Dan Nocera
Visiting Hannah Professor Dan Nocera is profiled in the January 3, 2012 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, Nocera is a chemistry professor at MIT and currently a Visiting Hannah Professor in the MSU Department of Chemistry.
Nocera has developed an artificial leaf made of inexpensive materials. The leaf’s stainless steel chip is coated with silicon so it can harvest sunlight and split water into hydrogen and oxygen. The catalysts produce enough hydrogen from a liter of water to power an average home in the developing world.
Read the PNAS Profile of Daniel G. Nocera.
PNAS Podcast: Catalysts for energy storage
Daniel Nocera discusses how efficient catalysts can help us store solar energy in the same way plants do.
Daniel Nocera (Running Time: 5:17)
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