Sentences with phrase «photosynthesis system»

The goal is an artificial photosynthesis system that's at least 10 times more efficient than natural photosynthesis.

Berkeley Lab researchers are using M. thermoacetica to perform photosynthesis — despite being non-photosynthetic — and also to synthesize semiconductor nanoparticles in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products.

Armed with their improved catalyst, the Sargent lab is now working to build their artificial photosynthesis system at pilot scale.

By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, a potentially game - changing new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

In artificial photosynthesis systems chromophores, or «photosensitizers,» absorb light energy and transfer electrons to the catalyst, which activates the chemical reaction.

The bacterium Moorella thermoacetica is being used to perform photosynthesis in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products.

Armed with their improved catalyst, the Toronto team is now working to build their artificial photosynthesis system at pilot scale.

By combining biocompatible light - capturing nanowire arrays with select bacterial populations, the new artificial photosynthesis system offers a win / win situation for the environment: solar - powered green chemistry using sequestered carbon dioxide.

The invention marks a significant milestone in the realisation of a scalable artificial photosynthesis system for clean and sustainable production of important organic molecules like ethylene.

The catalyst is part of an artificial photosynthesis system being developed at U of T Engineering.

The team also incorporated a battery in the prototype device to attain stable and continuous production of ethylene, a key challenge in artificial photosynthesis systems.

This copper catalyst was subsequently introduced into an artificial photosynthesis system to convert carbon dioxide and water into ethylene using only solar energy.

Researchers from Harvard University has successfully developed an artificial photosynthesis system that can convert solar energy into biomass more efficiently than the fastest - growing plants.

Abstract: Ion conducting membranes are of interest for various energy applications including fuel cells and artificial photosynthesis systems.

While the scientific challenges of producing such fuels are considerable, JCAP will capitalize on state - of - the - art capabilities developed during its initial five years of research, including sophisticated characterization tools and unique automated high - throughput experimentation that can quickly make and screen large libraries of materials to identify components for artificial photosynthesis systems.

The first direct, temporally resolved observations of intermediate steps in water oxidation using cobalt oxide, an Earth - abundant solid catalyst, revealed kinetic bottlenecks whose elimination would help boost the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis systems.

University of Toronto researchers Xueli Zheng, left, and Bo Zhang test a previous catalyst for the artificial photosynthesis system.

The catalyst is part of an artificial photosynthesis system in development at the University of Toronto.

As both an «electrograph» (meaning it can undergo direct electron transfers from an electrode), and an «acetogen» (meaning it can direct nearly 90 - percent of its photosynthetic products towards acetic acid), M. thermoacetica serves as the ideal model organism for demonstrating the capabilities of this hybrid artificial photosynthesis system.

«The bacteria / inorganic - semiconductor hybrid artificial photosynthesis system we've created is self - replicating through the bio-precipitation of cadmium sulfide nanoparticles, which serve as the light harvester to sustain cellular metabolism,» Yang says.

JCAP will capitalize on advanced capabilities developed during its initial five years of research, including sophisticated characterization tools and unique automated high - throughput experimentation that can quickly make and screen large libraries of materials to identify components for artificial photosynthesis systems.

Researchers in Canada have demonstrated a new photochemical diode artificial photosynthesis system that can enable efficient, unassisted overall pure water splitting without using any sacrificial reagent.

Cross-sectional SEM image of the nanowire / bacteria hybrid array used in a revolutionary new artificial photosynthesis system.

«We have used the salting out effect and applied it to an artificial photosynthesis system that can naturally separate liquid fuels without requiring highly sophisticated membranes.»

A key to the success of their artificial photosynthesis system is the separation of the demanding requirements for light - capture efficiency and catalytic activity that is made possible by the nanowire / bacteria hybrid technology.

This break - through artificial photosynthesis system has four general components: (1) harvesting solar energy, (2) generating reducing equivalents, (3) reducing CO2 to biosynthetic intermediates, and (4) producing value - added chemicals.

A team at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Germany, and collaborators at ETH Zurich and the University of Cambridge, have developed a system that enables time - delayed photocatalytic hydrogen generation — essentially, an artificial photosynthesis system that can operate in the dark.

In a 2016 study, Berkeley Lab scientists used the bacterium Moorella thermoacetica in a hybrid artificial photosynthesis system for converting sunlight into valuable chemical products.

The pollution - eating bike, from Bangkok's Lightfog creative studio, is an electric bicycle concept that is said to include not only a handlebar - mounted air filter, but also a «photosynthesis system» that can generate oxygen from a reaction with water and electricity from the lithium - ion battery that powers the bike.

While the scientific challenges of producing such fuels are considerable, JCAP will capitalize on state - of - the - art capabilities developed during its initial five years of research, including sophisticated characterization tools and unique automated high - throughput experimentation that can quickly make and screen large libraries of materials to identify components for artificial photosynthesis systems.