TY - JOUR
T1 - Photosynthesis
T2 - From Natural Towards Artificial
AU - Chow, W. S.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Photosynthesis, the natural process that yields food, fuel and fibre, spans physical and biological sciences, spatially from atomic scales to the global and temporally from electronic transitions to the evolutionary time frame. Photosynthesis is highly efficient in its primary energy capture, but much less so in terms of conversion to crop yield. The natural photosynthetic system provides fertile ground for exploring and dissecting partial processes that may be mimicked in artificial systems for human needs, perhaps with improved efficiency. Future developments are limited only by the imagination.
AB - Photosynthesis, the natural process that yields food, fuel and fibre, spans physical and biological sciences, spatially from atomic scales to the global and temporally from electronic transitions to the evolutionary time frame. Photosynthesis is highly efficient in its primary energy capture, but much less so in terms of conversion to crop yield. The natural photosynthetic system provides fertile ground for exploring and dissecting partial processes that may be mimicked in artificial systems for human needs, perhaps with improved efficiency. Future developments are limited only by the imagination.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0344444240&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1023/A:1027371022781
DO - 10.1023/A:1027371022781
M3 - Article
SN - 0092-0606
VL - 29
SP - 447
EP - 459
JO - Journal of Biological Physics
JF - Journal of Biological Physics
IS - 4
ER -