Synthetic sugar for sustainable power!
Institut Mondor de la Recherche Biomédicale, Créteil, France
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- Subject Areas
- Bioengineering, Biotechnology, Plant Science, Synthetic Biology
- Keywords
- Artificial Photosynthesis, Sustainable energy, Biofuels, Synthetic sugar
- Copyright
- © 2013 Moustafa
- Licence
- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
- Cite this article
- 2013. Synthetic sugar for sustainable power! PeerJ PrePrints 1:e66v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.66v1
Abstract
Natural photosynthesis allows biological systems to remarkably combine carbon dioxide and water molecules under sunlight to produce energy in the form of stored sugars. The stored sugar is then used by plants and animals to exert vital biological functions. If scientists can find the right protocol and materials to mimic this natural system to produce fermentable sugars, it could be the McCoy sustainable energy source for the future. The objective here is not to recall the photosynthesis mechanism, but to provide a future brief vision for a conceptual application of photosynthesis to produce bioethanol from organic synthetized sugar rather than from plants, which should be saved for human and animal feeding.