A detailed description of development of the first practical artificial leaf — a milestone in the drive for sustainable energy that mimics the process, photosynthesis, that green plants use to convert water and sunlight into energy — appears in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Sun Catalytix Corporation, a distributed energy storage company, today announced it has received a third seed tranche from Polaris Venture Partners.

By James Thalman Deseret News Using the sun combined with nature's way of turning solar power into life-sustaining energy can be captured, artificially induced and could provide enough power in less than an hour to run the house, the car and bring on an era of true energy independence.

By CHRISTINE McCONVILLE In what is being hailed as a major breakthrough in solar energy, researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have found a way to use the sun's abundant, non-polluting rays as a power source even when the sun isn't shining.