Converting light into energy with ‘artificial leaf’ one step closer

Science imitating Nature: researchers at Leiden University are a step closer to producing an "artificial leaf" (Photo: Noel McKeegan)

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As an efficient, natural means of capturing solar energy, photosynthesis is hard to beat. But it’s also proving extremely difficult to duplicate. That’s why researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands are very excited at having built a light-harvesting antenna using the chlorophyll of the alga Spirulina: they’re now halfway towards the artificial leaf.

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