Europe – US Workshop
Solar Fuels: Light Capture and Electron Flow
23-26 May 2011
J. Heyrovský Institute of Physical Chemistry, Dolejškova 3, Prague
Monday, 23 May 2011
17:30-19:00 Registration, Hotel Troja, lobby
19:00
Welcome party, Hotel Troja, Panorama room
Tuesday, 24 May, morning
08:00-09:00 Registration, J. Heyrovský Institute
09:00-09:15 Opening
Setting the stage
Chair: Tony Vlček
Sponsored by Coordination Chemistry Reviews
Harry B. Gray
09:15-9:45
21st Century Solar Army
Caltech, USA
The Reductive Side of Water Splitting and the Light Driven
Rich Eisenberg
09:45-10:15
Generation of Hydrogen From Water: New Developments,
Rochester, USA
Strategies and Results
Solar energy converting materials – the primary steps for light
Villy Sundström
10:15-10:45
Lund, Sweden
to charge
Siddharth Dasgupta
10:45-11:15
Global Centers for Solar Fuel and Artificial Photosynthesis
Caltech, USA
11:15-11:45
Coffee Break
Electron transfer
Chair: Jay Winkler
Spiros Skourtis
Nicosia, Cyprus
Stanislav Záliš
12:05-12:25
Prague, Czech Rep.
Tatiana Prytkova
12:25-12:45
Chapman U., USA
Jeff J. Warren
12:45-13:05
Caltech, USA
11:45-12:05
13:05-14:10
Electron Transfer Pathway Control in Biomolecular and Small
Molecule Assemblies: The Role of Bridge Motion
Quantum Chemical Modeling of Electron Transfer Processes
Theoretical Studies of Electron Transfer Reactions in Proteins
Moving Protons and Electrons within Proteins: Electron
Transfers Assisted by Tyrosine
Buffet Lunch
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Tuesday 24 May, afternoon
Electron transfer
Chair: Harry B. Gray
Oliver Wenger
Göttingen, Germany
Andy Benniston
14:30-14:50
Newcastle, UK
Dario Bassani
14:50-15:10
Bordeaux, France
14:10-14:30
15:10-15:30
Winfried Leibl
Saclay, France
15:30-15:50
Electron transfer:
General discussion
15:50-16:20
Barrier Heights and Widths in Electron Tunneling
Sunlight Capture and Storage: Electron and Energy Transfer in
Molecular Dyads and Tetrads
Supramolecular Control of Excited-State Interactions for
Solar Energy Conversion
Molecular Complexes for Artificial Photosynthesis.
Spectroscopic Studies of Light-Induced Charge Separation and
Electron Transfer
Electron transfer: General discussion
Coffee break
Semiconductor-based solar materials
Chair: Chris Pickett
16:20-16:40
16:40-17:00
17:00-17:20
17:20-17:40
17:40-18:00
18:00-18:20
Bruce Brunschwig
Caltech, USA
Shannon Boettcher
Univ. of Oregon, USA
Kyoung-Shin Choi
Purdue Univ., USA
Markéta Zukalová
Prague, Czech Rep.
Elizabeth Gibson
Nottingham, UK
Stephen Maldonado
Ann Arbor, USA
Passivation of Silicon Surfaces for Solar Energy Conversion
Structured Inorganic Semiconductors for Solar Energy
Conversion and Storage
Construction of semiconductor electrodes with optimum
compositions and morphologies for use in solar water splitting
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Behavior of
Nanocrystalline TiO2 (Anatase) with Exposed (001) Facets
p-Type Photocathodes for Solar Energy Conversion
Aqueous Dye-Sensitized Hole Injection into p-Type
Phosphides From Organic Chromophores: An Alternative
Design for Photoelectrochemical Solar Energy
Conversion/Storage
Evening:
~18:45 Optional "working dinner" about collaboration possibilities at Pizzeria Giovanni (Ládví,
5-10 min walk from the institute).
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Wednesday, 25 May, morning
Semiconductor-based solar materials
Chair: Neil Robertson
10:00-10:20
Charge Photogeneration in Nanostructured Photoelectrodes
James Durrant
London, UK
for Water Oxidation
Formation and Oxygen Evolution Kinetics of a Cobalt-Based
Yogesh Surendranath
MIT, USA
Thin-Film Electrocatalyst
Petr Krtil
Selectivity of the (electro)catalytic water splitting
Prague, Czech Rep.
Optically Transparent Cathode for Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Ladislav Kavan
Prague, Czech Rep.
Based on Graphene Nanoplatelets
Solar materials: General discussion
10:20-10:50
Coffee break
08:40-09:00
09:00-09:20
09:20-09:40
09:40-10:00
Molecular solar materials
Chair: Bill Rutherford
10:50-11:10
Jay Winkler
Caltech, USA
Chris Pickett
11:10-11:30
Norwich, UK
Michael Nippe
Berkeley, USA
Han Vos
11:50-12:10
Dublin, Ireland
Christiana Mitsopoulou
12:10-12:30
Athens, Greece
11:30-11:50
12:30-13:30
Mechanisms of Hydrogen Formation
Electrochemical and Photoelectrochemical Reduction of
Protons and Small Molecules Catalysed by Transition Metal
Centres
Molecular Catalysts for Generating Hydrogen from Water
Design and Optimisation of Dinuclear Photocatalysts For
Hydrogen Production from Water
New Mixed Bimetallic Diimine-Dithiolate Chromophores
Used for Solar Hydrogen Production
Buffet Lunch
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Wednesday, 25 May, afternoon
Molecular solar materials
Chair: Rich Eisenberg
Ally Aukauloo
Paris, France
Franti Hartl
13:50-14:20 Sofia Derossi
Reading, UK
Charles McCrory
14:20-14:40
Caltech, USA
Robin Perutz
14:40-15:00
York, UK
13:30-13:50
15:00-15:30
Steps Towards Water Splitting?
Supramolecular Photocatalysis: New Hydrogen-Evolving
Systems Based on Fe-Only Hydrogenase
Evaluating Electrocatalytic Activity for Hydrogen Evolving
Cobalt and Nickel Complexes in Solution
Towards CO2 Reduction with Visible Light
Coffee break
Molecular solar materials
Chair: Tomas Torres
John Kely
15:30-16:00 Annemarie O'Toole
Dublin, Ireland
Bill Rutherford
16:00-16:20
Saclay, France
Fixation, Storage and Activation of CO2 Using Iminodiacetic
Acid-Based Coordination Complexes
Artificial Photosynthesis: What Can Be Learnt from the
Biological Kind?
Photoinduced Water Oxidation Using Dendritic Ru(II)
Sebastiano Campagna
16:20-16:40
Complexes as Photosensitizers and Polyoxometalated Species
Messina, Italy
as Catalysts
An EPR Picture of Cobalt and Manganese Water Oxidation
David Britt
16:40-17:00
Davis, USA
Catalysts
17:00-17:20 Molecular solar materials: General discussion
19:00
Conference Dinner, restaurant Vojanův Dvůr
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Thursday, 26 May
Sensitizers and dye nanostructures
Chair: Robin Perutz
Neil Robertson
Edinburgh, UK
Maria Abrahamsson
09:20-09:40
Chalmers U., Sweden
Majed Chergui
09:40-10:00
Lausanne, Switzerland
09:00-09:20
10:00-10:20
Pavel Chábera
Lund, Sweden
10:20-10:40
Fabrice Odobel
Nantes Univ., France
10:40-11:10
Sensitiser Design for Nanocrystalline Metal Oxides
Influence of Ligand Structures on Interfacial Electron
Transfer Dynamics
Structural Dynamics of Dye Sensitizers
Sum Frequency Generation and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of
CN-Labeled Zn-Porphyrin/TiO2 Electrodes for Dye
Sensitized Solar Cells Reveal Binding Geometry
New concepts for the development of dye-sensitized solar
cells
Coffee Break
Sensitizers and dye nanostructures
Chair: Bruce Brunschwig
11:10-11:30
Dirk Guldi
Erlangen, Germany
Towards Long-Lived Radical Ion Pairs in Carbon
Nanostructures - Empty Fullerenes versus Endohedral
Metallofullerenes
Tomas Torres
On the Significance of Phthalocyanines in Solar Cells
Madrid, Spain
Self-Assembled Dye Nanosystems for Solar Energy
Frank Würthner
11:50-12:10
Würzburg, Germany
Conversion
Sensitizers and dye nanostructures: General discussion
12:10-12:45
Solar fuels: Final remarks and discussion (Harry Gray)
12:45
Closing
11:30-11:50
Thursday afternoon:
Discussions with JH Institute scientists and lab visits can be arranged individually.
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POSTERS (to be displayed throughout the conference and discussed during the breaks):
Christopher Windle, York, UK
Supramolecular Photocatalysts for CO2 Reduction
Megumi Kayanuma, Strasbourg, France
Spectroscopy and photophysics of Re(I) complexes : Theoretical Study
Eugenia Kotsouri, Athens, Greece
Bridged Bimetallic Complexes of Re-Pt and Pt-Pt: Synthesis, Characterization and their
Application in Hydrogen Production
Annemarie O'Toole, Dublin, Ireland
Fixation, Storage and Activation of CO2 Using Iminodiacetic Acid-Based Coordination
Complexes
Olga Trukhina, Madrid, Spain
Phthalocyanine-fullerene conjugates
Fausto Puntoriero, Messina, Italy
Photophysical Properties of Ru(II) and Os(II) Molecular Dyads for Charge Separation
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