Artificial leaf could debut new era of 'fast-food energy'

Friday, December 2, 2011 - 05:20 in Physics & Chemistry

Technology for making an 'artificial leaf' holds the potential for opening an era of 'fast-food energy,' in which people generate their own electricity at home with low-cost equipment perfect for the 3 billion people living in developing countries and even home-owners in the United States. That's among the prospects emerging from research on a new genre of 'electrofuels' described in the current edition of Chemical and Engineering News, the American Chemical Society's weekly newsmagazine...

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