1st International Conference on BioInspired Materials for Solar Energy Utilization

Topics: Green Chemistry, Inorganic Chemistry, Materials Science, Nanotechnology, Supramolecular Chemistry, Keywords: solar energy, artificial photosynthesis, bioinspired materials, hydrogen production, dye sensitized solar cells

Date: /12/13/14/15/16/17/ September 2011, Crete (Chania), Greece, Europe

Web Site, Contact: info@biosol2011.gr

  

Official Information:

One route to harvesting the energy of the sun involves learning to mimic natural photosynthesis. Here, sunlight falls on a porphyrin, one member of a family of molecules that includes the chlorophylls, which play a central role in capturing light and using its energy for photosynthesis in green plants. Efficient light-harvesting of the solar spectrum by porphyrins and related molecules can be used to power synthetic molecular assemblies and solid state devices applying the principles of photosynthesis to the production of hydrogen, methane, ethanol, and methanol from sunlight, water, and atmospheric carbon dioxide ....

(from Report of the Basic Energy Sciences Workshop on Solar Energy Utilization)

Topics

• Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
• Nanotechnology for energy
• Bionanomaterials
• Molecular Photophysics
• Artificial photosynthesis: Photocatalytic and Electrocatalytic Hydrogen and Oxygen Production
• Experimental and theoretical aspects of electron transfer reactions
• Photophysical properties of self assembled systems..