Solar fuels production is the use of sunlight to drive the formation of high energy molecules (e.g. H₂, CH₃OH, NH₃) from abundant feedstocks (e.g. H₂O, N₂, CO₂). The field of solar fuels has the potential to deliver carbon free fuels and chemicals with applications ranging from energy storage, heating, transportation and manufacturing.
 
● Inorganic photocatalysts and photoelectrodes
The discovery and study of inorganic materials and molecules for light driven solar fuels and chemicals production
 
● Organic photocatalysts and photoelectrodes

Devices and catalysts based on polymers and organic molecules
 
● Electrocatalysis for sustainable fuels and chemicals

Advances in experimental and theoretical studies of electrocatalysis in integrated solar to X or power to X pathways. Including but not limited to water splitting, CO₂ and N₂ conversion
 
● Biological and bioinspired solar fuels approaches

Biological systems, biohybrid systems and bioinspired systems
 
● Advanced methods for the study and discovery of Solar to X materials

Approaches to discovery and mechanistic analysis, fundamental studies of existing materials to high throughput and digitally enabled discovery approaches
 
● Devices to deployment

The science and engineering challenges around developing deployable devices and how they are measured/assessed