<div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/28/artificial-leaf">http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-03/28/artificial-leaf</a></div><div>
<br></div>excerpt :<div><i><br></i></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; "><i>MIT professor Daniel Nocera <a href="http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_026944&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=cb926958-56be-49fc-9948-1728debd5db6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 131, 199); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">claims</a> to have created an artificial leaf, made from stable and inexpensive materials, which mimics nature's photosynthesis process.</i></span><br>
<div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: Tahoma, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 21px; "><i>The device is an advanced solar cell, no bigger than a typical playing card, which is left floating in a pool of water. Then, much like a natural leaf, it uses sunlight to split the water into its two core components, oxygen and hydrogen, which are stored in a fuel cell to be used when producing <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-02/24/electricity-conducting-plastics" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 131, 199); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">electricity</a>.</i></span></div>
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