{"90191":{"#nid":"90191","#data":{"type":"event","title":"(10-1021) Fink Lecture - Prof. Thomas J. Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFink Lecture\u003Cbr \/\u003E\nProf. Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ESolar Fuels from sunlight\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EBecause of its intermittency, solar energy cannot be a primary energy source in a new energy future without energy storage on a massive scale. The only reasonable approach is chemistry and production of solar fuels with sunlight used to drive critical reactions such as water splitting into hydrogen and oxygen and water reduction of CO\u003Csub\u003E2\u003C\/sub\u003E to reduced carbon, ultimately as a source of transportation fuels. The critical elements in solar fuels production by natural and artificial photosynthesis are understood: light absorption, excited state electron transfer, vectorial electron\/energy\/proton transfer through free energy gradients, electron transfer activation of catalysis, and rapid catalysis of target half reactions. All of these elements are available in Dye Sensitized Photoelectrosynthesis Cells (DS PEC) driven by excited state electron or hole injection at semiconductor surfaces and a \u00e2\u0080\u009cmodular\u00e2\u0080\u009d approach.  \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EFor more information contact \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jake.soper@chemistry.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EProf. Jake Soper\u003C\/a\u003E (404-894-4022).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Fink Lecture\nProf. Thomas J. Meyer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\n\nSolar Fuels from sunlight","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Fink Lecture - Prof. Thomas J. Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill"}],"uid":"27275","created_gmt":"2010-09-15 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:47:05","author":"Shirley Tomes","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2010-10-21T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2010-10-21T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2010-10-21T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2010-10-21 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2010-10-21 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2010-10-21 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.chem.unc.edu\/people\/faculty\/meyer\/index.html","title":"Prof. Thomas Meyer, UNC Chapel Hill"}],"groups":[{"id":"85951","name":"School of Chemistry and Biochemistry"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"89","name":"chemistry"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EShirley Tomes\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EChemistry \u0026amp; Biochemistry\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=st81\u0022\u003EContact Shirley Tomes\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404-894-0591\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}