BIO-INSPIRED AND BIOTEMPLATED ARTIFICIAL PHOTOSYNTHETIC SYSTEMS FOR SOLAR FUELS GENERATION

摘要

Materials found in nature combine many inspiring properties, such as sophistication, miniaturization, hierarchical organizations, hybridization, resistance, and adaptability, after billions of years of stringent selection processes. A notable feature of natural systems is that they exhibit highly organized hierarchical structures from the nano- to the macrometer scale. Many of these hierarchical, elaborate structures are barely attainable by man-made materials. The structural hierarchies in nature possess various intriguing properties. Thus, inspiration from nature’s repertoire to organize and assemble materials on length scales, or biomimic nature’s elaborate architectures or systems to design and construct complicated structures with related functions, has brought about a promising area of bio-inspired materials and systems [1-3].