Jan 3, 2020
Switching tracks: Reversing electrons’ course through nature’s solar cells
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: solar power, sustainability
Might interest some.
Think of a train coming down the tracks to a switch point where it could go either to the right or the left—and it always goes to the right.
Photosynthetic organisms have a similar switch point. After sunlight is absorbed, energy transfers rapidly to a protein called the reaction center. From this point, the electrons could move either to an A-branch (or “right-track”) set of molecules, or to a B-branch (“left-track”) set of identical molecules.
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