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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Ghirardi, Maria L.
• Mohanty, Prasanna

Titel

Oxygenic hydrogen photoproduction – current status of the technology

Ist Teil von

• Current science (Bangalore), 2010-02, Vol.98 (4), p.499-507

Ort / Verlag

Current Science Association

Erscheinungsjahr

2010

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Oxygenic photosynthetic microbes such as green algae and cyanobacteria are capable of simultaneously splitting water and generating O₂ and H₂. This property confers them the ability to directly utilize sunlight to produce a clean fuel, H₂ gas. In this article, we discuss the two major classes of enzymes present in these organisms that are involved in H₂ production, hydrogenases and nitrogenases. We also describe the major barriers that must be overcome to bring the process to commercial deployment, as well as recent technological advances in the area.