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A Mind Map to Address the Next Generation of Artificial Photosynthesis Experiments
Summary
Despite its title referencing artificial photosynthesis, this paper is a perspective article reviewing progress, problems, and grand challenges in developing light-driven chemical reactions that mimic photosynthesis for clean energy applications — not microplastic pollution. It discusses catalysts, efficiency barriers, and research misconceptions in the solar fuels field, and is not relevant to microplastics or human health.
Artificial photosynthesis (APS) is using light for uphill chemical reactions that converts light energy into chemical energy. It follows the example of natural photosynthesis, but offers a broader choice of materials and components, which can enhance its performance it terms of application conditions, stability, efficiency, and uphill reactions to be carried out. This work presents here first the status of the field, just to focus afterward on the current problems seen at the forefront of the field, as well as discussing some general misunderstandings, which are often repeated in the primary literature. Finally, this perspective article is daring to define some grand challenges, which have to be tackled for the translation of APS into society.
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