{"id":104226,"date":"2020-03-24T17:46:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/team-develops-photosynthetic-proteins-for-expanded-solar-energy-conversion"},"modified":"2020-03-24T17:46:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T00:46:19","slug":"team-develops-photosynthetic-proteins-for-expanded-solar-energy-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/team-develops-photosynthetic-proteins-for-expanded-solar-energy-conversion","title":{"rendered":"Team develops photosynthetic proteins for expanded solar energy conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/team-develops-photosynthetic-proteins-for-expanded-solar-energy-conversion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has developed a new photosynthetic protein system enabling an enhanced and more sustainable approach to solar-powered technological devices.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is part of a broader effort in the field of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/synthetic+biology\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">synthetic biology<\/a> to use proteins in place of man-made materials which are often scarce, expensive and can be harmful to the environment when the device becomes obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the study, published today in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, was the development of \u201cchimera\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/photosynthetic\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">photosynthetic<\/a> complexes that display poly-chromatic solar energy harvesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team of scientists, led by the University of Bristol, has developed a new photosynthetic protein system enabling an enhanced and more sustainable approach to solar-powered technological devices. The initiative is part of a broader effort in the field of synthetic biology to use proteins in place of man-made materials which are often scarce, expensive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,3,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biological","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}