He revealed that the leaf is manufactured using the matrix of protein from silk and chloroplasts, which are the organelles or the green plastids present in plant cells and other green organisms like algae. It is these plastids that allow plants and algae to perform photosynthesis,i.e, the complex process by which green plants use raw materials to produce food and oxygen. Therefore, the same principle and conception is utilized and incorporated in making the silk leaf.  When provided with light and water, the synthetic leaf allegedly acts just like a real leaf and produces oxygen.

It?s very light, low energy-consuming. It?s completely biological and the idea was to use the efficiency of nature in a man-made environment.  Some lighting was created out of this material, using the light to illuminate the house but at the same time to create oxygen for our mother earth, choking on smoke and toxins.

The material is now ready to be used on the facades of buildings and inside ventilation systems in order to generate fresh oxygen. But so many advantages lead the O₂ alternative to the BIG Question of WHETHER IT IS DISADVANTAGEOUS?

Several flaws and disadvantages are associated with synthetics and thus scientists have ensured these are mitigated to a minimal level.Synthetic fibers burn more readily than natural and are prone to heat damage. The silk leaf has been designed in a way that enables transpiration and thus the excess water produces along with O₂  cools the leaf. The leaf is not flammable.

Synthetics are also non-biodegradable in comparison to natural fibres. The advent of this technology will reduce the wastage of synthetics as they can now be used to make more silk leaves. In other words, silk leaf technology can convert waste synthetics to useful oxygen!