Beilstein J. Nanotechnol.2018,9, 30–41, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.5
and coenzymeregeneration. NPS is naturally an optofluidic system since the cells (typical size 10 to 100 µm) of green plants, algae, and cyanobacteria enable light capture, biochemical and enzymatic reactions and the related material transport in a microscale, aqueous environment. The long history of
. Recently, many studies have reported on optofluidic APS systems, but there is still a lack of an in-depth review. This article will start with a brief introduction of the physical mechanisms and will then review recent progresses in water splitting, CO2 fixation and coenzymeregeneration in optofluidic APS
systems, followed by discussions on pending problems for real applications.
Keywords: artificial photosynthesis; carbon dioxide fixation; coenzymeregeneration; microfluidics; optofluidics; water splitting; Review
Introduction
The emerging energy crisis, the greenhouse effect and food shortage are
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Figure 1:
(A) A typical plant leaf. (B) Chloroplasts inside the plant cells. The average size of the chloropl...