Personalized Energy for 1 (x 6 Billion)

The capture and storage of solar energy at the individual level - personalized solar energy - drives inextricably towards the heart of this energy challenge by addressing the triumvirate of secure, carbon neutral and plentiful energy. Because energy use scales with wealth, point-of-use solar energy will put individuals, in the smallest village in the non-legacy world and in the largest city of the legacy world, on a more level playing field. Moreover, personalized energy (PE) is secure because it is highly distributed and the individual controls the energy on which she/he lives.

Optical Spectroscopy and Dynamics of Nanostructures

Optical microscopy incorporated with spectroscopy is a very powerful approach to study nanostructures. In this talk, I will present a few examples of our recent work in this direction. One is optical characterization of single rare-earth ion doped nanoparticles, which show strong near-infared to visible upconverted photoluminescence. The unique characteristics of these nanoparticles suggest that they could serve as ideal single-molecule probes for bio-imaging. Another is on graphene, a two-dimensional (2D) carbon material and the mother of 1D carbon nanotubes.

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Ligand and Cluster-size Effects in Metal-mediated Activation of Methane: A Cold Approach to a Hot Problem1) Maria Schlangen and Helmut Schwarz Institut für Chemie der Technischen Universität Berlin, 10623 Berlin, Germany, e-mail: Helmut.Schwarz@mail.chem.tu-berlin.de State-of-the-art gas-phase experiments complemented by DFT and electronic structure calculations of mass-selected, electronic ground-state transition-metal complexes provide insight into fundamental aspects of elementary steps involved in the activation and functionalization of methane at ambient temper

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