Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0987934

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0987934

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Bio-Physical Studies of the Oxygen Evolving Complex in Photosystem II. Hydrogen fuel production from electricity and water sources, such as sea water, represents the ultimate goal for the research described here. This is part of an overall scheme, called "Artificial Photosynthesis", to generate clean renewable energy. The present project is an important step in this ambitious program and directly addresses a key hurdle which must be overcome to make artificial photosynthesis feasible. This hurdle is the efficient electrical conversion of water into hydrogen and oxygen, a two part process of which the latter is the most chemically difficult. The project aims to 'steal nature's secrets', by deciphering and then technologically mimicking the highly efficient means by which plants carry out these processes.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2011

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $410,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Enzymes | Bioinorganic Chemistry | Inorganic Chemistry | Biophysics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Higher education | Biological sciences | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal) |

Other Keywords

Bioinorganic Chemistry | Biological sciences | Biophysics | Enzymes | Higher education | Inorganic Chemistry | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal)

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