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Technology Research News December 15, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Molecule Harvests Water's Hydrogen The key to producing clean hydrogen energy is finding a non-polluting method to extract pure hydrogen from its most abundant source, water. Researchers have developed a supramolecular complex that could be used in devices that use light energy to extract hydrogen from water.
Reactive Reports December 2006 David Bradley	Blood, Light, and Water Two molecules that occur naturally in blood have been engineered by scientists to use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
IEEE Spectrum November 2011 Dave Levitan	Prospects for an Artificial Leaf Are Growing Scientists design artificial photosynthesis devices that could make hydrogen or other fuels
Reactive Reports October 2007 David Bradley	An Economical Hydrogen Economy Researchers have now developed a catalyst that may be able to convert sunlight and water directly into hydrogen, in a process analogous to the photosynthesis of carbohydrates by plants using sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water as the raw materials.
Chemistry World July 31, 2008	Breakthrough Catalyst for Splitting Water Scientists say they have solved a fundamental problem hampering renewable energy generation - how to split water cheaply into oxygen and hydrogen, under benign conditions, so that the gases can be stored as fuels.
Chemistry World May 2009	The artificial leaf Using sunlight to split water molecules and form hydrogen fuel is one of the most promising tactics for kicking our carbon habit.
Chemistry World August 5, 2011 Josh Howgego	Calcium ion is the key to plant's water splitting secret The first model of photosystem II - a key part of the biological machinery that drives photosynthesis - has been constructed.
Chemistry World July 27, 2010 Mike Brown	Bright ideas to develop solar fuels The US Department of Energy is financing the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis, with $22 million going towards the project this year and the remainder handed out at a rate of approximately $25 million annually over the following four years.
Chemistry World April 26, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Hydrogen Busters go Synthetic Chemists have created a small molecule which mimics the way natural enzymes chew up hydrogen. The model should inspire designs for new catalysts that can break up hydrogen in fuel cells; or (running in reverse) help produce the fuel for a hydrogen economy.
Chemistry World February 13, 2015 Tim Wogan	GM bacteria convert solar energy to liquid fuels A new scheme for storing the energy from photovoltaic cells, in which genetically modified bacteria reduce carbon dioxide to liquid fuels with hydrogen from water-splitting, has been proposed and partially demonstrated.
Chemistry World October 1, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Semiconductor Splits Water with Sunlight Scientists in Germany have developed a promising new catalyst that splits water using sunlight -- and stores the hydrogen and oxygen produced.
Chemistry World January 23, 2008 Michael Gross	Turning Gas Into Fuel Cheaply Researchers in Japan have developed a fuel cell that can convert methane, the main component of natural gas, into methanol, a useful fuel, at moderate temperatures.
Technology Research News January 15, 2003 Eric Smalley	Metal stores more hydrogen One reason the world isn't running on hydrogen fuel is that it's hard to store. Researchers from the National University of Singapore have made an accidental discovery that brings the promise of clean hydrogen energy a big step forward.
Chemistry World December 15, 2010 James Urquhart	Biohydrogen produced in air A strain of nitrogen-fixing ocean microbe has been found to be the most efficient hydrogen-producing microbe to date, boosting the prospect of one day using hydrogen as an environmentally friendly fuel.
Chemistry World November 28, 2010 Mike Brown	Water and sunlight: a winning catalytic combination Researchers have incorporated a sunlight-activated trigger into an oxygenation process that uses water as the oxygen source.
Chemistry World January 28, 2009 Phillip Broadwith	Water spilt with aluminium Aluminium clusters' ability to split water molecules and release hydrogen is dictated by the geometric arrangement of active sites on their surface, US scientists have discovered.
Chemistry World February 9, 2012 Simon Hadlington	Molecule mimics molybdenum catalyst Chemists in the US have created a molecule that closely resembles the key active portion of molybdenum disulfide, an important solid industrial catalyst that shows promise for the generation of hydrogen from water.
Reactive Reports March 2005 David Bradley	Lighting-up Time for Porphyrin Nanotubes Researchers have constructed nanotubes from nature's light traps, the porphyrins, to make a system that will use sunlight to split water in a process closely related to photosynthesis, potentially enabling a solar hydrogen-based economy.
Chemistry World December 5, 2006 Michael Gross	Hydrogen Generation Mimics Photosynthesis Hydrogen is often touted as an environmentally-friendly fuel -- but the gas is only as clean as the method used to make it. Now, however, scientists have invented a solar-powered method for splitting water which they claim is the most efficient to date.
Chemistry World February 27, 2015 Tim Wogan	Sun rises on new solar route to hydrogen A new, more efficient way of using sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen has been developed by researchers in China and Israel.
Chemistry World July 25, 2008 Simon Hadlington	Structure of hydrogen splitting enzyme revealed Scientists in Germany have brought the prospect of generating cheap electricity from hydrogen a step closer by taking a snapshot of an elusive enzyme that can split the gas as efficiently as a platinum catalyst.
Chemistry World September 23, 2010 Jon Cartwright	Catalyst improves prospects for fuel cells Chemists in the US have developed a new catalyst that could help in a key reaction used to generate hydrogen for fuel cells.
Chemistry World February 27, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Supercharging methanol for fuel cells Scientists in Germany and Italy have discovered a way to derive hydrogen gas from methanol at low temperatures and pressures using soluble ruthenium-based 'pincer' catalysts.
Reactive Reports Issue 63 David Bradley	Natural Copy Cat While plants convert carbon dioxide into sugar and oxygen, chemists are having a more difficult time finding an efficient method for converting carbon dioxide into useful fuels.
Chemistry World March 28, 2008 Richard Van Noorden	Cracking Water with Sunlight A power plant that makes hydrogen by splitting water with concentrated sunlight launches in Spain this month. It's a glimpse into a possible carbon-free future that uses solar-driven chemical reactions to produce the gas.
Technology Research News May 4, 2005	Nano Pyramids Boost Fuel Cells Researchers have devised a way to make iridium surfaces that are extremely finely textured. The surface is textured with pyramids which increases the available surface area of the metal. The increased surface area speeds the catalytic reaction that breaks down ammonia to extract hydrogen.
Chemistry World April 28, 2010 Mike Brown	Producing hydrogen from sea water A new catalyst that generates hydrogen from sea water has been developed by scientists in the US.
Chemistry World November 13, 2007 Lewis Brindley	Hydrogen From Sewage Hits Production Records Scientists have drastically improved the efficiency of bacteria-powered fuel cells that convert biodegradable organic matter into hydrogen gas. They hope their discovery will make it possible to generate hydrogen from sewage, sustainably and on a large scale.
Chemistry World February 27, 2014 Simon Hadlington	Quantum tunnelling sparks chemistry on cold surfaces Chemistry in deep space could be more diverse than thought after the discovery that larger atoms can quantum tunnel.
Chemistry World July 25, 2013 Laura Howes	Artificial leaf in the shade but still growing Can chemists create a cheap artificial leaf that is more efficient than its natural counterpart?
Chemistry World December 24, 2013 Charlie Quigg	Toilet purification system doubles as hydrogen fuel cell An electrolysis cell that couples energy storage with water purification and reuse has been developed as part of a wider project to make a self-sustaining toilet.
Chemistry World July 2, 2009 Matt Wilkinson	Urine turned into hydrogen fuel US researchers have developed an efficient way of producing hydrogen from urine - a feat that could not only fuel the cars of the future, but could also help clean up municipal wastewater.
Chemistry World September 26, 2007 James Mitchell Crow	Interview: Energy Research Lights up Both a professor of Energy and Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Daniel Nocera talks about his research into harnessing solar energy to make fuel from water.
Popular Mechanics November 2006 Wise & Hutchinson	The Truth About Hydrogen Can the simplest element in the universe really power our homes, fuel our cars and reduce our contribution to global warming? PM crunches the numbers on the real hydrogen economy.
Technology Research News November 17, 2004	Low-Pressure Material Holds Hydrogen One key to using hydrogen as a fuel is finding practical ways to store it. Researchers have discovered a kinetic trapping effect that allows hydrogen to be adsorbed.
Geotimes August 2005 John A. Turner	The Sustainable Hydrogen Economy The major issue facing United States and most other countries in the world is how to supply transportation fuel. Hydrogen, as part of a sustainable energy supply, can meet the challenge of a domestically produced energy carrier that can replace gasoline, and can additionally address carbon dioxide and other emissions.
Technology Research News June 15, 2005	Power Sources: Fuel Cells, Solar Cells, Heat, Vibration and Fusion Summaries of how each of these power sources work to create energy.
Chemistry World April 14, 2013 Andy Extance	Split water splitting raises green hydrogen hopes UK scientists say that they have developed the first widely-useable electrolysis system that splits water and releases hydrogen and oxygen in separate stages.
Chemistry World May 2, 2014 Jon Cartwright	'Solar' jet fuel made out of thin air The dream of producing hydrocarbon fuels from carbon dioxide and sunlight is one step closer thanks to chemists in Europe who have made jet fuel from scratch in a solar reactor for the first time.
Chemistry World July 9, 2012 Phillip Broadwith	'Molecular cobra' turns C-H to C=C A reagent developed by US chemists can selectively introduce synthetically useful C=C double bonds into unactivated carbon chains, guided by an activating group attached to a nearby oxygen or nitrogen atom.
Chemistry World June 23, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Breaking the carbon-fluorine bond US chemists have discovered a new way to break the bond between carbon and fluorine atoms - the strongest carbon bond there is.
IEEE Spectrum January 2008 Willie D Jones	Synthetic Fuel From a Solar Collector Solar energy powers greenhouse-gas-free synthetic fuel production in Sandia experiment
Chemistry World November 6, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	Double reactor makes hydrogen and syngas Two chemical reactions key to producing future fuels can be linked together in a single membrane-based reactor to increase their efficiency, say Chinese chemists.
Chemistry World March 15, 2009 Lewis Brindley	Age of Photosynthesis Questioned Photosynthesis could have been flourishing on Earth nearly a billion years earlier than previously thought, according to a study by American geochemists.
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Manisha Lalloo	Black TiO2 absorbs light across the spectrum Researchers in the US have used hydrogenation to introduce disorder into titanium dioxide nanocrystals, increasing the amount of solar light they absorb.
Chemistry World June 18, 2013 Rowan Frame	Hydrogen generation using sunlight Scientists from Spain have found a catalyst that can use sunlight to power an important industrial reaction for the production of hydrogen at ambient temperatures.
Chemistry World March 20, 2007 Lionel Milgrom	Chemical Model Unlocks Key Enzyme's Secrets The precise workings of cytochrome c oxidase (CcO), an enzyme that is crucial for all aerobic life, have been unveiled.
Popular Mechanics July 3, 2008 Mike Allen	The Truth About Water-Powered Cars: Mechanic's Diary From a startup snagging headlines to DIYers posting plans, water-powered cars have been all over the Web recently -- not to mention stuffing my email inbox.
Chemistry World December 4, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Hydrogen Gets Promiscuous Hydrogen is a more promiscuous element than chemists have appreciated: it can form up to six strong chemical bonds in some solids, researchers report.
Chemistry World April 4, 2008 James Mitchell Crow	More to Catalysis Than Meets the Eye Catalysts are more than just a reactive surface. Changes beneath a metal's skin can completely change the course of a reaction.