NTU starts Asia's first solar fuels laboratory(2)

NTU opens Asia's first solar fuels laboratory to develop new energy sources

"Nature has lots of wonderful ways to renew itself. We can learn a lot from nature, if we look hard enough, to find sustainable solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems. Inspired by the way leaves use sunlight to produce energy, we can mimic nature and perfect water-splitting technology. 

This will allow for the separation of water into hydrogen and oxygen. We can then convert solar energy into hydrogen in large quantities in a clean and sustainable manner," explained Prof Bertil Andersson, NTU's President-Designate and an internationally-renowned biochemist. 

"The Solar Fuels Lab is an initiative in support of Sustainable Earth, one of NTU's Five Peaks of Excellence," said Prof Freddy Boey, NTU's Provost-Designate, who was the previous Chair of the School of Materials Science and Engineering. The laboratory will be jointly managed by NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering and the Energy Research Institute at NTU.