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This Symposium features the scientific legacy of the research of the late Heinz Gerischer who pioneered the field of photoelectrochemistry, photoelectrochemical solar cells and the related interface science. The scope of the meeting encompassed the fundamental aspects of semiconductor electrochemistry, include combined fuel generating systems and address the surface science at these solid-liquid junctions.

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Gerischer also studied a series of photoactive interfaces, providing another emphasis of the Symposium on the development of novel materials and new combinations for various energy conversion. His concept of decomposition potentials directly addresses a main challenge of energy conversion at a reactive interface: stability, which will be a topic of focus as well. Presentations highlighted present advances in surface- and interface science, including in-situ and operando techniques, which allow us new and deepened insight into semiconductors and catalytic processes, especially through the use of soft and tender x-rays at synchrotron.

Accordingly, the Gerischer Today meeting addressed the processes, the materials and the interfaces in photoelectrochemical systems and was broadly open to the interested community. The Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI) in Boulder, Colorado hosted the Symposium and it was co-organized with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the Fritz-Haber-Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) where Prof. Gerischer was affiliated.

An international array of participants and speakers participated in this three day Symposium that begab on the afternoon of August 14, 2018 and ran through to noon on August 16. This conference included a half-day tutorial session, taught by Prof. Lewis, Dr. Spitler, and Prof. Parkinson, on Gerischer electrochemistry, that was held on the morning of August 14.

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Invited Speakers

• Harry Atwater
• Shane Ardo
• Neal Armstrong
• Marcus Baer
• Emily Carter
• Kyoung-Shin Choi
• Ethan Crumlin
• Lars Gundlach
• Thomas Hannappel
• Prashant Kamat
• Nathan Lewis
• Tim Lian
• Arthur Nozik
• Krishnan Rajeshwar
• Yogesh Surendranath
• William Tumas
• Patrick Unwin
• Brandon Wood
• Stephen  Maldonado
• Nathan Neale
• Bruce Parkinson
• James Durrant
• Ian Sharp

Conference Committee

Co-Chairs:

• Joachim Lewerenz
• Arthur J. Nozik
• Mark T. Spitler

Organizing Committee:

• Bruce Parkinson
• Neal Armstrong
• Laurie Peter
• Daniel Esposito
• Shane Ardo
• Steve Maldonado
• Ian Sharp
• Gordana Dukovic
• Kyoung-Shin Choi
• Nathan Neale
• Krishnan Rajeshwar
• Nathan Lewis
• Carl Koval
• Katherine Ayers

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