Molecular Biomimetics

Biomimetics or biomimicry is technology that imitates models, systems and elements in nature to solve complex human problems.
Our research
In the research programme Molecular Biomimetics, we study important biological reactions down to the molecular level in order to adapt or mimic their principles for developing processes for the sustainable production of solar fuels and chemicals.
Due to the breadth of topics and techniques, our program encompasses two units: Biophysical and Bioinorganic Chemistry (BBC) and Microbial Chemistry (MC), both with their own respective PhD study subjects within Chemistry, with a specialisation in Molecular Biomimetics or Microbial Chemistry.
Biomimetics, also known as Biomimicry, is a growing field that employs Natures time-tested materials, structures, processes and organization principles for furthering the development of sustainable societies. Of special interest to us is artificial photosynthesis, the field of mimicking structures, function and results of natural photosynthesis. The webpage of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis can give you more information of our work in this field.
More information
Interesting TED Talks on biomimetics
Information database
On asknature.org you will find examples of fantastic facts about natural processes and how they can be used.
Biophysical and Bioinorganic Chemistry
Studies biological reactions that convert solar energy into chemical energy.

Microbial Chemistry
Develops, among other things, cyanobacteria that convert solar energy into an energy carrier.

Infrastructure
Information about the facilities we have access to on the programme in the form of electron paramagnetic resonance center (EPR platform), NMR spectrometer and single crystal X-ray diffraction.
Publications
Boosting C2H2/CO2 separation by porous organic cages through the amino-functionalization of cavities
Part of Separation and Purification Technology, 2025
Part of Algal Research, 2025
Part of Plant Physiology, p. 397-408, 2024
- DOI for Absence of alka(e)nes triggers profound remodeling of glycerolipid and carotenoid composition in cyanobacteria membrane
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Adaptive water oxidation catalysis on a carboxylate-sulfonate ligand with low onset potential
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 6162-6165, 2024
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Assignment of the slowly exchanging substrate water of nature's water-splitting cofactor
Part of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024
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Part of ADVANCED INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, 2024
- DOI for Automated Analysis of Nano-Impact Single-Entity Electrochemistry Signals Using Unsupervised Machine Learning and Template Matching
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Part of Journal of Chemical Education, p. 4011-4017, 2024
Closing Kok's cycle of nature's water oxidation catalysis
Part of Nature Communications, 2024
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Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for Covalently linked molecular catalysts in conjugated polymer dots boost photocatalytic alcohol oxidation in neutral condition
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Cryo-electron microscopy reveals hydrogen positions and water networks in photosystem II
Part of Science, p. 1349-1355, 2024
Part of Acta Crystallographica Section E, p. 25-28, 2024
- DOI for Crystal structure of a water oxidation catalyst solvate with composition (NH4)2[FeIV(L-6H)]·3CH3COOH (L = clathrochelate ligand)
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Part of International Journal for Students as Partners, p. 144-161, 2024
- DOI for Culture of engagement: Students as change agents before, during and after an examination-focused partnership
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Part of Nature Plants, p. 1592-1603, 2024
Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 16324-16334, 2024
- DOI for Direct Detection of Key Intermediates during the Product Release in Rhenium Bipyridine-Catalyzed CO2 Reduction Reaction
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Part of Nature Communications, 2024
- DOI for Embedding biocatalysts in a redox polymer enhances the performance of dye-sensitized photocathodes in bias-free photoelectrochemical water splitting
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Part of Scientific Reports, 2024
- DOI for Fabricating high-purity graphite disk electrodes as a cost-effective alternative in fundamental electrochemistry research
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From protein film to single-entity protein electrochemistry
Part of Current Opinion in Electrochemistry, 2024
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Genome Engineering by RNA-Guided Transposition for Anabaena sp. PCC 7120
Part of ACS Synthetic Biology, p. 901-912, 2024
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Part of ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND ECOTECHNOLOGY, 2024
- DOI for Harnessing photosynthetic microorganisms for enhanced bioremediation of microplastics: A comprehensive review
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Hot or Not?: Reassessing Mechanisms of Photocurrent Generation in Plasmon‐Enhanced Electrocatalysis
Part of Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2024
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Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 4461-4473, 2024
- DOI for How Rigidity and Conjugation of Bidentate Ligands Affect the Geometry and Photophysics of Iron N-Heterocyclic Complexes: A Comparative Study
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Hydrogen production by a fully de novo enzyme
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 12905-12916, 2024
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Part of Algal Research, 2024
- DOI for Improved hydrogen production in immobilized Chlamydomonas reinhardtii cells with inhibited inter-photosystem electron transfer
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Part of Journal of Energy Chemistry, p. 526-537, 2024
Intermolecular O-O Bond Formation between High-Valent Ru-oxo Species
Part of Inorganic Chemistry, p. 16161-16166, 2024
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Kinetic Modeling of the Reversible or Irreversible Electrochemical Responses of FeFe-Hydrogenases
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 1455-1466, 2024
Lipid Accumulation and Biodiesel Production from Filamentous Cyanobacteria Native to Pakistan
Part of Journal of Oleo Science, p. 1295-1310, 2024
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Machine learning predicts system-wide metabolic flux control in cyanobacteria
Part of Metabolic engineering, p. 171-182, 2024
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Metabolic engineering of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 for the improved production of phenylpropanoids
Part of Microbial Cell Factories, 2024
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Part of Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, p. 9060-9071, 2024
- DOI for Metallicious: Automated Force-Field Parameterization of Covalently Bound Metals for Supramolecular Structures
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Minimal and hybrid hydrogenases are active from archaea
Part of Cell, 2024
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Part of ACS Catalysis, p. 5630-5638, 2024
Nature of cyanoargentate bridges defining spin crossover in new 2D Hofmann clathrate analogues
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 4251-4259, 2024
Part of Dalton Transactions, p. 9062-9071, 2024
New sources of genipin-rich substances for crosslinking future manufactured bio-based materials
Part of RSC SUSTAINABILITY, p. 125-138, 2024
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Part of eLIFE, 2024
- DOI for Nucleotide binding to the ATP-cone in anaerobic ribonucleotide reductases allosterically regulates activity by modulating substrate binding
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Part of Photosynthesis Research, p. 413-426, 2024
- DOI for On the simulation and interpretation of substrate-water exchange experiments in photosynthetic water oxidation
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Part of Chemical Science, p. 16789-16795, 2024
- DOI for Photobiocatalytic CO2 reduction into CO by organic nanorod-carbon monoxide dehydrogenase assemblies: surfactant matters
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Photocatalyst for Visible-Light-Driven Sm(II)-Mediated Reductions
Part of Organic Letters, p. 10752-10756, 2024
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Progresses and challenges of engineering thermophilic acetogenic cell factories
Part of Frontiers in Microbiology, 2024
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Part of Advanced Science, 2024
- DOI for Recyclable and Stable Porphyrin-Based Self-Assemblies by Electrostatic Force for Efficient Photocatalytic Organic Transformation
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Redox-Sensitive NiOx Stabilizing Perovskite Films for High-Performance Photovoltaics
Part of Journal of the American Chemical Society, p. 11782-11791, 2024
Secondary structure changes as the potential H2 sensing mechanism of group D [FeFe]-hydrogenases
Part of Chemical Communications, p. 10914-10917, 2024
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Part of Chemical Science, p. 3957-3970, 2024
- DOI for Switching the proton-coupled electron transfer mechanism for non-canonical tyrosine residues in a de novo protein
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Tailoring regulatory components for metabolic engineering in cyanobacteria
Part of Physiologia Plantarum, 2024
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The Potential of Molecular Electrocatalysis for Ammonia-to-Dinitrogen Conversion
Part of ChemElectroChem, 2024
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Part of Photosynthesis Research, p. 401-411, 2024
Part of International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024
- DOI for Triple-Gene Overexpression of the AcrA-AcrB-TolC Transporter System in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 Contributes to a Higher Secretion of Free Fatty Acids in Response to Nitrogen Shortage and Salt Stress
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Part of Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024
Advances in the Field of Two-Dimensional Crystal-Based Photodetectors
Part of Nanomaterials, 2023
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Contact
- If you have questions about our research, you are welcome to contact programme professor Gustav Berggren.
- Gustav Berggren