Electricity-powered artificial root nodule

Shengtao Lu; Xun Guan; Chong Liu

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-15314-9

Nature Communications (Mar 2020)

Electricity-powered artificial root nodule

Shengtao Lu,
Xun Guan,
Chong Liu

Affiliations

Shengtao Lu: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Xun Guan: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles
Chong Liu: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15314-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Root nodules are of key importance in nitrogen fixation. Here, the authors report on an electrically powered artificial root nodule for nitrogen fixation made from silicon-based microwires which can accommodate nitrogen fixing symbiotic bacteria for fixing nitrogen into biomass and free ammonia.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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