CNC Lecture by Michael Wasielewski
01.10.2012The 2012/2013 winter semester lecture series of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry will open with Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski of Northwestern University in Evanston with a lecture titled "Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels to Address Global Energy Needs"
Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski will be the plenary speaker in Munich at the opening ceremony of the new Bavarian research network "Solar Technologies Go Hybrid" which funds the Universities in Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nürnberg, Munich, and Würzburg with 50 Million Euros during the next five years. Two days earlier, Prof. Wasielewski will visit the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry (CNC) in Würzburg and presents the recent activities of the Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center (15.10.2012; 17.15 in Lecture Hall C).
Prof. Michael R. Wasielewski is a world-leading photochemist who has been awarded many prizes for his outstanding scientific contributions in the field of photochemical science and in particular artificial photosynthesis. In 2007 Prof. Wasielewski founded ANSER and is the current director. ANSER is a joint research program between the Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University. The center's goal is to develop the fundamental understanding, materials, and methods necessary to create efficient and economically viable technologies for solar fuel and electricity production.
Prof. Wasielewski's research centers on light-driven charge transfer and transport in molecules and self-assembled materials, photosynthesis, nanoscale materials for solar energy conversion, spin dynamics of multi-spin molecules, molecular materials for optoelectronics and spintronics, and time-resolved optical and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The current focus of ANSER, and similarly the CNC in Würzburg, is to develop photosystems for harvesting sunlight and photocatalysts for water splitting.
