On January 11-12, 2012, Duke University and the Solar Energy Research Center (SERC) at UNC-Chapel Hill will co-host a scientific meeting at the R. David Thomas Executive Conference Center at Duke University.
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Sponsors
This symposium is sponsored and organized by the UNC EFRC: Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science.
Our principal co-sponsor is the Research Triangle Solar Fuels Institute.
Other sponsors include:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS |
TITLE |
| Louis Brus Columbia University |
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| Michael Grätzel Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne |
Nanostructured photosystems for electricity and fuel generation from sunlight |
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS |
TITLE |
| Robert Blankenship Washington University in St. Louis |
The efficiency of natural photosynthesis |
| Robert Crabtree Yale University |
Solar Fuel: Formation and Storage |
| Stefano Curtarolo Duke University |
AFLOWLIB.ORG: a distributed energy materials properties repository from high-throughput ab initio calculations |
| Moh El-Naggar University of Southern California |
Charge Transfer and Energy Conversion in Microbial Systems |
| Yosuke Kanai University of North Carolina |
First Principles Investigation of CO2 reduction processes: Condensed Phase Dynamics and Role of Nano-Materials Surface |
| Clifford Kubiak University of California at San Diego |
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Reduction of CO2 |
| Thomas Mallouk Pennsylvania State University |
Progress and Problems in Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting |
| James McCusker Michigan State University |
Scalability in Solar Energy Conversion: First-row Transition Metal-based Chromophores for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells |
| Jeffrey Neaton Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory |
Exploring Solar Energy Conversion Materials and Phenomena with Theory and Computation | John Papanikolas University of North Carolina |
Pump-Probe Microscopy: Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in ZnO Nanorods with Spatial Specificity |
| Berend Smit University of California at Berkeley |
Computational Carbon Capture |
| Michael Therien Duke University |
Single-Chain, Helical Wrapping of Individualized, Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes by Semi-Conducting Polymers |
| William Tumas and Stephan Lany National Renewable Energy Laboratory |
Inverse Design for Materials Discovery for Solar Conversion |
| Michael Wasielewski Northwestern University |
Integrated Photochemical Systems for Solar Fuels |
| Raymond Ziessel CNRS/UdS/LCOSA, Strasbourg |
Chemistry on Bodipy: a New Toolbox for Molecular Photonics and Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells |
