{"id":155594,"date":"2023-01-16T18:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T00:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-have-developed-a-living-bio-solar-cell-that-runs-on-photosynthesis"},"modified":"2023-01-16T18:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T00:23:48","slug":"scientists-have-developed-a-living-bio-solar-cell-that-runs-on-photosynthesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/scientists-have-developed-a-living-bio-solar-cell-that-runs-on-photosynthesis","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Have Developed a Living \u201cBio-Solar Cell\u201d That Runs on Photosynthesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-developed-a-living-bio-solar-cell-that-runs-on-photosynthesis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plants are often thought of as sources of food, oxygen, and decoration, but not as a source of electricity. However, scientists have discovered that by harnessing the natural transport of electrons within plant cells, it is possible to generate electricity as part of a green, biological solar cell. In a recent study published in <em>ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces<\/em>, researchers for the first time used a succulent plant to create a living \u201cbio-solar cell\u201d that runs on photosynthesis.<\/p>\n<p>Photosynthesis is how plants and some microorganisms use sunlight to synthesize carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plants are often thought of as sources of food, oxygen, and decoration, but not as a source of electricity. However, scientists have discovered that by harnessing the natural transport of electrons within plant cells, it is possible to generate electricity as part of a green, biological solar cell. In a recent study published in ACS [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-food","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155594","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\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}