Artificial Photosynthesis - Employed Research Techniques

Employed Research Techniques

Research in artificial photosynthesis is necessarily a multidisciplinary field, requiring a multitude of different expertise. Some techniques employed in making and investigating catalysts and solar cells include:

  • Organic and inorganic chemical synthesis.
  • Electrochemistry methods, such as photoelectrochemistry, cyclic voltammetry, and bulk electrolysis.
  • Spectroscopic methods:
    • fast techniques, such as time-resolved spectroscopy and ultrafast laser spectroscopy;
    • magnetic resonance spectroscopies, such as nuclear magnetic resonance, electron paramagnetic resonance;
    • X-ray absorption methods, such as EXAFS.
  • Crystallography.
  • Molecular biology, microbiology and synthetic biology methodologies.

Read more about this topic:  Artificial Photosynthesis

Famous quotes containing the words employed, research and/or techniques:

    There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.
    David Hume (1711–1776)

    ... research is never completed ... Around the corner lurks another possibility of interview, another book to read, a courthouse to explore, a document to verify.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897–1973)

    The techniques of opening conversation are universal. I knew long ago and rediscovered that the best way to attract attention, help, and conversation is to be lost. A man who seeing his mother starving to death on a path kicks her in the stomach to clear the way, will cheerfully devote several hours of his time giving wrong directions to a total stranger who claims to be lost.
    John Steinbeck (1902–1968)