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Laptops, Cell Phones Powered by Spinach?

  • September 17, 2004

As a "tech head," it's truly awesome to read about how the simplest things like plants can be used for such complex functions such as powering portable laptops and phones. But how? Researchers at MIT incorporated a plant's ability to convert sunlight to energy into world's first solid-state photosynthetic solar cell, a solid-state electronic "spinach sandwich" device that may one day power laptops and cell phones. At the heart of the device is a protein complex dubbed Photosystem I...