Interfacing nature's catalytic machinery with synthetic materials for semi-artificial photosynthesis

N Kornienko, JZ Zhang, KK Sakimoto, P Yang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Semi-artificial photosynthetic systems aim to overcome the limitations of natural and artificial
photosynthesis while providing an opportunity to investigate their respective functionality …

Semi-biological approaches to solar-to-chemical conversion

X Fang, S Kalathil, E Reisner - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
This review presents a comprehensive summary of the recent development in semi-artificial
photosynthesis, a biological-material hybrid approach to solar-to-chemical conversion that …

Design strategies for electrocatalysts from an electrochemist's perspective

J Linnemann, K Kanokkanchana, K Tschulik - ACS catalysis, 2021 - ACS Publications
The aim to produce highly active, selective, and long-lived electrocatalysts by design drives
major research efforts toward gaining fundamental understanding of the relationship …

Close-packed nanowire-bacteria hybrids for efficient solar-driven CO2 fixation

Y Su, S Cestellos-Blanco, JM Kim, Y Shen, Q Kong… - Joule, 2020 - cell.com
Microbial electro-and photo-electrochemical CO 2 fixation, in which CO 2-reducing
microorganisms are directly interfaced with a cathode material, represent promising …

Advancing photosystem II photoelectrochemistry for semi-artificial photosynthesis

JZ Zhang, E Reisner - Nature Reviews Chemistry, 2020 - nature.com
Oxygenic photosynthesis is the primary solar energy-conversion process that supports much
of life on Earth. It is initiated by photosystem II (PSII), an enzyme that extracts electrons from …

Microalgae–material hybrid for enhanced photosynthetic energy conversion: a promising path towards carbon neutrality

W **ong, Y Peng, W Ma, X Xu, Y Zhao… - National Science …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthetic energy conversion for high-energy chemicals generation is one of the most
viable solutions in the quest for sustainable energy towards carbon neutrality. Microalgae …

Biophotovoltaics: green power generation from sunlight and water

J Tschörtner, B Lai, JO Krömer - Frontiers in microbiology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Biophotovoltaics is a relatively new discipline in microbial fuel cell research. The basic idea
is the conversion of light energy into electrical energy using photosynthetic microorganisms …

Biophotovoltaics: Recent advances and perspectives

H Zhu, H Wang, Y Zhang, Y Li - Biotechnology Advances, 2023 - Elsevier
Biophotovoltaics (BPV) is a clean power generation technology that uses self-renewing
photosynthetic microorganisms to capture solar energy and generate electrical current …

Rewiring photosynthetic electron transport chains for solar energy conversion

JM Lawrence, RM Egan, T Hoefer… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Photosynthetic organisms have evolved versatile electron transport chains that efficiently
convert solar energy into chemical energy. Researchers can engineer these electron …

Operando film-electrochemical EPR spectroscopy tracks radical intermediates in surface-immobilized catalysts

M Seif-Eddine, SJ Cobb, Y Dang, K Abdiaziz… - Nature Chemistry, 2024 - nature.com
The development of surface-immobilized molecular redox catalysts is an emerging research
field with promising applications in sustainable chemistry. In electrocatalysis, paramagnetic …