MacArthur '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 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 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 ArticleArtificial photosynthesis steps into the light
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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 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 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 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 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 ArticleArtificial Photosynthesis Could Soon Be Key To Widespread Adoption Of Renweables
Solar and wind power have one thing in common besides being renewable: When the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing, they don’t generate electricity. But artificial photosynthesis may someday...
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 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 ArticleBerkeley Lab’s Major Advance in Artificial Photosynthesis Poses Win/Win for...
(Source: FLC - Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer) A major advance in artificial photosynthesis poses a win/win for the environment - using sequestered CO2 for green chemistry,...
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...
View ArticleCould This Renewable Fuel Kill The EV Market In One Fell Swoop?
U.S. researchers are reporting breakthroughs in artificial photosynthesis that could result in a new source of renewable liquid fuels for cars, ships and planes. Renewable liquid fuels would be a...
View ArticleRemedies to maintain pipeline integrity
Pipeline coating failures can jeopardise pipeline integrity, resulting in leaks and, in some cases, ruptures caused by metal loss and stress corrosion cracking. Jim Banach, Specialty Polymer Coatings,...
View ArticleHow power became portable: An introduction to battery technology
The modern world, in all its grandeur and complexity, runs off a shockingly primal force, one that has been flowing through human bodies long before the first motor was built. Electricity, that same...
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 ArticleTeaming nature and technology for climate solutions
One corner of the Omani desert is blanketed by a type of rock with an unquenchable thirst for a colorless and odorless gas vital to life on Earth. That gas is CO, and when it reacts with peridotite, a...
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