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University of Michigan Develops Breakthrough in Artificial Photosynthesis for Sustainable Fuels - TUN
UMiche researchers have achieved a significant milestone in artificial photosynthesis, creating a system that efficiently converts CO2 into ethylene, potentially revolutionizing sustainable fuel production.
“The performance, or the activity and stability, is about five to six times better than what is typically reported for solar energy or light-driven carbon dioxide reduction to ethylene,” Zetian Mi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Michigan and the corresponding author of the study published in Nature Synthesis, said in a news release. By harnessing light to convert CO2 into ethylene, this newly engineered device presents a greener alternative that could mitigate the carbon footprint of plastic manufacturing and pave the way for cleaner industrial processes. “In the future, we want to produce some other multicarbon compounds such as propanol with three carbons or liquid products,” first author Bingxing Zhang, an assistant research scientist in electrical and computer engineering at U-M, said in the news release.
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