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报告题目：Supramolecular Architectures for Light Harvesting and Energy Conversion – can we accomplish Artificial Photosynthesis?
报 告 人：Frank Würthner教授（Center for Nanosystems Chemistry & Institut für Organische Chemie, Universität Würzburg）
邀 请 人：马於光 教授
报告时间：2019年3月6日（周三） 下午3:00-5:00
报告地点：北区科技园1号楼发光材料与器件国重N308A报告厅
报告简介：
Natural photosynthesis provides a blueprint for a future technology that may deliver clean energy for a sustainable hydrogen and/or carbon based cycle. In natural photosynthesis various molecular components are properly assembled to accomplish light harvesting, charge separation and catalytic water splitting into hydrogen (NADH) and oxygen. Understanding the operating principles of the natural photosynthetic apparatus and designing artificial counterparts that accomplish the elemental steps of natural photosynthesis are therefore topics of considerable scientific interest [1]. In this lecture I will highlight recent achievements of our laboratory with regard to light harvesting and exciton transport in dye aggregates [2], symmetry-breaking charge separation in perylene bisimide cyclophanes [3] and photo-driven water oxidation by macrocycles bearing three ruthenium centers [4] and ruthenium-functionalized cadmium CdS nanorods [5].
References:
[2] A. Merdasa, À. Jiménez, R. Camacho, M. Meyer, F. Würthner, I. G. Scheblykin, Nano Lett. 2014, 14, 6774–6781.
[3] J. Sung, A. Nowak-Król, F. Schlosser, B. Fimmel, W. Kim, D. Kim, F. Würthner, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2016, 138, 9029–9032.
[4] M. Schulze, V. Kunz, P. D. Frischmann, F. Würthner, Nat. Chem. 2016, 8, 576–583.
[5] C. M. Wolff, P. D. Frischmann, M. Schulze, B. J. Bohn, R. Wein, P. Livadas, M. T. Carlson, F. Jäckel, J. Feldmann, F. Würthner, J. K. Stolarczyk, Nature Energy 2018, 3, 862–869.
报告人简介：
Frank Würthner received his education in Chemistry at the University of Stuttgart (doctoral degree 1994) and carried out postdoctoral research at MIT in Cambridge/MA (USA). After two years at BASF and five years at the University of Ulm (Habilitation in 2001) he became chair professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Würzburg in 2002. Here he has served as head of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, dean of the Chemistry Department and founding director of the Center for Nanosystems Chemistry. His main research interests include the synthesis of pi-conjugated molecules and functional dyes, their application in organic electronics, photonics and photovoltaics, the construction of complex supramolecular architectures composed of pi-scaffolds, the mechanistic elucidation of self-assembly processes, and the investigation of light-induced processes in dye-based nanosystems. He has published more than 400 papers and is listed since 2014 regularly among the highly cited chemists of the last decade. He is an elected member of the German National Academy of Science Leopoldina and the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. His awards include the Arnold-Sommerfeld-Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Science (2002), the Elhuyar-Goldschmidt Award of the Royal Society of Spain (2016) and the Ta-Shue Chou Lectureship Award of Academia Sinica (2018). Since 2016 he is Associate Editor or Organic Chemistry Frontiers.
