Floating artificial leaves buoy the promise of solar fuels

Artificial photosynthesis is one of the most promising ways to produce solar fuels such as hydrogen, methane, and methanol, but its large-scale application still confronts challenges such as cost, land occupation, and energy transportation. Recently in Nature, Reisner and colleagues designed a water-floating photoelectrochemical device that could greatly address the current key issues of artificial photosynthesis for promising large-scale solar fuel production, which may greatly accelerate the dream of solar fuel toward reality. Artificial photosynthesis is one of the most promising ways to produce solar fuels such as hydrogen, methane, and methanol, but its large-scale application still confronts challenges such as cost, land occupation, and energy transportation. Recently in Nature, Reisner and colleagues designed a water-floating photoelectrochemical device that could greatly address the current key issues of artificial photosynthesis for promising large-scale solar fuel production, which may greatly accelerate the dream of solar fuel toward reality.