Brainchild of Harvard biochemist Daniel Nocera, the “bionic leaf” is a small man-made solar collector that takes sunlight and water and turns it into any of a variety of usable fuels or fertilizers.

RIO DE JANEIRO, June 2 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A new clean technology to turn sunlight into liquid fuel could drastically shrink the need for large plantations to grow crops for biofuels, while ...

In hopes of harnessing the energy from a bionic leaf of sorts, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are developing technology that mimics photosynthesis to create and store solar ...

Presented virtually on Zoom in Maeder Hall at 12:30 p.m. Lunch will be available in Maeder Hall lobby at 12:00 noon. Hybrid biological | inorganic (HBI) constructs have been created to use sunlight, ...

Scientists have combined solar panels, genetically modified bacteria and a synthetic catalyst to create a system that does exactly what a leaf does – turn sunshine into fuel – but much more ...