In the quest for cheap, environmentally friendly, sustainable energy to provide a truly viable alternative to the fossil fuels we so heavily rely on, scientists (including me) have been looking to nature for inspiration to find a way to achieve this. The answer, I certainly hope, lies in an area of research known as artificial photosynthesis, owing to the fact that the mechanism of fuel production mimics that of a photocatalytic reaction that takes place within Photosystem II of the process of photosynthesis. Researchers in Florida have created a new material that they say will make this nature-inspired nanotechnology a commercially viable method of producing clean and cheap fuel.

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