Monday, January 5, 2015

An "artificial leaf"

mariyam | 8:59 AM | |

A graduate student working with the Tufts University silk lab has created an "artificial leaf" by extracting chloroplasts from plants and suspending them in a matrix of silk protein.  When provided with water and exposed to light, the leaves will produce oxygen.

Via Fresh Photons.

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