How A Hacked Virus Is Bringing Us Closer To Artificial Photosynthesis
by The Daily Eye Team October 19 2015, 3:38 pm Estimated Reading Time: 0 mins, 18 secsResearchers at MIT have offered an answer, however indirectly. They have hijacked the hijacker, reprogramming virus particles to function as a structural scaffolding in a light-harvesting antenna system. The result, which is described in this week’s Nature Materials, is a significant boost in the energy transport efficiency of an organic photovoltaic cell.