Artificial photosynthesis is a chemical process that biomimics the natural process of photosynthesis. The term is used loosely to refer to any scheme for capturing and storing energy from sunlight by producing a fuel, specifically a solar fuel. An advantage of artificial photosynthesis is that the resulting solar energy could be converted and stored directly as fuel; by contrast, a photovoltaic cell converts sunlight into electricity and then converts that electricity again into chemical energy for storage, with energy losses associated with the second conversion. The byproducts of artificial photosynthesis reactions are environmentally friendly, and artificially photosynthesized fuel would be a carbon-neutral energy source, though it has never been demonstrated in any practical sense and the economics of artificial photosynthesis remain noncompetitive.
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1. Artificial photosynthesis - Wikipedia
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a chemical process that biomimics the natural process of photosynthesis
History section
Artificial photosynthesis was first anticipated by the Italian chemist Giacomo Ciamician during 1912
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