Researchers at UPSC are part of a research program on artificial photosynthesis that was recently granted by 'Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelser' with more than 40Mkr for 5 years. The idea is to try to understand exactly how plants absorb and use light energy and with this knowledge as a template create an artificial system that can harvest light and produce energy in a useful form for mankind, for example hydrogen, or other high energy compounds. The plant physiologist Goran Samuelsson, the chemist Johannes Messinger and the physicist Mattias Marklund, are 3 of the researchers that will be part of this multidisciplinary project.

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