Welcome to the
Center for Hybrid Approaches in
Solar Energy to Liquid Fuels

Our mission is to to advance hybrid photoelectrodes for the photon-driven generation of liquid fuels from CO₂ and water

CHASE was initiated in 2020 by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. In September 2025, the second Phase of the Center began, and emphasizes its research efforts on liquid fuels and chemicals from the abundant feedstocks found in air.

Please pardon our dust! As we transition from Phase I of CHASE to Phase II, our public facing website will be undergoing some renovations! In the meantime, please go check out the CHASE publications which will be kept entirely up to date. If you have any questions, please see our Contact page!

“The biggest barrier is to couple the light harvesting component of photosynthesis with the chemical fuel production component. Both of those individually will be challenging research targets, but finding a way to integrate the science of light harvesting and solar energy capture with the fuel production chemistry is really our major challenge.” -

Director Jillian Dempsey