Not exact matches
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) describes silicon as «the most common material
used in solar
cells.»
Beyond
using this clean electricity to power homes, offices and manufacturing plants, the Chinese also view it as the fuel of choice for the growing number of vehicles hitting the road, setting a goal of putting five million «new
energy» vehicles (EVs, plug - in hybrids and fuel -
cell cars) on the road by 2020.
Most solar
cells use silicon semiconductors, and the more attention paid to the alternative
energy, the more these chips will be in demand.
Your body processes the nutrients found in apples into adenosine triphosphate, or ATP, which is fuel for your
cells, and they
use it for everything that requires
energy in your body.
Japan and Korea are global leaders in the
use of fuel
cells, an alternative low - emission clean
energy source.
Rather than being
used by muscles for
energy, the glucose is redirected to fat
cells.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is planning a pilot project to test a system that allows individuals to invest in solar
energy - generating
cells and effectively receive rent from consumers that
use the hardware.
The
cells coming off the line today will be
used in Tesla's Powerwall 2 and Powerpack 2
energy products.
The purpose of mtDNA is to convert chemical
energy from food into a form that the
cell can
use.
About the
cells, some molecules on Earth will allign in a circle because of some reasons that I can't seem to remember right now and if they happen to allign in a circle around another molecule that
uses what they secrete to make
energy then there you have a
cell.
BCAAs can be
used by muscle
cells as an
energy source, which may help offset muscle breakdown during endurance exercise and help support recovery and repair after weight training.
Brain O Brain capsules tackle stress and produce high level of
energy, the herbs
used in the preparation of these capsules contain iron in high amount which enhances the capacity oxygen carrying of the blood by increasing the number of red blood
cells.
Loosing weight is a very important for diabetics, because fat
cells reduce your body's ability to move sugar into
cells and
use it as
energy.
As the chlorophyll within this organelle absorbs
energy from sunlight, it releases high -
energy electrons; vitamin K1 forms a bridge between chlorophyll and several iron - sulfur centers across which these electrons travel, releasing their
energy so that the
cell can ultimately
use it to synthesize glucose..
Without going into a complicated biology lesson (which I probably would not be prepared to teach), let's simply think of what our digestive system does for us: it breaks food down into smaller pieces so that our body can
use this nourishment to build new
cells and give us
energy.
Whenever a sweet substance touches the tongue, our brains senses that this is food and it is time for our body to produce insulin to take that food and bring it into our
cells for the
use of
energy.
That means it's more digestible and broken down quickly, causing a spike in blood sugar, followed by another spike in insulin, which is what your body
uses to shuttle that sugar to your
cells to be
used for
energy.
In a nutshell, the metabolism refers to the essential biochemical reactions (such as digestion and production of hormones) that regulate how our
cells use and store
energy.
cells, building
cell structures, or can simply be
used for
energy.
Triglycerides store unused calories and provide your body with
energy, and cholesterol is
used to build
cells and certain hormones.
Insulin is secreted by the pancreas, and is responsible for carrying sugar into the
cells of the body where it can be
used for
energy.
Insulin is a hormone that helps glucose move from your bloodstream into your body's
cells, where it's
used as
energy.
To help make ideas about
energy more concrete, for example, the new unit will
use a variety of analogies from more familiar physical systems (e.g., combustion and charging a cellphone battery) to help students understand those same
energy - releasing and
energy - requiring chemical reactions and
energy transfer when they occur in living organisms (e.g., cellular respiration, creating a charge across a membrane in mitochondria and nerve
cells) where the reactions are more complex and difficult to observe.
NAD (nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide) is a molecule that harvests
energy from nutrients in food and converts it into a form
cells can
use.
Mitochondria, specialized organelles found in nearly every
cell of the body,
use cellular respiration to generate one of the most important sources of chemical
energy — adenosine triphosphate (ATP), a versatile nucleotide that powers everything from
cell division to
cell signaling to transportation of large molecules across the
cell membrane.
Solid oxide fuel
cells that can
use conventional fossil fuels as well as hydrogen are set to take a larger role in the
energy game
It had been thriving for well over a billion years when a new kind of
cell appeared on the scene, one that harvested the sun's
energy using a process that generates a highly toxic by - product — oxygen.
Bound to the
cell membrane, Na ± K+ATP ase
uses the
energy of adenosine triphosphate (ATP) molecules to pump sodium out of the
cell and potassium into the
cell, maintaining a charge gradient that allows ions to flow through open channels.
Insulin instructs
cells to
use the extra glucose for
energy or turn it into fat.
This is because rat neurons are much more efficient at pumping ions into the
cell than squid neurons, say the team, resulting in squid
using up more
energy to generate a charge and transmit the signal.
It
uses cheap materials and has a higher
energy density than lithium - ion
cells.
Plays an important role in the structure of the skeleton and muscles; also found in molecules that help enzymes
use ATP to supply
energy for chemical reactions in
cells.
Carbon capture is an obvious extended
use for fuel
cells, said Tony Leo, vice president of application engineering and advanced technology development at FuelCell
Energy.
They
use charge in the form of ions to carry
energy and information — ion channels control the flow of ions across
cell membranes.
Ong, who leads the Materials Virtual Lab and is a faculty member in the Sustainable Power and
Energy Center at UC San Diego, uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and
Energy Center at UC San Diego,
uses a combination of high - throughput calculations and machine learning to discover next - generation materials for
energy applications, including batteries, fuel cells and
energy applications, including batteries, fuel
cells and LEDs.
The exciting implication is that next - generation wastewater treatment plants could
use new technologies, including microbe - powered fuel
cells, to capture enough methane, hydrogen, and other fuels from wastewater to generate all the
energy they need, and then some.
Instead of mitochondria (the cellular engines that convert oxygen to
energy, present in all other known animal
cells), these creatures contain structures resembling hydrogenosomes, the organelles that anaerobic microbes
use to generate
energy.
Mitochondria are found in
cells and they
use oxygen to produce
energy in a process called oxidative metabolism.
Using sunlight to create fuels (such as hydrogen on the other electrode in this solar
cell) with inexpensively prepared electrodes may provide a solution to the intermittency drawback of solar
energy.
In such exercise, oxygen is
used to «burn» fats and glucose in order to produce adenosine triphosphate, the basic
energy carrier for all
cells.
He is also working with UC Santa Cruz physicist Sue Carter on the
use of perovskite thin films in photovoltaic
cells for solar
energy applications.
«The model we are proposing is one wherein colon cancer
cells release an enzyme outside the
cell, where it attaches a high -
energy phosphate to the metabolite creatine, and then imports this energetic metabolite into the
cell to be
used as
energy,» Tavazoie says.
Thus, in order to successfully produce the main types of «the
energy currency» under a high concentration of hydrogen sulfide, the intestinal microflora inhabitants should
use a unique type of terminal oxidases, which is missing in the
cells of humans and animals,» says Vitaly Borisov.
Insulin - like growth factor promotes
cell division and growth, while insulin shunts fuel consumed either into immediate
energy use or into storage for a later time.
In mice, this form of lipodystrophy was also characterized by «whitening» of brown fat
cells, a loss of white fat, and signs of metabolic syndrome, including insulin resistance, fat tissue inflammation, dyslipidemia (elevated cholesterol and fat), increased resting
energy use, and increased markers of cardiovascular disease.
Research shows that in Parkinson's disease a brainstem region called the pedunculopontine nucleus (PPN) develops changes in DNA found in mitochondria — the batteries of the
cell — as they produce and store
energy that
cells can
use.
The work, which appears in the November 27, 2014, edition of Science Express, points to new avenues for producing single - site supported gold catalysts that could produce high - grade hydrogen for cleaner
energy use in fuel -
cell powered devices, including vehicles.
Cell phones
use non-ionizing radiation, which differs from the ionizing radiation of x-rays and radioactive material in that it does not have enough
energy to knock around — or ionize — electrons or particles in atoms.
Endosomes are machinery that tumor
cells, via a process called endocytosis, can
use to incorporate components into their environment and obtain
energy by degrading them via autodigestion or autophagy.
The stress this places on
cells leads to the overproduction of glucose, which when not
used for
energy transforms into lactic acid, which is difficult for the body to flush out.