Photocatalytic organic reactions, harvesting solar energy to produce high value-added
organic chemicals, have attracted increasing attention as a sustainable approach to address …

Water solubility and structural stability are key merits for proteins defined by the primary
sequence and 3D-conformation. Their manipulation represents important aspects of the …

In oxygenic photosynthetic organisms, light energy is captured by antenna systems and
transferred to photosystem II (PSII) and photosystem I (PSI) to drive photosynthesis,. The …

Photosynthetic pigments are an integral and vital part of all photosynthetic machinery and
are present in different types and abundances throughout the photosynthetic apparatus …

Photoelectrochemical water splitting is an attractive solar-to-hydrogen pathway. However,
the lifetime of photoelectrochemical devices is hampered by severe photocorrosion of …

BACKGROUND The harvesting of photons is the first step in photosynthesis, the biological
process that transforms solar energy into chemical energy. The photosynthetic membranes …

Optically active molecular materials, such as organic conjugated polymers and biological
systems, are characterized by strong coupling between electronic and vibrational degrees of …

The construction of efficient artificial light-harvesting systems (ALHSs) is of vital importance
in utilizing solar energy. Herein, we report the non-covalent syntheses of double helicates …

Exciton transport can be enhanced in the strong coupling regime where excitons hybridize
with confined light modes to form polaritons. Because polaritons have group velocity, their …

Solar-to-chemical energy conversion through artificial photosynthesis is an ideal route to
address the global energy crisis and realize carbon neutrality in the future. Over the past …