Berkeley Lab Researchers Report First Fully Integrated
Artificial Photosynthesis Nanosystem
In the wake of the sobering news that atmospheric carbon
dioxide is now at its highest level in at least three million years, an
important advance in the race to develop carbon-neutral renewable energy
sources has been achieved. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have reported the
first fully integrated nanosystem for artificial photosynthesis. While
“artificial leaf” is the popular term for such a system, the key to this
success was an “artificial forest.”