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Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels (GRS)

Gordon Research Seminar

January 15 - 16, 2011
Chairs and
Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express
1050 Schooner Drive
Ventura, California, United States
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Conference Description

The Gordon Research Seminar on Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels is a unique forum for graduate students, post-docs, and other scientists with comparable levels of experience and education to present and exchange new data and cutting edge ideas.

The Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels GRS will examine the science that underlies solar fuels production including light capture, charge separation and multi-electron catalysis. The meeting will bring together a diverse group of young researchers studying the relevant materials, molecular systems, and biological/bio-mimetic assemblies.

Related Meeting

This GRS will be held in conjunction with the "Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels" Gordon Research Conference (GRC). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRC in addition to an application for the GRS. Refer to the associated GRC program page for more information.

Conference Program

SATURDAY
2:00 pm - 5:00 pmArrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pmIntroductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pmSequestering Energy from Sunlight
3:45 pm - 4:15 pmProf. Marc Fontecave (College de France, CEA Grenoble)
"Water splitting with cobalt"
4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pmPoster Session I
6:00 pmDinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pmAdvanced Architectures for Charge Generation and Separation
Discussion Leader: Prof. Leif Hammarström (Uppsala University)
7:30 pm - 7:45 pmStephanie Pendlebury (Imperial College London)
"Charge Carrier Dynamics of Fe2O3 Photoelectrodes for Solar Water Splitting"
7:45 pm - 7:50 pm Discussion
7:50 pm - 8:05 pmAllison Brown (Michigan State University)
"Excited-State Dynamics of Iron(II)-based Charge-Transfer Chromophores"
8:05 pm - 8:10 pm Discussion
8:10 pm - 8:25 pmYongjing Lin (Boston College)
"Fe2O3/TiSi2 heteronanostructure for efficient water oxidation"
8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:45 pmGary Moore (Yale University)
"High Potential Photoanodes for Applications in Photoelectrochemical Cells"
8:45 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion
8:50 pm - 9:05 pmJordan Stracke (Colorado State University)
"Artificial Photosynthetic Water Oxidation Systems Based On Perylene Diimide Molecular Semiconductors with a Heterogeneous/Immobilized Catalyst"
9:05 pm - 9:10 pm Discussion
9:10 pm - 9:25 pmJustin Sambur (University of Wyoming)
"Quantum Dot Sensitization of Single Crystal TiO2: Surface Chemistry, Stability, and Multiple Exciton Collection"
9:25 pm - 9:30 pm Discussion
SUNDAY
7:30 am - 8:30 amBreakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 amMolecular Insights into Solar Fuels Catalysis Part 1
Discussion Leader: Prof. Joseph Hupp (Northwestern University)
9:00 am - 9:15 amNicholas Bennette (Rutgers University)
"Discovering Metabolic Bottlenecks in Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Production"
9:15 am - 9:20 am Discussion
9:20 am - 9:35 amDiane Dickie (University of New Mexico)
"Closing the carbon loop: Progress towards an electrochemical CO2 reduction catalyst based on main group elements"
9:35 am - 9:40 am Discussion
9:40 am - 9:55amChristopher Glasson (University of North Carolina)
"Assemblies for Photoelectrochemical Devices"
9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion
10:00 am - 10:15 amZhuangqun Huang (Emory University)
"Light-Driven Water Splitting Systems Catalyzed by Tetra-Ruthenium and Tetra-Cobalt Polyoxometalates: Reaction Mechanisms and Charge Transfer Dynamics"
10:15 am - 10:20 am Discussion
10:20 am - 10:35 amAmanda Samuel (Northwestern University)
"Ultrafast Electron Transfer and Photochemical Hydrogen Production via Covalent Chromophore-Hydrogenase Model Complex Assemblies"
10:35 am - 10:40 am Discussion
10:40 am - 10:55 amCharles McCrory (CalTech)
"Direct Comparisons of Catalytic Activity for Molecular Hydrogen Evolving Catalysts"
10:55 am - 11:00 am Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pmPoster Session II
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pmLunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pmMolecular Insights into Solar Fuels Catalysis Part 2
Discussion Leader: Prof. Joseph Hupp (Northwestern University)
1:30 pm - 1:45 pmDaniel Streich (Uppsala University)
"Fuelling [NiFe] hydrogenase with light"
1:45 pm - 1:50 pm Discussion
1:50 pm - 2:05 pmFelix Gartner (Leibniz Institute for Catalysis)
"Light driven Hydrogen Generation: Highly Efficient Iron-based Water Reduction Catalysts and Mechanistic Investigations"
2:05 pm - 2:10 pm Discussion
2:10 pm - 2:25 pmYu Sun (National Institute for Material Science)
"Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Si (111) Electrode Modified with Organic Molecular Layer and metal complex"
2:25 pm - 2:30 pm Discussion
2:30 pm - 3:00 pmEvaluation Period
(Fill out GRS Evaluation Forms)
3:00 pmGordon Research Seminar ends. For those attending the associated Gordon Research Conference, please check in at the GRC Office beginning at 4:00 pm.

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