International Solar Fuels II - Young: A Conference for Scientific and Professional Development of the Next-Generation of Solar Fuel Researchers

该奖项将提供资金，支持美国研究生，博士后学者和早期职业研究人员参加第二届国际太阳能燃料青年会议（ISF 2）。 “年轻”会议（ISF 2-Young）将于2017年7月5日至6日在加州拉霍亚的加州-圣地亚哥大学举行。ISF 2-Young将使新一代科学家和工程师了解太阳能燃料科学和工程领域的最新国际研究进展。 这种类型的国际交流对于确保美国科学家和工程师在对环境、可持续性和制造业至关重要的领域保持领导地位至关重要。ISF 2-Young会议（以及后续的ISF-2会议）将研究人员聚集在一起，分享太阳能燃料跨学科领域的最新研究进展。 重点是利用太阳能（直接或间接）将水和二氧化碳等丰富原料转化为液体化学燃料的技术。 进行这些转变所需的学科是高度多样化的，包括许多不同的领域，包括材料科学，分子催化，合成生物学，代谢工程，光化学和电化学。 ISF 2-Young会议为年轻研究人员提供了一个机会，以海报展示的形式展示他们的工作，并与他们的年轻同事和该领域的高级研究人员进行相关的研究讨论。 青年研究人员的参与将有助于培养下一代学术和工业科学家和工程师，以确保基于太阳能而不是化石燃料的可持续能源未来。

The award will provide funding in support of participation by U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and early-career researchers at the 2nd International Solar Fuels Young meeting immediately preceding the second convening of the International Solar Fuels conference (ISF2). The "Young" meeting (ISF2-Young) will take place July-5-6, 2017 at the University of California - San Diego in La Jolla, California. ISF2-Young will expose a new generation of scientists and engineers to the latest international research advances in the area of solar fuel science and engineering. International exchanges of this type are essential for ensuring that U.S. scientists and engineers maintain leadership in areas of critical importance to the environment, sustainability, and manufacturing. The ISF2-Young meeting (together with the follow-on ISF-2 conference) brings together researchers to share latest research advances in the cross-disciplinary area of solar fuels. Emphasis is placed on technologies that utilize solar energy (either directly or indirectly) to convert abundant feedstocks such as water and CO2 to liquid chemical fuels. The disciplines needed to carry out these transformations are highly diverse and encompass many different areas including materials science, molecular catalysis, synthetic biology, metabolic engineering, photovoltaics, and electrochemistry. The ISF2-Young meeting provides an opportunity for young researchers to present their work in the form of poster presentations and engage in related research discussions with both their young colleagues and senior researchers in the field. Participation by young researchers will aid in developing the next generation of academic and industrial scientists and engineers needed to ensure a sustainable energy future based on energy from the sun rather than from fossil fuels.