{"id":92164,"date":"2019-06-15T22:56:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T05:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spinach-power-for-solar-cells"},"modified":"2019-06-15T22:56:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T05:56:08","slug":"spinach-power-for-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/spinach-power-for-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"Spinach power for solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spinach-power-for-solar-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Popeye would be proud.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Popeye uses spinach to power his muscles. Now, scientists are looking to spinach as a power source for making electricity.<\/p>\n<p>A solar cell converts sunlight into electricity. Most of these, today, are made of a material called silicon. The new device instead uses proteins from spinach and from a bacterium called <em>Rhodobacter sphaeroides<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>To make the solar cell, a team of biologists and chemists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge extracted certain light-sensitive proteins from the spinach and the bacteria. They placed about 2 billion of these proteins on a piece of glass. They made the proteins stick by embedding them in a special framework that looks and acts like a cell membrane.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Popeye would be proud. Popeye uses spinach to power his muscles. Now, scientists are looking to spinach as a power source for making electricity. A solar cell converts sunlight into electricity. Most of these, today, are made of a material called silicon. The new device instead uses proteins from spinach and from a bacterium called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92164","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\/526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}