Bio-Inspired Microreactors Continuously Synthesize Glucose Precursor from CO₂ with an Energy Conversion Efficiency 3.3 Times of Rice.

ABSTRACT: Excessive CO₂ and food shortage are two grand challenges of human society. Directly converting CO₂ into food materials can simultaneously alleviate both, like what green crops do in nature. Nevertheless, natural photosynthesis has a limited energy efficiency due to low activity and specificity of key enzyme D-ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (RuBisCO). To enhance the efficiency, many prior studies focused on engineering the enzymes, but this study chooses to learn from the nature to design more efficient reactors. This work is original in mimicking the stacked structure of thylakoids in chloroplasts to immobilize RuBisCO in a microreactor using the layer-by-layer strategy, obtaining the continuous conversion of CO₂ into glucose precursor at 1

SUBMITTER: Zhu Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10853710 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature