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From microscale energy-carrier transport to macroscale solutions for a sustainable future
Our vision
The Laboratory for Integrated Green Harvesting & Transport, the LIGHT Lab (Cao Group), envisions a future where humanity can grow—through artificial intelligence, industry, and society—within the Earth's environmental limits. We develop the engineering principles and technologies needed to build the physical systems for a sustainable future, where energy, carbon, water, and materials are harvested, transported, and transformed to enable both human prosperity and planetary health.
To realise this vision, we pioneer the multiscale design of mechanical, biological, and chemical systems powered by multiple driving forces, such as light, heat, motion, electricity, plasma, magnetism, ultrasound, and microwaves. By mastering the generation, transport, and conversion of energy carriers such as photons, phonons, electrons, and ions from the molecular to the systems scale, we create transformative solutions for carbon management, sustainable fuels, climate technologies, industrial decarbonisation, and the physical infrastructure that will underpin the next generation of artificial intelligence.