Driving Critical Chemical Transformations with
Photons, Electrons, and Catalysts
June 16-17, 2025
Kavli Auditorium
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Overview
SLAC is hosting a workshop Driving critical chemical transformations with photons, electrons, and catalysts. The workshop will identify key approaches and opportunities to breathe new life into the structure-function paradigm foundational to the understanding of chemistry. We are looking to identify novel approaches to advances the following goals:
- Determine how catalyst structural properties dictate reactivity with a specific focus on methods capable of characterizing structural and dynamic heterogeneity of many chemical systems.
- Discover principles and mechanisms for controlling excited state potentials and directing non-equilibrium trajectories towards desired chemical outcomes.
- Use spatially and temporally structured energy sources to control reaction outcomes, such as the product distributions of multistep chemical transformations.
We expect operando measurements, multi-scale modeling and simulation, high throughput and automated research methods, and advanced data science to be central to how we advance these research themes.
Register by June 10th, 2025
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