Photosynthesis Solar Energy for Life - Govindjee Lars-Olof Bjorn Dmitry Shevela Gebunden

Photosynthesis has been an important field of research for more than a century but the present concerns about energy environment and climate have greatly intensified interest in and research on this topic. Research has progressed rapidly in recent years and this book is an interesting read for an audience who is concerned with various ways of harnessing solar energy. Our understanding of photosynthesis can now be said to have reached encyclopedic dimensions. There have been in the past many good books at various levels. Our book is expected to fulfill the needs of advanced undergraduate a nd beginning graduate students in branches of biology biochemistry biophysics and bioengineering because photosynthesis is the basis of future advances in producing more food more biomass more fuel and new chemicals for our expanding global human population. Further the basics of photosynthesis are and will be used not only for the above but in artificial photosynthesis an important emerging field where chemists researchers and engineers of solar energy systems will play a major role.