The future of artifical leaves

The article as follow was saw in the newspaper.Hope it will help you know more about the synthetic leaves.
On the 245th national meeting at American Chemical Society,Daniel Nocera showed off their latest research results on artifical leaves.He said:we found a surprising fact: some of the catalyst we developed for artificial leaves were found with self-healing abilities, as if they are alive The significance of this new feature is very important, it eliminates the many concerns of our artificial leaves application nocera and his team hope that those who lack access to electricity in remote areas and underdeveloped countries people can rely on their own individual private power plant artificial leaves The team of the original work is: less than 1 quarts (1.14 liters) of drinking water and artificial leaves, continuous 24 hours is enough to provide 100 watts of power And they found on the artificial leaf catalyst self-healing ability, remove the artificial leaves on the water quality requirements No longer need to levels of drinking pure water, sewage can also.
Previous versions of the artificial leaves need to pure water, because the bacteria in the sewage can form a layer of biofilm on the surface of the leaves, hinder the formation of oxygen and hydrogen catalyst self-healing ability makes artificial leaves in sewage containing bacteria can also work as usual Nocera said, we've found a way to the catalyst surface distortion, thus makes the surface is not smooth, the bacteria can't form biofilms on it Then catalyst self-healing abilities can make it by restructuring to distort before working condition Sarah said, there are about 3 billion people around the world live in the absence of the traditional power supply and distribution system, they all need artificial leaves the clean is convenient and cheap source of energy And at present, has a population of nearly 1 billion in the third world countries.