The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Thiruvananthapuram and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Indore have studied and developed a new artificial light-harvesting system that can efficiently capture light for power conversion by mimicking photosynthesis, the process by which plants absorb sunlight and produce sugars.

The results of this study have been published in the journal of the prestigious Royal Chemical Society – Chemical Science. The paper has been co-authored by IISER Thiruvananthapuram researchers – Dr Sukhendu Mandal, Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry along with his research scholars Dr Sourav Biswas and Mr Anish Kumar Das, and IIT Indore researchers – Professor Biswarup Pathak, Department of Chemistry, IIT Indore, along with this research scholar Mr Surya Sekhar Manna.