A graduate student working with the Tufts University silk lab has created an "artificial leaf" by extracting chloroplasts from plants and suspending them in a matrix of silk protein. When provided with water and exposed to light, the leaves will produce oxygen.
Via Fresh Photons.
Interesting, but why not just grow plants?
ReplyDeleteThe inventor's page has some answers
Deletehttp://www.julianmelchiorri.com/SELECTED-WORKS/Silk-Leaf
Truly, downright amazing- feels like we just took a step into the future!
ReplyDeletePS- And we finally have something to replace trees- which as everyone knows, cause more pollution than cars...