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The Centre for Advanced Solar Materials is dedicated to solving issues that are central to solar energy conversion and storage. Building on our leading expertise in chemistry and materials science, we are designing novel materials to convert sunlight to electricity and fuels.

Our fundamentally new approaches to materials design hold enormous potential for generating low-cost photovoltaic technologies. We are also unraveling methods to store this solar electricity as clean high-density fuels, such as hydrogen. Solutions to these issues demand a comprehensive interdisciplinary approach spanning materials design and synthesis, nanotechnology, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry - skills that are at the core of our collective research team.

The Centre is housed within the Faculty of Science at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Calgary is Canada’s energy hub, and is situated on the doorstep to the majestic Rocky Mountains.

News and Announcements

June 2011

• Thomas Baumgartner is one of the four Canadian recipients of a JSPS invitation fellowship (nomination through NSERC) allowing him to present his research at several Japanese universities.


• Paolo Bomben and Kiyoshi Robson (Berlinguette group) will be attending the 2011 ACS Summer School on Green Chemistry and Sustainable Energy in Montreal.


• Richard Burford and Susie Reigel (Piers group) were awarded first and second prizes, respectively, for their poster presentations at the 94th Canadian Society for Chemistry Conference in Montreal:

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Energy Futures Symposium

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Seminar Series

We welcome the following solar experts to the University of Calgary as part of our 2011-2012 series.

• Oct. 7, 2011: Prof. Daniel Gamelin, University of Washington
• Nov 18, 2011: Prof. Steve Holdcroft, Simon Fraser University
• Feb 10, 2012: Prof. Jonas Peters, Caltech
• Mar 30, 2012: Prof. Jeffrey Long, University of California - Berkeley
• 2012 Canada Society for Chemistry National Meeting, Calgary, Alberta, May 26-30, 2012 | Energy Futures Symposium

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