Monday, March 28, 2011

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An artificial sheet of water takes energy

Researchers at MIT (USA) have managed to simulate the process of photosynthesis by which plants convert sunlight into chemical energy. Its leaf used artificial sunlight to split water into oxygen and hydrogen and use them to power fuel cells. The system already has appealed to the Indian multinational Tata, which has signed a contract to manufacture a commercial scale.

MIT chemist Daniel Nocera was presented yesterday at the annual meeting of the Society American Chemistry. "Photosynthesis works by absorbing a photon at a time, to make a current that is used by the catalysts to split water.

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