Dr. Haimei Zheng, Staff Scientist, Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

Dr. Zheng and her team of scientists from Berkeley Lab and Nanyang Technical University in Singapore made metal-organic spongy photocatalysts that convert carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) in the presence of sunlight. They were able to make liquid fuels with the noble nanoparticle-decorated spongy material.