[HTML][HTML] Solar energy conversion: From natural to artificial photosynthesis

ME El-Khouly, E El-Mohsnawy, S Fukuzumi - Journal of photochemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
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 …

Biophotovoltaics: oxygenic photosynthetic organisms in the world of bioelectrochemical systems

AJ McCormick, P Bombelli, RW Bradley… - Energy & …, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
The field of bioelectrochemical system (BES) research includes a wide range of emerging
technologies that utilise microbes to catalyze anodic and/or cathodic reactions within a fuel …

Photo-biocatalysis: biotransformations in the presence of light

L Schmermund, V Jurkas, FF Özgen, GD Barone… - Acs …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Light has received increased attention for various chemical reactions but also in
combination with biocatalytic reactions. Because currently only a few enzymatic reactions …

Rational wiring of photosystem II to hierarchical indium tin oxide electrodes using redox polymers

KP Sokol, D Mersch, V Hartmann, JZ Zhang… - Energy & …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Photosystem II (PSII) is a multi-subunit enzyme responsible for solar-driven water oxidation
to release O2 and highly reducing electrons during photosynthesis. The study of PSII in …

Bioelectrocatalysis as the basis for the design of enzyme-based biofuel cells and semi-artificial biophotoelectrodes

A Ruff, F Conzuelo, W Schuhmann - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
Bioelectrocatalysis provides access to sustainable and highly efficient technological
applications. However, several limitations related either to the intrinsic properties of the …

Harnessing photosynthesis to produce electricity using cyanobacteria, green algae, seaweeds and plants

Y Shlosberg, G Schuster, N Adir - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The conversion of solar energy into electrical current by photosynthetic organisms has the
potential to produce clean energy. Life on earth depends on photosynthesis, the major …

Biohybrid solar cells: Fundamentals, progress, and challenges

E Musazade, R Voloshin, N Brady, J Mondal… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Over the last two decades many reports have been published on diverse types of biohybrid
electrodes utilizing components of the photosynthetic apparatus. Currently, the development …

Putting photosystem I to work: truly green energy

AH Teodor, BD Bruce - Trends in biotechnology, 2020 - cell.com
Meeting growing energy demands sustainably is one of the greatest challenges facing the
world. The sun strikes the Earth with sufficient energy in 1.5 h to meet annual world energy …

Progress and perspectives in exploiting photosynthetic biomolecules for solar energy harnessing

SK Ravi, SC Tan - Energy & Environmental Science, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Photosynthetic proteins are emerging as a new class of photovoltaic materials as their
nature-designed architecture and internal circuitry are so sophisticated that they carry out …

Biohybrid architectures for efficient light-to-current conversion based on photosystem I within scalable 3D mesoporous electrodes

KR Stieger, SC Feifel, H Lokstein, M Hejazi… - Journal of Materials …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The combination of advanced materials and defined surface design with complex proteins
from natural photosynthesis is currently one of the major topics in the development of …