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2010 Welch Conference on Chemical Research
"Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy"

Hilton Houston North Hotel, Houston, Texas
October 25-26, 2010


Yuan T. Lee
 Conference Chairman
  

Monday, October 25, 2010
Session I - Solar
 8:40 AM 

Discussion Leader:  Harry B. Gray, California Institute of Technology

   8:50 AM

Speaker:  Paul Alivisatos, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture:   "Nanocrystal Based Solar Cells"

 9:35 AM

Speaker:  Michael Grätzel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Lecture:  "Molecular Photovoltaics and Mesoscopic Solar Cells"

10:35 AM

Speaker:  Akira Fujishima, Kanagawa Academy of Science and Technology
Lecture:  "TiO2 Photocatalysis: Present Situation and Future Approach"

11:20 AM

Speaker:  Xiaoyang Zhu, The University of Texas at Austin
Lecture:  "Exitons, Hot Electrons, and a Path Towards the
              Ultimate Solar Cell"

Session II - Catalysis

 1:30 PM Discussion Leader:  Sylvia Ceyer,
                          Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 1:40 PM Speaker:  Masatake Haruta, Tokyo Metropolitan University
Lecture:   "Green Chemistry Catalyzed by Gold Clusters"

 2:25 PM

Speaker:  Jens K. Nørskov, Technical University
Lecture:  "Tailoring Surface Catalytic Properties
               on the Basis of Electron Structure Theory
"

 3:25 PM

Speaker:  Clifford Kubiak, University of California, San Diego
Lecture:  "Fixing CO2"

 

Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Session III - Battery and Thermoelectric

 8:00 AM Discussion Leader:  Mildred Dresselhaus,
                           Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 8:10 AM

Speaker:  Yi Cui, Stanford University
Lecture:   "Advanced Energy Storage with Nanostructures"

 8:55 AM

Speaker:  Peidong Yang, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture:  "Semiconductor Nanowires for Energy Conversion"

 9:55 AM Speaker:  Gerd Ceder, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecture:  "The Materials Genome:  Computational High-Throughput
               Discovery of Materials in the Energy Field"

10:40 AM

Speaker:  Hongkun Park, Harvard University
Lecture:  "Optoplasmonic Engineering of Light-Matter Interactions"

2010 Welch Award Lecture

Speaker: 
Lecture: 
Session IV - Hydrogen Storage

 1:30 PM Discussion Leader:  Kathleen C. Taylor, GM Corporation (Retired)

 1:40 PM Speaker:  Omar M. Yaghi, University of California, Los Angeles
Lecture:  "Metal-Organic Frameworks for Clean Energy"

 2:40 PM Speaker:  James Tour, Rice University
Lecture:  "Carbon Materials for Energy Technologies"

 3:25 PM

Speaker:  Jeffrey R. Long, University of California, Berkeley
Lecture:  "Hydrogen Storage and Carbon Dioxide
              Capture in Metal-Organic Frameworks
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