The four-electron oxidation of water (2H2O→ O2+ 4H++ 4e−) is considered the main
bottleneck in artificial photosynthesis. In nature, this reaction is catalysed by a Mn4CaO5 …

Because sunlight is diffuse and intermittent, substantial use of solar energy to meet
humanity's needs will probably require energy storage in dense, transportable media via …

Solar energy has a great potential as a clean, cheap, renewable and sustainable energy
source, but it must be captured and transformed into useful forms of energy as plants do. An …

Energy is the most important issue of the 21st century. About 85% of our energy comes from
fossil fuels, a finite resource unevenly distributed beneath the Earth's surface. Reserves of …

The worldwide emergence of nanoscale science and engineering was marked by the
announcement of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) in January 2000. Recent …

Understanding electronic communication among the constituents in multicomponent
macromolecular architectures is essential for the rational design of molecular devices for …

Almost two decades after the outstanding X-ray crystallographic studies of light-harvesting
antenna complex LH2 of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila, a …

We have proposed a novel strategy for artificial photosynthesis where porphyrins and
fullerenes are assembled as building blocks into nanostructured artificial photosynthetic …

The first example of a working model of the photosynthetic antenna-reaction center complex,
constructed via self-assembled supramolecular methodology, is reported. For this, a …

We study spectrally resolved dynamics of Förster energy transfer in single monolayers and
bilayers of semiconductor nanocrystal quantum dots assembled using Langmuir− Blodgett …