Frontiers in Photon-Driven Fuel Production

Capture, conversion, and storage of solar energy in the form of chemical feedstocks has enormous potential to revolutionize the energy sector. Achievements in artificial photosynthesis will disrupt our global energy portfolio and reduce our dependence on fossil fuel resources, and in turn, mitigate CO2 emissions. Great progress has been made in this field since the first Gordon Research Conference in this series “Renewable Energy: Solar Fuels” in 2007, both in fundamental and applied research, but the potential of artificial photosynthesis is far from realized. The 2024 GRC will explore recent frontier advances in this field, with a focus on key scientific issues related to efficient solar to chemical energy conversion. The state of the art in designing efficient light absorbers, catalysts, integrated systems, will be featured, along with advances in mechanistic understanding of the science behind all these components.

The conference will provide a venue for both emerging and established investigators to explore these themes in a collegial and engaging scientific environment. Participants, including students and postdocs, are encouraged to present their results in poster sessions, with some posters selected for short talks. This conference, with programmed discussion sessions and informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, provides a unique international forum in which the academic and industrial scientists can exchange ideas to advance the field of renewable energy.