Producing ‘green’ energy — literally — from living plant ‘bio-solar cells’ (IMAGE)

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Producing ‘green’ energy — literally — from living plant ‘bio-solar cells’

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The ice plant succulent shown here can become a living solar cell and power a circuit using photosynthesis.

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Adapted from ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2022, DOI: 10.1021/acsami.2c15123

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