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Parisa Gholamzadeh

Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani

Farzaneh Zandi

Ali Abolhasani Soorki

Alireza Badiei

Fatemeh Yazdian

Modification of fumed silica surface with different sulfonamides via a postsynthesis method and their application as antibacterial agents

Emna Soufi-Kechaou

Maryse Derouiniot-Chaplin

Raja Ben Amar

Pascal Jaouen

Jean-Pascal Berge

Recovery of valuable marine compounds from cuttlefish by-product hydrolysates: Combination of enzyme bioreactor and membrane technologies Fractionation of cuttlefish protein hydrolysates by ultrafiltration: Impact on peptidic populations

Seyedeh Fatemeh Hojati

Maryam Moosavifar

Toktam Ghorbanipoor

Improvement in nanocomposite host (nanocavity of dealuminated zeolite Y)-guest (12-molybdophosphoric acid) catalytic activity and its application to the one-pot three-component synthesis of tetrahydrobenzo[b]pyrans

Sobhan Rezayati

Elaheh Salehi

Rahimeh Hajinasiri

Saeid Afshari Sharif Abad

Acetic acid functionalized ionic liquid systems: An efficient and recyclable catalyst for the regioselective ring opening of epoxides with NaN3

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Mouheb Sboui

Mohamed Faouzi Nsib

Ali Rayes

Tsuyoshi Ochiai

Ammar Houas

Application of solar light for photocatalytic degradation of Congo red by a floating salicylic acid-modified TiO2/palm trunk photocatalyst

Ally Aukauloo

Harry B. Gray

C. R. Chimie 20 (2017) 207
lable at ScienceDirectContents lists avaiComptes Rendus Chimie
www.sciencedirect.comForewordUNESCO proclaimed 2015 as the international year of
light and light-based technologies. This internationally
celebrated event has opened the way for thoughtful dis-
cussions of how light-based technologies could help
mankind make a transition to a sustainable planet. Light
plays a key role in our daily lives and will become even
more important in a world increasingly dependent on
technologies that require energy to function. The energy
that has led to our technological advancement is mainly
based on fossil fuels. Their extensive use has led to a steady
increase in CO2 emissions, which in turn has drastically
affected the global climate. After several political attempts
to reach a common objective to reverse the current trends
in emissions, a historic agreement was reached at COP21
held in Paris in December 2015, the year of light. Remark-
ably, fully 195 countries are engaged in cutting emissions of
greenhouse gases. We view this event as an urgent call to
chemists and other scientists to develop newmaterials and
methods for the production of clean solar fuels. The grand
challenge facing us is the development of scalable inte-
grated artificial photosynthetic devices built from robust
materials for optimal light capture and conversion.
Chemists are exploring ways to capture sunlight for
conversion of renewable feedstocks such as H2O and CO2
to hydrogen and reduced forms of carbon. Arguably the
best way to split water or reduce CO2 is by employing
semiconducting materials coupled with metal oxides or
metallic nanoparticles as catalysts. But we have much
work to do, as to date the robust materials we have at our
disposal are not ready to be deployed on a grand scale.
Recently, polymeric organic materials have emerged as
potential candidates to perform these highly demanding
chemical transformations. This field holds great promises,
but low photocatalytic yields and problematic stability
issues are among the hurdles that must be overcome.http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.crci.2016.03.016
1631-0748/© 2016 Académie des sciences. Published by Elsevier Masson SAS.
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).Many chemists are investigating molecular-based assem-
blies consisting of a chromophore and a catalytic unit for
light driven water splitting or CO2 reduction. We think this
approach is very attractive, as it should be possible to
design and construct molecules that capture visible light
and drive redox reactions with high efficiencies. Basic
research has already produced several promising photo-
systems, and as a bonus, the mechanisms leading to fuel
formation have been uncovered in some cases. We predict
that a sustained effort from the international community
of scientists and engineers will take the field from prom-
ising laboratory findings to full technological deployment.
Wewill succeed if wework together, sharing results and
personal views, and it is our hope that this issue of Comptes
rendus Chimie will serve as a stepping stone along the way
to a sustainable planet.We thank all who have accepted our
invitation to contribute to this dossier on Artificial
Photosynthesis.
Let there be light to shape our future.
Ally Aukauloo*
Institut de chimie moleculaire et des materiaux d'Orsay,
Chimie inorganique, Bâtiment 420,
rue du Doyen-Georges-Poitou, 91400 Orsay, France
Harry B. Gray
Beckman Institute, California Institute of Technology,
Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
E-mail address: hbgray@caltech.edu
 Corresponding author.
E-mail address: ally.aukauloo@u-psud.fr
Available online 27 April 2016This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://


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Antonino Arrigo

Giuseppina La Ganga

Francesco Nastasi

Scolastica Serroni

Antonio Santoro

Marie-Pierre Santoni

Maurilio Galletta

Sebastiano Campagna

Fausto Puntoriero

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Modification of fumed silica surface with different sulfonamides via a postsynthesis method and their application as antibacterial agents

Recovery of valuable marine compounds from cuttlefish by-product hydrolysates: Combination of enzyme bioreactor and membrane technologies Fractionation of cuttlefish protein hydrolysates by ultrafiltration: Impact on peptidic populations

Improvement in nanocomposite host (nanocavity of dealuminated zeolite Y)-guest (12-molybdophosphoric acid) catalytic activity and its application to the one-pot three-component synthesis of tetrahydrobenzo[<i>b</i>]pyrans

Acetic acid functionalized ionic liquid systems: An efficient and recyclable catalyst for the regioselective ring opening of epoxides with NaN<sub>3</sub>

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Application of solar light for photocatalytic degradation of Congo red by a floating salicylic acid-modified TiO<sub>2</sub>/palm trunk photocatalyst

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