{"id":122128,"date":"2023-02-07T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=122128"},"modified":"2023-02-02T11:56:47","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T10:56:47","slug":"artificial-photosynthesis-uses-sunlight-to-make-biodegradable-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/artificial-photosynthesis-uses-sunlight-to-make-biodegradable-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial photosynthesis uses sunlight to make biodegradable plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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\"Fumaric
Fumaric acid synthesis from CO2<\/sub>\u00a0using solar energy. Using sunlight to power the photoredox system pyruvic acid and CO2<\/sub>\u00a0are converted into fumaric acid, by malate dehydrogenase and fumarase.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

In recent years, environmental problems caused by global warming have become more apparent due to greenhouse gases such as CO2<\/sub>. In natural photosynthesis, CO2<\/sub>\u00a0is not reduced directly, but is bound to organic compounds which are converted to glucose or starch. Mimicking this, artificial photosynthesis could reduce CO2<\/sub>\u00a0by combining it into organic compounds to be used as raw materials, which can be converted into durable forms such as plastic.<\/strong>

A research team led by Professor Yutaka Amao from the Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis and graduate student Mika Takeuchi, from the Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Science, have succeeded in synthesizing fumaric acid from CO2<\/sub>, a raw material for plastics, powered\u2014for the first time\u2014by sunlight. Their findings were published in\u00a0Sustainable Energy & Fuels<\/em><\/a>.

Fumaric acid is typically synthesized from petroleum, to be used as a raw material for making biodegradable plastics such as polybutylene succinate, but this discovery shows that fumaric acid can be synthesized from CO2<\/sub>\u00a0and biomass-derived compounds using renewable solar energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToward the practical application of artificial photosynthesis, this research has succeeded in using visible light\u2014renewable energy\u2014as the power source,\u201d explained Professor Amao<\/strong>. \u201cIn the future, we aim to collect gaseous CO2<\/sub>\u00a0and use it to synthesize fumaric acid directly through artificial photosynthesis.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Funding<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

This work was partially supported by Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) (22H01872) and Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research (Fostering Joint International Research (B)) (19KK0144).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reference<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Journal: Sustainable Energy & Fuels<\/em>; Author: Mika Takeuchi and Yutaka Amao; Title: Visible-light driven fumarate production from CO2<\/sub>\u00a0and pyruvate by the photocatalytic system with dual biocatalysts<\/a>; DOI: 10.1039\/D2SE01533A<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Research Center for Artificial Photosynthesis
Prof. Yutaka AMAO
E-mail: amao@omu.ac.jp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In recent years, environmental problems caused by global warming have become more apparent due to greenhouse gases such as CO2. In natural photosynthesis, CO2\u00a0is not reduced directly, but is bound to organic compounds which are converted to glucose or starch. Mimicking this, artificial photosynthesis could reduce CO2\u00a0by combining it into organic compounds to be used […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","nova_meta_subtitle":"Synthesis of fumaric acid by a new method of artificial photosynthesis, using sunlight","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572,5571],"tags":[5842,5847,12455,13634,10743],"supplier":[20946],"class_list":["post-122128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","category-co2-based","tag-biomass","tag-bioplastics","tag-compounds","tag-photosynthesis","tag-useco2","supplier-osaka-metropolitan-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122128"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=122128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}