The ACS Publications Symposium, Innovation in Energy Conversion will focus on communicating cutting edge chemistry and connecting top researchers around the globe on topics such as surface catalysis in energy conversion, solar cells, solar fuels and energy storage, photocatalytic processes, dynamics on surfaces and interfaces, and advanced energy materials.
Abstract submission for the ACS Publications Symposium, Innovation in Energy Conversion is now open!
Submit your best work by August 21!
 9:00 – 12:00 |
Registration |
| 12:00 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 14:15 |
Opening Ceremony |
| 14:15 – 17:40 |
SESSION 1: Surface Catalysis in Energy Conversion |
| Chair: GEORGE. C. SCHATZ | |
| 14:15 – 15:00 |
Opportunity of Ultrathin 2D Electrocatalysts for Promoting CO2 Reduction |
| 15:00 – 15:30 |
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer in Catalysis and Energy Conversion |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break and Group Photo |
| Chair: PING CHEN | |
| 16:00 – 16:30 |
Selectivity Control in Syngas Conversion |
| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Breakthrough in Syngas Chemistry by Design of Bifunctional Catalysts |
| 17:00 – 17:10 |
SHORT TALK - Formation of the single-atomically active sites on the surface of supported noble metal catalysts and their roles in the C-C coupling of heterogeneous hydroformylation and carbonylation |
| 17:10 – 17:20 |
SHORT TALK - Rational Design of Fe-based Catalysts for Fischer-Tropsch Synthesis from Theoretical Prediction to Experimental Confirmation |
| 17:20 – 17:30 |
SHORT TALK - Copper Incorporation into Iridium for Enhanced Oxygen Electro-catalytic Performances |
| 17:30 – 17:40 |
SHORT TALK - Reaction Kinetics of Methanol Synthesis from CO2 Hydrogenation over Cu Surface |
| 18:10 – 19:10 |
Welcome Dinner, Meet the Speakers and Editors |
| 8:30 – 11:40 |
SESSION 2: Solar Cells, Solar Fuels and Energy Storage |
| Chair: ZHONGQUN TIAN | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 |
Polymer Chromophore-Catalyst Assemblies for Solar Fuels Conversion |
| 9:00 – 9:30 |
Towards Mastering Catalysis for Chemical Energy Storage |
| 9:30 – 10:00 |
Amides and Ammonia as Hydrogen Carriers |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| Chair: JINGLONG YANG | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Ti-Based Anode Materials for Lithium-Ion Batteries |
| 11:00 – 11:10 |
Designing High-performance Nickel Bis (substituteddithiolene) Electrocatalysts for HER: A Computational Study (DL107) |
| 11:10 – 11:20 |
Carbon Dioxide Hydrogenation Catalysts: Design and Application |
| 11:20 – 11:30 |
Photochemistry of Water on TiO2(110) Surface |
| 11:30 – 11:40 |
Large-area, High-efficiency Luminescent Solar Concentrators Based on Engineered Quantum Dots |
| 11:40 – 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 16:40 |
SESSION 3: Photocatalytic Processes |
| Chair: MICHEL CHE | |
| 13:30 – 14:00 |
From Photocatalysis to Photovoltaics: Managing Charge Transfer at Semiconductor Interface |
| 14:00 – 14:30 |
Characteristic Intermediates at Plasmonic Oxygen Evolution from Water |
| 14:30 – 15:00 |
DFT Study on Photo-Catalytic Reactions on Rutile TiO2(110) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| Chair: YI XIE | |
| 15:30 – 16:00 |
Artificial Photosynthesis for Solar Energy Conversion |
| 16:00 – 16:10 |
Photocatalytic Z-Scheme Overall Water Splitting Over Particulate Semiconductors with Wide Visible Light Absorption |
| 16:10 – 16:20 |
Molecular Imprinted Chitosan/TiO2 Composite for Trace Pollutants Removal from Wastewater |
| 16:20 – 16:30 |
3D Hierarchical Porous TiO2/Carbon and ZrO2/Carbon Nanocomposites with Enhanced Solar Photocatalytic Performance |
| 16:30 – 16:40 |
Self-assembled TiO2 Nanosheet/O-g-C3N4 Heterojunction via Title: Covalent Bonding with Enhanced Visible-light Photocatalytic Activity: A Combined Experimental and Theoretical study |
| 17:30 – 18:30 |
Special Evening Lecture |
| 18:30 – 19:30 |
Meet the Speakers & Editors Dinner |
| 19:30 – 21:30 |
Poster Session |
| 8:30 – 11:40 |
SESSION 4: Dynamics on Surfaces and Interfaces |
| Chair: FRANÇOISE M. WINNIK | |
| 8:30 – 9:00 |
CO2 and N2 Reduction: New Directions |
| 9:00 – 9:30 |
Quantum State-Resolved Studies of Gas/Surface Reaction Dynamics by Vibrational Spectroscopies |
| 9:30 – 10:00 |
Probing Photoexcitation of Oxygen Vacancies in TiO2(110) at Atomic Scale |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Coffee Break |
| Chair: XUEMING YANG | |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Single-Molecule Electroluminescence and Beyond |
| 11:00 – 11:10 |
Surface Science Study in Energy and Catalysis Processes Under Two-dimensional Materials |
| 11:10 – 11:20 |
Full dimensional reactive potentials for gas surface reactions: A case study of HCl/Au(111) |
| 11:20 – 11:30 |
Electronic Structure and Dynamics at TiO2 Interfaces |
| 11:30 – 11:40 |
Sintering-induced Phase Transformation of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles: A Molecular Dynamics Study |
| 11:40 – 13:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:30 – 16:15 |
SESSION 5: Advanced Energy Materials |
| Chair: PRASHANT V. KAMAT | |
| 13:30 – 14:15 |
Mechanisms for Sustainable Fuel and Chemical Production from First Principles |
| 14:15 – 14:45 |
Interface Chemistry of Catalytic Materials and Energy Devices |
| 14:45 – 15:15 |
Towards More Sustainable Catalysis: From Co-Assisted Reduction to HCOOH-Mediated Transformation |
| 15:15 – 15:45 |
Coffee Break |
| Chair: YONG CAO/DONGYUAN ZHAO | |
| 15:45 – 16:15 |
Plasmon-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for the Investigation of Energy-Related Surfaces and Interfaces |
| 16:15 – 17:00 |
Panel Discussion |
| 17:00 – 17:15 |
Poster Prize Award Presentation |
| 17:15 – 17:30 |
Closing Ceremony |
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