Green light: Biochemists describe light-driven conversion of greenhouse gas to fuel
Wednesday, August 24, 2016 - 15:01
in Physics & Chemistry
By way of a light-driven bacterium, Utah State University biochemists are a step closer to cleanly converting harmful carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion into usable fuels. Using the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, the scientists generated methane from carbon dioxide in one enzymatic step.