Overview
A Video Overview of LiSA
The Liquid Sunlight Alliance is a Fuels from Sunlight Energy Innovation Hub led by Caltech and funded by the U.S. Department of Energy in 2020. LiSA includes major partnerships at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and university partners at UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the University of Oregon.
Our vision is to establish the science principles by which coupled microenvironments directly generate liquid fuels from sunlight, water, carbon dioxide and nitrogen.
LiSA will address this challenge by developing the new science of co-design of solar fuels systems as assemblies of chemical microenvironments.
LiSA’s strategy requires a team with complementary expertise and capabilities bridging many areas of science. These include artificial photosynthesis, catalysis theory and experiment, molecular environments for transport and reactivity, capture and separations, accelerated materials discovery, and ultrafast light-matter interactions.