chapter 1. Solar water splitting using semiconductor systems / Lorenzo Rovelli and K. Ravindranathan Thampi -- chapter 2. Photocatalytic hydrogen evolution / Yusuke Yamada and Shunichi Fukuzumi -- chapter 3. Co2 to fuels / Atsushi Urakawa and Jacinto Sa -- chapter 4. Methane activation and transformation over nano-catalysts / Rajaram Bal and Ankur Bordoloi -- chapter 5. Fischer-Tropsch : fuel production with Co catalysts / Cristina Paun, Jacinto Sa, and Kalala Jalama -- chapter 6. Syngas to methanol and ethanol / Martin Muhler and Stefan Kaluza -- chapter 7. Steam reforming / Karin Fottinger -- chapter 8. Biomass to liquid biofuels via heterogeneous catalysis / Michael Stocker and Roman Tschentscher -- chapter 9. Catalytic pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass / K. Seshan -- chapter 10. Recent trends in the purification of H2 streams by water-gas shift (WGS) and prox / A. Sepulveda-Escribano and J. Silvestre-Albero.