Harnessing light for fuel

摘要

Researchers at Monash University have made significant progress towards developing a method of artificial photosynthesis that could replace the use of fossil fuels in the future. Artificial photosynthesis is the industrial process of preparing fuels and chemicals from nothing more than carbon dioxide, water and sunlight. The researchers, led by Professor Douglas MacFarlane, discovered a new way to convert carbon dioxide to methanol (Li H., Zhang X., MacFarlane D.R. Adv. Energy. Mater. 2015, 5, 1401077).