The process of photosynthesis allows plants to convert inorganic substances into nutrients to feed.
The researchers altered the virus genetic M13, that through the photosynthetic apparatus can produce clean energy.
Altered the virus so that it can use solar energy to split water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen and then use the hydrogen as an energy source.
Now, the next stage of research is to be able to create large and efficient systems based on these artificial photosynthesis, which would produce unlimited quantities of environmentally friendly energy.
The effort to develop methods of artificial photosynthesis has for decades one of the great dreams of the alternative fuel industry.