Biological energy conversion

School of Chemical and Biological Engineering Research Center for Energy Conversion and Storage, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-744, Korea... 

As this volume attests, a wide range of chemistry occurs at interfacial boundaries. Examples range from biological and medicinal interfacial problems, such as the chemistry of anesthesia, to solar energy conversion and electrode processes in batteries, to industrial-scale separations of metal ores across interfaces, to investigations into self-assembled monolayers and Langmuir-Blodgett films for nanoelectronics and nonlinear optical materials. These problems are based not only on structure and composition of the interface but also on kinetic processes that occur at interfaces. As such, there is considerable motivation to explore chemical dynamics at interfaces. 

Note There is really a fundamental underlying unity in energy, which is always conserved although it can be interconverted amongst its different forms. All types of energy conversion, except nuclear, are associated with biological as well as human machinery. 

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Renewable Energy System by Biological Solar Energy Conversion... 

In recent years, electrochemical charge transfer processes have received considerable theoretical attention at the quantum mechanical level. These quantal treatments are pivotal in understanding underlying processes of technological importance, such as electrode kinetics, electrocatalysis, corrosion, energy transduction, solar energy conversion, and electron transfer in biological systems. 

The powerful biological machinery of energy conversion proceeds via redox reactions in aqueous media that involve electron and proton transfer between molecular entities. - Nature devised concerted sequences of these processes that generate electrochemical potential gradients across cell membranes and thereby enable the storage and the release of electrical energy. 

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