SolarCAP

	SolarCAP
	Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis

SolarCAP is a consortium of five UK academic research groups funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to explore novel ways of harnessing solar energy to produce fuels and useful chemicals - Artificial Photosynthesis.
The groups, based in the Universities East Anglia, Manchester, Nottingham and York, are specifically exploring the solar conversion of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide in tandem with the conversion of methane or alkanes to useful oxygen containing products such as alcohols.
Our approach is to use semiconducting nanoparticles to harvest visible light energy. Attached to these nanoparticles are two types of catalyst, one for carbon dioxide reduction, the other for alkane oxidation. Our vision is to construct photoelectrochemical nanocells for CO2 fixation and alkane oxygenation.

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15th May 2009: Science Minister visit

The Science Minister, Lord Drayson of Kensington, visited the ALICE facility at Daresbury Laboratory on 15 May 2009 and heard how ALICE and EMMA will support work on new health treatments and alternative routes to green energy.

Science Minister Visits ALICE

For more information visit http://www.astec.ac.uk/projects/alice.html and http://www.astec.ac.uk/news.html#drayson

12th March 2009: The SolarCAP website is launched!

Welcome to the SolarCAP website, home of the Solar Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis. Here you will find updates of our research publications, breaking news and vacancies...