For fundamental research the key questions are related to the energetics and kinetics
of electron transfer processes at interfaces.
Because they can now follow transient species formed as a result
of electron transfer among communities in real time, Yu and her team are using this approach to study how microbial communities communicate with one another.
Dr. El - Naggar has increased our understanding
of electron transfer focusing on bacterial nanowires, and is working to develop new nanomaterials and tools for energy conversion.
Bengt Nordéns contribution to form a strong research school in Gothenburg has been successful: as many as 12 out of his about 50 former PhD students and postdocs have become professors, abroad or at other Swedish universities, and three have returned to contribute a forceful environment with their own profiles within the Department: Prof Bo Albinsson (femtosecond spectroscopy and fundamentals
of electron transfer), Prof Per Lincoln (new transition - metal - based DNA ligands and statistical mechanics for gene targeting), Prof Björn Åkerman (fundamentals and applications of DNA physical chemistry).
«Does the failure
of electron transfer lead to the disease, or does the disease cause the breakdown
of electron transfer?»
It consists
of electron transfer to the originally ionized Ne atom matched by energy transfer away from the Ne, which leads to ionization of the second Kr atom nearby.
Not exact matches
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Even the fact that at the lower end the holons dissolve «in the indeterminacy
of the Janus - faced
electron» (above, p. 65) does not overcome the threat
of reductionism to human freedom; for Koestler knows that the «indeterminacy
of the micro-level can not be
transferred....
This creates just enough collisions to allow
electrons to exchange from one to the next until they reach the end
of the nanowire and
transfer to the rock or metal surface.
«Strings
of electron - carrying proteins may hold the secret to «electric bacteria»: The nanowire structure and
electron transfer process
of a unique bacterium could provide a foundation for sustainable energy.»
A beam
of electrons was first observed to be accelerated with a «gradient» — or energy
transfer rate —
of 300 MV / m, which is very high for present - day accelerators, in a device rather like a microchip.
Another strategy is to make alternative versions
of terminal oxidases, enzymes in the membrane that
transfer electrons to oxygen, which use oxygen more efficiently or are better at scavenging oxygen when its concentration is low.
In the electrical currents that flow in the microcircuits
of today's gadgets, the
electrons behave like particles and follow classical, predictable laws
of heat
transfer.
This compound mediates the
transfer of electrons from the biological membranes to the electrical circuit, enabling the creation
of an electric current in the cell.
The
transfer of electrons during a chemical reaction in lead - acid car batteries produces a potential
of more than 2 volts.
The scheme
of oxidases action is simple:
transferring electrons to molecular oxygen, reducing equivalents are oxidized again, and as a result «the energy currency»
of the cell — the proton - moving force is generated.
Elementary chemistry distinguishes two kinds
of strong bonds between atoms in molecules: the covalent bond, where bonding arises from valence
electron pairs shared between neighboring atoms, and the ionic bond, where
transfer of electrons from one atom to another leads to Coulombic attraction between the resulting ions.
«At the end
of the day, the key in this study is really the velocity
of the response — how fast the
electrons transfer across the sediments,» Reguera says.
In contrast, the coordinated, marching - band - like motion
of electrons in vanadium dioxide is detrimental to heat
transfer as there are fewer configurations available for the
electrons to hop randomly between.»
«Strong and frequent collisions
of the oxygen ions induce
electron transfer to neighboring empty cages.
In the studied model system, X-rays produce the doubly - charged particle (Ne2 +), which catches an
electron from one
of the neighboring atoms (Kr),
transferring the energy to the other and releasing another
electron.
At the same time, the energy
transferred to the neighbouring atom knocks a loosely bound
electron out
of it.
Another hypothesis holds that the liberated energy is
transferred to the
electrons of the surface molecules, raising them to a higher energy level or exciting them.
When the researchers exposed R. ferrireducens to a solution
of glucose in a chamber containing a graphite electrode they found that when the bacterium fed on the sugar, it
transferred electrons directly to the electrode, producing a current.
Spin
transfer torque is the
transfer of the spin angular momentum from conduction
electrons to the magnetization
of a ferromagnet and enables the manipulation
of nanomagnets with spin currents rather than magnetic fields,» explained Gyung - Min Choi, who recently completed his PhD in materials science and engineering at Illinois.
This pulse is only some tenths
of a trillionth
of a second long and
transfers energy to the
electrons in the molecule, exciting them into helical motion.
By demonstrating the presence
of such coherence resulting from a capture
of an incoherent
electron, Prof. Krishnakumar and co-workers have shown that such coherence can also stem from the
transfer of more than one value
of angular momentum quanta.
For the power cord, they used bacterial and plant ferredoxin, an iron and sulfur protein that brings about
electron transfer in a number
of reactions.
Quantum teleportation enables two partners, Alice and Bob, to
transfer the delicate quantum state
of one particle such as an
electron to another.
This field also causes
electrons in a nearby coil
of wires to oscillate, thereby
transferring power wirelessly.
In the current issue
of Journal
of Chemical Physics, Benjamin Freyer, Flavio Zamponi, Vincent Juve, Johannes Stingl, Michael Woerner, Thomas Elsaesser and Majed Chergui report the first in - situ x-ray imaging
of electron and atom motions induced by such an
electron transfer excitation.
To the big surprise
of the researchers, the time - dependent «
electron maps» reveal a
transfer of electronic charge not only from the Fe atoms to the bipyridine units but — so far unknown — an even larger amount
of electronic charge from the PF6 - counterions to the bipyridine units.
Researchers will now have a better sense
of what is happening at the catalyst surface and an appreciation for the role
of proton and
electron transfer processes in this chemistry.
Modern electronics is based on the use
of electrons as information carriers, but they have ceased to meet the contemporary requirements: standard electrical copper wires and channels on chips can not
transfer information with speeds sufficient for modern microprocessors.
«Neighbors move
electrons jointly: Ultrafast collective
electron transfer after excitation
of single
electron.»
The role
of the semiconductor was to assist the
transfer of electrons from the methanol to the polymer.
Chemin and his colleagues, meanwhile, have shown that the interaction can go both ways: In the 28 August Physical Review Letters, they report that tellurium nuclei primed with the right amount
of energy can
transfer it to
electrons, which in turn give up photons.
I already mentioned dye - sensitized solar cells, which is about trying to improve the efficiency
of charged
transfer of an
electron going from a molecule into a semiconductor.
In the case
of the negative ion source, the small amount
of cesium is injected into the ion source and the cesium - adsorbed surface
of the so - called «plasma electrode» become activated to
transfer the
electron to hydrogen atoms and hydrogenous positive ions that are colliding on the surface.
After photo - excitation
of the conjugated polymer with light
of energy greater than the π - π * gap, an
electron transfer to the C60 molecule is initiated.
Evidence for photoinduced
electron transfer from the excited state
of a conducting polymer onto buckminsterfullerene, C60, is reported.
«We have shown that carbon nanotubes promote the conversion
of light energy into
electron transfer within the chloroplasts,» Giraldo explains.
The mostly likely explanation is that the carbon nanotubes absorb more sunlight and donate
electrons to the photosynthetic process, according to Giraldo and the rest
of the team, or the nanotubes may be speeding up the
transfer of electrons within the photosynthetic processes.
In this chapter she describes models for oxygen carriers,
electron -
transfer proteins, rubredoxins, various enzymes and others, and how they might help the chemist to understand better the role
of iron in nature.
Nor did the situation improve when both types
of microbes were put together into this solution
of their favorite foods, suggesting the organisms lacked the ability to directly
transfer electrons between them.
«Microbes use conductive minerals as electric wires for
transferring electrons between each other,» says microbiologist Kazuya Watanabe
of the Tokyo University
of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, part
of the team that performed the research.
Lovett and his colleagues have shown that quantum information can be
transferred from an
electron's spin to the spin
of an atomic nucleus, where it can be stored more effectively — creating a form
of «quantum memory».
Regardless
of the mode
of energy
transfer, one
electron is ejected from the helium atom.
«The direct growth
of anchored MoSoy nanocrystals on graphene sheets may enhance the formation
of strongly coupled hybrid materials with intimate, seamless
electron transfer pathways, thus accelerating the
electron transfer rate for the chemical desorption
of hydrogen from the catalyst, further reducing the energy required for the reaction to take place,» Sasaki said.