Newly discovered enzyme that turns air into electricity, providing a new clean source of energy
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 hydrogen -consuming enzyme from a common soil bacterium . Original article