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IPS-2000

Sunday, July 30–Friday, August 4, 2000

Snowmass, Colorado, USA

AGENDA

 

SUNDAY, JULY 30
 
 

 

 


1:00 PM–10:00 PM        Internet Access and Computer Room Open, Snowmass Conference Center –Snobble Room

 

2:00 PM–9:00 PM          Registration, Snowmass Conference Center – Second Floor Office

                                    Program Information Desk – Near the Registration Office

 

2:00 PM–10:00 PM        Poster Set-up, Silvertree Hotel – Cabaret Room

 

6:00 PM–9:00 PM          Welcome Reception, Snowmass Conference Center – Roof Garden

 

MONDAY, JULY 31
 
 

 

 

7:00 AM–8:00 AM          Continental Breakfast, Snowmass Conference Center – Lobby

 

7:00 AM–6:00 PM          Registration, Snowmass Conference Center – First Floor Office

                                    Program Information Desk – First Floor Lobby

 

7:00 AM–10:00 PM     Internet Access and Computer Room Open, Snowmass Conference Center –Snobble Room

 

Program

 

8:15 AM–8:30 AM          Dr. Stanley R. Bull, Director of Science and Technology, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Welcome

 

Plenary Lectures

 

8:30 AM–9:50 AM          Dr. Mary Gress, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Chair

 

8:30 AM–9:10 AM          Prof. Harry Gray, Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology, USA

                                    Electron Tunneling through Water and Proteins

 

9:10 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. Josef Michl, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder,  USA

                                    Sigma Electron Delocalization

 

9:50 AM–10:10 AM        Coffee Break

 

10:10 AM–12:10 PM      Dr. Marshall D. Newton, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Chair

 

10:10 AM–10:50 AM      Prof. Joshua Jortner, School of Chemistry, Tel-Aviv Univ., Israel

                                    Photoinduced Charge Transfer and Transport in Organized Systems

 

10:50 AM–11:30 AM      Prof. Michael D. Fayer, Dept. of Chemistry, Stanford Univ., USA

                                    Electronic Excitation Transport in Disordered and Finite Volume Systems

 

11:30 AM–12:10 PM      Prof. James K. McCusker, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California at Berkeley, USA

                                    Femtosecond Time-Resolved Spectroscopic Studies of Transition Metal-Based Charge-Transfer Chromophores: Probing the Dynamics of Excited-State Evolution

 

Workshops­

 

W1:                              Photoinduced Electron Transfer (Anderson Room)

 

Chairs:                         Dr. Jai P. Mittal, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, India

                                    Prof. Francis Wilkinson, Loughborough Univ., U.K.

                                    Prof. Baowen Zhang, Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Beijing, China

 

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Its Applications

                                    Prof. Yi Cao, Institute of Photographic Chemistry, Beijing, China

 

2:30 PM–5:00 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          Controlling Electron Transfer by Selective Excited State Generation in Porphyrin-Acceptor Assembles

                                    M. Andersson*, J. Davidsson*, M. Linke, D. LeGourriérec*, L. Sun, E. Mukhtar*, V. Heitz, J.-C. Chambron, J.-P. Sauvage and L. Hammarström*

                                    *Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Uppsala Univ., Sweden; Laboratoire de Chimie Organo-Minérale, Institut Le Bel, Université Louis Pasteur, France; Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratories, Stockholm Univ., Sweden

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Betaine-30 Studied with Broadband Transient Absorption Spectroscopy

                                    S.A. Kovalenko, T.A. Senyushkina, and N.P. Ernsting

                                    Institut für Physikalische Chemie, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Germany

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          Distance-Dependent Interfacial Electron Transfer Kinetics

                                    J.F. Smalley*, M.D. Newton*, S.W. Feldberg*, H.D. Sikes, C.E.D. Chidsey

                                    *Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA; Stanford Univ., USA

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Polypyridine Complexes of Ruthenium(II) and Osmium(II) with New Electron Acceptor Ligands of Triarylpyridinium Type

                                    E. Amouyal and P. Lainé

                                    Laboratoire de Chimie Physique, CNRS, France

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          Electron Transfer Processes in Ruthenium(II)-Trisbipyridine Based Supramolecular Triads

                                    C.M. Elliott*, U.E. Steiner, T. Klumpp, M. Linsenmann, D. Bürssner, E.B. Krissinel, S.L. Larson*, B.R. Limoges*

                                    *Dept. of Chemistry, Colorado State Univ., USA; Fakultät für Chemie, Universität Konstanz, Germany

 

4:40 PM–5:00 PM          Very Efficient Photoinduced Electron Transfer at Gold Electrodes Modified with Self-Assembled Monolayers of Porphyrin-Ferrocene-Thiol Linked Molecules

                                    T. Kondo, T. Kanai, K. Iso-o, M. Okamura, and K. Uosaki

                                    Physical Chemistry Laboratory, Hokkaido Univ., Japan

 

W3:                              Photoreduction of Carbon Dioxide (Hoagland Room)

 

Chairs:                         Dr. Daniel L. DuBois, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

                                    Dr. Pedi Neta, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA

 

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Recent Developments and Future Prospects in Photochemical CO2 Reduction

                                    Prof. Etsuku Fujita, Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

                                   

2:30 PM–4:40 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          Development of Transition Metal Phosphine Complexes as Electrocatalysts for CO2 Reduction

                                    C.J. Curtis, D.E. Berning, A. Miedaner, and D.L. DuBois

                                    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Reduction of Cobalt and Iron Phthalocyanines and the Role of the Reduced Species in Catalyzed Reduction of CO2

                                    P. Neta*, J. Grodkowski*, T. Dhanasekaran*, B.S. Brunschwig, K. Shinozaki, and E. Fujita

                                    *Physical and Chemical Properties Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA; Chemistry Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          The Factors Controlling the Photocatalytic Properties for the Reduction of CO2 with H2O on Ti-Beta Zeolites

                                    K. Ikeue*, H. Yamashita*, T. Takewaki, M.E. Davis, M. Anpo*

                                    *Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan

                                                            Div. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Photo-induced Conversion of Carbon Dioxide to Acetic Acid under Anaerobic Conditions via FeS Catalysis

                                    G. Lu, Y. Ding, L. Cai, X. Pan, D. Li, J. Xi, and S. Li

                                    *State Key Laboratory for Oxo Synthesis and Selective Oxidation, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, China

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          A Novel Gas Diffusion Electrode for the Electrochemical Reduction of CO2

                                    G.B. Stevens, B. Raguse, D.L. Tilbrook, V.L.B. Braach-Maksvytis and J.J. Lowke

                                    CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, Lindfield NSW, Australia

 

W7:                              Nanostructures and Quantum Dots (Sinclair/Carroll/Erickson Room)

 

Chair:                           Dr. Prashant V. Kamat, Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, USA

 

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Nanostructures and Quantum Dots: An Overview

                                    Dr. Gary Hodes, Dept. of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

 

2:30 PM–5:00 PM          Oral Presentations:

                                   

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          "On"/"Off" Fluorescence Intermittency of Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots

                                    M. Kuno, D.P. Fromm, H.F. Hamann, A. Gallagher, D.J. Nesbitt

                                    JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Univ. of Colorado, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Optical, Structural, and Electrical Properties of Close-Packed Arrays of InP Quantum Dots

                                    O.I. Miƒiƒ, S.P. Ahrenkiel, and A.J. Nozik

                                    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          Photoactive Metal Nanoparticles

                                    P.V. Kamat and K.G. Thomas

                                    Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, USA

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Chains, Squares and Rings of MLCT Excited States

                                    S. Woessner, J. Helms, A. DelNegro, E. Schutte and B.P. Sullivan

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Wyoming, USA

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          Distance-dependent Photoinduced Electron Transfer in Au/Spacer/Q-CdSe Assemblies

                                    E.P.A.M. Bakkers, A.W. Marsman, L.W. Jenneskens and D. Vanmaekelbergh

                                    Debye Institute, Univ. of Utrecht, The Netherlands

 

4:40 PM–5:00 PM          Trap Limited Charge Transport in Nanocrystalline TiO2 Electrodes

                                    J. Nelson, S.A. Haque, D.R. Klug, and J.R. Durrant

                                    Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, U.K.

 

7:30 PM–10:00 PM        Poster Sessions (W1, W3, W7)

                                    See listings in Book of Abstracts

 

TUESDAY, AUGUST 1
 
 

 

 

 


7:30 AM–8:30 AM          Continental Breakfast, Snowmass Conference Center – Lobby

 

7:00 AM–6:00 PM          Registration, Snowmass Conference Center – First Floor Office

                                    Program Information Desk – First Floor Lobby

 

7:00 AM–10:00 PM        Internet Access and Computer Room Open, Snowmass Conference Center –Snobble Room

 

Program

 

Plenary Lectures

 

8:30 AM–9:50 AM          Dr. Michael Seibert, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, Chair

 

8:30 AM–9:10 AM          Prof. John H. Golbeck, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA

                                    Common Structural Motifs in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers: The Influence of Protein in Modulating the Thermodynamic Properties to Bound Organic Cofactors

 

9:10 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. Horst T. Witt, Max-Volmer-Institut, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

                                    Recent Progress in Structural and Functional Analysis of Water Oxidizing Photosynthesis

 

9:50 AM–10:10 AM        Coffee Break

 

10:10 AM–12:10 PM      Prof. James R. Norris, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Chicago, USA, Chair

 

10:10 AM–10:50 AM      Prof. Michel Frey, Institut de Biologie Structurale Jean-Pierre Ebel CEA-CNRS, France

                                    Hydrogenases: Hydrogen-Metabolizing Enzymes: Molecular Architectures and Function

 

10:50 AM–11:30 AM      Prof. P. Leslie Dutton, Dept. of Biochemistry & Biophysics, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA

                                    Electron Tunneling and Coupled Reactions in Protein: Engineering of Light-energy Conversion in Nature, De Novo Design of Maquettes in the Laboratory

 

11:30 AM–12:10 PM      Prof. Stenbjörn Styring, Dept. of Biochemistry, Lund Univ., Sweden

                                    From Natural to Artificial Photosynthesis; Ru-Mn Complexes Mimicking the Donor Side of Photosystem II

 
Workshops­

 

W4:                              Biological Photosynthesis (Sinclair/Carroll/Erickson Room)      

 

Chair:                           Prof. Wolfgang Lubitz, Max-Volmer-Institut, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany

                                               

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Energetics and Dynamics of Charge Separation in Photosynthetic Bacterial Reaction Centers

                                    Prof. William W. Parson, Dept. of Biochemistry, Univ. of Washington, USA

                                   

2:30 PM–3:30 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          New Pathways for Sub-picosecond Electron Transfer in Photosynthetic Reaction Centers

                                    M.E. van Brederode*, M.R. Jones, and R. van Grondelle*

                                    *Dept. of Biophysics, Free Univ. Amsterdam, The Netherlands

                                    Dept. of Biochemistry, School of Medical Sciences, Univ. of Bristol, U.K.

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          The First Electron Acceptor in Bacterial Reaction Centers: Selective Perturbation of the Monomeric Bacteriochlorophyll BA

                                    F. Müh*, H. Witt*, W. Lubitz*, S. Schenkl, S. Spörlein, W. Zinth, and J. Wachtveitl

                                    *MVI, Technical Univ. of Berlin, Germany; IMO, Univ. of Munich, Germany

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          High Field EPR Study of Carotenoid and Chlorophyll Radicals in Photosystem II

                                    M.C. Thurnauer*, O.G. Poluektov*, K.V. Lakshmi, M.J. Reifler, and G.W. Brudvig

                                    *Chemistry Dept., Argonne National Laboratory, USA; Dept. of Chemistry, Yale Univ., USA

 

3:30 PM–3:45 PM          Coffee Break

 

W2:                              Biomimetic Photochemistry-I (Sinclair/Carroll/Erickson Room)

 

Chair:                           Prof. Guilford Jones, Dept. of Chemistry, Boston Univ., USA

 

3:45 PM–4:15 PM          Overview Lecture, Photoinduced Electron Transfer and Charge Transport in Biopolymers

                                    Prof. Frederick D. Lewis, Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern Univ., USA

 

4:15 PM–5:15 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

4:15 PM–4:35 PM          Photoinduced Electron Transfer Reactions in Cofacially Aligned Porphyrin-Bridge-Quinone Systems in which the Interplanar Separations Between the Porphyrin, Aromatic Bridge, and Quinone are Less than the Sum of Their Respective van der Waals Radii

                                    P.M. Iovine, J.X. Chen, M.A. Kellett, N.P. Redmore, R.M. Hochstrasser, and M.J. Therien

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA

 

4:35 PM–4:55 PM          Artificial Photosynthesis in Lamellar Assemblies of Polyelectrolytes and Inorganic Colloids

                                    T.E. Mallouk, M. Hara, D.M. Kaschak, C.C. Waraksa, J.T. Lean, B.A. Lewis, and M. Mihok

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Pennsylvania State Univ., USA

 

4:55 PM–5:15 PM          Conformational Gating of Long Distance Electron Transfer through Wire-like Bridges in Donor-Bridge-Acceptor Molecules

                                    M.R. Wasielewski, W.B. Davis, and S.E. Miller

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Northwestern Univ., USA

 

W5                               Photoelectrochemistry/Photoelectrolysis (Anderson Room)

 

Chairs:                         Dr. Claude Lévy-Clément, LCMTR, CNRS, France

                                    Prof. Bruce A. Parkinson, Dept. of Chemistry, Colorado State Univ., USA

                                    Dr. Valentin N. Parmon, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russia

 

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Progress and Challenges in Photoelectrochemistry and Photoelectrolysis

                                    Prof. Nathan S. Lewis, Div. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, USA

 

2:30 PM–5:00 PM          Oral Presentations:

                                   

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          Recent Results on the Application of Impedance Spectroscopy to Photoelectrochemistry

                                    W.P. Gomes and Z. Hens

                                    Laboratorium voor Fysische Chemie, Universiteit Gent, Belgium

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Role of Adsorbates and Surface States in Photoelectrochemical Reactions at Molecular Semiconductor Electrodes

                                    D. Schlettwein, T. Oekermann, K. Hesse, H. Graaf, N.I. Jaeger

                                    Institute of Applied and Physical Chemistry, Univ. of Bremen, Germany

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          Location of a Defect Band at TiO2 Film/Aqueous Electrolyte Interfaces. Effect of Adsorbed Photolytes

                                    M. Calvo, C. Alcober, R. Candal, and S.A. Bilmes

                                    INQUIMAE, Dept. of Inorganic Chemistry, Univ. of Buenos Aires, Argentina

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Characterization of Semiconductor Based Photoelectrochemical Systems for Hydrogen Production

                                    P.R. Sebastian*, N.R. Mathews*, X. Mathew*, M. Pattabi*, J. Turner, R.N. Bhattacharya

                                    *Energy Research Center – UNAM, Mexico

                                    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting with AgCl as Photoanode?

                                    G. Calzaferri, A. Currao, S. Glaus, D. Schürch

                                    Univ. of Bern, Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Switzerland

 

4:40 PM–5:00 PM          Thin Film CdTe/CdS and CuIn­1-xGaxSe2/CdS Junction Photoelectrochemical Cells

                                    N.G. Dhere*, K. Okada, H. Mametsuka, and E. Suzuki

                                    *Florida Solar Energy Center, USA

                                    Research Institute of Innovative Technology for the Earth (RITE), Japan

 

7:30 PM–10:00 PM        Poster Sessions (W2/W4, W5)

                                    See listings in Book of Abstracts

 

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2
 
 

 

 

 


7:30 AM–8:30 AM          Continental Breakfast, Snowmass Conference Center – Lobby

 

7:00 AM–2:00 PM          Registration, Snowmass Conference Center – First Floor Office

                                    Program Information Desk – First Floor Lobby

 

7:00 AM–10:00 PM        Internet Access and Computer Room Open, Snowmass Conference Center –Snobble Room

 

Program

 

Plenary Lectures

 

8:30 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. Laurence Peter, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Bath, U.K.,  Chair

 

8:30 AM-9:10 AM          Prof. Itamar Willner, Institute of Chemistry, The Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem, Israel

                                    Photoinduced Charge-Separation in Supramolecular, Biomolecular and Microheterogeneous Assemblies: Implication to Photocatalysis and Photoelectrochemistry

 

9:10 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. Michael Grätzel, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

                                    Current State and Perspectives of Sensitized Mesoporous Solar Cells

 

9:50 AM–10:10 AM        Coffee Break

 

10:10 AM–12:10 PM      Prof. Kohei Uosaki, Div. of Chemistry, Hokkaido Univ., Japan, Chair

 

10:10 AM–10:50 AM      Prof. Frank Willig, Dept. of Interfacial Reactions, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Germany

                                    Dynamics of Photo-induced Heterogeneous Electron Transfer

 

10:50 AM–11:30 AM      Prof. Kirthi Tennakone, Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka

                                    Dye-sensitized Solar Cells: Their Problems and Possible Strategies for Improvements

 

11:30 AM–12:10 PM      Prof. Michio Matsumura, Research Center for Photoenergetics of Organic Materials, Osaka Univ., Japan

                                    Photocatalytic Activity of Various TiO2 Particles in Some Interesting Reactions

 

12:10 PM–12:30 PM      Boxed lunch – Pick up lunch at Conference Center Lobby

 

12:30 PM–5:00 PM        Excursion­ - Maroon Bells – Board buses – Silvertree Courtyard

 

7:30 PM–10:00 PM        Poster Sessions (W6, W8, General Interest)

                                    See listings in Book of Abstracts

 

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3
 
 

 

 

 


7:30 AM–8:30 AM          Continental Breakfast, Snowmass Conference Center – Lobby

 

7:00 AM–6:00 PM          Registration, Snowmass Conference Center – First Floor Office

                                    Program Information Desk – First Floor Lobby

 

7:00 AM–10:00 PM        Internet Access and Computer Room Open, Snowmass Conference Center –Snobble Room

 

7:00 AM–7:00 PM          Remove Posters, Silvertree Hotel – Cabaret Room.  All posters must be removed by 7:00 PM; it will be assumed that anything left after 7:00 PM is to be disposed of.

 

Program

 

Plenary Lectures

 

8:30 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. Helmut Tributsch, Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Dep. Solare Energetic, Berlin, Germany, Chair

 

8:30 AM–9:10 AM          Prof. Louis E. Brus, Dept. of Chemistry, Columbia Univ., USA

                                    Electromagnetic Field Enhancement, and the Raman Spectra of Single Molecules

 

9:10 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. A. Paul Alivisatos, Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA

                                    Colloidal Quantum Rods

 

9:50 AM–10:10 AM        Coffee Break

 

10:10 AM–12:10 PM      Dr. Olga I. Miƒiƒ, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, Chair

 

10:10 AM–10:50 AM      Prof. Mostafa A. El-Sayed, School of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

                                    Some Interesting Properties of Metals Confined in Time and Space of Different Shapes

 

10:50 AM–11:30 AM      Prof. Shozo Yanagida, Dept. of Material and Life Science, Osaka Univ., Japan

                                    From Artificial Photosynthesis to Photoelectric Solar Cells

 

11:30 AM–12:10 PM      Prof. Nick Serpone, Dept. of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Concordia Univ., Canada

                                    The Never Ending Saga of Photocatalysis: From Sunburns to the Band Model of Semiconductors

 

1:00 PM–1:45 PM          Recent Developments in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (S. Hayase, Toshiba Corp.; G. Tulloch, Sustainable Technologies, Australia), Kearns Room
 
Workshops­

 

W2:                              Biomimetic Photochemistry-II (Hoagland Room)

 

2:30 PM–5:00 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          Photo-induced Stepwise Oxidation of Mn-dimers: Towards a Functional Mimic of the Water Oxidising Centre in Photosystem II

                                    P.H. Kenéz*, A. Magnusson*, M. Abrahamsson, R. Lomoth, B. van Rotterdam*, L. Sun, L. Hammarström, B. Åkermark, and S. Styring*

                                    *Dept. of Biochemistry, Lund Univ., Sweden; Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Uppsala Univ., Sweden; Dept. of Organic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm Univ., Sweden

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Molecular Engineering of Porphyrins: Architectural Control of  (Photo)physical and Chemical Properties

                                    K.M. Barkigia, M.W. Renner, J. Fajer

                                    Dept. of Applied Science, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          Cyclic Transmembrane Charge Carriers for Applications in Photostorage

                                    R.F. Khairutdinov, L.D. Lucchesi, and J.K. Hurst

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Washington State Univ., USA

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Toward the Development of Light Harvesting Arrays of Non-Covalently Linked Transition Metal Complex Chromophores

                                    M. Montalti, S. Wadhwa, A.-M. Andersson, R. Kipp, and R. Schmehl

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Tulane Univ., USA

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          Chlorophyll a in Liposomes — Spectroelectrochemical Studies

                                    L. Tugulea

                                    Faculty of Physics, Univ. of Bucharest, Romania

 

4:40 PM–5:00 PM          Conversion of Light to Biochemical Energy Using a Tethered Membrane System

                                    T. Reda, G. Stevens, B. Raguse, J.J. Lowke, and V.L.B. Braach-Maksvytis

                                    CSIRO Telecommunications and Industrial Physics, Lindfield, Australia

 

W6:                              Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (Anderson Room)

 

Chairs:                         Dr. Hironori Arakawa, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, NIMC, Japan

                                    Prof. Carlo A. Bignozzi, Dipartimento di Chimica, Universita di Ferrara, Italy

                                    Dr. Arthur J. Frank, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

 

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells (DSC)

                                    Prof. Sten-Eric Lindquist, Dept. of Physical Chemistry, Univ. of Uppsala, Sweden

 

2:30 PM–5:00 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          A Novel Charge Extraction Method for Characterising Dye-sensitized Nanocrystalline Cells

                                    N.W. Duffy and L.M. Peter

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Univ. of Bath, U.K.

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Charge Separation in Dye Sensitized Nanocrystalline Titania Films and Solar Cells

                                    Y. Tachibana*, S. Haque*, I. Montanari*, U. Bach, J.E. Moser, M. Grätzel, I.V. Rubtsov, K. Yoshihara, D.R. Klug*, and J.R. Durrant*

                                    *Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices, Depts. of Chemistry and Physics, Imperial College, U.K.; Institut de Chimie Physique, Icole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; JAIST, Japan

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          Investigation of the Long-term Stability of Dye-sensitized Solar Cells

                                    R. Kern, J. Ferber, A. Hinsch*, J. Kroon*, A. Meyer T. Meyer, R. Niepmann#, J. van Roosmalen*, C. Schill, I. Uhlendorf#

                                    *Netherlands Energy Research Foundation, The Netherlands; Freiburg Materials Research Center, Germany; Solaronix SA, Switzerland; #Institut für Angewandte Photovoltaik INAP, Germany

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Ultrafast Electron Injection Dynamics in Dye Sensitized Nanocrystalline Semiconductor Thin Films

                                    J.B. Asbury, E. Hao, Y.-Q. Wang, Y. Wang, N. Anderson, K. Hang, and T. Lian

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Emory Univ., USA

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          Molecular-Level, Interfacial, Charge Transfer at Semiconductor Surfaces

                                    G.J. Meyer

                                    Dept. of Chemistry, Johns Hopkins Univ., USA

 

4:40 PM–5:00 PM          Dye Sensitized Solar Cell Using a Porous TiO2 Electrode with Cyanine and Merocyanine Dyes

                                    K. Sayama*, K. Hara*, Y. Ohga, A. Shinpou, S. Suga, S. Tsukagoshi, Y. Abe, and H. Arakawa*

                                    *National Institute of Materials and Chemical Research, Japan; Hayashibara Biochemical Laboratories, Inc., Japan; Facility of Science and Technology, Science Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

 

W8:                              Photocatalysis and Environmental Chemistry (Sinclair/Carroll/Erickson Room)

 

Chairs:                         Prof. Claudio Minero, Dept. Chimica Analitica, Universita di Torino, Italy

                                    Prof. Hiroshi Yoneyama, President, Anan College of Technology, Japan

 

2:00 PM–2:30 PM          Overview Lecture, Overview of Semiconductor Photocatalysis

                                    Prof. Andrew Mills, Dept. of Pure and Applied Chemistry, Univ. of Strathclyde, Glasgow, U.K.

 

2:30 PM–5:00 PM          Oral Presentations:

 

2:30 PM–2:50 PM          On the Mechanism of Visible Light Detoxification of 4-Chlorophenol by Transition Metal Halide Modified Titania

                                    W. Macyk, G. Burgeth, H. Kisch

                                    Institut für Anorganische Chemie der Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

 

2:50 PM–3:10 PM          Photocatalytic Decontamination of Aquatic Systems Using Polyoxometalates. A Comparison with Metal Oxide Particulates

                                    A. Hiskia, A. Mylonas, and E. Papaconstantinou

                                    Institute of Physical Chemistry, NCSR Demokritos, Greece

 

3:10 PM–3:30 PM          Photocatalytic Killing and Total Oxidation of Cells and Spores on Titanium Dioxide Surfaces. Comparing Self-cleaning Rates for Molecules and Microbes

                                    E.J. Wolfrum, J. Huang, Z. Huang, P.-C. Maness, D.M. Blake, S. Smolinski, W.A. Jacoby, J. Davis, and T. Flynn

                                    National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA

 

3:30 PM–4:00 PM          Coffee Break

 

4:00 PM–4:20 PM          Behavior of Active Species Formed on the Surface of Illuminated TiO2 Semiconductor

                                    Y. Nosaka, T. Hirakawa, M. Nakamura, and J. Nishino

                                    Nagaoka Univ. of Technology, Japan

 

4:20 PM–4:40 PM          Preparation of TiO2 Thin Film Photocatalysts Able to Operate under Visible Light Irradiation by the Application of the Ion Engineering Techniques

                                    M. Takeuchi, H. Yamashita, and M. Anpo

                                    Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Osaka Prefecture Univ., Japan

 

4:40 PM–5:00 PM          Preparation of Semiconductors Intercalated in Clays and Their Photocatalytic Properties

                                    I. Dék<ny*, T. Pernyeszi*, K. Mogyor\si*, J. Németh*, J.H. Fendler

                                    *Dept. of Colloid Chemistry, Univ. of Szeged, Hungary; Clarkson Univ., CAMP, USA

 

7:15 PM–9:45 PM          Banquet, Snowmass Conference Center, Ballroom

 

                                   

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4
 
 

 


                                               

 

7:30 AM–8:30 AM          Continental Breakfast, Snowmass Conference Center – Lobby

 

7:00 AM–12:00 PM        Registration, Snowmass Conference Center – First Floor Office

                                    Program Information Desk – First Floor Lobby

 

Program

 

Plenary Lectures

 

8:30 AM–9:50 AM          Dr. Dan Meisel, Notre Dame Radiation Laboratory, USA, Chair

 

8:30 AM–9:10 AM          Prof. Akira Fujishima, Dept. of Applied Chemistry, Univ. of Tokyo, Japan

                                    TiO2 Photocatalysis: Self-cleaning and Air-cleaning Applications

 

9:10 AM–9:50 AM          Prof. Evgueni Savinov, Boreskov Institute of Catalysis, Russia

                                    Gas-Phase TiO2 Photocatalysis. Prospects of Practical Application

 

9:50 AM–10:10 AM        Coffee Break

 

10:10 AM–12:10 PM      Dr. Arthur J. Nozik, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, USA, Chair

 

10:10 AM–10:50 AM      Dr. Mary D. Archer, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, U.K.

                                    Rapporteur

 

10:50 AM–12:00 PM      Open Discussion

 

12:00 PM                      ADJOURN