Peter Vesborg receives grant to develop artificial leaf

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Assistant Professor Peter Vesborg from the DTU Physics has received almost 2.5 million DKK from The Danish Council for Independent Research for the development of an artificial leaf. The purpose of the leaf is to produce environmentally friendly fuels from sunlight, water and air. It sounds like a day at the beach. Sun, water and air to be jointly used to produce environmentally friendly fuels, such as hydrogen. The Danish Council for Independent Research (DFF) has granted 2,463,840 DKK to the project “Efficient, two-photon water splitting photoelectrode’ led by Assistant Professor Peter Christian Kjaergaard Vesborg from the Department of Physics. The goal is to develop an artificial leaf that can effectively and inexpensively use sunlight to split water and create hydrogen. More efficient use of sunlight The process of using light, water and air to create fuel is also called artificial photosynthesis because it mimics the plants’ method of converting energy from sunlight into sugar, the plants’ fuel. The researchers utilize a “tandem design” in which the combined energy of two visible photons (light energy particles) provides the energy needed for water splitting. Compared to single-photon designs where only ultraviolet light has enough energy to split water, the advantage of

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