and industrial scientists can exchange ideas to advance the field of renewable energy.
The topics, speakers, and discussion leaders for the conference sessions are displayed below. The conference chair is currently developing their detailed program, which will include the complete meeting schedule, as well as the talk titles for all speakers. The detailed program will be available by January 8, 2022. Please check back for updates.
Solar Fuels at Sunrise
Discussion Leaders
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Jillian Dempsey (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Speakers
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Raffaella Buonsanti (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland)
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Haotian Wang (Rice University, USA)
Biological and Bio-Inspired Systems
Discussion Leaders
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Marc Fontecave (College de France, France)
Speakers
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Tobias Erb (Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, Germany)
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Jenny Yang (University of California, Irvine, USA)
Merging Molecules with Materials
Discussion Leaders
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Greta Patzke (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Speakers
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Bettina Lotsch (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany)
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Amanda Morris (Virginia Tech, USA)
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Yogesh Surendranath (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
Light Absorbers and Photocatalysts
Discussion Leaders
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Marcella Bonchio (University of Padova, Italy)
Speakers
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Kyoung-Shin Choi (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Osamu Ishitani (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
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Li-Zhu Wu (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Water Splitting
Discussion Leaders
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Licheng Sun (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)
Speakers
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Bin Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
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Peter Strasser (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
Operando Spectroscopy
Discussion Leaders
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Moniek Tromp (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Speakers
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Hao Ming Chen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
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Beatriz Roldan Cuenya (Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Germany)
CO2 Reduction
Discussion Leaders
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Alexander Miller (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
Speakers
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Karen Chan (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
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Matthew Kanan (Stanford University, USA)
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Marc Robert (Paris Diderot University, France)
Systems and Engineering
Discussion Leaders
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Harry Atwater (California Institute of Technology, USA)
Speakers
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Curtis Berlinguette (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
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Hans Geerlings (TU Delft, The Netherlands)
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Avner Rothschild (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
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Wilson Smith (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
Late-Breaking Topics
Discussion Leaders
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Can Li (Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
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