Gerald J. Meyer is an active researcher and the Arey Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at the

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. He was previously the Bernard N. Baker Chair In Chemistry at

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. His research interests include inorganic

photochemistry Photochemistry is the branch of chemistry concerned with the chemical effects of light. Generally, this term is used to describe a chemical reaction caused by absorption of ultraviolet (wavelength from 100 to 400 Nanometre, nm), visible ligh ...

with emphasis on solar energy, using interfacial electron transfer processes and dye-sensitized solar cells.

Education

Meyer earned a B.S. in chemistry from the

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in 1985. In 1989 he earned his Ph.D. in chemistry at the

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, where he worked with Arthur B. Ellis. From 1989-1991, he did postdoctoral work at the

with Thomas J. Meyer.

Career

In 1991, Meyer joined

. Meyer was a director of the

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Collaborative Research Activities in Environmental Science Center (CRAEMS) from 2002-2007. Meyer held the Bernard N. Baker Chair In Chemistry at

from 2009 to 2013, and served as chairman of the chemistry department at Johns Hopkins University from 2011 to 2013. As of January 2014, he became professor in chemistry at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the director of the University of North Carolina's Center for Solar Fuels (UNC EFRC), an

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funded by the

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. He has served on the editorial advisory boards of the

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journals '' Langmuir'', ''

Inorganic Chemistry Inorganic chemistry deals with chemical synthesis, synthesis and behavior of inorganic compound, inorganic and organometallic chemistry, organometallic compounds. This field covers chemical compounds that are not carbon-based, which are the subj ...

'', ''

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''. He is the associate editor of ''

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'' (introduced in 2008) and the Deputy Editor of ''ACS Applied Energy Materials'' (introduced in 2018).

Patents

* Chemical Sensing with Photoluminescent Semiconductor Materials. Meyer, G.J.; Lisensky, G.C.; Ellis, A.B. Serial No. 4,752,588. issued 1988. * Solar Cells Incorporating Light Harvesting Arrays. Meyer, G.J.; Lindsey, J.S. Serial No. 6,596,935 issued 2003.

References

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