synthetic photoconversion system Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:46:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Turning Sunlight Into Hydrogen Directly By Using Spinach-Derived Proteins https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunlight-hydrogen-conversion-20110204/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sunlight-hydrogen-conversion-20110204/#respond Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:46:19 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=17006 A system that converts the energy of sunlight directly into hydrogen has been discovered at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Scientists there have managed to design what they call a "biohybrid photoconversion system," which consists in the interaction of plant proteins responsible with photosynthesis and a synthetic polymer they created.

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