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US 10,096,787 B2Granted
Bio-solar cells
AssigneeEdward Crowder
InventorEdward Crowder
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Abstract
A bio-solar cell including: one or more photosynthetic complexes, each photosynthetic complex including one or more chlorophyll compounds and one or more components of Photosystem II; one or more carbon nanotubes upon which the one or more photosynthetic complexes are bound at a first region of the one or more carbon nanotubes; and a conductive substrate attached to a second region of the one or more carbon nanotubes.
Claims24
A bio-solar cell comprising:
- one or more carbon nanotubes;
- one or more photosynthetic complexes, wherein each photosynthetic complex consists of one or more chlorophyll compounds, one or more components of Photosystem II, one or more cofactors and one or more antioxidants, and each photosynthetic complex is bound to an exterior surface of one of the one or more carbon nanotubes;
- a conductive substrate attached to each of the one or more carbon nanotubes;
- and
- an insulating layer between the conductive substrate and the one or more photosynthetic complexes, and
- wherein the bio-solar cell directly converts light to electrical energy.
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A method for converting light to electrical energy in a bio-solar cell, the method comprising:
- providing one or more carbon nanotubes;
- receiving light at one or more photosynthetic complexes, wherein each photosynthetic complex consists of one or more chlorophyll compounds, one or more components of Photosystem II, one or more cofactors and one or more antioxidants, wherein each photosynthetic complex is bound to an exterior surface of a first region of one of the one or more carbon nanotubes and converts the light to electrical energy;
- transferring the electrical energy to the first region of each carbon nanotube;
- conducting the electrical energy along the length of each carbon nanotube;
- and
- receiving the electrical energy in a conductive substrate attached to a second region of each carbon nanotube,
- wherein an insulating layer separates the first and second regions of each carbon nanotube.
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A system for converting light directly to electrical energy, the system comprising:
- one or more bio-solar cells, each bio-solar cell comprising:
- one or more carbon nanotubes;
- one or more photosynthetic complexes, wherein each photosynthetic complex consists of one or more chlorophyll compounds, one or more components of Photosystem II, one or more cofactors and one or more antioxidants, wherein each of the photosynthetic complexes convert light to electrical energy, and each photosynthetic complex is bound to an exterior surface of one of the one or more carbon nanotubes;
- a conductive substrate attached to each of the one or more carbon nanotubes, wherein the conductive substrate receives electrical energy conducted by each of the one or more carbon nanotubes;
- and
- an insulating layer between the conductive substrate and the one or more photosynthetic complexes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.