Cyanobacterial Biomineralization for Engineering Living Materials with High Carbon Capture

Can Ancient Cyanobacteria Save Our Planet? We are living in a critical decade for climate action, with the current values of CO2 in the atmosphere reaching unprecedent levels. Inspired by the needs to tackle this problem, scientists are developing Engineering Living Materials (ELMs). Those integrate living microorganisms, e.g., photosynthetic cyanobacteria, that can capture CO2 contributing to more sustainable practices. Still, the potential to develop ELMs with high carbon capture efficiency remains to be explored. In this project, the processes that involve CO2 absorption in cyanobacteria will be systematically explored for the unprecedent development of ELMs with high carbon capture efficiency.