FollowOn July 5th, 2011, the University of East Anglia (Norwich, U.K.) announced research to use solar energy to create fuels and feedstock chemicals, working with the Universities of Manchester (Manchester, U.K.), York (York, U.K.), and Nottingham (Nottingham, U.K.).
Professor Wendy Flavell of the University of Manchester’s Photon Science Institute and her colleagues are working with quantum dot technology to create these fuels, including hydrogen and liquid methanol.
