Viruses harnessed to split water
Sunday, April 11, 2010 - 14:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Researchers have found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use the power of sunlight to split water and make chemical fuel to power their growth. In this case, scientists used a modified virus as a kind of biological scaffold that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms.