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  • YouTube video on our Li-CO2 battery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SSNw2WvAdQ
  • DOE Office of Basic Science (2018): Out of thin air. It is also highlighted in Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) and Argonne national lab.
  • National Science Foundation (NSF, 2018): New design produces true lithium-air battery.  It is also highlighted in Nature Research, Science Daily, Energy Delta Institute, Science Newsline.
  • Chemistry World (2018): Promising high energy lithium battery ditches pure oxygen for air.
  • Yahoo News (2018): New design could make lithium-air batteries practical.
  • Renewable Energy Magazine (2018): Scientists Develop True Lithium-Air Battery.
  • Azo Cleantech (2018): Researchers Develop Lithium-Air Battery Operative at Ambient Conditions.
  • Science Magazine (2016): Small and salty CO2 Reduction scheme.
  • Science Magazine (2014): An edgy way to transform carbon dioxide
  • Science Magazine (2012): Solar fuels take two steps forward.
  • Science Magazine (2010): Cold Refreshment.
  • The Guardian (2016): Cheaper fuel and a cleaner environment.
  • The Times of London (2016): Super fuel from artificial leaves ‘is ready to replace oil’.
  • New York Post (2016): This ‘leaf’ might save us all from global warming.
  • Forbes (2016): How We Use The Sun To Reduce Climate Change And Make Fuel At The Same Time.
  • Facebook: The story on our artificial leaf was shared/liked in Facebook more than 300,000 times.
  • Daily Mail (2016): ‘Super fuel’ from artificial leaves could replace oil: Scientists say innovative system may someday power the world.
  • Huffington Post (2016): This New Solar ‘Leaf’ Turns Sunlight and CO2 into Fuel.
  • The Christian Science Monitor (2016): Scientists flip energy equation with solar leaf that converts CO2 into fuel.
  • Newsweek (2016): ‘Artificial leaf’ creates fuel from CO2 and sunlight.
  • WTTW (Chicago Tonight, 2016): Chicago-Area Scientists Convert Greenhouse Gas into Fuel Source.
  • Chicago Tribune (2016): UIC researchers develop artificial leaf that turns CO2 into fuel.
  • Midwest Energy News (2016): Turning over a new ‘artificial leaf’: Illinois researchers use sun’s energy to convert carbon dioxide to fuel
  • The Electrochemical Society (2016): New Solar Cell Captures CO2 and Sunlight, Produces Fuel.
  • Al-Jazeera (Turk, 2016): Karbondioksitten yakıt ürettiler.
  • Yahoo News (2016): New Solar Device Removes Carbon Dioxide From the Atmosphere.  It is also highlighted in Nature Research, Science Daily, Energy Delta Institute, Science Newsline.
  • Science Daily (2016): Researchers prove surprising chemistry inside a potential breakthrough battery.
  • The Engineer (2016): Scientists solve chemical puzzle thwarting development of lithium air batteries.
  • Chemurope (2015): Graphene heat transfer riddle unraveled. Also, reported in Science daily, Nature Nanotechnology World, Nanowerk, Chemnews, and NCSA.
  • DOE front-page (2014): Graphene Flaws Key to Creating Hypersensitive ‘Electronic Nose’. Also, reported in Materials gate NEWS, Science Daily, Nano Werk, Printed Electronic World, Materials Today, and Semiconductor Engineering.
  • Yahoo News (2014): Carbon dioxide can be future fuel source
  • Yahoo News (UK & Ireland, 2014): Carbon Dioxide Converted into Fuel in Inexpensive Catalytic Method
  • Yahoo News (India, 2014): Future cars may be powered by waste CO2
  • Science daily, Physics News, Nano Werk, Science Codex (2014): New catalyst converts carbon dioxide to fuel
  • Azom (2014): Novel Two-Step Catalytic Process Converts Waste Carbon Dioxide into Syngas
  • New Energy and Fuel (2014): A Major Improvement For Making CO2 Into Fuel
  • Green car Congress (2014): New catalyst improves conversion of CO2 to syngas
  • International Business Times (2014): Carbon Dioxide Converted into Fuel in Inexpensive Catalytic Method
  • Science Daily (2013): Engineers Fine-Tune the Sensitivity of Nano-Chemical Sensor
  • org (2013): Researchers fine-tune the sensitivity of nano-chemical sensor
  • IEEE Spectrum (2013): Defects Have Just the Right Effects for Graphene Sensors
  • Science World Report (2013): Single Gas Molecules Can Now be Detected by Special Graphene Chemical Sensors
  • Azonano (2013): Novel Technique to Control Sensitivity of Graphene Chemical Sensors
  • Science Daily (2013): Flaky Graphene makes reliable chemical sensors. Also reported in Nanowerk, Science Codex, Physics News, redOrbit and UIC News.
  • Azom (2013): Surface defects enhance performance of graphene sensors.
  • Science Debate (2013): Imperfect graphene makes better chemical sensors.
  • Science Daily (2012): Ionic liquid catalyst helps turn emissions into fuels.
  • Scientific American (2012): Novel methods store sunshine as fuel.
  • Nature Climate Change (2012): Approaching Photosynthesis.
  • Cosmos (2012): Artificial leaf mimics photosynthesis generates fuel.
  • PC World (2012): Artificial photosynthesizers render plants obsolete (Take That, Nature).
  • IEEE Spectrum (2012): Prospects for an artificial leaf are growing.
  • Cankao Xiaoxi (2012): America discovered artificial photosynthetic catalyst.
  • Chemistry World Magazine (2010): Electric shock rests nanotube sensor.
  • C & EN (Chemical & Engineering News, 2010): Electron zap clean nanotube sensors.