Project description
Promising news for producing renewable fuel through semi-artificial photosynthesis
Photosynthesis, the light-driven process plants use to convert carbon dioxide and water into high-energy sugars has sustained them for millennia. Scientists are looking to capitalise on nature’s efforts with a mixture of biological and synthetic materials in the hopes of providing clean and renewable fuel for the future. Finding suitable materials for CO2 reduction and water oxidation come up as major roadblocks to pushing the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis. The EU-funded SmArtC project plans to find better natural and synthetic materials that will do this. The project will exploit the high water oxidation potential of Photosystem II with the high CO2-reduction potential of a dual system based on iron porphyrin and an organic dye.
Fields of science
- engineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsrenewable energy
- natural scienceschemical scienceselectrochemistryelectrolysis
- natural scienceschemical sciencescatalysis
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbiochemistrybiomoleculesproteinsenzymes
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesbotany
Programme(s)
Funding Scheme
MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinator
CB2 1TN Cambridge
United Kingdom
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