[Seminar] Artificial Photosynthesis with "Wired" Enzymes
Erwin Reisner, University of Cambridge, UK
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17 Dec, 2014
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10:00 am to 11:00 am |
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| Where | Auditorium |
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Seminar
Title: Artificial Photosynthesis with "Wired" Enzymes
Speaker: Erwin Reisner
Affiliation: University of Cambridge, UK
Host: Inês Cardoso Pereira, Bacterial Energy Metabolism Lab
Abstract:
Artificial photosynthesis is a chemical process that captures and stores the energy from sunlight in a chemical fuel (a so called solar fuel). This renewable process requires the finely tuned combination of light absorption, charge separation and chemical catalysis, which is well evolved, but shows an overall poor efficiency for fuel synthesis in biology. This presentation will summarise our recent progress in developing more efficient hybrid systems through interfacing enzymes with nanostructured electrodes to photosplit water as a sustainable route to the energy vector hydrogen.
