Tethered chem combos could revolutionize photosynthesis

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(Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy)

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have devised a scheme for assembling light-absorbing molecules and water-splitting catalysts on a nanoparticle-coated electrode. The result is the production of hydrogen gas fuel via artificial photosynthesis—a lab-based mimic of the natural process aimed at generating clean energy from sunlight.