Book description
Finally filling a gap in the literature for a text that also adopts the
chemist?s view of this hot topic, Prof Likhtenshtein, an experienced
author and internationally renowned scientist, considers different
physical and engineering aspects in solar energy conversion.
From theory to real-life systems, he shows exactly which chemical
reactions take place when converting light energy, providing an overview
of the chemical perspective from fundamentals to molecular harvesting
systems and solar cells.
This essential guide will thus help researchers in academia and industry
better understand solar energy conversion, and so ultimately help this
promising, multibillion euro/dollar field to expand.
Gertz I. Likhtenshtein received his PhD and his doctor of science
from the Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics at the Russian Academy of
Science in Moscow, where he was appointed to the position of Head of
Laboratory of Chemical Physics of Enzyme Catalysis in 1965, becoming a
professor in 1976.
In 1992 he moved to the Department of Chemistry at the Ben-Gurion
University of Negev, Israel, as a full professor in charge of the
Laboratory of Chemical Biophysics and has been an emeritus since 2003.
He has authored nine scientific books and around 380 papers, and his
many awards include the Medal of the Exhibition of Economic Achievement,
the Diploma of Discovery, the USSR State Prize, the V. V. Voevodsky
International Price for Chemical Physics and the Diploma of the Israel
Chemical Society. Professor Likhtenshtein is a member of the
International ESR Society, the American Biophysical Society, the Israel
Chemical Society and the Israel ESR Society.
His main scientific interests focus on antioxidants analysis and
mechanisms of light energy conversion.
