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Bionic Leaf Makes Fuel from Sunlight, Water and Air

2016-06-18 20:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Scientific American: A tree's leaf, a blade of grass, a single algal cell: all make fuel from the simple combination of water, sunlight and carbon dioxide through the miracle of photosynthesis. Now scientists say they have replicatedand improvedthat trick by combining chemistry and biology in a "bionic" leaf. Chemist Daniel Nocera of Harvard University and his team joined forces with synthetic biologist Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School and her team to craft a kind of living battery, which they call a bionic...

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