Andrew Bocarsly

Andrew B. Bocarsly (born April 23, 1954 in Los Angeles ) is an American chemist ( physical chemistry , electrochemistry , photochemistry ) and professor at Princeton University .

Bocarsly received his bachelor's degrees in both physics and chemistry in 1976 from the University of California, Los Angeles . There he worked under John Gladysz with metal vapor synthesis (Metal Vapor Synthesis, MVS). In 1980 he received his doctorate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a dissertation on charge transfer processes in semiconductors. He then became an assistant professor and later professor at Princeton University.

In 2008 he demonstrated the conversion of carbon dioxide into methanol using light energy. In this way, he follows the conversion of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere into industrially usable hydrocarbons (such as alcohols) in a kind of artificial photosynthesis (which he calls Liquid Light Technology).

He researches fuel cells (electrocatalysts for alcohol fuel cells, proton exchange membranes at elevated temperatures), sol-gel processes with cyanogel, metal alloys and nanostructures and with molecular photo-induced multielectron charge transfer processes.

In 2009, he and others founded Liquid Light Inc. in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey , which produces electrochemical organic chemicals from carbon dioxide.

From 1986 to 1988 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . He received the American Chemical Society-Exxon Solid State Chemistry Award.

Fonts (selection)

• with MT Kelly, JKM Chun: A Silicon Sensor for SO2 , Nature, Volume 382, ​​1996, pp 214-215
• with Emily B. Cole, PS Lakkaraju, DM Rampulla, AJ Morris, E. Abelev: Using a One-Electron Shuttle for the Multielectron Reduction of CO2 to Methanol: Kinetic, Mechanistic, and Structural Insights , J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 132, 2010, pp. 11539-11551. PMID 20666494

Web links

• Bocarsly Lab

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lowe, Das Chemiebuch, Librero 2017, p. 512