We would like to welcome and introduce the new members of the Sunrise Network Leadership Team for 2024: Pooja Basera, Grace Chen, Richard Kang, Katie Luedecke, and Jen Urbine who will be joining existing member Zeb Schichtl.

Recent publication by LiSA Director Harry Atwater featured in Physics Today!

LiSA PI John Gregoire hosted students from Pasadena Community College at Caltech on October 20 and 21, where students learned about electrolysis and artificial photosynthesis, including the solar-driven hydrogen electrolyzer demo developed in LiSA.

Audrey Washington, who researched as a WAVE student with LISA PI Prof Scott Cushing (Caltech) in 2022, returns to Caltech to pursue graduate research in chemistry. Congratulations, Audrey!

https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/wave-alumni-return-to-caltech-for-grad-school

LiSA researchers from Caltech, LBNL, and SLAC worked together to assemble a solar-driven tandem photoelectrochemical/photothermal system to convert CO2 into liquid fuels.

LiSA’s Sunrise Network organized a group of Caltech volunteers to conduct demonstrations using LiSA artificial photosynthesis kits during a science fair at a Pasadena elementary school.

LiSA’s Sunrise Network organized a group of Caltech volunteers to conduct demonstrations using LiSA artificial photosynthesis kits during a science fair at a Pasadena elementary school.

LiSA held its first in-person all hands meeting in December 2022, bringing researchers from all five institutions together for the first time since the project started in 2020.

LiSA's Sunrise Network hosted a Summer Research Application Panel on November 8, 2022 for students from minority serving institutions (MSI), where panelist offered guidance on applying for internships in renewable energy research.

Students in LiSA’s Sunrise Network at LBNL developed kits to introduce artificial photosynthesis and solar water splitting to elementary students. These kits were introduced to 5th grade students in Bay Area schools and are designed to provide a hands-on demonstration of artificial photosynthesis. Introducing electrochemistry to students earlier in their curriculum will enable the growth and development the next-generation energy workforce!

Captura, a new company founded by LiSA researchers Harry Atwater and CX Xiang, was awarded the XPRIZE Carbon Removal competition. Bipolar membranes used in Captura’s technology originated in their LiSA research. [Read article]

LiSA is very pleased to announce that we have 5 new co-PIs who have joined LiSA in Year 2. They are Dan Miller (LBNL, Systems & Integration team), Karthish Manthiram (Caltech, Microenvironments team), Adam Schwartzberg (LBNL, Photodynamics team), Shaul Aloni (LBNL, Photoactive Materials team), and Anne Greenaway (NREL) who is moving to a co-PI role in the Photoactive Materials team. We are delighted to have our new co-PIs and researchers with us and hope you will be able to take time soon to learn about their work.

Press pieces related to Liu, G.; Zheng, F.; Li, J.; Zeng, Z.; Ye, Y.; Karsin, D.M.; Yano, J.; Crumlin, E.J.; Ager, J.W.; Wang, L.-W.; Toma, F. Investigation and mitigation of degradation mechanisms in Cu2O photoelectrodes for CO2 reduction to ethylene. Nat Energy 6, 1124–1132 (2021). 10.1038/s41560-021-00927-1. Click to read more press.

Press pieces related to Kim, C.; Bui, J.C.; Luo, X.; Cooper, J.K.; Kusoglu, A.; Weber, A.Z.; Bell, A.T., Tailored catalyst microenvironments for CO2 electroreduction to multicarbon products on copper using bi-layer ionomer coatings. Nature Energy 2021. DOI: 10.1038/s41560-021-00920-8 (reported last quarter). Click to read more press.