Chimeric protein consisting of parts of the natural molecules that doubles the efficiency of photosynthesis, and promises all the sea of clean energy.
If one day people will be able to create an artificial analogue of the plant leaf, and just as efficiently extract the energy of sunlight, it will mean a real breakthrough in the energy sector. It can be even more impressive: U.S. researchers from the group Goldbeka John (John Golbeck) designed a photosynthetic system, which is twice the performance of the natural biochemical mechanisms of plant.
To do this, scientists have artificially put together details of the proteins involved in photosynthesis in cyanobacteria Synechococcus sp. and Clostridium acetobutylicum - a finite cluster of the first protein PSI is connected to the distal cluster PCC 7002 from the second micro-organisms. This, according to the authors, ...
As sometimes happens, the scientists found that could be improved even in such a complex and productive process as photosynthesis, the improvement which has spent billions of years of evolution. However, evolution is blind - and we, the people can act in advance, and quantified by predicting the result of. With the result that the authors have constructed a microscopic device that converts the energy of incident photons in a hydrogen fuel. They are convinced that sooner or later we will be able to provide all their needs clean energy.
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