SERC

Solar Fuels: Science, Engineering, and Policy

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
 
 
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
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