Abstract
An immobilized chloroplast film, prepared by immobilizing spinach chloroplasts in 2 wt% agar gel, was attached to a SnO2 optically transparent electrode to obtain the immobilized chloroplast film electrode. The immobilized chloroplast film electrode worked as a photoanode under illumination in the presence of methyl viologen, which was an electron carrier from chloroplasts to the SnO2 optically transparent electrode. Water photolysis for producing hydrogen by a photoelectrochemical cell using the immobilized chloroplasts film electrode was successfully achieved. A smooth platinum electrode was used as a cathode to produce hydrogen. The pH and temperature of the anolyte were kept at 7.8 and 25°C. Optimizations of the concentrations of methyl viologen and chlorophyll in the immobilized chloroplast film were studied. The optimumthickness for the immobilized chloroplast film was about 0.8 mm.The immobilized chloroplasts had higher storage stability than that of isolated chloroplasts and they retained more than 50% of the initial activities of photosystem I and photosystem II after 10 days when they were stored at 4°C in the dark. It was conceived from the relationship between the photocurrent and the photosystem I and II activities that the main cause for the decrease in the photocurrent was the photochemical inactivation of photosystem II.
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