{"id":57247,"date":"2017-05-08T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-process-converts-co2-in-air-to-fuel"},"modified":"2017-05-08T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T01:22:38","slug":"new-artificial-photosynthesis-process-converts-co2-in-air-to-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-process-converts-co2-in-air-to-fuel","title":{"rendered":"New artificial photosynthesis process converts CO2 in air to fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-process-converts-co2-in-air-to-fuel.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A win win, assuming it can be manufactured en mass and at a reasonable price.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" class=\"\" title=\"Artificial Photosynthesis\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-process-converts-co2-in-air-to-fuel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"608\" height=\"405\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo and his team of students created a way to use LED light and a porous synthetic metal-organic frameworks (MOF) material to break down carbon dioxide into fuel. (credit: Bernard Wilchusky\/UCF)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">University of Central Florida<\/a> (UCF) chemistry professor has invented a revolutionary way to remove carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>) from air by triggering artificial photosynthesis in a synthetic material \u2014 breaking down carbon dioxide while also producing fuel for energy.<\/p>\n<p>UCF <a href=\"https:\/\/sciences.ucf.edu\/chemistry\/people\/uribe-romo-fernando\/\" target=\"_blank\">Assistant Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo<\/a> and his students used <em><\/em>a synthetic material called a metal\u2013organic framework (MOF), which converts carbon dioxide into harmless organic materials \u2014 similar to how plants convert CO<sub>2<\/sub> and sunlight into food.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-process-converts-co2-in-air-to-fuel\">http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/new-artificial-photosynthesis-proc...ir-to-fuel<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A win win, assuming it can be manufactured en mass and at a reasonable price. Professor Fernando Uribe-Romo and his team of students created a way to use LED light and a porous synthetic metal-organic frameworks (MOF) material to break down carbon dioxide into fuel. (credit: Bernard Wilchusky\/UCF) A University of Central Florida (UCF) chemistry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57247","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}