{"id":152790,"date":"2022-12-13T23:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/producing-green-energy-from-living-plant-bio-solar-cells"},"modified":"2022-12-13T23:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T05:29:10","slug":"producing-green-energy-from-living-plant-bio-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/producing-green-energy-from-living-plant-bio-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"Producing \u2018green\u2019 energy from living plant \u2018bio-solar cells\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/producing-green-energy-from-living-plant-bio-solar-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though plants can serve as a source of food, oxygen and d\u00e9cor, they\u2019re not often considered to be a good source of electricity. But by collecting electrons naturally transported within plant cells, scientists can generate electricity as part of a \u201cgreen,\u201d biological solar cell.<\/p>\n<p>Now, researchers reporting in <i>ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces<\/i> have, for the first time, used a succulent plant to create a living \u201cbio-solar cell\u201d that runs on photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>In all <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/living+cells\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">living cells<\/a>, from bacteria and fungi to <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/plants\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">plants<\/a> and animals, electrons are shuttled around as part of natural, biochemical processes. But if electrodes are present, the cells can actually generate electricity that can be used externally. Previous researchers have created fuel cells in this way with bacteria, but the microbes had to be constantly fed. Instead, scientists, including Noam Adir\u2019s team, have turned to photosynthesis to generate current.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though plants can serve as a source of food, oxygen and d\u00e9cor, they\u2019re not often considered to be a good source of electricity. But by collecting electrons naturally transported within plant cells, scientists can generate electricity as part of a \u201cgreen,\u201d biological solar cell. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces have, for [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-food","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152790","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}