Integrating Approach to Photofunctional Hybrid Materials for Energy and the Environment

This book presents current research in the study of photofunctional hybrid materials having potential applications for current issues relating to energy and the environment. Topics discussed include: biomass energy, waste management, structural biology of protein for energy-conversion (photosynthesis), nano-biophysics (microorganisms), and organic/inorganic hybrid materials of metal oxide and porphyrin. In addition, developing ideas or examples as components for hybrid functional materials aiming at such applications are also included: metal oxide photocatalysts and bioinorganic amio-acid complexes, multi-component (photoinduced electron-transfer and photochromism) organic/inorganic hybrid materials, phototunable fluorescence hybrid systems for sensing, and metal complexes exhibiting long-life emission.