"Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy"
Speakers
The Welch Foundation responding to the fierce urgency of
climate risk avoidance and energy security will hold the
2010 Welch Conference on the subject of “Green
Chemistry and Sustainable Energy.” Instead of giving and
exhaustive coverage of the recent advances which have
been made in this area, the conference will only cover
limited topics in four sessions.
Yuan T. Lee
Conference Chairman
Session II: Catalysis deals with catalysis in green chemistry, surface catalytic
properties and CO2 fixation. Session III: Battery and Thermoelectric will cover
energy storage and energy conversion with new materials as well as new
approaches. Session IV: Hydrogen Storage will cover hydrogen storage by
metal-organic and carbon materials.
I hope this conference will foster exchange of ideas among participants
and stimulate young students to engage in the problems related to energy and
environment with great enthusiasm.
A. Paul Alivisatos
University of California, Berkeley
"Nanoscale Materials for Solar Fuel Generation"
Michaël Grätzel
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
"Molecular Photovoltaics and Mesoscopic Solar
Cells"
"Nanowire Thermoelectrics: Turning Waste Heat
into Power"
Gerbrand Ceder
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Chemical Challenges and Materials Design in Energy
Storage Systems: The Materials Genome Project "
Hongkun Park Harvard University "Optoplasmonic Engineering of Light-Matter Interactions"
Omar M. Yaghi
University of California, Los Angeles
"Metal-Organic Frameworks and Their
Applications to Clean Energy"
James M. Tour
Rice University
"Green Carbon Energy Technologies"
Jeffrey R. Long
University of California, Berkeley
"Making and Storing Hydrogen"
Harry B. Gray
California Institute of Technology
Discussion Leaders
Akira Fujishima
Tokyo University of Science
"TiO2 Photocatalysis: Present Situation and
Future Approaches"
2010 Welch Awardees
JoAnne Stubbe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Harnessing the Reactivity of Free Radicals:
Lessons from Nature"
Sylvia T. Ceyer
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Xiaoyang Zhu
The University of Texas at Austin
"Excitons, Hot Electrons, and a Path Towards
the Ultimate Solar Cell"
Mildred Dresselhaus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Masatake Haruta
Tokyo Metropolitan University
"Green Chemistry Catalyzed by Gold Clusters"
Kathleen C. Taylor
GM Corporation (Retired)
Jens K. NØrskov
Stanford University
"Catalysis for Sustainable Energy"
Clifford P. Kubiak
University of California, San Diego
"Fixing Carbon Dioxide"
Yi Cui
Stanford University
"Advanced Energy Storage with Nanostructures"
Christopher T. Walsh
Harvard Medical School
"Appreciating Nature’s Chemical Treasures:
Vancomycin and the Chemical Logic of
Biosynthetic Enzymes"
