From both a scientific and social viewpoint, the conversion of solar energy into fuels has become one of the important topics that people are trying to address. By taking the advantage of large surface area and effective charge collection, nanowire could be applied as efficient building blocks for a fully integrated system of solar-to-fuel conversion. Here it is shown that precise control of the construction and optimization for nanowire-based structures could be achieved from sub-monolayer up to microns, which leads to attractive energy-conversion properties for both efficiency and material cost. The idea of nanowire-based structrue also demonstrates an advance to biomimick the natural photosynthesis by spatially control the whole photosynthetic process at microscopic level.

Nanowire-based structure integration for artificial photosynthesis

247th National Meeting (2014)

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