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Friday, October 2, 2015

MacArthur 'genius' explains why artificial leaves need to work better than real ones

It took nature millions of years to figure out how to turn sunlight into chemical energy that plants can store for a cloudy day. It took UC Berkeley chemist Peidong Yang about 10 years to accomplish a similar feat with the help of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria. That's one of the reasons...

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