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"We'd like to adopt an entirely different concept, to mimic photosynthesis by copying the elaborate architectures of green leaves," Fan says.

 

Fan and his colleagues used several types of leaves as a template, including the grape-leaved anemone (Anemone vitifolia). First, they treated the leaves with dilute hydrochloric acid, allowing them to replace magnesium atoms - which form a crucial part of plants' photosynthetic machinery - with titanium (see illustration).

Artificial leaf could make green hydrogen - tech - 10 January 2010 - New Scientist

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