New "Bionic" Leaf Is Roughly 10 Times More Efficient Than Natural Photosynthesis - Scie... - 0 views
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Lottie Peppers on 30 Dec 16Chemist Daniel Nocera of Harvard University and his team joined forces with synthetic biologist Pamela Silver of Harvard Medical School and her team to craft a kind of living battery, which they call a bionic leaf for its melding of biology and technology. The device uses solar electricity from a photovoltaic panel to power the chemistry that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen.