{"id":220912,"date":"2025-08-25T08:12:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/increasing-efficiency-in-artificial-photosynthesis"},"modified":"2025-08-25T08:12:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T13:12:33","slug":"increasing-efficiency-in-artificial-photosynthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/increasing-efficiency-in-artificial-photosynthesis","title":{"rendered":"Increasing efficiency in artificial photosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/increasing-efficiency-in-artificial-photosynthesis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a new approach to artificial photosynthesis, a method for harvesting solar energy that produces hydrogen as a clean fuel from water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photosynthesis\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photosynthesis<\/a> is the holy grail of all chemists,\u201d says Astrid Olaya, a <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+engineer\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical engineer<\/a> at EPFL\u2019s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC). \u201cThe goal is to capture sunlight, on the one hand to oxidize water to generate oxygen and protons, and on the other to reduce either protons to hydrogen or CO<sub>2<\/sub> to chemicals and fuels. This is the essence of a circular <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical<\/a> industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With global energy demands increasing, we are in need of viable alternatives to fossil fuels, whose negative environmental impact has also become all too apparent. One of those alternatives is hydrogen, which can be consumed in simple fuel cells for energy, leaving behind only water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chemical engineers at EPFL have developed a new approach to artificial photosynthesis, a method for harvesting solar energy that produces hydrogen as a clean fuel from water. \u201cArtificial photosynthesis is the holy grail of all chemists,\u201d says Astrid Olaya, a chemical engineer at EPFL\u2019s Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering (ISIC). \u201cThe goal is to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}