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Neat News 2017-179 (added 2017-06-28)

Artificial Leaves

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There is ongoing work to create artificial leaves which can perform artificial photosynthesis, that is, to create energy from CO2, water, and sunlight. Several groups are working on this, one group succeeded in producing alcohols exceeding the energy conversion of natural leaves. The natural leaves use around 1 percent of the energy in the light, the artificial ones about 10 percent.

News seen at: Scientific American - Sustainability

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