Bio Solar Panels Bacteria

A researcher at uc berkeley has figured out that when you coat a certain kind of bacteria with nanoscale solar panels you can get it to make biofuel plastics and other products from sunlight.

Bio solar panels bacteria.

The cells use cyanobacteria which. For the first time ever researchers connected nine biological solar bio solar cells into a bio solar panel. The bio photovoltaic panel consists of a battery in which energy is harvested from bacteria inside. Bio photovoltaic panel produces energy from bacteria in soil all images courtesy of apostolos.

Binghamton university researcher seokheun sean choi is developing new ways to create electricity using bacteria. Biological photovoltaic devices are a type of biological electrochemical system or microbial fuel cell and are sometimes also called photo microbial fuel cells or living solar cells. Science daily reports that to harness power from bacteria scientists arranged nine bio solar cells in a 3 by 3 pattern to form a scalable and stackable panel. His small paper based batteries and microbial fuel cells could one day replace.

In a biological photovoltaic system electrons generated by photolysis of water are transferred to an anode. Another interesting aspect is the prospect of generating electricity 24 hours a day using bio solar panels. For the first time ever researchers connected nine biological solar bio solar cells into a bio solar panel. Biosolar outlines its development strategy for breakthrough ev batteries.

We ve seen microbial fuel cells where bacteria are used to breakdown organic material and create an electric current but the approach from binghamton is called a biological solar cell where. The device developed by professor choi and his colleagues continuously generated electricity from photosynthesis and respiratory activities of the bacteria in 12 hour day night cycles over a total of 60 hours.