Enabling New Functionality by Charge and Energy Transfer

For over 50 years the Gordon Research Conference on Electron Donor Acceptor Interactions (GRC EDAI) has been bringing together scientists from different expertise to present recent highlights of their contributions to the field and discuss the frontiers of charge and energy transfer processes from fundamental understanding to a broad range of applications. A solid understanding of the electron and energy transfer at the fundamental level is instrumental in many photoinduced processes, including natural and artificial photosynthesis, solar energy conversion to fuels by photocatalysis and to electricity by photovoltaics.

The 2024 GRC EDAI will feature the latest cutting-edge developments in the field, as well as explore many new directions with their origins in electron transfer. The conference will encompass a broad range of topics related to electron transfer including electronic and nuclear coherence effects, photon energy up- and down-conversion in a variety of molecular and nanostructured systems, singlet fission, electron transfer related to quantum information science, spin dependent processes, photocatalysis and new photovoltaic materials. The conference will assemble speakers and discussion leaders that represent the world leaders in the field with diverse representations, as well as up-and-coming scientists to discuss the latest developments in a highly interactive and collaborative atmosphere. The conference will facilitate many opportunities for established and young scientists to meet, discuss and develop new connections to expand and enrich their professional networks. The involvement young scientists is paramount in expanding and strengthening the EDAI community and they will be given the opportunity to present their work in a highly engaging poster sessions. Several of the posters will be selected for oral presentations during the conference.