Artificial Chloroplast Engineering

Scientists have made great breakthroughs in many frontier directions of artificial chloroplast technology. As an innovator in the field of chloroplast engineering, Lifeasible is committed to developing an automated artificial chloroplast assembly platform that provides comprehensive artificial chloroplast engineering services. Our team can use artificial chloroplast technology to imitate the photosynthesis of plant chloroplasts in structure and function, so as to simulate reproduction, improve the photosynthetic efficiency of chloroplasts, and achieve both light energy collection and green and efficient synthesis of required organic matter.

Introduction

The sites of photosynthesis in nature are chloroplasts and chromoplasts. Chloroplasts exist in green plants, and chromoplasts generally exist in algae. Plants and algae use this action to absorb light energy, convert carbon dioxide and water into organic matter, and release oxygen at the same time. However, with the pace of global industrialization, the emission of greenhouse gases, especially CO₂, continues to increase. And the ecological balance is gradually broken, the global average temperature continues to rise, resulting in an increasingly severe living environment. Scientists have successfully used artificial chloroplast technology to recreate chloroplasts to perfectly reproduce photosynthesis that mimics plant chloroplasts in structure and function. The birth of artificial chloroplasts brings good news to the earth and changes the future of the earth and human beings.

Fig. 1. Semi-artificial chloroplast systems with the combination of PSII and ATPase for in vitro ATP synthesis. (Xuan M, et al., 2021)

Our Services

Based on our mature artificial chloroplast assembly platform, our artificial synthetic chloroplasts can achieve better utilization of solar energy to capture CO₂ in the environment and convert it into organic molecules, such as fuels, drugs, etc. In addition, our customers have successfully used artificial chloroplasts in a wide range of fields, including increasing the yield of commercial crops, synthesizing value-added fine chemicals, reducing carbon dioxide emissions, developing clean energy, etc. Here, the artificial chloroplast engineering services we can provide include, but are not limited to:

• Preparation of Artificial Chloroplasts
• Characterization of Artificial Chloroplasts

Designing Artificial Photosynthesis Systems

Compared with natural photosynthesis, artificial photosynthesis has many advantages, such as comparable or higher photocatalytic efficiency, low cost, long lifespan, relatively stable system, low maintenance requirements, and is not constrained by time and space. Therefore, we also design other artificial photosynthesis systems to simulate the natural photosynthesis process to meet your needs in industrial mass production.

(1) In vitro photosynthetic cells or tissues are cultured with material encapsulation, and photosynthetic life-material composite systems are designed.
(2) Simulate natural photosynthesis system PS Ⅱ to make organic supermolecules.
(3) Using the photocatalytic properties of inorganic semiconductor materials, an artificial photocatalytic system was designed.

Lifeasible provides you with professionally and economically oriented chloroplast engineering service projects. Each project will be individually designed to meet our customers' requirements and described in a detailed project report. Our customers have direct access to our experts and provide immediate feedback on any online inquiries. If you are interested in our services, please do not hesitate to contact us.

References

1. Xuan M, Li J. (2021) Photosystem II-based biomimetic assembly for enhanced photosynthesis[J]. National science review. 8(8): nwab051.
2. Miller T E, Beneyton T, Schwander T, et al. (2020) Light-powered CO₂ fixation in a chloroplast mimic with natural and synthetic parts[J]. Science. 368(6491): 649-654.