| Sunday |
| 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm | Arrival and Check-in |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 7:40 pm | Welcome / Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff |
| 7:40 pm - 9:30 pm | Physisorption |
| Discussion Leader: Thomas Gennett (National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA) |
| 7:40 pm - 8:20 pm | Michael Hirscher (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany)
"Interaction of Hydrogen Molecules with Porous
Framework Materials" |
| 8:20 pm - 8:35 pm | Discussion |
| 8:35 pm - 9:15 pm | Channing Ahn (U.S. Department of Energy / California Institute of Technology, USA)
"Surface Excess, the Size of Hydrogen, and the
Dilemma of the Gibbs Approach to Volumetric Analysis" |
| 9:15 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Monday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Recent Advances on Hydrides Based on Metals and Alloys |
| Discussion Leader: Etsuo Akiba (Kyushu University, Japan) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Jean-Louis Bobet (Université de Bordeaux, France)
"Study of the Possibilities of the Existence of New Structures in the
Magnesium Rich Part of RE-TM-Mg System and Their Properties" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | David Sholl (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
"Using High-Throughput Computational Screening of Metal Hydrides and Intermetallics" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 11:40 am | Kengo Omori (Hokkaidou University, Japan)
"Hydrogenation Properties of Metal Nanoparticles Supported on Graphene" |
| 11:40 am - 11:45 am | Discussion |
| 11:45 am - 11:55 am | Timmy Ramirez Cuesta (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
"VISION: A Unique Tool to Study Hydrogen in Materials, from Fiction to Reality" |
| 11:55 am - 12:00 pm | Discussion |
| 12:00 pm - 12:10 pm | Huaiyu Shao (Kyushu University, Japan)
"NaCl-Type Structure Ti-V-C Based Materials for Hydrogen Storage" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:15 pm | Discussion |
| 12:15 pm - 12:25 pm | Morten Brix Ley (Max-Planck-Insitut für Kohlenforschung, Germany)
"Plastic Transformation of Dimethylaminoalane: A Possible New Hydrogen Storage Material" |
| 12:25 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Transport Phenomena in Hydrides (Ionic
Conduction in Metal Hydrides) |
| Discussion Leader: Rana Mohtadi (Toyota Research Institute of North America, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Shin-ichi Orimo (Tohoku University, Japan)
"Complex Hydrides: A New Series of Solid-State Electrolytes for
Battery Devises" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Alexander Skripov (Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)
"NMR Approach to Study Atomic Jump Motion in
Complex Hydrides" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Tuesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 8:30 am | Group Photo |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Novel High Capacity Hydrogen Storage Materials |
| Discussion Leader: Andreas Zuttel (EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Torben Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
"High Hydrogen Densities in New Boron and
Nitrogen Based Materials" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 10:50 am | Petra Szilagyi (University of Greenwich, United Kingdom)
"Metal-Organic Frameworks as Support for Metal Nanocluster Catalysts for Hydrogen Activation and Splitting" |
| 10:50 am - 11:00 am | Discussion |
| 11:00 am - 11:20 am | Joseph Teprovich (Savannah River National Laboratory, USA)
"Ion Mobility and Photophysical Properties of Hydrogen Storage Materials" |
| 11:20 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Yaroslav Filinchuk (Universite Catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
"Combining Building Blocks for New Hydrides with Intriguing
Properties" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Reaction Mechanisms / Pathways in Complex Hydrides |
| Discussion Leader: Ewa Ronnebro (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Craig Jensen (University of Hawaii, USA)
"Reaction Pathways in the Reversible
Hydrogenation of Magnesium Boranes to Mg(BH4)2 at
Moderate Temperatures" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Claudia Weidenthaler (Max Planck Institute for Coal Research, Germany)
"Complex Aluminum Hydrides: Decomposition Pathways and Crystal
Structure Relationships" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Wednesday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Surface Phenomena and
Finite Size Effects |
| Discussion Leader: Astrid Pundt (University of Gottingen, Germany) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Puru Jena (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
"Effect of Finite-Size on Metal-Hydrogen
Interaction" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Claudia Zlotea (Institute of Physics and Chemistry of Materials, France)
"Embedded Metal Hydride Nanoparticles: Synthesis and
Hydrogen Sorption Properties" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Andrea Baldi (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research, The Netherlands)
"In-Situ TEM Study of Hydrogen Absorption in Single
Palladium Nanoparticles" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:00 pm - 7:30 pm | Business Meeting |
| Nominations for the Next Vice Chair; Fill in Conference Evaluation Forms; Discuss Future Site and Scheduling Preferences; Election of the Next Vice Chair |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hydrogenation / Dehydrogenation of Hydride Composites |
| Discussion Leader: Young Whan Cho (Korea Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Gavin Walker (University of Nottingham, United Kingdom)
"Decomposition Pathway and Kinetic Barriers for
Multicomponent Hydride Systems" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Martin Dornheim (Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Germany)
"Sorption Properties and Reaction Mechanism of Reactive
Hydride Composites" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Thursday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am - 12:30 pm | Novel Methods and New
Characterization Techniques (of Hydrogen Interaction) |
| Discussion Leader: Bjorgvin Hjorvarsson (Uppsala University, Sweden) |
| 9:00 am - 9:40 am | Andreas Borgschulte (EMPA Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, Switzerland)
"Hydride Dye Oxides" |
| 9:40 am - 10:00 am | Discussion |
| 10:00 am - 10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 am - 11:10 am | Hyunjeong Kim (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan)
"What Can We Learn About Hydrogen Storage
Materials from the Atomic PDF?" |
| 11:10 am - 11:30 am | Discussion |
| 11:30 am - 12:10 pm | Kazutoshi Miwa (Toyota Central Research and Development Laboratories, Japan)
"Theoretical Study of Hydrogen Storage Alloys:
Near-Sightedness and Color-Blindness of Hydrogen in Metals" |
| 12:10 pm - 12:30 pm | Discussion |
| 12:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Free Time |
| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Poster Session |
| 6:00 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm | Hydrogen in Energy
Storage Applications |
| Discussion Leader: Ned Stetson (U.S. Department of Energy, USA) |
| 7:30 pm - 8:10 pm | Bart Van Hassel (United Technologies Research Center, USA)
"Niche Application Opportunities" |
| 8:10 pm - 8:30 pm | Discussion |
| 8:30 pm - 9:10 pm | Akihiro Nakano (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science, Japan)
"Experimental Study on the Totalized Hydrogen
Energy Utilization System" |
| 9:10 pm - 9:30 pm | Discussion |
| Friday |
| 7:30 am - 8:30 am | Breakfast |
| 9:00 am | Departure |
