Rationale and Philosophy of the Mimetic Approach to Advanced Materials

4 Rationale and Philosophy of the Mimetic Approach to Advanced Materials 

The philosophy of membrane-mimetic chemistry may be illustrated by a comparison of plant photosynthesis with sacrificial water photoreduction in artificial systems the process has been mediated by metal-catalyst-coated semiconductor colloids supported on polymerized vesicles (Fig. 4a) [59-64]. 

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