Outreach
The Solar Fuels Network actively supports public engagement and outreach activities that raise the profile of solar fuels/artificial photosynthesis research. Outreach and Dissemination Bursaries are available for UK-based SFN members to help fund such activities, see Funding.
If you work in education and would like some solar fuels related worksheets and resources check out our education page!
About Solar Fuels
NanoVignettes - Bottled Sunlight
Breakthrough in Cambridge: Energy from compost
Reisner Lab - Artificial Photosynthesis (in LEGO)
Crowdfunding the first drops of solar fuel
Artificial photosynthesis, or making fake plants
Reisner Lab - Introduction to Solar Fuels
Useful links
Partner organisations:
Royal Society of Chemistry - http://www.rsc.org/
Solar Fuels Institute - http://www.solar-fuels.org/
Knowledge Transfer Network Energy Community - https://connect.innovateuk.org/web/energyktn
Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Science & Innovation Network -
https://www.gov.uk/government/world/organisations/uk-science-and-innovation-network
Videos and radio programmes featuring solar fuels:
Erwin Reisner’s (University of Cambridge) research group’s introduction to solar fuels -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgLmo-bzDaE
BBC World Service programme The Forum: The Future of Renewable Energy -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01g94yj
BBC Radio 4 programme Frontiers: Artificial Photosynthesis -
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jrknf#synopsi
BBC World News interview with Deirdre Black (Royal Society of Chemistry) about artificial
photosynthesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVuPypSR6DY
SOFI video Crowdfunding the First Drops of Solar Fuel -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLIJXrOEHck
UK Solar Fuels Research
Here are some examples of UK research groups’ work on solar fuels:
Solar Fuels Research at the University of Glasgow - http://www.glasgowsolarfuels.com/projects.html
Imperial College’s Artificial Leaf Initiative -
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/energyfutureslab/research/grandchallenges/artificialleaf
Prof Fraser Armstrong (University of Oxford) - http://armstrong.chem.ox.ac.uk/solarfuels.html
Dr Alex Cowan (University of Liverpool) - http://www.liv.ac.uk/chemistry/research/cowan-
group/research/
Prof Robin Perutz (University of York) - http://www.york.ac.uk/chemistry/staff/academic/o-
s/rperutz/furtherinfo/solarfuel/
Prof Erwin Reisner (University of Cambridge) - http://www-reisner.ch.cam.ac.uk/research.html