Remarkable advances in the cost, performance, reliability, and deployment of renewable energy presents extraordinary opportunities for chemistry to accelerate our transformation to a clean sustainable energy system.  New understanding, processes and materials are critical to improve existing and develop new technologies for energy conversion, delivery, storage, and use. We will provide an overview of fundamental and applied research at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) focusing on the interconversion of solar, electrical, and chemical energy.  Advances in materials discovery, photovoltaics, solar fuels, hydrogen generation and utilization, carbon dioxide capture/utilization, and energy storage will be presented along with remaining challenges and opportunities.  For example, hydrogen can be pivotal for cross-sector coupling of our energy sectors by linking our electric and chemical economies across electricity, transportation, industry and buildings sectors.  A wide range of applications include electric grid firming/integration and long-term energy storage; transportation and generation of energy-dense fuels; deep electrification of industrial processes; feedstocks/reducing equivalents for chemicals and materials.  Hydrogen can also play a critical role in the capture and conversion of carbon dioxide and other small molecule reactions.

The renewable energy/chemistry nexus: Advances, challenges and opportunities for energy conversion, storage, and utilization

Fall 2022 abstracts, posters, and presentations will launch in mid-September.

ACS Fall 2022

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.