Department of Chemistry, Angström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Box 523, SE-751 20 Uppsala, Sweden.
Faraday Discuss. 2012;155:357-76. doi: 10.1039/c1fd00113b.
This contribution was presented as the closing lecture at the Faraday Discussion 155 on artificial photosynthesis, held in Edinburgh Scotland, September 5-7 2011. The world needs new, environmentally friendly and renewable fuels to exchange for fossil fuels. The fuel must be made from cheap and "endless" resources that are available everywhere. The new research area of solar fuels aims to meet this demand. This paper discusses why we need a solar fuel and why electricity is not enough; it proposes solar energy as the major renewable energy source to feed from. The scientific field concerning artificial photosynthesis expands rapidly and most of the different scientific visions for solar fuels are briefly overviewed. Research strategies and the development of artificial photosynthesis research to produce solar fuels are overviewed. Some conceptual aspects of research for artificial photosynthesis are discussed in closer detail.
本报告作为 2011 年 9 月 5 日至 7 日在苏格兰爱丁堡举行的 Faraday 讨论 155 期“人工光合作用”的闭幕演讲提交。世界需要新的、环保的可再生燃料来替代化石燃料。这种燃料必须由廉价且“无穷无尽”的资源制成，这些资源在任何地方都有。太阳能燃料的新研究领域旨在满足这一需求。本文讨论了为什么我们需要太阳能燃料，以及为什么电力还不够；它提出了太阳能作为主要可再生能源的来源。人工光合作用的科学领域正在迅速扩展，太阳能燃料的不同科学愿景也得到了简要概述。对人工光合作用研究以生产太阳能燃料的研究策略和发展进行了概述。更详细地讨论了人工光合作用研究的一些概念方面。
