{"id":197265,"date":"2024-10-08T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-invent-artificial-plant-that-cleans-indoor-air-and-generates-electricity"},"modified":"2024-10-08T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T02:24:13","slug":"scientists-invent-artificial-plant-that-cleans-indoor-air-and-generates-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/10\/scientists-invent-artificial-plant-that-cleans-indoor-air-and-generates-electricity","title":{"rendered":"Scientists invent artificial plant that cleans indoor air and generates electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-artificial-plant-that-cleans-indoor-air-and-generates-electricity.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have invented an artificial plant that can simultaneously clean indoor air while generating enough electricity to power a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p>A team from Binghamton University in New York created an artificial leaf \u201cfor fun\u201d using five biological <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/solar-cells\">solar cells<\/a> and their photosynthetic bacteria, before realising that the device could be used for practical applications.<\/p>\n<p>A proof-of-concept plant with five artificial leaves was capable of generating electricity and oxygen, while removing CO2 at a far more efficient rate than natural plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have invented an artificial plant that can simultaneously clean indoor air while generating enough electricity to power a smartphone. A team from Binghamton University in New York created an artificial leaf \u201cfor fun\u201d using five biological solar cells and their photosynthetic bacteria, before realising that the device could be used for practical applications. A [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1512,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-mobile-phones","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197265","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}