{"id":208677,"date":"2025-03-14T09:08:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/artificial-photosynthesis-converts-organic-waste-into-useful-pharmaceuticals-and-energy"},"modified":"2025-03-14T09:08:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-14T14:08:30","slug":"artificial-photosynthesis-converts-organic-waste-into-useful-pharmaceuticals-and-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/artificial-photosynthesis-converts-organic-waste-into-useful-pharmaceuticals-and-energy","title":{"rendered":"Artificial photosynthesis converts organic waste into useful pharmaceuticals and energy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/artificial-photosynthesis-converts-organic-waste-into-useful-pharmaceuticals-and-energy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team led by Assistant Professor Shogo Mori and Professor Susumu Saito at Nagoya University has developed a method of artificial photosynthesis that uses sunlight and water to produce energy and valuable organic compounds, including pharmaceutical materials, from waste organic compounds. This achievement represents a significant step toward sustainable energy and chemical production.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were published in <i>Nature<\/i> Communications.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArtificial photosynthesis involves <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/chemical+reactions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">chemical reactions<\/a> that mimic the way plants convert sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide into energy-rich glucose,\u201d Saito explained. \u201cWaste products, which are often produced by other processes, were not formed; instead, only energy and useful chemicals were created.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team led by Assistant Professor Shogo Mori and Professor Susumu Saito at Nagoya University has developed a method of artificial photosynthesis that uses sunlight and water to produce energy and valuable organic compounds, including pharmaceutical materials, from waste organic compounds. This achievement represents a significant step toward sustainable energy and chemical production. The [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208677","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}