Catalytic Electron Transfer in Photosystem II of Plants and Bacteria.

从电力和丰富的水资源(如海水)中大规模生产氢气是这里描述的研究的最终目标。这是一项名为“人工光合作用”的整体计划的一部分，该计划旨在生产清洁的可再生能源。虽然目前的项目只是这一雄心勃勃的计划的一步，但它直接解决了使项目可行必须克服的一个关键障碍。这是将水有效地电转化为氢和氧的过程，这是一个两部分的过程，后者在化学上是最困难的。该项目旨在通过破译并在技术上模仿植物进行这些过程的高效手段，来“窃取大自然的秘密”。

Large scale hydrogen production from electricity and abundant 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. Although the present project is but one step in this ambitious program, it directly addresses a key hurdle which must be overcome to make the project feasible. This 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.