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SUMMARY:Light-driven Fuel Production mediated by Molecular Catalysts
LOCATION:Chemistry A101
TZID:America/Denver
DTSTART:20230419T160000
UID:2026-04-22-00-52-40@natsci.colostate.edu
DTSTAMP:20260422T005240
Description:About the Seminar\n\nUsing solar photons to drive energy intens
 ive reactions that take energy poor feedstocks like water and carbon dioxi
 de into energy rich fuels represents an opportunity to capture and store d
 iffuse solar energy. Molecular catalysts can selectively mediate the multi
 -electron\, multi-proton transformations that convert water and carbon dio
 xide into energy rich fuels but practical technologies that integrate thes
 e complexes with light absorbers have yet to be realized. To address the c
 hallenges limiting the development of solar fuel technologies\, my researc
 h lab is learning (1) how to exploit energy-efficient proton-coupled elect
 ron transfer (PCET) processes for fuel production schemes and (2) how to i
 ntegrate fuel-producing catalysts with photon capturing materials. Through
  this work\, new approaches to efficiently convert solar photons into chem
 ical energy are being developed.\n\nAbout the Speaker\n\nJillian L. Dempse
 y is a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\, and 
 currently holds the Bowman and Gordon Gray Distinguished Term Professorshi
 p. She is currently the Deputy Director of the Center for Hybrid Approache
 s in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE)\, and serves as the Director of 
 Undergrad Studies for the Dept. of Chemistry.\n\nShe received her S.B. fro
 m the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2005 where she worked in th
 e laboratory of Prof. Daniel G. Nocera. As an NSF Graduate Research Fellow
 \, she carried out research with Prof. Harry B. Gray and Dr. Jay R. Winkle
 r at the California Institute of Technology\, receiving her PhD in 2011. F
 rom 2011–2012 she was an NSF ACC Postdoctoral Fellow with Daniel R. Game
 lin at the University of Washington.\n\nIn 2012 she joined the faculty at 
 the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Jillian’s research grou
 p explores charge transfer processes associated with solar fuel production
 \, including proton-coupled electron transfer reactions and electron trans
 fer across interfaces. Her research bridges molecular and materials chemis
 try and relies heavily on methods of physical inorganic chemistry\, includ
 ing transient absorption spectroscopy and electrochemistry. She has receiv
 ed numerous awards including the Harry B. Gray Award for Creative Work in 
 Inorganic Chemistry by a Young Investigator (2019)\, the J. Carlyle Sitter
 son Award for Teaching First-Year Students (2017)\, a Sloan Research Fello
 wship (2016)\, a Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering (2015)\, a
 nd the University Award for Advancement of Women (2021). 4:00 pm
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