The Photo-
electrochemistry Lab
Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, UK
What is Photo-electrochemistry?
The Photoelectrochemistry Lab at Cambridge combines light and electricity to achieve one of chemists’ most ambitious goals: mimicking plants to realise artificial photosynthesis. Here, they use materials that absorb solar energy and convert it to do chemical or electrochemical reactions. In particular, they work on devices to transform the potent greenhouse gas CO2 into fuels, or to turn waste from plastic or biomass into chemicals with a new life.
With a spoonful of chemistry, engineering, and materials science, people here are developing devices for the sustainable chemistry of tomorrow, targeting CO2 removal and utilisation, circular economy, and solar-driven catalysis: three birds, one lab!