Greenery as a mitigation and adaptation strategy to urban heat

NH Wong, CL Tan, DD Kolokotsa… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2021 - nature.com
The absence of vegetation in urban areas contributes to the establishment of the urban heat
island, markedly increasing thermal stress for residents, driving morbidity and mortality …

Revisiting solar energy flow in nanomaterial-microorganism hybrid systems

J Liang, K **ao, X Wang, T Hou, C Zeng, X Gao… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Nanomaterial-microorganism hybrid systems (NMHSs), integrating semiconductor
nanomaterials with microorganisms, present a promising platform for broadband solar …

Advancements on process regulation for microalgae-based carbon neutrality and biodiesel production

W Wu, L Tan, H Chang, C Zhang, X Tan, Q Liao… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Microalgae biotechnology is a promising pathway to cope with CO 2 emission and energy
crisis due to high CO 2 fixation rate and lipids productivity. However, bottlenecks of high …

Solar energy conversion by photosystem II: principles and structures

D Shevela, JF Kern, G Govindjee, J Messinger - Photosynthesis research, 2023 - Springer
Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it
sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for …

Phylum Gemmatimonadota and its role in the environment

I Mujakić, K Piwosz, M Koblížek - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Bacteria are an important part of every ecosystem that they inhabit on Earth. Environmental
microbiologists usually focus on a few dominant bacterial groups, neglecting less abundant …

[HTML][HTML] Abundance of kinless hubs within soil microbial networks are associated with high functional potential in agricultural ecosystems

Y Shi, M Delgado-Baquerizo, Y Li, Y Yang… - Environment …, 2020 - Elsevier
Microbial taxa within complex ecological networks can be classified by their universal roles
based on their level of connectivity with other taxa. Highly connected taxa within an …

Light absorption and energy transfer in the antenna complexes of photosynthetic organisms

T Mirkovic, EE Ostroumov, JM Anna… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The process of photosynthesis is initiated by the capture of sunlight by a network of light-
absorbing molecules (chromophores), which are also responsible for the subsequent …

Semiconductor nanocrystals for small molecule activation via artificial photosynthesis

XB Li, ZK **n, SG **a, XY Gao, CH Tung… - Chemical Society …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Facile activation and conversion of small molecules (eg, H2O, CO2, N2, CH4, and C6H6)
into solar fuels or value-added chemicals under mild conditions is an attractive pathway in …

Light harvesting for organic photovoltaics

GJ Hedley, A Ruseckas, IDW Samuel - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
The field of organic photovoltaics has developed rapidly over the last 2 decades, and small
solar cells with power conversion efficiencies of 13% have been demonstrated. Light …

Structure, mechanism, and regulation of the chloroplast ATP synthase

A Hahn, J Vonck, DJ Mills, T Meier, W Kühlbrandt - Science, 2018 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Green plant chloroplasts convert light into chemical energy, and
adenosine triphosphate (ATP) generated by photosynthesis is the prime source of …