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Combining high throughput experimentation with theory enabled discovery of a unique solar fuels photoanode with remarkable stability .

Combining high throughput experimentation with theory enabled discovery of a unique solar fuels photoanode with remarkable stability.

 
Cliff Kubiak receives an ACS award for his groundbreaking and detailed studies of CO2 reduction by transition-metal catalysis .

Cliff Kubiak receives an ACS award for his groundbreaking and detailed studies of CO2 reduction by transition-metal catalysis .

 
Researchers figured out a more efficient way to make carbon-based fuels from CO2 - a step toward making renewable liquid fuel.

Researchers figured out a more efficient way to make carbon-based fuels from CO2 - a step toward making renewable liquid fuel.

 
By choice of electrolyte anions with a high pKa, product selectivity can be shifted from H2 and CH4 to C2 products.

By choice of electrolyte anions with a high pKa, product selectivity can be shifted from H2 and CH4 to C2 products.

 
Direct gas feed configurations, such as flow-through GDEs, enable efficient and stable electrochemical reactions without mass transport limitations.

Direct gas feed configurations, such as flow-through GDEs, enable efficient and stable electrochemical reactions without mass transport limitations.

 
  ACS Editor’s Choice® article describes the describes a new method for rapid construction of phase diagrams by combining AI with combinatorial X-ray data .

 ACS Editor’s Choice® article describes the describes a new method for rapid construction of phase diagrams by combining AI with combinatorial X-ray data.

 
In a new study in PNAS, researchers report the mechanics behind an early key step in artificially activating CO2 so that it can become the liquid fuel.

In a new study in PNAS, researchers report the mechanics behind an early key step in artificially activating CO2 so that it can become the liquid fuel.

 
X-ray technique coupled with theory reveal how oxygen atoms near the surface of Cu had a dramatic effect on the reaction than earlier theories could account for.

X-ray technique coupled with theory reveal how oxygen atoms near the surface of Cu had a dramatic effect on the reaction than earlier theories could account for.

 

A look inside the labs at the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis reveals the inventions and processes that yield groundbreaking discoveries in solar fuel.  The work was published in PNAS.