Over a span of femtoseconds, they followed the light energy through the scaffolding to the cellular
reaction centers where energy conversion takes place.
The organisms using it efficiently transport the energy of sunlight from receptors, which gather photons from sunlight, to
reaction centers where the energy may be harnessed — a performance easily rivaling the most efficient humanmade solar cells.
Not exact matches
«Having a better understanding of
where the energy levels are will be very helpful for establishing the structure - function relationships of these photosynthetic
reaction centers.»
Scientists of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) studied the
reactions under close - to - reality conditions: With the help of X-rays, they observed the interactions of the nitrogen monoxide pollutant molecule and of the reduction agent ammonia with iron and copper
centers, i.e. transition metal ions in Fe - ZSM - 5 and Cu - SSZ - 13,
where the
reaction takes place.
In one, dubbed «rational» enzyme design, researchers changed building blocks of the enzyme's catalytic
center, the place
where the enzyme hosts chemical
reactions.
You have those, you kind of solve a lot of the blanket problems
where you have your fusion blast in the
center and then it hits a blanket which is basically nuclear waste, depleted waste, and there's a lot of left over energy in that waste; and you have neutrons hit that waste and then that catalyzes further
reactions, you get a lot more heat.
This light energy is then transferred to the organism's
reaction center,
where photosynthesis takes place.
Since 2011, she has been a junior group leader at the Institute of Biology III at the University of Freiburg,
where with the support of the Collaborative Research
Center 1160 «Immune - mediated pathology as consequence of impaired immune
reactions — IMPATH,» she has been continuing her project at the BIOSS Centre for Biological Signalling Studies and the
Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency — the CCI.
At the
center of the Sun,
where its density reaches up to 150,000 kg / m3 (150 times the density of water on Earth), thermonuclear
reactions (nuclear fusion) convert hydrogen into helium, releasing the energy that keeps the Sun in a state of equilibrium.