Artificial Photosynthesis

ISBN-13: 9786139892211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 128 str.

Mohamed El-Khouly; Shunichi Fukuzumi

Opis

This book is an introduction to the basic concepts of artificial photosynthesis. Artificial photosynthesis is about learning from nature "Stealing nature's secrets". Many of the concepts that will explore in this book require an understanding of basic concepts of physical chemistry, including kinetics, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, supramolecular & laser chemistry. In the first part of this book, the concept of natural photosynthesis and semi-artificial systems were briefly described. This is followed by the details of artificial photosynthesis and examples of the recently reported photosynthetic molecular & supramolecular systems in order to mimic functions of the antenna-reaction center of the natural process. The relations between structures & photoinduced reactivities of the reported artificial photosynthetic donor-acceptor systems are discussed in relation to the efficiency of the intramolecular electron-transfer/energy-transfer processes by utilizing the laser photolysis technique & other complementary techniques. Finally, the photocatalytic production of hydrogen peroxide as a more promising solar fuel than hydrogen is discussed in relation with the natural photosynthesis.

O autorze

El-Khouly, Mohamed
Mohamed E. El-Khouly was born in Egypt and earned his PhD degree in chemistry from Tohoku University, Japan. He awarded COE, VBL, and JSPS scholarships. Currently he is a professor of Physical Chemistry, Kafrelsheikh University, Egypt. His research interest included solar energy conversion, material science and nanosciences.