Solar energy conversion, oxygen evolution and carbon assimilation in cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-50
Author(s):  
Gaozhong Shen ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transport ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Oxygen Evolution ◽  
Co2 Fixation ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Carbon Assimilation ◽  
Reducing Power ◽  
Solar Energy Conversion

This chapter focuses on the solar energy conversion in light harvesting and light-driven electron transport for production of reducing power for CO2 fixation in prokaryotic cyanobacteria and eukaryotic microalgae.

Novel porphyrin-preparation, characterization, and applications in solar energy conversion

2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (9) ◽  
pp. 6885-6892 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jianfeng Lu ◽  
Hao Li ◽  
Shuangshuang Liu ◽  
Yu-Cheng Chang ◽  
Hui-Ping Wu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Charge Transfer ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Conversion Efficiency ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Solar Energy Conversion

Accelerated inner charge transfer in porphyrins promotes a broad light-harvesting ability up to 840 nm and a conversion efficiency of 9.2%.

Recent advances in conjugated microporous polymers for photocatalysis: designs, applications, and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (14) ◽  
pp. 6434-6470 ◽  
Author(s):  
Songhao Luo ◽  
Zhuotong Zeng ◽  
Guangming Zeng ◽  
Zhifeng Liu ◽  
Rong Xiao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Solar Energy Conversion ◽  
Microporous Polymers ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Harvesting Systems ◽  
Conjugated Microporous Polymers

Conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) provide a platform to construct light harvesting systems and catalytic centers to realize solar energy conversion.

Light-harvesting host–guest antenna materials for quantum solar energy conversion devices

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gion Calzaferri ◽  
Olivia Bossart ◽  
Dominik Brühwiler ◽  
Stefan Huber ◽  
Claudia Leiggener ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Solar Energy Conversion ◽  
Energy Conversion Devices

scholarly journals Polychromatic solar energy conversion in pigment-protein chimeras that unite the two kingdoms of (bacterio)chlorophyll-based photosynthesis

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juntai Liu ◽  
Vincent M. Friebe ◽  
Raoul N. Frese ◽  
Michael R. Jones
Keyword(s):  
Energy Harvesting ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Solar Energy Conversion ◽  
Photosynthetic Bacterium ◽  
Reaction Centre ◽  
Light Harvesting Complexes ◽  
Anoxygenic Phototrophs ◽  
Wide Range

Natural photosynthesis can be divided between the chlorophyll-containing plants, algae and cyanobacteria that make up the oxygenic phototrophs and a diversity of bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacteria that make up the anoxygenic phototrophs. Photosynthetic light harvesting and reaction centre proteins from both groups of organisms have been exploited in a wide range of biohybrid devices for solar energy conversion, solar fuel synthesis and a variety of sensing technologies, but the energy harvesting abilities of these devices are limited by each protein’s individual palette of (bacterio)chlorophyll, carotenoid and bilin pigments. In this work we demonstrate a range of genetically-encoded, self-assembling photosystems in which recombinant plant light harvesting complexes are covalently locked with reaction centres from a purple photosynthetic bacterium, producing macromolecular chimeras that display mechanisms of polychromatic solar energy harvesting and conversion not present in natural systems. Our findings illustrate the power of a synthetic biology approach in which bottom-up construction of a novel photosystem using naturally disparate but mechanistically complementary components is achieved in a predictable fashion through the genetic encoding of adaptable, plug-and-play covalent interfaces.ToC image

Artificial light-harvesting arrays for solar energy conversion

2015 ◽  
Vol 51 (59) ◽  
pp. 11745-11756 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Harriman
Keyword(s):  
Energy Transfer ◽  
Solar Energy ◽  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Light Harvesting ◽  
Solar Energy Conversion ◽  
Electronic Energy ◽  
Artificial Light ◽  
Electronic Energy Transfer

Following natures' blueprint, the concept of artificial light-harvesting antennae is discussed in terms of sophisticated molecular arrays displaying a tailored cascade of electronic energy transfer steps.

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