Foreign Policy Global Thinkers award for EES authors

Credit: Foreign Policy magazine

We are delighted to announce that Energy and Environmental Science authors Florent Boudoire, Rita Toth, Jakob Heier, Artur Braun and Edwin C. Constable have been listed among Foreign Policy magazine’s “100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2014” for their work on advancing solar technology using rust and moth eyes.

The researchers are based at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology and the University of Basel, Switzerland and were honoured in the innovators section. The Foreign Policy editors noted on their work that ‘The advance opens up a new method for hydrogen-fuel production and could let the next generation of solar technologies take wing.’

For further information take a look at the Global Thinkers website and make sure to read the original EES article!

Photonic light trapping in self-organized all-oxide microspheroids impacts photoelectrochemical water splitting
Florent Boudoire, Rita Toth, Jakob Heier, Artur Braun and Edwin C. Constable
Energy Environ. Sci., 2014,7, 2680-2688

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