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National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) scientists and researchers from Arizona State University (ASU) have been working on using both natural plant life and artificial leaves (respectively) in order to create hydrogen gas. NREL scientists are tweaking two iron-sulfur-containing ferredoxins of a certain strain of algae while the ASU researchers are working with artificial photosynthesis. According • Read More »

Researchers at the University of Wollongong (UOW) south of Sydney, Australia, are not the first folk to talk about using seawater to create hydrogen. And they are also not the first to develop an artificial leaf to do the same. But, nonetheless, the scientists at UOW (pictured above) think they have built a better mousetrap. • Read More »

I’ve talked about the artificial leaf many times before as a novel idea in which significant amounts of hydrogen could be produced. In fact, in March of 2011, I had talked about a researcher named Daniel Nocera, Ph.D. who had created such an artificial leaf and was putting the polishing touches on it. Today, however • Read More »

The Tata Group out of India and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor of chemistry Daniel Nocera have signed a deal to develop a commercial version of the artificial leaf to produce hydrogen from sunlight and water. In April 2010, I had talked about the MIT invention to use a solar panel and the M13 • Read More »

I’ve talked before about researchers at the University of Rochester in New York using artificial photosynthesis to create hydrogen. Now, researchers in China at the Shanghai Jiao Tong University are taking a slightly different tactic to produce hydrogen by developing artificial leaves. For several years now other scientists have been using sunlight through solar panels • Read More »

I’ve talked about artificial photosynthesis before and how scientists are trying to recreate how plants turn sunlight and water into hydrogen and oxygen. I’ve talked about using solar energy and algae for this process. And, I’ve talked about using bacteria to create hydrogen. Now, I want to talk about solar energy plus a virus named • Read More »

Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) are building artificial nanotrees that mimic real life plants to take in sunlight, water and CO2 and produce hydrogen fuel. Now, I’ve talked about the artificial leaf being developed several times before for the same purposes. The engineers at UCSD, however, are using cheap materials • Read More »

Researchers at Monash University along with help from scientists from the University of Davis in northern California and the Australian Synchrotron have discovered a method to produce hydrogen from water using manganese and sunlight. Now, in the past I’ve talked about using a variety of catalysts to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. I’ve talked • Read More »

In January of 2010 I talked about the University of Rochester in New York creating artificial leaves for hydrogen production. Now the same university is putting a slightly different bend on hydrogen production from a slightly different angle. The catalyst for the artificial photosynthesis process doesn’t use platinum or any other expensive metals. Instead the • Read More »