Results and Publications

Research Areas & Activities Solar Energy Hot Carrier Solar Cell: Implementation of the Ultimate Photovoltaic Converter Photon Enhanced Thermionic Emission (PETE) for Solar Concentrator Systems Self-sorting of Metallic Carbon Nanotubes for High Performance Large Area Low Cost Transparent Electrodes Ultra-High Efficiency Thermophotovoltaic Solar Cells Using Metallic Photonic Crystals as Intermediate Absorber and Emitter Molecular Solar Cells Nanostructured Materials for High-Efficiency Thin Film Solar Cells Lateral Nanoconcentrator Nanowire Multijunction Photovoltaic Cells Plasmonic Photovoltaics Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water Advanced Materials and Devices for Low-Cost and High-Performance Organic Photovoltaic Cells Inorganic Nanocomposite Solar Cells by ALD Nanostructured Silicon-Based Tandem Solar Cells Photosynthetic Bioelectricity Nanostructured Metal-Organic Composite Solar Cells Ordered Bulk Heterojunction Photovoltaic Cells Biomass Energy Hydrogen Advanced Combustion CO₂ Capture CO₂ Storage Advanced Materials & Catalysts Advanced Coal Advanced Transportation Other Renewables Integrated Assessment Advanced Nuclear Energy Energy Distribution & Infrastructures Geoengineering All Activities Analysis Activities Technical Reports

Research

Artificial Photosynthesis: Membrane-Supported Assemblies that Use Sunlight to Split Water

August 2007 - May 2010

Investigators

Nathan S. Lewis and Harry B. Gray, Department of Chemistry; Harry A. Atwater, Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology

Annual Reports

2009 Progress Report (PDF)

Publications

Jordan E. Katz, T. R. Gingrich, E. A. Santori, and N. S. Lewis. “combinatorial synthesis and high-throughput photopotential and photocurrent screening of mixed-metal oxides for photoelectrochemicalwater splitting.” Energy & Environmental Science, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 103-112 (2009).
Lancaster, K. M., K. Yokoyama, J. H. Richards, J. R.Winkler, and H. B. Gray. “High-Potential C112D/M121X (X = M, E, H, L) Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurins.” Inorg. Chem. Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 278-1280, doi:10.1021/ic802322e (2009).
Gray, H. B. “Powering the Planet with Solar Fuel.” Nature Chemistry Vol. 1, No. 7 doi:10.1038/nchem.141 (2009).
Lancaster, K. M., K. Yokoyama, J. H. Richards, J. R. Winkler, and H. B. Gray. “Modified protein active sites: Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurins.” (In preparation, 2008).
Katz, J., T. Gingrich, B. Brunschwig, and N. Lewis. “A novel rapid combinatorial screen for photocatalyst discovery.” (In preparation, 2008).
Spurgeon, J. M., H. A. Atwater, and N. S. Lewis. “A comparison between the behavior of nanorod and planar Cd(Se, Te) photoelectrodes.” J. Phys. Chem. C, 2008, 112, 6186, doi:10.1021/jp077481u (2008).
Maiolo III, J. R., H. A. Atwater, and N. S. Lewis. “Macroporous silicon as a model for silicon wire array solar cells.” J. Phys. Chem., C, Vol. 112, No. 15, 6186-6193 (2008).
Spurgeon, J. M., K. E. Plass, B. M. Kayes, B. S. Brunschwig, H. A. Atwater, and N. S. Lewis. “Repeated epitaxial growth and transfer of arrays of patterned, vertically aligned, crystalline Si wires from a single Si(111) substrate.” Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 93, No. 3, Article No. 032112 (2008).
Plass, K. E., M. A. Filler, J. M. Spurgeon, B. M. Kayes, S. Maldonado, B. S. Brunschwig, H. A. Atwater, and N. S. Lewis. “Flexible polymer-embedded Si wire arrays.” Advanced Materials, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 325-325, doi:10.1002/adma.200802006 (2008)
Yokoyama, K. B. S. Leigh, Y. Sheng, K. Niki, N. Nakamura, H. Ohno, J. R. Winkler, H. B. Gray, and J. H., Richards.. “Electron tunneling through pseudomonas aeruginosa azurins.” Inorg. Chim. Acta, Vol. 361, No. 4, pp. 1095-1099, doi:10.1016/j.ica.2007.08.022 (2008).
Maiolo III, J. R., B. M. Kayes, M. A. Filler, M. C. Putnam, M. D. Kelzenberg, H. A. Atwater, and N. S. Lewis. “High aspect ratio silicon wire array photoelectrochemical cells.” J. Am. Chem. Soc., Vol. 129, No. 41, 12346, doi:10.1021/ja074897c (2007). http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja074897c

Updated September 2009