At the heart of JCAP's artificial-leaf design are two electrodes immersed in an aqueous solution. Typically, each electrode is made of a semiconductor material chosen to capture light energy from ...

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have turned to Mother Nature for inspiration, inventing a device that mimics photosynthesis, the process plants use to convert sunlight and ...

Turbo-charging photosynthesis - by which plants and bacteria turn sunlight into food and energy - in an "artificial leaf" could yield a vast commercial power source, scientists said. Photosynthesis is ...

Scientists have created an artificial leaf that turns CO₂ into fuel using sunlight and industrial waste. A real breakthrough ...

Back in 2011, scientists reported the creation of the “world’s first practical artificial leaf” that mimics the ability of real leaves to produce energy from sunlight and water. Touted as a ...

An artificial "leaf" that collects energy in much the same way as a natural one could provide a day's worth of power for homes without access to an electricity grid. The leaf, a silicon-based ...

The new artificial leaf combines flexible solar-powered electrodes ... the fundamental problem of angular dependence in solar ...

Nocera, who is the Patterson Rockwood Professor of Energy at Harvard University, explained that the artificial leaf likely would find its first uses in providing "personalized" electricity to ...

An artificial leaf that uses sunlight to produce ingredients ... to address the shortage of land available for capturing solar energy. Solar fuel cells use energy from sunlight to power chemical ...

“Most [artificial leaf] prototypes are quite complex ... which is very topical when considering the current droughts.” Energy Energy conversion Fuel gas Fuels Industrial gases ...

Like other artificial leaves, the team’s device harnesses energy from the sun to create chemical products. But producing hydrocarbons is more complicated than making hydrogen because the process ...