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Artificial Leaf Generates Hydrogen, Even in Contaminated Water

Benji Jerew — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 19:07:25 +0000

Daniel Nocera, previously of MIT and now Harvard, once called the artificial leaf “one of the Holy Grails of science,” but what if it was improved even further? In all green trees and plants, photosynthesis uses energy from the sun to split water into oxygen gas and hydrocarbons, that is, sugars which the tree uses […]

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Leaf-Mimicking Catalyst Inventor Signs Huge Contract With Tata Group for Hydrogen-From-Water Device

Ovidiu Sandru — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:31:58 +0000

MIT professor Daniel Nocera, the inventor of a type of electrolysis that mimics the plants photosynthesis, and Ratan Tata, the CEO of the Indian Tata group, have signed a funding agreement allowing the Tata group to commercialize Nocera's invention which produces power from water.

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Daniel Nocera Coming Back With Better Material for Splitting Water

Ovidiu Sandru — Fri, 14 May 2010 13:32:29 +0000

Daniel Nocera, a face we see more and more often on the stage of alternative energy, along with postdoctoral researcher Mircea Dinca and graduate student Yogesh Surendranath, discovered a material that can work efficiently and sustainably as an oxygen electrode for Nocera’s wider research in water splitting by using electricity. This subject has caught a […]

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