Friday, October 20, 2006: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
Salon E ( Houston Westchase Marriott Hotel)
Chemical Utilization of Solar Energy (Invited)
This symposium will explore chemical utilization of solar energy.
Organizers:Randolph P. Thummel
Russell Schmehl
1:30 PMModerator - William Connick
1:30 PMWater oxidation chemistry of photosystem II and artificial systems
Gary Brudvig
2:05 PMToward Photochemical Water Oxidation with Band-Gap-Narrowed Semiconductors and Polypyridylruthenium Complexes as Catalysts
Etsuko Fujita, Dmitry Polyansky, James T. Muckerman, Tohru Wada, Koji Tanaka, Ruifa Zong, Randolph P. Thummel
2:40 PMPolynuclear Metal Oxide Units in Nanoporous Silica for Light-Driven CO2 Reduction and H2O Oxidation
Heinz M. Frei
3:15 PMBreak
3:45 PMOverall water splitting on some novel photocatalysts under visible light
Kazunari DOMEN
4:20 PMNanoparticle assembly strategies for improving the utilization of light by photocatalysts and photoelectrochemical cells
Paul G. Hoertz, Greg D. Barber, Sarah Dilts, Adrian P. Goodey, Neal M. Abrams, Emil A. Hernandez-Pagan, W. Justin Youngblood, Yeong-Il Kim, Joan M. Redwing, Thomas E. Mallouk

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