Pigments

Photosynthetic pigments and solar power stations

This book chronicles a few approaches to constructing biohybrid devices using photosynthetic protein complexes. Can the abundantly available solar energy be tapped to meet our rising energy demands using green and cheap active materials? Exploring nature's own tiny solar factories, the. . Photosynthesis, the process that drives energy capture in green organisms, employs subtle quantum mechanics to avoid waste. This link between molecular events and advanced physics once seemed far-fetched, but new research is changing minds. Scientists are intrigued by how these pigments not only absorb sunlight but also convert it into energy with extraordinary efficiency. Although the physical nature of electrostatic tuning is. . 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. uk Scott Habershon is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Warwick.