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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY
Volume 19, Issue 24, Pages 4131-4137Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b821769f
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- Belgian Federal Government IUAP- PAI [INANOMAT P6/17]
- Ministry of Education, China
- Wuhan University of Technology
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Active thylakoids were encapsulated into a three-dimensional silica network to design a photosynthetic bioreactor suitable for harvesting light and splitting water to oxygen. Since these photosynthetic structures are very sensitive to ionic strength and osmotic pressure as well as traces of alcohols, a biocompatible synthesis pathway has been designed to allow the formation of a robust hybrid silica gel without releasing any by-product during its construction. In these conditions, the photochemical activity of thylakoids can be preserved for more than 40 days. This method has successfully been applied to encapsulate more voluminous organelles such as chloroplasts. The present work can be considered as a step forward and comprehensive advance in the field of encapsulation of biological materials from plant systems.
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