Lecture #23, Wednesday, February 24th

Today I reviewed oxidation/reduction agents and summarized a lecture titled "A Cheap, Efficient and Highly Manufacturable Artificial Photosynthesis," which is posted on Carmen. This talk was given by Dr. Daniel Nocera, who is a faculty member at MIT and is doing some fascinating research. Google him sometime if you are bored to see what he is doing. The talk outlined the global energy crisis and his research is based on trying to figure out the mechanism plants use to convert water to energy and replicate that so we can use water effectively.