Author Archives: Catherine Heyer

The U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) recently granted $40 million to the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE) to accelerate fundamental research on the production of liquid fuels from sunlight, water, nitrogen, and/or carbon … Read more

CHASE Principal Investigator Jeffrey E. Dick has been named a 2021 Sloan Research Fellow. On Feb. 16, the Sloan Foundation announced the 2021 fellowships to 128 outstanding early-career researchers across eight fields from 58 institutions in the United States and … Read more

The CHASE Hub was featured by BBC News in an article entitled “Creating fuel from thin air with artificial leaves.” The BBC describes CHASE plans to develop molecule/material hybrid photoelectrodes for cooperative sunlight-driven generation of liquid fuels from carbon dioxide, … Read more

CHASE, the Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels officially launches today as a DOE BES Energy Innovation Hub. Congratulations to partner institutions the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Yale University, Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Pennsylvania, North … Read more

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced two new awards focused on advancing artificial photosynthesis for the production of fuels from sunlight. The Center for Hybrid Approaches in Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels (CHASE), led by the University of … Read more