Katharine J. Covert
CHE Division of Chemistry
MPS Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
Start Date:
September 1, 2005
Expires:
August 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:
$1500000
Investigator(s):
Harry Gray hbgray@caltech.edu (Principal Investigator)
Nathan Lewis (Co-Principal Investigator) Daniel Nocera (Co-Principal Investigator) Christopher Cummins (Co-Principal Investigator) Jonas Peters (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:
California Institute of Technology
1200 E California Blvd
PASADENA, CA 91125 626/395-6073
NSF Program(s):
CHEMISTRY PROJECTS, OFFICE OF MULTIDISCIPLINARY AC
Field Application(s):
Program Reference Code(s):
AMPP, 9162, 7237, 1523
Program Element Code(s):
1991, 1253
ABSTRACT
With this Chemical Bonding Center (CBC) Phase I, Step II award, the Division of Chemistry and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate jointly support the research of Harry B. Gray, of the California Institute of Technology, who will lead a collaborative effort involving researchers from Caltech and MIT. This CBC will address one of the most important scientific challenges of the 21st century - the efficient, and ultimately economical, storage of solar energy in the form of chemical bonds. The focus of this research will be on the use of sunlight to split water into its higher energy building blocks: hydrogen and oxygen. This CBC seeks to provide the basic science needed to permit future generations to use sunlight as a renewable and environmentally benign energy source. The research will have a broad impact on society in the science that it produces, and also on the students, professionals and public that it educates. National and international energy policies depend on the outcome of these studies. Raising public awareness of the importance of the renewable energy problem and the nature of the scientific challenges required to address it will be a priority of this CBC.
Chemical Bonding Centers are designed to focus innovative collaborative efforts that address a "big problem" which will lead to a major advance in chemistry or at the interface of chemistry and other sciences and will have the potential to attract broad scientific and public interest.
PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH
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Betley, TA; Surendranath, Y; Childress, MV; Alliger, GE; Fu, R; Cummins, CC; Nocera, DG.
"A ligand field chemistry of oxygen generation by the oxygen-evolving complex and synthetic active sites,"
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES,
v.363,
2008,
p. 1293
- 1303.
Betley, TA; Wu, Q; Van Voorhis, T; Nocera, DG.
"Electronic design criteria for O-O bond formation via metal-oxo complexes,"
INORGANIC CHEMISTRY,
v.47,
2008,
p. 1849
- 1861.
Crabtree, G. W.; Lewis, N. S..
"Solar Energy Conversion,"
Physics Today,
v.60,
2007,
p. 37.
Gross, Z.; Gray, H. B..
"How Do Corroles Stabilize High Valent Metals?,"
Comments on Inorganic Chemistry,
v.27,
2006,
p. 61.
Hu, X.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Peters, J. C.,.
"Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution at Low Overpotentials by Cobalt Macrocyclic Glyoxime and Tetra-Imine Complexes.,"
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,
v.129,
2007,
p. 8988.
Hu, XL; Cossairt, BM; Brunschwig, BS; Lewis, NS; Peters, JC.
"Electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution by cobalt difluoroboryl-diglyoximate complexes,"
CHEMICAL COMMUNICATIONS,
2005,
p. 4723
- 4725.
Hummel, P.; Halpern-Manners, N. W.; Gray, H. B..
"Electronic Excited States of Tetracyanonickelate(II),"
Inorganic Chemistry 2006, 45, (18), 7397-7400,
v.45,
2006,
p. 7397.
Hummel, P.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B..
"Electronic Structures of Trans-Dioxometal Complexes.,"
Dalton Transactions,
2006,
p. 168.
Lewis, N. S..
"Toward Cost-Effective Solar Energy Use.,"
Science,
v.315,
2007,
p. 798.
Lewis, N. S.; Nocera, D. G..
"Powering the Planet: Chemical Challenges in Solar Energy Utilization,"
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America\,
v.103,
2006,
p. 15729.
Lewis, NS.
"Powering the planet,"
MRS BULLETIN,
v.32,
2007,
p. 808
- 820.
Liu, S. Y.; Soper, J. D.; Yang, J. Y.; Rybak-Akimova, E. V.; Nocera, D. G..
"Mechanistic Studies of Hangman Salophen-Mediated Activation of O-O Bonds.,"
Inorganic Chemistry,
v.45,
2006,
p. 7572.
Mayo, E. I.; Kilsa, K.; Tirrell, T.; Djurovich, P. I.; Tamayo, A.; Thompson, M. E.; Lewis, N. S.; Gray, H. B.,.
"Cyclometalated Iridium(III)-Sensitized Titanium Dioxide Solar Cells.,"
Photochemical & Photobiological Sciences,
v.5,
2006,
p. 871.
Nocera, D. G..
"On the Future of Global Energy,"
Daedalus,
2006,
p. 135.
Walker, D.; Chappel, S.; Mahammed, A.; Brunschwig, B. S.; Winkler, J. R.; Gray, H. B.; Zaban, A.; Gross, Z..
"Corrole-Sensitized Tio2 Solar Cells,"
Journal of Porphyrins and Phthalocyanines,
v.10,
2006,
p. 1259.
Yang, J. Y.; Bachmann, J.; Nocera, D. G..
"Hangman Salen Platforms Containing Two Xanthene Scaffolds,"
Journal of Organic Chemistry,
v.71,
2006,
p. 8706.
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