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.

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