A small team of chemists, having learned the secrets of light absorption from chlorophylls a and b, can now tune molecules to absorb anywhere in the solar spectrum. They are using this facility to ...

A new kind of chlorophyll that catches sunlight from just beyond the red end of the visible light spectrum has been discovered. The new pigment extends the known range of light that is usable by most ...

Researchers may have found a new form of chlorophyll, the pigment that plants, algae and cyanobacteria use to obtain energy from light through photosynthesis. Preliminary findings published August 19 ...

Min Chen holds an Australian Research Council Queen Elizabeth II Fellow and receives funding from ARC. As the great spectre of climate change continues to loom large over the future, the search for ...

Nature still has plenty to teach us about harnessing the sun’s energy. The latest lesson comes from the ancient stromatolites living in Australia’s Shark Bay. Their cyanobacteria contain a newly ...