Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels GRC/GRS: Converting Sunlight into Chemical Energy - February 27 & 28, 2015 Lucca, Italy

可再生能源：太阳能燃料 GRC/GRS：将阳光转化为化学能 - 2 月 27 日

• 批准号: 1549695
• 负责人: Gary Brudvig
• 金额: $ 2.49万
• 依托单位: Gordon Research Conferences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-11-01 至 2016-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1549695&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renewable; Energy; Solar; Fuels; GRC

Principal Investigator: Gary W BrudvigProposal No: 1549695Solar fuel processes harness the energy in sunlight to convert carbon dioxide and water into chemicals fuels using catalysts inspired by photosynthesis processes in living plants. Although this process has the potential to replace petroleum fuels and provide an environmentally sustainable supply of transportation fuel, present processes do not work well - they cannot take carbon dioxide all the way to chemicals and fuels in a single step, and the catalysts are expensive and not very efficient. More fundamental research is needed to make solar fuels a viable technology. The 2016 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) and the Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) on Solar Fuels focus on identifying the progress, challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary scientific research for the development of new catalysts based on nature-inspired processes to advance scientific understanding and development of better solar fuel processes. The Solar Fuels GRC is an international conference under US leadership, and will be held on February 28 to March 4, 2016 at the Il Ciocco Hotel and Resort, Lucca (Barga), Italy. The 2016 Solar Fuels GRC has an associated GRS on Solar Fuels, which is a gathering dedicated exclusively to contributions from graduate students and post-doctoral research associates. The Solar Fuels GRS immediately precedes the GRC on February 27 & 28, 2016 at the same location. This award will provide partial support for both the GRC and GRS. The GRC program will include invited oral presentations by early career researchers who are already showing potential for making new breakthroughs, as well as established researchers, and poster presentations from which some will be selected for short oral presentations. The award will be used support the registration fees of selected participants for the GRC and the GRS.The Solar Fuels GRC will focus on five fundamental scientific and technological challenges needed to realize solar fuels: 1) Efficient coupling of light-driven water oxidation catalysis with proton or carbon dioxide reduction; 2) Understanding of charge transport processes between photoactive components and across multiple interfaces of solid state inorganic or molecular integrated assemblies; 3) Carbon dioxide reduction at low overpotential, in particular to more deeply reduced products beyond CO or formate; 4) Novel materials for light capture and photocatalysis; 5) New design principles for biological photosystems with applications to artificial photosynthesis and integration artificial photosynthetic components with microbial catalysis. The Solar Fuels GRS will focus on artificial photosystems. Given the interdisciplinary nature of these challenges, the participants include chemists, physicists, materials and computational scientists, biophysicists, chemical engineers, and bioengineers. Furthermore, the fundamental experimental and theoretical topics underlying solar fuels - charge transfer, catalysis, materials discovery, nanoscience, molecular and biological dynamics, interface engineering, and others - discussed at the meeting go beyond just the chemical and materials sciences. The participants will share their recent results and ongoing effort in their specific area of work, and at the same time expose themselves to the challenges and progress in areas beyond their immediate expertise or field of specialization. The latter is a critical educational aspect for graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and early career scientists in particular who will meet and brainstorm with established scientists and leading members of this community.

主要研究者：加里W Brudvig提案编号：1549695太阳能燃料过程利用太阳光中的能量，利用受活植物光合作用过程启发的催化剂将二氧化碳和水转化为化学燃料。 尽管该方法具有替代石油燃料并提供环境可持续的运输燃料供应的潜力，但目前的方法效果不佳-它们不能在单个步骤中将二氧化碳一路转化为化学品和燃料，并且催化剂昂贵且不是非常有效。 要使太阳能燃料成为一项可行的技术，还需要进行更多的基础研究。 2016年戈登研究会议（GRC）和戈登研究研讨会（GRS）太阳能燃料的重点是确定跨学科科学研究的进展，挑战和机遇，以开发基于自然启发过程的新催化剂，以促进科学理解和更好的太阳能燃料过程的发展。Solar Fuels GRC是美国领导的国际会议，将于2016年2月28日至3月4日在意大利卢卡（巴尔加）的Il Ciocco酒店和度假村举行。2016年太阳能燃料GRC有一个相关的太阳能燃料GRS，这是一个专门为研究生和博士后研究人员提供贡献的聚会。Solar Fuels GRS紧随GRC之前，于2016年2月27日和28日在同一地点举行。 该奖项将为GRC和GRS提供部分支持。 GRC计划将包括邀请早期职业研究人员的口头报告，这些研究人员已经显示出取得新突破的潜力，以及既定的研究人员，以及海报演示，其中一些将被选为简短的口头报告。 该奖项将用于支持选定的参与者的注册费为GRC和GRS。太阳能燃料GRC将集中在实现太阳能燃料所需的五个基本科学和技术挑战：1）光驱动的水氧化催化与质子或二氧化碳还原的有效耦合; 2）理解光活性组分之间和跨越固态无机或分子集成组件的多个界面的电荷传输过程; 3）在低过电位下的二氧化碳还原，特别是在CO或甲酸盐之外的更深度还原的产物; 4）用于光捕获和光催化的新材料; 5）用于生物光系统的新设计原理，其应用于人工光合作用和人工光合作用组分与微生物催化的整合。 太阳能燃料GRS将重点关注人工光系统。鉴于这些挑战的跨学科性质，参与者包括化学家，物理学家，材料和计算科学家，生物物理学家，化学工程师和生物工程师。 此外，太阳能燃料的基本实验和理论主题-电荷转移，催化，材料发现，纳米科学，分子和生物动力学，界面工程等-在会议上讨论的不仅仅是化学和材料科学。 与会者将分享他们最近的成果和正在进行的努力，在他们的具体工作领域，并在同一时间暴露自己的挑战和进展，在他们的直接专业知识或专业领域以外的领域。后者是研究生，博士后研究员和早期职业科学家的一个重要教育方面，特别是他们将与该社区的知名科学家和领导成员会面并进行头脑风暴。