"Our common goal is to develop artificial chloroplasts and use them to perform photosynthesis in order to produce hydrogen," says Dr Jacob Schneidewind from Friedrich Schiller University Jena. The idea is to utilize as broad a light spectrum as possible and to use inexpensive starting materials. The chemist conducts research at the Center for Energy and Environmental Chemistry Jena (CEEC Jena) at Friedrich Schiller University. His new research project "Two-photon water splitting for the realization of coupled photocatalysis" is being funded by the German Research Foundation with 325,000 euros. The project is part of the collaborative research centre and research network "CataLight" , which is coordinated at the Universities of Jena and Ulm. ...
