The SCOTTISH SUMMER SCHOOL ON QUANTUM SOLAR ENERGY
CONVERSION tooke place at the Department of Chemistry, University of Strathclyde,
Glasgow, Scotland, 25-28 July 2001 following on after the conference SP-1
LECTURERS had been:
- Professor Mary Archer
- Dr. James Durrant,
- Professor Akira Fujishima,
- Professor Andrew Mills,
- Professor Laurie Peter, and
- Professor Nick Serpone
Mary Archer is Visiting Professor in the Centre for Energy Policy
and Technology, Imperial College, London, and editor of the four-book series
Photoconversion of Solar Energy, the first volume of which, Clean Energy from
Photovoltaics, was published by Imperial College Press (http://www.icpress.co.uk/) in June 2001.
James Durrant is a Lecturer in the Centre for Electronic Materials and Devices
of the Department of Chemistry of Imperial College, London, with particular interest in
photoinduced electron transfer dynamics.
Akira Fujishima is faculty member of the Department of Applied Chemistry at
the University of Tokyo, and chairman of the 14th International Conference on Photochemical
Conversion and Storage of Solar Energy (IPS-2002), which took place in Hokkaido,
Japan, 4-9 August 2002.
Andrew Mills is Professor of Physical Chemistry in the Department of Pure and
Applied Chemistry at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland, and chairman of the conference
the 1st International Conference on Semiconductor Photoelectrochemistry.
Laurence Peter is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bath, UK.
Nick Serpone is Program Director for Inorganic, Bioinorganic and
Organometallic Chemistry and Program Officer for Physical Chemistry at the US National
National Science Foundation in Arlington, VA, USA and a University Research Professor
at Concordia University in Montreal.
TECHNICAL PROGRAMME
Thursday 26 July morning
| Welcome and introductions | Dr Mary Archer
| Photoelectrochemistry and its place in solar photoconversion | Dr Mary
Archer
| Fundamentals of semiconductor photoelectrochemistry and photocatalysis |
Professor Andrew Mills |
Thursday 26 July afternoon
| The past, present and future of water photoelectrolysis | Professor Akira
Fujishima
| Pinciples of dye-sensitised semiconductor photoelectrochemistry | Dr James
Durrant
| Experimental techniques in semiconductor photoelectrochemistry I
| Professor Laurence Peter
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Friday 27 July morning
| Experimental techniques in semiconductor photoelectrochemistry
II | Professor Laurence Peter
| Commercial applications of semiconductor photoelectrochemistry
| Professor Akira Fujishima
| Photo-Induced Processes in Heterogeneous Nanosystems - From Photoexcitation
to Interfacial Chemical Transformation | Dr Nick Serpone
| Friday 27 July afternoon
| Deleterious effects of solar UV radiation and use of sunscreen products | Dr
Nick Serpone
| The Graetzel cell | Dr James Durrant
| Preparation for problem-solving class | All faculty
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| Saturday 28 July morning
| Problem-solving class | All faculty
| Building a Graetzel cell | Dr James Durrant
| Wrap up | Dr Mary Archer
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