Main description:

This monograph features what happens when light meets molecules. This edited volume contains contributions from an international array of contributors, and it is divided into sections representing a selection of carefully focussed and connected photochemistry topics: energy, technology, medicine, environmental sciences, and art. In each section one or more chapters illustrates relevant aspects of each field, such as artificial photosynthesis and solar energy conversion (energy), light emitting devices and photochromic dyes (technology), and photodynamic therapy and solar filters (medicine). Aimed at students of all levels and researchers active in photochemistry.

Contents:

1. Supramolecular Artificial Photosynthesis, Mirco Natali, Franco Scandola.- 2. Solar Energy Conversion in Photoelectrochemical Systems, Stefano Caramori, Federico Ronconi, Roberto Argazzi, Stefano Carli, Rita Boaretto, Eva Busatto, Carlo Alberto Bignozzi.- 3. Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (OLEDs): Working Principles and Device Technology, Umberto Giovanella, Mariacecilia Pasini, Chiara Botta.- 4. Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells, Chia-Yu Cheng, Hai-Ching Su.- 5. Industrial Photochromism, Andrew D. Towns.- 6. Application of Visible and Solar Light in Organic Synthesis, Davide Ravelli, Stefano Protti, Maurizio Fagnoni.- 7. Photochemical Reactions in Sunlit Surface Waters, Davide Vione.- 8. Photodynamic Therapy, Barbara Krammer, Thomas Verwanger.- 9. Polymer Nanoparticles for Cancer Photodynamic Therapy Combined with Nitric Oxide Photorelease and Chemotherapy, Fabiana Quaglia and Salvatore Sortino.- 10. Chemiluminescence in Biomedicine, Mara Mirasoli, Massimo Guardigli, Aldo Roda.- 11. Solar Filters: A Strategy of Photoprotection, Susana Encinas.- 12. Luminescent Chemosensors: From Molecules to Nanostructures, Nelsi Zaccheroni, Francesco Palomba, Enrico Rampazzo.- 13. Photochemistry for Cultural Heritage, Maria J. Melo, Joana L. Ferreira, Antonio J. Parola, Joao S. Seixas de Melo.