Recent Advances in Artificial Photosynthesis

Introduction Artificial photosynthesis can revolutionize our energy and deal with the crisis of global warming. Since artificial photosynthesis is a renewable and clean energy source, carbon dioxide emissions are zero and solar energy can be used. This innovative research mimics the process of plants by decomposing water molecules and generating hydrogen and oxygen using only energy from sunlight. By using this technology it is possible to convert hydrogen products to fuel and convert it into fuels that bring much benefit to humans, such as transportation, power generation and industry.

Scientists have also made progress in the field of artificial photosynthesis. For example, the research team at the University of California at Berkeley has developed an artificial system that captures carbon dioxide using nanowires or wires with a diameter of one billionth of a meter. The line enters the microbial system and uses the energy from sunlight to reduce carbon dioxide to fuel or polymer. The team announced its design in Nano Letters magazine in 2015. In 2016, members of the same group published research into scientific journals. It is a special artificial photosynthesis system, making liquid fuel using sunlight, water, carbon dioxide. Generally, plants can only use about 1% solar energy and use solar energy to produce organic compounds during photosynthesis. In contrast, researchers' artificial systems can use 10% of solar energy to produce organic compounds.

Large domestic and regional research projects on artificial photosynthesis are designing nanotechnology based systems that decompose water into hydrogen fuel using solar energy. Proposal of global artificial photosynthesis project In 2011, researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) developed what is called an artificial leaf. This artificial leaf decomposes water directly from solar energy into hydrogen and oxygen. When put in a glass of water. "Artificial leaves" produce hydrogen bubbles on one side and oxygen bubbles on the other side

In artificial photosynthesis, water is separated using a technology including nanotechnology, hydrogen is generated using carbon dioxide, and then methanol that stores electromagnetic energy of the sun by chemical bonding is produced. Researchers in this field are using a catalytic system made of abundant and inexpensive materials that is robust, easy to repair, non-toxic, various environmental conditions, uses a wider range of solar spectral regions We are trying to design molecular simulation of photosynthesis. A stable, more efficient execution ultimately enables a greater proportion of the photon energy entering storage compounds, carbohydrates (rather than establishing and maintaining living cells). However, remarkable research faces obstacles, Sun Catalyst's MIT derivative stopped extending the prototype fuel cell in 2012 to save more hydrogen than other methods.