Tobacco Plants Used for Electricity

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A group of scientists tried to inject into tobacco plants bacteria for to produce solar cells, electricity.
Tobacco plants could help the world to produce fossil fuels,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to scientists from the University of California, Berkeley. Scientists used bacteria to generate the building blocks for artificial photovoltaic and photochemical cells. This method could lead to cheap,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], temporary and biodegradable solar cells.
“It’s very difficult to recreate photosynthesis,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], because the precision of each structure is very important, and it’s very hard to pick up one molecule and put it where you want it to be,” said Angela Belcher, a researcher at MIT who uses viruses to build batteries and other structures.
Trapped within the plant,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the small structures don’t produce electricity or chemicals. To get at the synthetic chromophores,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], scientists would have to harvest the plants, chop them up, and then extract the structures. Dissolved in a liquid solution,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the structures are pulverized over a glass or plastic substrate coated with molecules that protect the rods to the plastic.