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Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Mimicking nature, scientists can now extend redox potentials

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- New insight into how nature handles some fundamental processes is guiding researchers in the design of tailor-made proteins for applications such as artificial photosynthetic centers, long-range ...


New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

New Gas Sensor Based on Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created May 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Argonne Center for Nanoscale Materials staff in the Nanofabrication & Devices Group together with collaborative users from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee have fabricated a miniaturized gas sensor using ...


Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes

Researchers shed light on how proteins find their shapes

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have brought together UCSD theoretical modeling and Caltech experimental ...


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Solo Sparkle: Electron give-and-take lets molecules shine individually on camera

Chemistry /

created Sep 25, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (19) | comments 2

A single fluorescent molecule flashing as it gains or loses its electron has made the microscopic spotlight. Watching a whole gaggle of these molecules, they appear to work synchronously; but a new close-up ...





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Biological electron transfer captured in real time

Biology /

created Mar 03, 2008 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Two research teams led by Dr. Michael Verkhovsky and Prof. Mårten Wikström of the Institute of Biotechnology of the University of Helsinki have for the first time succeeded in monitoring electron transfer by Complex I in ...


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Modeling the movement of electrons at the molecular scale

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 12, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (16) | comments 0

Finding more efficient ways of storing and using energy requires scientists to first look at the particles that set these fundamental processes in motion – the electrons. Controlling the movement of electrons ...


Spin-polarized electrons on demand

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 15, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 2

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...


Spin-polarized electrons on demand

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 21, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Many hopes are pinned on spintronics. In the future it could replace electronics, which in the race to produce increasingly rapid computer components, must at sometime reach its limits. Different from electronics, where whole ...


Precise measurement of phenomenon advances solar cell understanding

Precise measurement of phenomenon advances solar cell understanding

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created Nov 18, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (12) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- "One type of solar cell design starts with a chain of chromophores strung between two electrodes," explained Dewey Holten, Ph.D., professor of chemistry in Arts & Sciences. "This chain absorbs ...


Switchyard for single electrons

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 25, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0

German scientists achieved to transfer very small charge "packets", comprising a well-defined number of few electrons, between metallic electrons precisely by using a single-electron pump. A single-electron transistor, being ...


Porphyrin electron-transfer reactions observed at the molecular level

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created Aug 23, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (14) | comments 0

Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time, a discovery which could have future relevance to areas such ...


Porphyrin electron-transfer reactions observed at the molecular level

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created Aug 02, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Researchers at Temple University have observed and documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the single molecule level for the first time, a discovery which could have future relevance to areas such ...


Modeling How Electric Charges Move

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 13, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Learning how to control the movement of electrons on the molecular and nanometer scales could help scientists devise small-scale circuits for many applications, including more efficient ways of storing and using solar energy. ...


Carbon nanotubes' electronic properties optimized for future applications

Carbon nanotubes' electronic properties optimized for future applications

Nanotechnology / Nanophysics

created Aug 27, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (49) | comments 0

While researching the unique electrical properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs), researchers have demonstrated the nanotubes’ ability to capture and store one electron per 32 carbon atoms in ...



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