Solar energy conversion remains one of the most important scientific challenges. The overall solar-toelectricity and solar-to-fuel conversion processes involve many elementary steps, such as exciton dynamics, energy transfer, electron transfer, charge transport, and multi-electron, multi-proton chemical reactions. Fundamental understanding of these processes is essential to the design and improvement of existing solar energy conversion devices, as well as to the development of new and revolutionary concepts. Many of these processes occur in novel molecular assemblies, nano-structures, and hybrid materials. Their understanding will require state-of-the art experimental and theoretical tools in physical chemistry. This symposium will bring together experimental and theoretical physical chemists who are investigating various fundamental processes involved in solar energy conversion. It will provide a forum for discussing the latest scientific discovery and showcase various solar-energy conversion related physical chemistry research areas.

Physical chemistry of solar energy conversion

246th National Meeting (2013)

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