Optical properties of microalgae for enhanced biofuels production.
Research seeks to alter the optical characteristics of microalgae in order to improve solar-to-biofuels energy conversion efficiency in mass culture under bright sunlight conditions. This objective is achieved by genetically truncating the size of the light-harvesting chlorophyll arrays that serve to absorb sunlight in the photosynthetic apparatus.
Mitra
Mautusi
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Plant & Microbial Biology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-3102, USA.
Melis
Anastasios
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D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate / Q000737:chemistry; D000818:Animals; D016825:Chlamydomonas reinhardtii / Q000378:metabolism; D002734:Chlorophyll / Q000737:chemistry*; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000502:physiology*; D008027:Light; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D008954:Models, Biological; D055095:Optics and Photonics; D010100:Oxygen / Q000737:chemistry; D010788:Photosynthesis; D011789:Quantum Theory; D012993:Solar Energy; D013472:Sunlight
D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D002734:Chlorophyll; D000255:Adenosine Triphosphate; D010100:Oxygen