Stanford designs underwater solar cells that turn captured greenhouse gases...
(Source: Stanford University) Stanford Report, November 18, 2015 Taking a cue from plants, researchers figure out how to use the sun's energy to combine CO2 with H2O to create benign chemical products,...
View ArticleArtificial leaf makes fuel from water
Researchers have successfully developed an artificial leaf which mimics the process of photosynthesis to create fuel using water, carbon dioxide and sunlight. The new system consists of three main...
View ArticleArtificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Fuel Production (California...
(Source: California Institute of Technology) 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...
View ArticleIrish/US underwater solar cell breaks voltage record
A research project involving Irish and US scientists has broken records for the highest voltage yet achieved for a new type of solar cell. It is different from most solar cells in that it can be...
View Articlehow to make fossil fuel substitutes out of sun, water, and carbon dioxide
Electricity is an amazingly useful form of energy. Even better, we know how to generate it without carbon emissions. So step one in the battle to limit climate change is to shift as many energy...
View ArticleStanford researchers find new way of making hydrogen fuel from water and...
(Source: Stanford University) A Stanford University research lab has developed new technologies to tackle two of the world's biggest energy challenges - clean fuel for transportation and grid-scale...
View ArticleBreakthrough solar cell captures CO2 and sunlight, produces burnable fuel...
(Source: University of Illinois at Chicago) Simulated sunlight powers a solar cell that converts atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into syngas. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago...
View ArticleHyperSolar Reaches Another Milestone Towards Commercially Viable...
(Source: HyperSolar Inc) Company's research team nearly triples photocurrents in novel solar cell to achieve high efficiency in splitting water molecules for hydrogen production SANTA BARBARA, CA -...
View ArticleResearchers Peel Back Another Layer of Chemistry with ‘Tender’ X-rays...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Berkeley Lab's Ethan Crumlin, working with other researchers, found a new way to study chemical processes at work in batteries and in other chemical...
View ArticleNRL Issued Patent for Solar Microbial Fuel Cell
(WASHINGTON • Date xx, 2017) - The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Center for Biomolecular Science and Engineering, has received a U.S. patent for a self-assembling, self-repairing, and...
View ArticleResearchers develop artificial leaf that turns CO2 and sunlight into fuel
--> Fri, 29 Jul 2016-07:20pm , Washington , PTI The leaf acts like it's natural counterpart, turning carbon dioxide into a hydrocarbon fuel. Scientists have developed "artificial leaves" -...
View ArticleSolar-to-Fuel System Recycles CO2 to Make Ethanol and Ethylene
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have harnessed the power of photosynthesis to convert carbon dioxide into fuels and alcohols at...
View ArticleMajor Advance in New Solar Cell Materials Achieved by BGU Researchers and...
(Source: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) A tri-national team (Singapore-Israel-Switzerland) that includes two BGU professors has reported a major advance in the physics of perovskite solar cells...
View ArticleMore Solar Power Thanks to Titanium: Modification of a hematite photoanode by...
Earth-abundant, cheap metals are promising photocatalytic electrode materials in artificial photosynthesis. A team of Chinese scientists now reports that a thin layer of titania beneath hematite...
View ArticleAnother Milestone in Hybrid Artificial Photosynthesis (Lawrence Berkeley...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)'s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) developing a bioinorganic hybrid...
View ArticleThis Artificial "Leaf" Can Produce Fuels From Carbon Dioxide And Sunlight
Researchers say they have developed an artificial "leaf” that can produce fuels such as methane and gasoline from carbon dioxide. The team claimed it is a major step towards using fuels made renewably...
View ArticleCornell scientists convert carbon dioxide, create electricity (Cornell...
(Source: Cornell University) ITHACA, N.Y. - While the human race will always leave its carbon footprint on the Earth, it must continue to find ways to lessen the impact of its fossil fuel consumption....
View ArticleHyperSolar Releases Video Demonstration of Renewable Hydrogen Production
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 07, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCQB:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water,...
View ArticleThe invention of a bionic leaf that produces liquid fuel could help...
Scientists at Harvard University have invented a leaf that can produce a renewable source of energy. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">...
View ArticleArtificial photosynthesis system may lead to greener plastics
Singapore: Scientists have developed a device that mimics photosynthesis and uses sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce ethylene gas – a key chemical used in large quantities for manufacturing...
View ArticleCopper Catalyst Yields High Efficiency CO2-to-Fuels Conversion
Scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a new electrocatalyst that can directly convert carbon dioxide into multicarbon fuels and...
View ArticleAussie ‘Artificial Leaf’ Breakthrough Boosts Hopes Of Global Carbon Relief
Researchers at Monash University have published a breakthrough paper detailing their success in creating hydrogen and oxygen from water and sunlight in a process which artificially mimics...
View ArticleMimicking photosynthesis
Artificial photosynthetic systems could potentially provide us with a relatively inexpensive supply of clean energy. REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE Energy seems to be the number one global priority of our times....
View ArticleHyperSolar Announces Breakthrough Catalyst Needed for Splitting Water to...
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., May 09, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCQB:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to produce renewable hydrogen using sunlight and any source of water,...
View ArticleScientists mimic photosynthesis to produce ethylene
Scientists have developed a prototype device that mimics natural photosynthesis to produce ethylene gas using only sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. NUS research team The advance from the National...
View ArticleConverting carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide using water, electricity
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis have determined how electrocatalysts can convert carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide using water...
View ArticleThe entrepreneurs turning carbon dioxide into fuels
The race is on to prove that CO2 can be taken from the air and recycled into profitable, carbon neutral fuels. But cost and investment obstacles remain...
View ArticleWATCH: Here's how artificial photosynthesis can turn carbon dioxide into...
Scientists have found a way to trigger artificial photosynthesis, turning greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide into clean air and producing energy at the same time. "This work is a breakthrough,"...
View ArticleCarbon dioxide may soon be used to make fuel
A newly developed, solar powered “leaf” mimics photosynthesis, converting CO2 into fuel. Carbon dioxide is one of the main culprits of climate change, dramatically warming the Earth as it accumulates...
View ArticleFor platinum catalysts, a tiny squeeze gives a big boost in performance,...
(Source: Stanford University) A nanosize squeeze can significantly boost the performance of platinum catalysts that help generate energy in fuel cells, according to a new study by Stanford scientists....
View ArticleNew Hybrid Fuel Cell Made From E. Coli, Gold, And Titanium
Escherichia coli (E. coli) is not something anyone wants to come into contact with; after all, this bacteria is responsible for fairly potent, sometimes dangerous, food poisoning. A team of researchers...
View ArticleMacArthur 'genius' grant winner creates artificial leaves that photosynthesize
It took nature millions of years to figure out how to turn energy from the sun into chemical energy that can be stored for a cloudy day - a process known as photosynthesis. It took Peidong Yang, a...
View ArticleStanford engineers set record for capturing and storing solar energy in...
(Source: McPhy Energy SA) Solar energy has the potential to provide abundant power, but only if scientists solve two key issues: storing the energy for use at all hours, particularly at night, and...
View ArticleIt Takes a Real Genius to Fake Photosynthesis
By Don Willlmott Brace yourself for some breathtaking botany. A group of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are hard at work trying to perfect a process...
View Article'Synthetic' Leaves: The Energy Plants of the Future? (Kavli Roundtable)
Alan Brown, writer and blogger for The Kavli Foundation contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Imagine using plants to grow the natural gas that heats homes and...
View ArticleUCF Invents Way to Trigger Artificial Photosynthesis to Clear Air, Produce...
A chemistry professor in Florida 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 same...
View ArticleStanford engineers set record for capturing and storing solar energy in...
(Source: Stanford University) Solar energy has the potential to provide abundant power, but only if scientists solve two key issues: storing the energy for use at all hours, particularly at night, and...
View ArticleNew Discovery Could Better Predict How Semiconductors Weather Abuse (Lawrence...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Mimicking nature is not easy, but new insights by researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) could...
View ArticleSolar Cells Get Boost with Integration of Water-Splitting Catalyst onto...
(Source: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Scientists have found a way to engineer the atomic-scale chemical properties of a water-splitting catalyst for integration with a solar cell, and the...
View ArticleArtificial photosynthesis steps into the light
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View ArticleNew catalyst promotes artificial photosynthesis
Scientists have created an oxygen-evolution catalyst that combines with semiconductors for solar water splitting, an advance that assists the conversion of solar energy to chemical energy in the form...
View ArticleDid UIC just save the world? (University of Illinois at Chicago)
(Source: University of Illinois at Chicago) Civilizations are powered by the burning of fossil fuels. Humans are adding tons of carbon dioxide to the Earth's atmosphere, causing climate change and...
View ArticleNew artificial leaf creates fuel using CO2, sunlight
Scientists have developed "artificial leaves" - potentially game-changing solar cells that cheaply and efficiently convert atmospheric carbon dioxide directly into usable hydrocarbon fuel using...
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