This award will provide support for the Graduate Research Seminar (GRS), to be held immediately preceding the Third Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels. The Gordon GRS meeting will be held in Ventura, CA on January 15 and 16, 2011.
Intellectual Merit
This Gordon GRS meeting will bring together junior researchers (graduate students and post-doctoral fellows) from a variety of disciplines, including engineering, materials science, chemistry, biology, and physics, to explore a Grand Challenge of the 21st Century: the scalable transformation and storage of energy from sustainable, carbon neutral sources. Realizing that sunlight is by far the most abundant renewable energy resource, and that a globally scalable method for the capture, conversion, and storage of sunlight will likely involve the production of fuels, the GRS will focus on the scientific challenges involved with producing fuel directly from sunlight.
The Gordon GRS will provide to participants a state-of-the-art view of the important emerging science of Solar Fuels. Specifically, presentation topics will focus on ?Advanced Architectures for Charge Generation and Separation and Molecular Insights into Solar Fuels Catalysis.
Broader Impacts
The Gordon GRS meeting will provide networking opportunities and perspectives on new research being pursued by peers, thereby enhancing the scientific understanding of the GRS participants. The enhanced understanding will enable these junior researchers to contribute more effectively and more knowledgably toward solving the important scientific and technological problems posed by the global need for sustainable and renewable sources of energy.
Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Gordon Research Seminar January 15-16, 2011 Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express Ventura, CA Chair: Clyde W. Cady Associate Chair: Alex B F. Martinson 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. 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Arrival and Check-in 3:30 pm - 3:45 pm Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome by the GRS Conference Chair 3:45 pm - 4:30 pm Sequestering Energy from Sunlight 3:45 pm - 4:15 pm Prof. Marc Fontecave (College de France, CEA Grenoble) "Water splitting with cobalt" 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm Discussion 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm Poster Session I 6:00 pm Dinner 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm Advanced Architectures for Charge Generation and Separation Discussion Leader: Prof. Leif Hammarström (Uppsala University) 7:30 pm - 7:45 pm Stephanie 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 pm Allison 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 pm Yongjing Lin (Boston College) "Fe2O3/TiSi2 heteronanostructure for efficient water oxidation" 8:25 pm - 8:30 pm Discussion 8:30 pm - 8:45 pm Gary Moore (Yale University) "High Potential Photoanodes for Applications in Photoelectrochemical Cells" 8:45 pm - 8:50 pm Discussion 8:50 pm - 9:05 pm Jordan 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 pm Justin 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 am Breakfast 9:00 am - 11:00 am Molecular Insights into Solar Fuels Catalysis Part 1 Discussion Leader: Prof. Joseph Hupp (Northwestern University) 9:00 am - 9:15 am Nicholas Bennette (Rutgers University) "Discovering Metabolic Bottlenecks in Photosynthetic Microbial Fuel Production" 9:15 am - 9:20 am Discussion 9:20 am - 9:35 am Diane 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 - 9:55am Christopher Glasson (University of North Carolina) "Assemblies for Photoelectrochemical Devices" 9:55 am - 10:00 am Discussion 10:00 am - 10:15 am Zhuangqun 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 am Amanda 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 am Charles McCrory (CalTech) "Direct Comparisons of Catalytic Activity for Molecular Hydrogen Evolving Catalysts" 10:55 am - 11:00 am Discussion 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Poster Session II Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am 12:30 pm Lunch 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm Molecular Insights into Solar Fuels Catalysis Part 2 Discussion Leader: Prof. Joseph Hupp (Northwestern University) 1:30 pm - 1:45 pm Daniel Streich (Uppsala University) "Fuelling [NiFe] hydrogenase with light" 1:45 pm - 1:50 pm Discussion 1:50 pm - 2:05 pm Felix 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 pm Yu Sun (National Institute for Material Science) "Photoelectrochemical Reduction of Carbon Dioxide at Si (111) Electrode Modified with Organic Molecular Layer and metal complex"
