Hybrid Artifical Leaf Creates Medicine and Fuel

Hybrid Artifical Leaf Creates Medicine and Fuel
Apr-20-15
A hybrid artificial leaf created by a team of Berkeley researchers can capture carbon dioxide before it reaches the atmosphere and then convert it into medicine or liquid fuel.

Being called a game-changer in artificial photosynthesis, the hybrid system is made up of an array of light-capturing, biocompatible silicon and titanium oxide nanowires seeded with microbes that will produce enzymes that catalyze the carbon dioxide reduction process. As the nanowires absorb the sunlight, they generate photo-excited electron pairs which are either used to split water molecules into oxygen or used by the bacteria to reduce the CO2.

Once the CO2 has been reduced, genetically engineered E.coli can be used to synthesize desired chemical products.

Hybrid Artifical Leaf Creates Medicine and Fuel


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