The purpose of the symposium is to discuss progress and perspectives of the light-driven generation of hydrogen from water, which can be envisioned by formulation and construction of a multi-component organic/inorganic network, comprising light harvesting, charge transporting, and catalytic units. The symposium will cover ongoing research on different aspects of molecular, supramolecular, semiconductor, and hybrid systems. The development of a light-driven system that would accomplish the hydrogen generation from water splitting using a large portion of the solar spectrum in a cost efficient way would be a major advance in energy production and the critical break-through in moving the hydrogen economy toward reality.
The topics are listed below;
(1) Framework design and synthesis that allow organization of the active units; light harvesting, charge transporting, catalytic cores.
(2) The synthesis of new semiconductor nanocrystals containing p-n homo- and hetero-jucnctions and their study for light-driven charge separation.
(3) The development of novel methods for compartmentalizing oxidizing and reducing sites by nanostructure design and the development of nanoscale pore architectures that control reaction intermediates to hydrogen generation.
(4) The design, synthesis, and study of efficient, high-turnover catalysts for the splitting of water and the production of hydrogen.
(5) The design better interfacial catalysts for hydrogen generation from water splitting particularly in surface-bound and colloidal catalysts.
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