Infrared rays help photosynthetic plants

The research team led by Professor Mimuro of the University of Tokyo, Japan, has discovered that, although the level of plants absorbing solar energy through different photosynthesis, their absorption efficiency is the same.

Photosynthesis can help release oxygen, sugar and 'life-sustaining luggage on Earth'. Under photosynthesis, plants can take advantage of solar energy to conduct electrolysis of water into oxygen.

However, the resolution of water requires high voltage while the organism is difficult to make a high voltage standard above 1.1 volts. Therefore, the water electrolysis reaction becomes the most difficult problem in the photosynthetic system.

The system uses photosynthesis to take advantage of photophilic absorbent energy to generate electricity and is like the principle of solar powered batteries. Usually photosynthesis in organisms that contain chlorophyll a can absorb visible light.

However, the team of scientists found that only blue-green algae could take advantage of near infrared rays to photosynthesize; At the same time, it can take advantage of chlorophyll d to generate electricity.

After conducting comparisons of chlorophyll and chlorophyll d, the scientists discovered that the voltage that chlorophyll d has changed is low, but the voltage unit is needed for the electrical process. Water stools are still preserved. In addition, although the chlorophyll type varies, however, the voltage unit remains unchanged.

This result shows that, although under the action of biological photosynthesis to take advantage of chlorophyll is not the same, but all have obtained a certain oxidation unit to conduct a water resolution reaction. This means that the water electrolysis reaction under photosynthesis has the same principle.

This study demonstrates that, in addition to the sunlight that the naked eye can see, infrared energy with low energy that the naked eye cannot see also makes plants perform photosynthetic effects with similar performance. .

Scientists plan to conduct experiments on ultra-low-energy and long-wavelength infrared rays to confirm how organisms can perform photosynthetic effects at low energy dynamics. .