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Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy

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  Published by Monash University on March 8, 2023   Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain.                                                             Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy . The finding, published today in the journal Nature , reveals that this enzyme uses the low amounts of the hydrogen in the atmosphere to create an electrical current . This finding opens the way to create devices that literally make energy from thin air . The research team, led by Dr. Rhys Grinter , Ph.D. student Ashleigh Kropp , and Professor Chris Greening from the Monash University Biomedicine Discovery Institute in Melbourne , Australia, produced and analyzed a hydro...