Xiangkun (Elvis) Cao

At Cornell, Xiangkun Cao leads the HI-Light project, a solar-thermal chemical reactor technology for converting CO2 to fuels like syngas or methanol. The technology seeks to achieve a kind of artificial photosynthesis - combining sunlight, CO2 and chemicals to photocatalytically produce renewable fuels. In time this technique could make CO2 capture and conversion economical.