2015
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b01254
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Nanowire–Bacteria Hybrids for Unassisted Solar Carbon Dioxide Fixation to Value-Added Chemicals

Abstract: Direct solar-powered production of value-added chemicals from CO2 and H2O, a process that mimics natural photosynthesis, is of fundamental and practical interest. In natural photosynthesis, CO2 is first reduced to common biochemical building blocks using solar energy, which are subsequently used for the synthesis of the complex mixture of molecular products that form biomass. Here we report an artificial photosynthetic scheme that functions via a similar two-step process by developing a biocompatible light-cap… Show more

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“…Unlike solar energy, however, large-scale mechanical wind extraction from the atmosphere might be limited. 25 Hybrid approaches, where anorganic solar cells are combined with bacteria, are also possible, 26 but efficiencies are currently low and it is unclear how the drop in production rate under high illumination conditions can be overcome.…”
Section: Advantages and Challenges Of High-efficiency Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Unlike solar energy, however, large-scale mechanical wind extraction from the atmosphere might be limited. 25 Hybrid approaches, where anorganic solar cells are combined with bacteria, are also possible, 26 but efficiencies are currently low and it is unclear how the drop in production rate under high illumination conditions can be overcome.…”
Section: Advantages and Challenges Of High-efficiency Approachesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In 2015, Yang's group published the design of their fully integrated artificial photosynthesis system (8). By Yang's own description, the system is "cyborgian," fusing biology and nanochemistry.…”
Section: An Artificial Leafmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Advanced materials and nanotechnology related to clean coal and fossil fuels, biofuels and biomass conversion, biosystem, and bioinspired system for energy conversion, piezoelectric conversion, and CO 2 capture, storage, and utilization, as well as hydrogen storage, have been researched intensively for clean energy applications in recent decades [48,[61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69]. For example, synthesis of methane (CH 4 ) from syngas (CO ?…”
Section: Othersmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The SSELP process greatly reduced time and costs and appeared promising for the production of fatty acid-derived products from lignocellulosic biomass. Liu et al [61] fabricated a hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria that mimics the natural photosynthetic process by using solar energy to synthesize carbohydrates from CO 2 and H 2 O. The high-surface-area silicon nanowire array harvests light energy to provide reducing equivalents to the anaerobic bacterium, Sporomusa ovata, for the photoelectrochemical production of acetic acid under aerobic conditions (21 % O 2 ) with low over potential (g \ 200 mV), high Faradaic efficiency (up to 90 %), and long-term stability (up to 200 h).…”
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confidence: 99%
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