Towards Global Artificial Photosynthesis (Global Solar Fuels): Energy, Nanochemistry, and Governance

Thomas Faunce

doi:10.1071/CH12193

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Towards Global Artificial Photosynthesis (Global Solar Fuels): Energy, Nanochemistry, and Governance

Thomas Faunce

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Australian Research Council Future Fellow, College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, and College of Law, Energy Change Institute, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia.
Email: Thomas.Faunce@anu.edu.au

Professor Thomas Faunce holds a joint appointment at the College of Medicine, Biology and the Environment, and College of Law at the ANU. He is an ARC Future Fellow. His most recent book (with Edward Elgar 2012) is Nanotechnology for a Sustainable World: Global Artificial Photosynthesis as the Moral Culmination of Nanotechnology.

Australian Journal of Chemistry 65(6) 557-563 https://doi.org/10.1071/CH12193
Published: 21 June 2012

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