Our work spans the full path from photon to fuel. Each pillar tackles one part of the loop — and only together do they close it.
Capturing sunlight across the spectrum and holding its energy with minimal loss. The front end sets the ceiling for everything downstream, so we treat the light-collecting material as something to engineer, not inherit.
Guiding captured energy to where chemistry happens, the way natural photosynthesis does — fast, and along the productive path. This is where coherence earns its place, keeping energy from scattering away before it can be used.
Turning delivered energy into storable fuel from sunlight, water, and CO₂ — hydrogen or carbon-based. The conversion and catalysis step is where energy becomes a molecule you can move and store.
Energy made where it's used — decentralized, without long-distance transmission. A modular, tileable cell points toward fuel produced close to demand rather than shipped across a grid.
Photosynthesis turns sunlight into chemical energy in four moves — absorbed, carried, split, and stored. It's the blueprint we engineer.
A packet of light energy — an exciton — forms when a pigment absorbs a photon, then travels through the antenna to the reaction center, where it splits charge apart to drive chemistry. Guiding that energy with as little loss as possible is the heart of our research.
This is early, foundational work. We're honest about the stage — the value now is in the science and the design, with commercial fuel a long-horizon goal we build toward deliberately.
Antenna design, modeling, and the intellectual foundation.
Demonstrating light capture and transfer feeding a conversion step.
A working cell, measured for efficiency and durability.
Scaling from a cell to a module and a demonstration system.
Solar fuels have been studied publicly for over forty years. We stand on that shared foundation and collaborate with academic and research partners — good science compounds fastest in the open.
We welcome collaboration with academic labs and research institutions working on light harvesting, energy transfer, and catalysis.
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