Since its inception in 2009, the Energy Frontier Research Center: Center for Solar Fuels at UNC-Chapel Hill has taken an international lead in artificially using sunlight to convert carbon dioxide to oxygen with the goal of using that sunlight to make solar fuels — hydrogen from water, carbon fuels from carbon dioxide — to power homes and businesses globally.
On Oct. 15 and 16, UNC will host its sixth annual conference on solar fuels, “Building the Dye-Sensitized Solar Fuel Device,” at the William and Ida Friday Center in Chapel Hill featuring renowned scientists from UNC, Duke, NC State and nationally to discuss the frontiers of solar energy research. Further information is available at www.serc.unc.edu/conf.
Led by Tom Meyer, Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences, the Center has attracted $33 million in research funding and has taken a national leadership role with workshops, conferences, symposia and public outreach forums with political and industry leaders.
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