DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at ASU

Arizona State University
April 30, 2009

ASU will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama.

The ASU center, one of 46 new EFRCs, will pursue advanced scientific research on solar energy conversion based on the principles of photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight to energy. All 46 centers are being established by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as part of an overall effort to tackle the “grand challenges” and accelerate scientific advances needed to build a 21st century energy economy. DOE officials plan to fund ASU’s EFRC for bio-inspired solar fuel production at a level of $14 million over a five-year period.

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