LiSA Mission
LiSA’s Mission is to establish the science principles by which durable coupled microenvironments can be co-designed to efficiently and selectively generate liquid fuels from sunlight, water, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen. These principles will guide the creation of microenvironment assemblies co-designed to harness diverse sunlight-driven phenomena with unprecedented catalytic selectivity, durability, and efficiency under a fluctuating solar resource, using pure or impure feedstocks.
Transformative Impacts and Expected Outcomes
A new co-design of ‘assembly-of-microenvironments’ science paradigm for generation of liquid solar fuels with unprecedented selectivity, durability, and efficiency
The science foundations for direct solar-driven synthesis of multi-carbon products from pure and impure feedstocks
Discovery of innovative light-driven phenomena in chemically complex environments
A new predictive science of materials durability and active repair in electrochemical systems
A national alliance for solar fuels science spanning academic, national labs and industry sectors, creating a platform for next-generation solar fuels technologies