Queen Mary University of London: Innovation paves way to make 'clean' chemicals, plastics and food using solar energy
- May 18
- 1 min read
Integrated solar reactor uses sunlight, water, CO2 and engineered bacteria to grow biomass in a single beaker.
A new study led by Dr Lin Su of Queen Mary University of London, published today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, describes a new integrated solar reactor in which engineered Escherichia coli (E. coli) are grown directly inside the same liquid that converts CO₂ into a usable energy source using sunlight.
In future, this technology may be used to make environmentally clean chemicals, plastics or even microbial protein.
