Harry Gray
Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel
Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Beckman Auditorium
FREE; no tickets or reservations required
Presented By: | Caltech Committee on Institute Programs |
Many research groups are trying to find efficient and economical ways of storing solar energy in chemical bonds. A major goal is to split water into its elemental components — hydrogen and oxygen — using solar-driven molecular machines that are designed to be even more efficient than natural photosynthesis. Great progress toward this goal has been made recently in work at Caltech on nanoscale water-splitting devices built from Earth-abundant elements.
Harry B. Gray is Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry and Founding Director of the Beckman Institute at Caltech.
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