About the Authors

Ryan J. Powell

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ryan White

Affiliation Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Russell T. Hill

hill@umces.edu

Affiliation Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have filed a provisional patent entitled “A High Power Algal Electric Solar Cell” with application number 61655560. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RJP. Performed the experiments: RJP. Analyzed the data: RJP RW RTH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RTH. Wrote the paper: RJP RW RTH.