Sustainable fuels and products

About sustainable fuels and products

Sustainable fuels and products is a coordinated, interdisciplinary network of researchers within ASU LightWorks® that addresses high impact opportunities to enable and advance the production of sustainable fuels and products to meet society’s grand energy challenges. LightWorks® coordinates and develops strategic collaborations between our researchers and new potential partners.

Sustainable fuels and products addresses thematic areas of research including algae and cyanobacteria, carbon dioxide capture, artificial photosynthesis, life cycle and techno-economic assessment, photosynthetic factories and microorganisms and solar thermochemical fuels.

Sustainable fuels and products themes and projects

Sustainable fuels and products is conducting ongoing research into the following areas within artificial photosynthesis: Artificial reaction centers; artificial antenna systems; molecular movies of photosynthesis; hydrogen catalysts; artificial enzymes; and conducting metal oxides

Area leaders

Abhishek Singharoy

Associate Professor

School of Molecular Sciences

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Portrait of Bruce Rittmann

Bruce Rittmann

Regents’ Professor

Biodesign Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology

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Ellen Stechel

Deputy Director and Professor of Practice

LightWorks

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