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TRANSFORMING ENERGY LECTURE SERIES - SPRING 2008
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Powering Tomorrow Towards a Sustainable Energy Future
Lecturer: Stuart Licht - University of Massachusetts Boston
Original Air Date: Thursday, March 6th at 2:00pm
Abstract: Society faces critical challenges in the transition to a sustainable energy future. We are at a critical juncture, providing unprecedented opportunities, in which society, government, and industry are aware that the burning of fossil fuels is causing global upheaval, and innovative, transformative science and technologies are needed. The exploration and scale-up of unusual, efficient chemical energy processes will provide one bridge to this future. Two examples from our ongoing projects, one in the efficient utilization of solar energy to generate hydrogen fuel, and one in electrochemical storage of energy will be presented. An odyssey, from photoelectrochemical solar energy conversion (1a) to our present new solar process to generate hydrogen fuel using concentrated sunlight, (1b) will be presented. The development of green, high energy batteries and fuel cells using new redox storage processes (2) will also be described.
(1a) "A Description of Energy Conversion in Photoelectrochemical Solar Cells," Nature (1987); ibid (1987); (1990), ibid (1991), etc.
(1b) "Thermochemical Solar Hydrogen Generation" Chemical Comm. (2003, 2005); etc.
(2) "A Novel Solid Sulfur Cathode for Aqueous Batteries," Science (1993); ibid (1989); ibid "Energetic Iron(VI) Chemistry: The Super-Iron Battery," (1999); Chemical Comm. (2004, 2006, 2007, etc.).
