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Scientists invent photosynthetic 'living' material that sucks CO2 out of the atmosphere
Scientists have developed a material with photosynthetic bacteria that convert carbon dioxide into a mineral skeleton. The material hardens over time, so it could be used for buildings, they say.
You may like "The material can store carbon not only in biomass, but also in the form of minerals — a special property of these cyanobacteria," study co-author Mark Tibbitt, an associate professor of macromolecular engineering at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, said in a statement. "Cyanobacteria are among the oldest life forms in the world," study co-author Yifan Cui, a doctoral student in macromolecular engineering at ETH Zurich, said in the statement. (Image credit: Valentina Mori / Biennale di Venezia)In the study, the researchers bathed the hydrogels in artificial seawater to supply the necessary nutrients for mineral precipitation.
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