{"id":223684,"date":"2025-10-20T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/biohybrid-leaf-mimics-photosynthesis-to-turn-co%e2%82%82-and-sunlight-into-useful-chemicals"},"modified":"2025-10-20T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T21:03:49","slug":"biohybrid-leaf-mimics-photosynthesis-to-turn-co%e2%82%82-and-sunlight-into-useful-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/biohybrid-leaf-mimics-photosynthesis-to-turn-co%e2%82%82-and-sunlight-into-useful-chemicals","title":{"rendered":"Biohybrid leaf mimics photosynthesis to turn CO\u2082 and sunlight into useful chemicals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/biohybrid-leaf-mimics-photosynthesis-to-turn-coe28282-and-sunlight-into-useful-chemicals2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of products\u2014from plastics to cosmetics\u2014we use every day.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of thousands of chemicals are manufactured by the chemical industry, which transforms raw materials\u2014usually fossil fuels\u2014into useful end products. Due to its size and its use of fossil fuel feedstocks, the chemical industry is responsible for roughly 6% of global carbon emissions.<\/p>\n<p>But researchers led by the University of Cambridge are developing new methods that could one day lead to the \u201cde-fossilization\u201d of this important sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers have demonstrated a new and sustainable way to make the chemicals that are the basis of thousands of products\u2014from plastics to cosmetics\u2014we use every day. Hundreds of thousands of chemicals are manufactured by the chemical industry, which transforms raw materials\u2014usually fossil fuels\u2014into useful end products. Due to its size and its use of fossil [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223684","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\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}