Sounds very sci-fi but... "Zhang's team managed to artificially stabilise the protein complex at the heart of their system - comprised of 14 protein subunits and hundreds of chlorophyll molecules - using synthetic peptides to bind small amounts of water to it, within a sealed unit.
Light particles, or photons, excite coupled pairs of electrons within chlorophyll, causing an electron to transfer to a nearby receptor molecule."
So it doesn't sound like we'll be growing our power conversion any time soon but perhpas this could be an economic slution that doesn't depend on rare-ish metals.
New solar cells to be powered by spinach:
No comments:
Post a Comment