CHAL 27 |
| The Powering the Planet NSF Chemical Bonding Center focuses on one of the holy-grails of 21st Century science – the efficient and economical conversion of solar energy into stored chemical fuels. This multi-investigator, multi-institutional effort is focused on the development of components for a solar water splitting system. These components are: (i) a membrane-supported assembly that captures sunlight and then efficiently creates separated electrons and holes having sufficient chemical potential to drive the water-splitting re-actions and (ii) a two-electron catalyst to store the electrons in the chemical bonds of H2 upon water reduction and (iii) a four-electron catalyst to store the holes in the chemical bonds of O2 upon water oxidation. |
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Development of Solar Energy Technologies: IP Issues
9:30 AM-11:50 AM, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 Morial Convention Center -- Rm. 243, Oral
Division of Chemistry & the Law |