Saturday
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Arrival and Check-in
3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Introductory Comments by GRC Site Staff / Welcome from the GRS Chair
3:45 pm - 4:30 pm
Keynote Session: Catalysis for Renewable Fuels
Discussion Leader: Moritz Kuehnel (University of Cambridge / Swansea University, United Kingdom)
3:45 pm - 4:20 pm
Jenny Yang (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Catalysis for Renewable Fuels"
4:20 pm - 4:30 pm
Discussion
4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Poster Session
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Dinner
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Fundamentals of Energy Research
Discussion Leaders: Damla Inan (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands) and Andreas Wagner (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)
7:30 pm - 7:40 pm
Bianca Ceballos (University of California, Irvine, USA)
"Over the Hill: Thermochemical Exploration of Selective Hydride Transfer Using Metal Hydricity Activity Descriptors for H+ and CO2 Reduction Catalysis"
7:40 pm - 7:45 pm
Discussion
7:45 pm - 7:55 pm
Shannon Bonke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy, Germany)
"Electrochemically-Guided In Situ Analysis of Metal Oxide Catalysed Water Oxidation"
7:55 pm - 8:00 pm
Discussion
8:00 pm - 8:10 pm
Samantha Johnson (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
"Using Bond Dissociation Free Energies to Understand and Predict NH3 Oxidation Catalysts for Fuel Production"
8:10 pm - 8:15 pm
Discussion
8:15 pm - 8:30 pm
General Discussion
8:30 pm - 8:40 pm
Sahr Khan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
"Tuning the CO Adsorption Dynamics on Pd Surfaces for Long-Term Formate Production"
8:40 pm - 8:45 pm
Discussion
8:45 pm - 8:55 pm
Michael Sachs (Imperial College London, United Kingdom)
"Hydrogen Evolution Activity of Linear Organic Photocatalysts"
8:55 pm - 9:00 pm
Discussion
9:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Demyan Prokopchuk (University of Calgary, Canada)
"The Mechanism of H2 Splitting at a Square Planar Fe(I) Complex"
9:10 pm - 9:15 pm
Discussion
9:15 pm - 9:30 pm
General Discussion
Sunday
7:30 am - 8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am - 11:00 am
Catalysis and Molecular Systems / Mentorship Component: Careers Across Chemical Sciences
Discussion Leader: Courtney Downes (University of Southern California, USA)
9:00 am - 9:10 am
Janina Willkomm (University of Calgary, Canada)
"Solar H2 Evolution with Engineered Diketopyrrolopyrrole Dyes Immobilised on TiO2 Hybrids"
9:10 am - 9:15 am
Discussion
9:15 am - 9:25 am
Faezeh Habib Zadeh (Michigan State University, USA)
"Homogeneous Electro-Catalytic Oxidation of Ammonia with a Ruthenium Catalyst"
9:25 am - 9:30 am
Discussion
9:30 am - 9:40 am
Yanyan Zhao (Boston College, USA)
"Iridium Dinuclear Heterogeneous Catalysts (DHC) for Solar Water Oxidation"
9:40 am - 9:45 am
Discussion
9:45 am - 9:55 am
Phil De Luna (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Electro-Redeposited Catalysts Control Morphology and Oxidation State for Carbon Dioxide Reduction"
9:55 am - 10:00 am
Discussion
10:00 am - 10:50 am
Panel Discussion
Careers Across Chemical Sciences
Chunzeng Li (Bruker Nano Surfaces, USA)
Gary Brudvig (Yale University, USA)
Brandon Sutherland (Cell Press, USA)
Njamkou Noucti (Sealed Air Corporation, USA)
Moritz Kuehnel (University of Cambridge / Swansea University, United Kingdom)
Jenny Yang (University of California, Irvine, USA)
10:50 am - 11:00 am
General Discussion
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Poster Session
Coffee will be served in the poster area from 11:00 am - 11:30 am
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Novel Materials and Applications
Discussion Leader: Marielle Soniat (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
1:30 pm - 1:40 pm
Yihui Zhao (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), The Netherlands)
"Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with WO3 Thin Film on Nano/Micro Three-Dimensional Structures"
1:40 pm - 1:45 pm
Discussion
1:45 pm - 1:55 pm
Anna Beiler (Arizona State University, USA)
"Bioinspired Surface Coatings for Solar Fuels Production"
1:55 pm - 2:00 pm
Discussion
2:00 pm - 2:10 pm
Georgios Katsoukis (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
"Closing the Photosynthetic Cycle on the Nanoscale Under Membrane Separation"
2:10 pm - 2:15 pm
Discussion
2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Closing Remarks
2:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Evaluation Period
Fill in GRS Evaluation Forms
3:00 pm
Seminar Concludes
