{"id":100452,"date":"2020-01-03T14:06:18","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/switching-tracks-reversing-electrons-course-through-natures-solar-cells"},"modified":"2020-01-11T23:56:50","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T07:56:50","slug":"switching-tracks-reversing-electrons-course-through-natures-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/switching-tracks-reversing-electrons-course-through-natures-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"Switching tracks: Reversing electrons\u2019 course through nature\u2019s solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/switching-tracks-reversing-electrons-course-through-natures-solar-cells3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Might interest some.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Think of a train coming down the tracks to a switch point where it could go either to the right or the left\u2014and it always goes to the right.<\/p>\n<p>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 \u201cright-track\u201d) set of molecules, or to a B-branch (\u201cleft-track\u201d) set of identical molecules.<\/p>\n<p>New research from Washington University in St. Louis and Argonne National Laboratory coaxes electrons down the track that they typically don\u2019t travel\u2014advancing understanding of the earliest light-driven events of photosynthesis. The findings were published Dec. 31 in the <i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i> (<i>PNAS<\/i>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2014and 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 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100723,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100452\/revisions\/100723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}