Chemists at the University of Illinois have successfully produced fuels using water, carbon dioxide and visible light through artificial photosynthesis. By converting carbon dioxid... Read more
Solar-powered water splitting is a promising means of generating clean and storable energy. A novel catalyst based on semiconductor nanoparticles has now been shown to facilitate a... Read more
A new, stable artificial photosynthesis device doubles the efficiency of harnessing sunlight to break apart both fresh and salt water, generating hydrogen that can then be used in... Read more
A new catalyst created by U of T Engineering researchers brings them one step closer to artificial photosynthesis — a system that, just like plants, would use renewable energy to c... Read more
A chemistry professor has just found a way to trigger the process of photosynthesis in a synthetic material, turning greenhouse gases into clean air and producing energy all at the... Read more
Berkeley Lab approach could lead to more stable, efficient artificial photosystems Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting... Read more
Researchers create the first practical design for photoelectrochemical water splitting Scientists from Forschungszentrum Jülich have developed the first complete and compact design... Read more
New system surpasses efficiency of photosynthesis The days of drilling into the ground in the search for fuel may be numbered, because if Daniel Nocera has his way, it’ll just be a... Read more
An international team has now succeeded in considerably increasing the efficiency for direct solar water splitting. They are using a tandem solar cell whose surfaces have been sele... Read more
By combining semiconducting nanowires and bacteria, researchers can now produce liquid fuel. Three pioneers in the field of synthetic photosynthesis discuss the potential of this t... Read more
Generating and storing renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean-energy economy. When the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) was est... Read more
Berkeley Lab Researchers Use Solar Energy and Renewable Hydrogen to Produce Methane A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Labora... Read more
The global industrial sector accounts for more than half of the total energy used every year. Now scientists are inventing a new artificial photosynthetic system that could one day... Read more
Berkeley Lab Researchers Perform Solar-powered Green Chemistry with Captured CO2 A potentially game-changing breakthrough in artificial photosynthesis has been achieved with the de... Read more
“We’re almost at a 1 percent efficiency rate of converting sunlight into isopropanol,” Nocera said. “There have been 2.6 billion years of evolution, and Pam and I working together... Read more
