Welcome
Welcome 1st Year Graduate Students! Below is our subgroup and group meeting schedule for the semester!
Group Meetings Thursday (9:30am) – Murray/Venable Hall Fishbowl (2nd floor)
Molecules and Excited States Subgroup Tuesday (9 am) – Murray Hall/Venable Fishbowl (2nd floor)
Materials Interfaces Subgroup Wednesday (9 am) – Murray/Venable Hall Fishbowl (2nd floor)
CO to Fuels Pathway CHASE WG Friday (2 pm) – Chase Meeting Space
Welcome to the Gerald Meyer research group website. We are a research group in the Chemistry Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Our research concerns experimental investigations of excited-state transition metal compounds that drive subsequent electron- or energy-transfer reactions in fluid solution and at semiconductor interfaces. In particular we utilize compounds based on Ru, Cu, Co, Pt, Os, and organic compounds anchored to wide band gap semiconductors based on metal oxides such as anatase TiO2, ZrO2, and SnO2. Practical applications include light-to-electrical energy conversion, chemical sensing, and photo-catalysis. The principle tools of this research are synthetic chemistry, spectroscopy, and electrochemistry.
Dr. Meyer heads the Center for Hybrid Approaches to Solar Energy in Liquid Fuels (CHASE). CHASE is a collaborative research hub that works to develop systems that can capture and use solar energy to convert chemical feedstocks into commodity fuels.
