Efficient carbon conversion
A part of the Liquid Sunlight Alliance (LiSA), a Department of Energy-funded initiative led by Caltech in close partnership with Berkeley Lab, the project draws on the expertise of over 100 scientists from institutions including SLAC, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the University of Oregon. To further its mission, LiSA aims to advance technologies that turn sunlight, CO₂, and water into fuels.
“Nature was our inspiration,” said Peidong Yang, PhD, a senior faculty scientist in Berkeley Lab’s material sciences division and UC Berkeley professor of chemistry and materials science and engineering.
“We had to work on the individual components first, but when we brought everything together and realized that it was successful, it was a very exciting moment.”