Molecular biomimetics
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Biomimetics or biomimicry is technology that imitates models, systems and elements in nature to solve complex human problems.
Our research
In Molecular Biomimetics, we study important biological reactions down to the molecular level in order to adapt or mimic their principles for developing processes for the sustainable production of solar fuels and chemicals.
Due to the breadth of topics and techniques, our program encompasses two units: Biophysical and Bioinorganic Chemistry (BBC) and Microbial Chemistry (MC), both with their own respective PhD study subjects within Chemistry, with a specialisation in Molecular Biomimetics or Microbial Chemistry.
Biomimetics, also known as Biomimicry, is a growing field that employs Natures time-tested materials, structures, processes and organization principles for furthering the development of sustainable societies. Of special interest to us is artificial photosynthesis, the field of mimicking structures, function and results of natural photosynthesis. The webpage of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis can give you more information of our work in this field.
More information
Interesting TED Talks on biomimetics
Information database
On asknature.org you will find examples of fantastic facts about natural processes and how they can be used.
Biophysical and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Studies biological reactions that convert solar energy into chemical energy.
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Microbial Chemistry
Develops, among other things, cyanobacteria that convert solar energy into an energy carrier.
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Infrastructure
Information about the facilities we have access to on the programme in the form of electron paramagnetic resonance center (EPR platform), NMR spectrometer and single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Publications
Assignment of the slowly exchanging substrate water of nature's water-splitting cofactor
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
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Part of ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 2024
- DOI for Automated Analysis of Nano-Impact Single-Entity Electrochemistry Signals Using Unsupervised Machine Learning and Template Matching
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Part of Acta Crystallographica Section E Crystallographic Communications, p. 25-28, 2024
- DOI for Crystal structure of a water oxidation catalyst solvate with composition (NH4)2[FeIV(L-6H)]·3CH3COOH (L = clathrochelate ligand)
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Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for Embedding biocatalysts in a redox polymer enhances the performance of dye-sensitized photocathodes in bias-free photoelectrochemical water splitting
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Fabricating high-purity graphite disk electrodes as a cost-effective alternative in fundamental electrochemistry research
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Genome Engineering by RNA-Guided Transposition for Anabaena sp. PCC 7120
Part of ACS Synthetic Biology, p. 901-912, 2024
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Part of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOTECHNOLOGY, 2024
- DOI for Harnessing photosynthetic microorganisms for enhanced bioremediation of microplastics: A comprehensive review
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 4461-4473, 2024
- DOI for How Rigidity and Conjugation of Bidentate Ligands Affect the Geometry and Photophysics of Iron N-Heterocyclic Complexes: A Comparative Study
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Part of Journal of Energy Chemistry, p. 526-537, 2024
Kinetic Modeling of the Reversible or Irreversible Electrochemical Responses of FeFe-Hydrogenases
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 1455-1466, 2024
Machine learning predicts system-wide metabolic flux control in cyanobacteria
Part of Metabolic engineering, p. 171-182, 2024
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Metabolic engineering of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 for the improved production of phenylpropanoids
Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2024
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 5630-5638, 2024
Nature of cyanoargentate bridges defining spin crossover in new 2D Hofmann clathrate analogues
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 4251-4259, 2024
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 9062-9071, 2024
Part of Chemical Science, p. 3957-3970, 2024
- DOI for Switching the proton-coupled electron transfer mechanism for non-canonical tyrosine residues in a de novo protein
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Tailoring regulatory components for metabolic engineering in cyanobacteria
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, 2024
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The Potential of Molecular Electrocatalysis for Ammonia-to-Dinitrogen Conversion
Part of ChemElectroChem, 2024
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Advances in the Field of Two-Dimensional Crystal-Based Photodetectors
Part of Nanomaterials, 2023
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Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023
- DOI for Alternating Metal-Ligand Coordination Improves Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction by a Mononuclear Ru Catalyst
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Alternative routes to NH3 and its application: general discussion
Part of Faraday discussions, p. 549-556, 2023
Capturing the sequence of events during the water oxidation reaction in photosynthesis using XFELs
Part of FEBS Letters, p. 30-37, 2023
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Part of Bioresource Technology, 2023
Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
- DOI for Chemical doping to control the in-situ formed doping structure in light-emitting electrochemical cells
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Chemical Gardens Mimic Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectra and Morphology of Biogenic Mn Oxides
Part of Astrobiology, p. 24-32, 2023
Part of Advanced Science, 2023
- DOI for Coordinative Stabilization of Single Bismuth Sites in a Carbon-Nitrogen Matrix to Generate Atom-Efficient Catalysts for Electrochemical Nitrate Reduction to Ammonia
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Direct evidence of terahertz emission arising from anomalous Hall effect
Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
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Electrocatalytic and photocatalytic routes to N2 activation: general discussion
Part of Faraday discussions, p. 402-428, 2023
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 1246-1256, 2023
Part of Journal of Physical Chemistry A, p. 7121-7131, 2023
- DOI for Electronic Structure of the Complete Series of Gas-Phase Manganese Acetylacetonates by X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 9476-9486, 2023
- DOI for Elucidating Electron Transfer Kinetics and Optimizing System Performance for Escherichia coli-Based Semi-Artificial H-2 Production
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Enzymatic N2 activation: general discussion
Part of Faraday discussions, p. 287-295, 2023
Part of Photosynthesis Research, p. 91-107, 2023
- DOI for Evolutionary diversity of proton and water channels on the oxidizing side of photosystem II and their relevance to function
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Far-red photosynthesis: Two charge separation pathways exist in plant Photosystem II reaction center
Part of Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Bioenergetics, 2023
Part of Chemical Science, p. 10129-10139, 2023
- DOI for Ferrous and ferric complexes with cyclometalating N-heterocyclic carbene ligands: a case of dual emission revisited
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Part of Nature Communications, 2023
- DOI for Flavodiiron-mediated O-2 photoreduction at photosystem I acceptor-side provides photoprotection to conifer thylakoids in early spring
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Going around the Kok cycle of the water oxidation reaction with femtosecond X-ray crystallography
Part of IUCrJ, p. 642-655, 2023
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Part of European Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2023
- DOI for Highly Conjugated Bis(benzo[b]phosphole)-P-oxides: Synthesis and Electrochemical, Optical, and Computational Studies
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Identification of a carbonic anhydrase-Rubisco complex within the alpha-carboxysome
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2023
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
- DOI for Improved lipid production and component of mycosporine-like amino acids by co-overexpression of amt1 and aroB genes in Synechocystis sp. PCC6803
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 17115-17125, 2023
Laboratory evolution of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 for phenylpropanoid production
Part of Metabolic engineering, p. 27-37, 2023
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Looking for solutions: students' use of infrared cameras in calorimetry labs
Part of Chemistry Education Research and Practice, p. 299-311, 2023
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Making monolayer graphene photoluminescent by electron-beam-activated fluorination approach
Part of Applied Surface Science, 2023
Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2023
- DOI for Mapping competitive pathways to terpenoid biosynthesis in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 using a small RNA synthetic tool
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Nano-Impact Single-Entity Electrochemistry Enables Plasmon-Enhanced Electrocatalysis
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2023
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Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023
- DOI for Novel concepts and engineering strategies for heterologous expression of efficient hydrogenases in photosynthetic microorganisms
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Optimal energy and redox metabolism in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Part of NPJ SYSTEMS BIOLOGY AND APPLICATIONS, 2023
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Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023
- DOI for Overexpressing Carotenoid Biosynthetic Genes in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Improved Intracellular Pigments and Antioxidant Activity, Which Can Decrease the Viability and Proliferation of Lung Cancer Cells In Vitro
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Part of International journal of hydrogen energy, p. 36314-36326, 2023
- DOI for Partial inhibition of the inter-photosystem electron transfer at cytochrome b6f complex promotes periodic surges of hydrogen evolution in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
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