The European Innovation Council (EIC) has granted 4 million euros to a research project that is setting out to tackle one of humanity's greatest challenges: how to produce food sustainably without traditional agriculture.
The project aims to design a solar-powered device that combines photosynthetic bacteria with food-producing microbes to convert carbon dioxide and nitrogen from the air into essential nutrients like proteins and fats – eliminating the need for traditional farming.
Together with researchers from Cambridge, Professor Stephan Sylvest Keller, DTU Nanolab, and Professor Jenny Emnéus, DTU Bioengineering, will co-develop novel electrode materials and design the overall integrated system that unites biological and electrical components for direct nutrient harvesting.
