The Arnold C. 奥特化学讲座是由布朗博士慷慨捐赠的. Arnold C. Ott and Marion Ott. Dr. Ott received his Ph.D. in 1943 from Michigan State University in Chemistry/Physics/Bacteriology and is a leading chemist and entrepreneur in West Michigan. He is one of the co-founders of 大峡谷州立大学 and served on the GVSU Board of Trustees for 28 years.

Dr. Daniel Nocera

帕特森洛克伍德能源教授

Harvard University

Community Lecture  2023年9月28日星期四下午6:00 - 7:00 

Russel H. Kirkhof Center, Room 2250 Grand River Room (Parking available in Lots H2 and H4)

全球能源挑战

Chemistry Seminar  2023年9月29日(星期五)下午1时至2时 

Russel H. Kirkhof Center, Room 2204 Pere Marquette Room (Parking available in Lots H2 and H4)

食物和燃料来自稀薄的空气，任何水和太阳

Community Lecture   全球能源挑战

健康地生活在一个垂死的星球上——我们是一个失去平衡的世界. Relying on science to improve the health of the individual with the design of new drugs and therapies, 我们在全球范围内忽视了人类的健康. Disease indeed does compromise humankind’s very existence … but it is not disease inflicted on humans … rather it is the disease inflicted by humans on our planet and the response of her immunological system on us. Climate change continues to outpace the implementation of renewable energy at an alarming rate. 应对全球能源挑战, research discovery confronts two worlds: a world with a large energy infrastructure already in place (the legacy world) and a world with little to no energy infrastructure (the nonlegacy world). Consequently, 应对能源挑战, research must be cognizant of these two different energy worlds as they give rise to different targets. In the legacy world, the fastest path to implementing renewable energy is to integrate discovery with the established infrastructure. 本讲座将涉及到配位化学液流电池的创建, 这允许大规模的电网存储, 并将介绍从实验到商业化的路径. 在频谱的另一端是非遗留世界. As will be shown, it is the non-legacy world that will drive future global energy need. Thus, this is the most important target for renewable energy to mitigate global carbon emissions. 将展示两项发明:人工叶子和仿生叶子, which produce food and fuel in a distributed and sustainable way using only sunlight, air and water. 这些发现对世界上的穷人特别有用, 大型基础设施无法维持的地方.

Chemistry Seminar  食物和燃料来自稀薄的空气，任何水和太阳

混合生物/无机(HBI)结构被创造出来利用阳光, air and water as the only starting materials to accomplish carbon and nitrogen fixation, enabling the establishment of distributed and renewable Fischer-Tropsch and Haber Bosch cycles. 碳和氮的固定循环从人造叶开始, which was invented to accomplish the solar fuels process of natural photosynthesis—the splitting of water to hydrogen and oxygen using sunlight—under ambient conditions. The hydrogen from the Artificial Leaf may be interfaced with engineered organisms to power the Bionic Leaf-C and Bionic Leaf-N to convert carbon dioxide and nitrogen from air into liquid fuels and ammonia, respectively. The Bionic Leaf-C performs an artificial photosynthesis that is 10-100 times more efficient than the best of natural photosynthesis, with CO₂到燃料产品，除了生物质. The Bionic-Leaf N is a living biofertilizer that can replace chemical fertilizer; it will be shown for a 400-acre farm, the budget saving of carbon dioxide 154 metric tons while enhancing crop yields with no run-off that is responsible for harmful algal blooms. 将介绍支撑人工叶子和仿生叶子的科学. 这些创新在哪里有用? 认识到全球社会中服务不足的人群, 没有大型能源基础设施, 到本世纪中叶会在很大程度上推动气候变化吗, these discoveries are particularly impactful on developing the science that underpins the implementation of distributed energy systems and processes for the poor of the world, 在燃料和粮食生产的大型基础设施无法维持的地方.

Daniel G. Nocera 是哈佛大学的帕特森洛克伍德能源教授. 诺切拉因在可再生能源方面的发现而受到认可, originating new paradigms that have defined the field of solar energy conversion and storage. Nocera created the field of proton coupled electron transfer (PCET) at a mechanistic level by making the first measurement that allowed an electron and proton to be timed. 在这个实验基础上，他提出了第一个PCET理论. 在这个框架内, 他是人造叶子和仿生叶子的发明者, discoveries set the stage for the large-scale deployment of distributed solar energy for fuels and food production. 补充了他对太阳能转换的兴趣, Nocera开创了PCET在自由基酶学中的应用, explored photo-/electro- redox catalysis mechanisms for applications in organic synthesis, and designed layered antiferromagnets to explore exotic states arising from highly correlated spins, 在kagom晶格上创造自旋1 / 2量子自旋液体, 这是凝聚态物理学界寻求已久的奖项. His group has also created nanocrystal sensors for the metabolic profiling of tumors, 临床医生用于开发新的癌症药物疗法的技术. 化学领域, 诺塞拉发明了分子标记测速仪来同时测定, 高度三维湍流的多点速度测量. This fluid physics technique has been employed by the engineering community to solve long-standing and important problems that had previously escaped characterization.

Nocera被授予利·安·康恩可再生能源奖, Eni Prize, IAPS Award, Burghausen Prize, Elizabeth Wood Award and the United Nation’s Science and Technology Award for his discoveries in renewable energy. On this topic, 他还获得了无机化学学士学位, Harrison Howe, 美国化学学会颁发的Remsen和Kosolapoff奖. 他获得了哈佛大学的荣誉学位, 密歇根州立大学和克里特岛大学. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the U.S. 国家科学院和印度科学院, 他是英国皇家化学学会的会员. He was named as 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time Magazine and was 11th on the New Statesman’s list on the same topic. 他是电视、广播的常客，并定期在报刊上发表文章. 他在莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥的电影中的最新作品, “Ice on Fire” premiered at Cannes Film Festival in May 2019 and was released internationally in June 2019.

诺塞拉在密歇根州立大学开始了他的职业生涯, where he was a University Distinguished Professor and then in 1997 joined the faculty of MIT where he was the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy. Nocera已经指导了182名博士.D. 研究生和博士后, 其中82人担任教职, 发表论文500余篇, 受邀演讲1100余次，担任讲师138次. Nocera创立了Sun Catalytix, a company committed to developing energy storage technologies for the widespread implementation of renewable energy; the coordination chemistry flow battery technology invented by Sun Catalytix is now commercialized by Lockheed Martin under the venture, GridStar Flow and allows for large grid scale storage for the widespread adoption of renewable electricity. 诺塞拉创立的第二家公司, Kula Bio, is focused on the development of a living biofertilizer for renewable and distributed crop production and land restoration.

Vernon Ehlers, Ph.D.
U.S. Congress

Michael D. Parker, M.B.A.
Dow Chemical Company

Carl Djerassi, Ph.D.
Stanford University

Robin D. Rogers, Ph.D.
University of Alabama

Virginia W. Cornish, Ph.D.
Columbia University

Richard N. Zare, Ph.D.
Stanford University

Thomas H. Lane, Ph.D.
道康宁公司

Chad A. Mirkin, Ph.D.
西北大学

Gregory A. Petsko, Ph.D.
Brandeis University

Harry B. Gray, Ph.D.
加州理工学院

Gary M. Hieftje, Ph.D.
Indiana University

罗德里克·麦金农，m.m.D.
诺贝尔化学奖得主
洛克菲勒大学

Kevan Shokat, Ph.D.
加州大学旧金山分校

Ada Yonath, Ph.D.
诺贝尔化学奖得主
魏茨曼科学研究所

W. Carl Lineberger, Ph.D.
科罗拉多大学博尔德分校

Richmond Sarpong, Ph.D.
加州大学伯克利分校

Jeffrey Moore, Ph.D.
伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校

Wilson Ho, Ph.D.
加州大学欧文分校

杰拉尔丁·里士满博士.D.
University of Oregon

Sara E. Skrabalak, Ph.D.
Indiana University

Thomas J. Meyer, Ph.D.
北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校

Brian K. Shoichet, Ph.D.
加州大学旧金山分校

Daniel M. Neumark, Ph.D.
加州大学伯克利分校

Stephen L. Buchwald, Ph.D.
麻省理工学院

Melanie Sanford, Ph.D.
密歇根大学

Karen Trentelman, Ph.D.
盖蒂保护研究所

Anne McNeil, Ph.D.
密歇根大学

Tom Guarr, Ph.D.
密歇根州立大学生物经济研究所