Researchers from the Academia Sinica and the National Cheng Kung University in Taipei and Tainan have implanted glowing, sea urchin shaped gold nanoparticles, known as bio light emitting diodes, or bio LEDs, inside the leaves of a plant.
"In the future, bio-LED could be used to make roadside treesluminiscent at night. This will save energy and absorb carbon dioxide as the bio-LED luminiscence will cause the chrolplast to conduct photosynthesis," Discovery News quoted Yen-Hsun Su in an interview with Chemistry World, as saying.
Scientists hope that the trees treated with gold nanoparticles would produce enough light that they could replace electric or gas street lights.
Source: Journal Nanoscale and as reported by Yahoo News India/ANI
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