If humans can kidnap Optical representation Basically, the food factory for plants – they can, in theory, capture carbon and produce hydrogen, both of which are likely to be useful in combating climate change. Carbon absorption may slow climate change, and may create hydrogen manufacturing efficiently an alternative to fossil fuel that results from carbon dioxide.
Knowing how to use optical acting
The natural “plant” of both elegant and effective plants: it absorbs energy from the sun to treat carbon dioxide and water in the sugar and oxygen that supports it.
Although this looks simple in theory, it is very difficult to perform in practice. It was scholars Decades To re -configure the process. Now, a team of researchers Reports in Nature’s chemistry They made a decisive early step.
Why was this relatively direct natural process very difficult in the laboratory? Basically, the biochemical mechanism that occupies the “plant” of the plant is very complex. The process, which occurs within vegetable cells, requires many steps that include multiple dyes, proteins and other molecules.
Accumulate
To re -create some of these steps, the team of scientists from Korea and Germany literally took a “stacked” approach. They built four molecular “layers” of dyes that mimic that naturally occur in vegetable cells. The stain is light on the light on one end, and it mainly filters it in separate fees, then sends this energy step by step through the stack across the electrons.
Lender Ernst, a graduate student Julius-MAXIMINIAANS-YouIVERSITUT (JMU), Worzberg, is a co-author of Julius-MAXIMINIANS-HIMIVERSITUT (JMU) and Warsburg, which is a participant in the study, in A “Julius-Macimilles-UNESES) (JMU) Warzberg, a co-author of the study in Giulius-Maksimilles-UNIFGT (JMU) and Warzburg, a co-author of Giulius-Makaximilis-UNEFES (JMU) and Warzburg, who is a participant in the study, in A, in A. press release. It is effective and fast. This is an important step towards developing artificial optical representation. “
This is what a four -maker pile it appears to be manufactured in Forburg. It represents another step towards artificial optical representation because it absorbs light energy and transfers it quickly and efficiently in the stack. (Credit image: Leander Ernst / University of Wuerzburg)
Take it
So, what is the next step? Researchers intend to expand the “nano system” of the stacked dye molecules, such as adding more floors to a skyscraper. Hope is that building a stack molecule with a molecule (after, of course, the identification and synthesis of each one) will eventually create a “wire over the molecules”. This carefully created tower of molecules can absorb light energy in theory and move quickly and efficiently over longer distances.
A complex pile of correct molecules, with layers properly, can ultimately mimic what plants do naturally.
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Before joining Discover, Paul Smaglik spent more than 20 years as a scientific journalist, specialized in American life sciences and international scientific job issues. He started his career in newspapers, but he turned into scientific journals. His work appeared in publications, including news of science, science, nature and scientific America.