Renewable Energy: Interdisciplinary Science of Solar Fuels 2014 Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar

项目负责人：Wasielewski， Michael r提案编号：1332615机构：戈登研究会议名称：可再生能源：太阳能燃料的跨学科科学本项目将支持学生和博士后研究人员参加戈登研究会议（GRC）和戈登研究研讨会（GRS）的可再生能源：太阳能燃料。GRS和GRC将分别于2014年1月18日至19日和2014年1月19日至24日在加州文图拉的福朋喜来登酒店举行。GRS主要由学生和博士后参加，而GRC主要由该领域的顶尖科学家进行口头报告，将汇集高级和初级研究人员，包括工程师，化学家，材料科学家，生物学家和物理学家，探索21世纪最突出的技术挑战：高效，最终具有成本效益和全球可扩展，利用碳中性源转换和储存太阳能。GRS项目将以口头和海报展示为特色，并与少数参与者（60人）进行非正式和正式讨论。报告将分为三个部分，其中将讨论太阳能燃料研究和开发的最重要方面。第一次会议将专门讨论固态和生物/仿生系统中的光捕获和电荷转移。第二部分将集中在可以催化太阳能燃料电池发展所需反应的材料和分子上。闭幕会议将强调太阳能燃料生产的综合系统。大约一半的GRS参与者预计将参加GRC，其中出席人数将限制在200人。GRC项目将邀请年轻和更成熟的研究人员进行口头和海报演讲，重点关注该领域最好的新兴科学。GRC将为与会者提供太阳能燃料跨学科科学的最新观点，包括八个专题会议，两个海报会议，以及一个最新成果的最后会议和从海报演讲中抽取的简短演讲。这个问题对发展可持续的能源经济至关重要，因为太阳能燃料最终将从国内可再生资源中提供运输和航空燃料供应。然而，技术问题是可怕的，在许多方面不同于成熟的太阳能光伏技术。该领域本质上是跨学科的，需要在几个方面取得基础科学进展，并努力将它们整合到功能系统中。GRC和GRS的主题被选择来代表该领域的关键问题，并刺激不同群体的科学家和工程师之间的思想交流。GRC和GRS将促进科学和工程方面的国际合作，支持未来太阳能燃料技术的发展，以提供可持续的清洁能源。它还将为处于科学生涯关键阶段的年轻参与者提供交流机会、指导和对新研究的看法。

PI: Wasielewski, Michael RProposal Number: 1332615Institution: Gordon Research ConferencesTitle: Renewable Energy: Interdisciplinary Science of Solar FuelsThis project will support the participation of student and postdoctoral researchers in the Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels. The GRS and GRC will be held at the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in Ventura, CA on January 18-19, 2014 and January 19-24, 2014, respectively. The GRS, which is primarily attended by students and postdocs, and the GRC, which features oral presentations by the leading scientists in the field, will bring together senior and junior researchers, including engineers, chemists, materials scientists, biologists, and physicists, to explore the most outstanding technological challenge of the 21st century: the efficient, and ultimately cost-effective and globally scalable, transformation and storage of solar energy using carbon-neutral sources.The GRS program will feature oral and poster presentations accompanied by informal and formal discussions with a small number of attendees (60 participants). The presentations will be divided into three sessions, in which the most important aspects of solar fuels research and development will be addressed. The first session will be devoted to the light-capture and charge transfer in solid-state and biological/biomimetic systems. The second session will be focused on materials and molecules that can catalyze reactions desirable for the development of solar fuel cells. The concluding session will emphasize integrated systems for solar fuels production. Approximately half of the GRS participants are expected to attend the GRC, where attendance will be capped at 200. The GRC program will include invited and contributed oral and poster presentations by both younger and more established researchers, focusing on the best emerging science in the field. The GRC will provide participants a state-of-the-art view of the interdisciplinary science of solar fuels, with eight topical sessions, two poster sessions, and one final session of late-breaking results and short talks drawn from the poster presentations.This problem is of key importance in developing a sustainable energy economy, as solar fuels will ultimately provide a supply of transportation and aviation fuel from domestic, renewable resources. However, the technical problems are formidable and are in many ways distinct from the well-established technology of solar photovoltaics. The field is inherently interdisciplinary, requiring basic scientific advances on several fronts, coupled with efforts to integrate them into functioning systems. The themes of the GRC and GRS have been chosen to represent the key problems in the field and to stimulate the exchange of ideas between a diverse group of scientists and engineers.The GRC and GRS will promote international collaboration in the science and engineering that underpins the development of a future solar fuels technology to provide a sustainable source of clean energy. It will also provide networking opportunities, mentoring, and perspectives on new research for younger participants at a critical stage in their scientific careers.