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Article: Bioinspiration in Light Harvesting and Catalysis

TitleBioinspiration in Light Harvesting and Catalysis
Authors
Issue Date2020
PublisherNature Research: Nature Reviews Journals. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.nature.com/natrevmats/
Citation
Nature Reviews Materials, 2020, v. 5, p. 828-846 How to Cite?
AbstractCapturing and converting solar energy into fuels and feedstocks is a global challenge that spans numerous disciplines and fields of research. Billions of years of evolution have allowed natural organisms to hone strategies for harvesting light from the sun and storing energy in the form of carbon–carbon and carbon–hydrogen bonds. Photosynthetic antenna proteins capture solar photons and funnel photoexcitations to reaction centres with high yields, and enzymes catalyze multi-electron reactions, facilitating chemical transformations not yet efficiently implemented using artificially engineered catalysts. Researchers in renewable energy often look to nature to understand the mechanisms at work and, if possible, to explore their translation into artificial systems. Here, we review advances in bioinspiration across the fields of biological light harvesting and chemical energy conversion. We examine how multi-photon and multi-electron reactions in biology can inspire new methods in photoredox chemistry to achieve novel, selective and complex organic transformations; how carbonic-dehydrogenase-inspired design principles enable catalytic reactions such as the conversion of CO2 into useful products such as fuels; and how concepts from photosynthetic antenna complexes and reaction centres can benefit artificial light-harvesting materials. We then consider areas in which bioinspiration could enable advances in the rational design of molecules and materials, the expansion of the synthetic capabilities of catalysts and the valorization of molecular building blocks. We highlight the challenges that must be overcome to realize these advances and propose new directions that may use bioinspiration to achieve them.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/304935
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2023 Impact Factor: 79.8
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 21.836
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dc.contributor.authorProppe, AH-
dc.contributor.authorLi, YC-
dc.contributor.authorAspuru-Guzik, A-
dc.contributor.authorBerlinguette, CP-
dc.contributor.authorChang, CJ-
dc.contributor.authorCogdell, R-
dc.contributor.authorDoyle, AG-
dc.contributor.authorFlick, J-
dc.contributor.authorGabor, NM-
dc.contributor.authorvan Grondelle, R-
dc.contributor.authorHammes-Schiffer, S-
dc.contributor.authorJaffer, SA-
dc.contributor.authorKelley, SO-
dc.contributor.authorLeclerc, M-
dc.contributor.authorLeo, K-
dc.contributor.authorMallouk, TE-
dc.contributor.authorNarang, P-
dc.contributor.authorSchlau-Cohen, GS-
dc.contributor.authorScholes, GD-
dc.contributor.authorVojvodic, A-
dc.contributor.authorYam, VWW-
dc.contributor.authorYang, JY-
dc.contributor.authorSargent, EH-
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-05T02:37:21Z-
dc.date.available2021-10-05T02:37:21Z-
dc.date.issued2020-
dc.identifier.citationNature Reviews Materials, 2020, v. 5, p. 828-846-
dc.identifier.issn2058-8437-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/304935-
dc.description.abstractCapturing and converting solar energy into fuels and feedstocks is a global challenge that spans numerous disciplines and fields of research. Billions of years of evolution have allowed natural organisms to hone strategies for harvesting light from the sun and storing energy in the form of carbon–carbon and carbon–hydrogen bonds. Photosynthetic antenna proteins capture solar photons and funnel photoexcitations to reaction centres with high yields, and enzymes catalyze multi-electron reactions, facilitating chemical transformations not yet efficiently implemented using artificially engineered catalysts. Researchers in renewable energy often look to nature to understand the mechanisms at work and, if possible, to explore their translation into artificial systems. Here, we review advances in bioinspiration across the fields of biological light harvesting and chemical energy conversion. We examine how multi-photon and multi-electron reactions in biology can inspire new methods in photoredox chemistry to achieve novel, selective and complex organic transformations; how carbonic-dehydrogenase-inspired design principles enable catalytic reactions such as the conversion of CO2 into useful products such as fuels; and how concepts from photosynthetic antenna complexes and reaction centres can benefit artificial light-harvesting materials. We then consider areas in which bioinspiration could enable advances in the rational design of molecules and materials, the expansion of the synthetic capabilities of catalysts and the valorization of molecular building blocks. We highlight the challenges that must be overcome to realize these advances and propose new directions that may use bioinspiration to achieve them.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherNature Research: Nature Reviews Journals. The Journal's web site is located at https://www.nature.com/natrevmats/-
dc.relation.ispartofNature Reviews Materials-
dc.titleBioinspiration in Light Harvesting and Catalysis-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailYam, VWW: deanmail@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityYam, VWW=rp00822-
dc.description.naturelink_to_subscribed_fulltext-
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s41578-020-0222-0-
dc.identifier.scopuseid_2-s2.0-85089157753-
dc.identifier.hkuros326324-
dc.identifier.volume5-
dc.identifier.spage828-
dc.identifier.epage846-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000557105600001-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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