DATES: August 20-25, 2006
LOCATION: University of California, Santa Barbara CA 93106 USA

The International Center for Materials Research at the University of California Santa Barbara will host an International Symposium to address materials problems in two major areas of basic research aimed at utilization of hydrogen as a fuel, namely in the production and storage of hydrogen. The program will consist of invited talks presenting overviews and covering the current status of selected areas from forefront research in hydrogen production and storage. All participants are encouraged to submit abstracts for contributed papers. Some of the contributions will be upgraded to oral presentations. Instructions for abstract submission are posted below. Attendance will be limited in order to maximize interaction among participants..

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The following is a list of invited speakers and pdf versions of their lectures:

Tom Autrey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Chemical Hydrides: Amino Boranes

Ping Chen, National University, Singapore
Development of Metal-N-H Systems for Hydrogen Storage

Marcetta Darensbourg, Texas A&M University
Biomimetic Hydrogen Production

Mildred Dresselhaus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Basic Research Needs for the Hydrogen Economy

Michael Graetzel, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Photoelectrochemical Generation of Hydrogen by Solar Photolysis of Water using Low Cost Tandem Cells

Mike Heinekey, University of Washington
Amineboranes for Hydrogen Storage

Michael Henderson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Photocatalysis on TiO2

Puru Jena, Virginia Commonwealth University
Materials for Hydrogen Storage: From Nanostructures to Complex Hydrides

Craig Jensen, University of Hawaii
Catalytically Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Systems

Karl Johnson, University of Pittsburgh
Atomistic Simulation of Hydrogen Storage in Metal Hydrides and Nanoporous Sorbents

Walter Kohn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Remarks on Immediate Energy Challenges

Greg Kubas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Synthesis, Structure, and Bonding Aspects of the Reversible Binding of Dihydrogen to Materials for Hydrogen Storage and Production

Akihiko Kudo, Science University of Tokyo, Japan
Visible-light-driven Photocatalyst Materials for Water Splitting

Ole Martin Lovvik, University of Oslo, Norway
Density-functional Calculations of New Alanates

Eric McFarland, University of California, Santa Barbara
Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Production using Combinatorial Chemistry Derived Materials

Tasios Melis, University of California, Berkeley
Hydrogen Production in Microalgal Cultures

Jens Norskov, Technical University of Denmark
Hydrogen Production and Storage by Catalysis

Guido Pez, Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
Hydrogen Storage and Delivery Using Reversible Liquid Carriers

Frederick Pinkerton, General Motors R&D Center
New Li-B-N-H Quaternary Hydride

Carole Read, US Department of Energy
Overview of Hydrogen Production and Storage Programs at the US Department of Energy

Louis Schlapbach , EMPA, ETH, Switzerland
Hydrogen Storage, a Challenge for Materials Science

John Turner, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Photoelectrochemical Water Systems for H2 Production

John Vohs, University of Pennsylvania
Novel Approaches for the Electrolysis of Water in Solid Oxide Electrolyzers

Eric D. Wachsman, University of Florida
Hydrogen Production with Mixed Protonic-Electronic Conducting Perovskite Membranes

Omar Yaghi, UCLA
Hydrogen Storage in Metalorganic Frameworks

Shengbai Zhang (National Renewable Energy Laboratory)
Hydrogen Storage in Novel Organometallic Buckyballs

In addition to invited lectures, opportunities will also exist for participants to discuss their current research in poster sessions (see abstract submission below).

Organizers:

For further details, please contact the ICMR Program Coordinator, Jennifer Ybarra, at ybarra@icmr.ucsb.edu