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

摘要

Materials found in nature combine many inspiring properties,nsuch as sophistication, miniaturization, hierarchical organizations,nhybridization, resistance, and adaptability, after billions of years ofnstringent selection processes. A notable feature of natural systems isnthat they exhibit highly organized hierarchical structures from thennano- to the macrometer scale. Many of these hierarchical, elaboratenstructures are barely attainable by man-made materials. Thenstructural hierarchies in nature possess various intriguing properties.nThus, inspiration from nature’s repertoire to organize and assemblenmaterials on length scales, or biomimic nature’s elaboratenarchitectures or systems to design and construct complicatednstructures with related functions, has brought about a promising areanof bio-inspired materials and systems [1-3].