The first thing they do is cool down heating the surrounding non
photosensitive molecules and everything else around them.
For some time scientists have added
photosensitive molecules to polymers to manipulate how the materials bend light.
By absorbing a photon of light,
photosensitive molecules can reposition chemical bonds and thus create a «kink» in the polymer chain.
Led by chemist Dirk Trauner, the group tethered
a photosensitive molecule at one end of the channel so that it blocked the opening to the pore.
Not exact matches
Green - light photons hold 240 kJ / mole of energy, which is enough to bend (but not break) the rhodopsin
molecules in our retinas that trigger our
photosensitive rod cells to fire.
The
molecules used in the study are
photosensitive and are used in organic solar cells; similar techniques could be used to study a wide variety of
molecules.