Motor enzymes catalyse chemical reactions, like the hydrolysis of ATP, and in the process they also perform work. Recent studies indicate that motor enzymes perform work with specific biochemical steps in their catalysed reactions, challenging the classical view that work can only be performed within a biochemical state. To address these studies an alternative class of models, often referred to...

To study allosteric mechanism in hemoglobin, a hydrogen-exchange method was used to measure ligand-dependent changes in structural free energy at defined allosterically sensitive positions. When the two alpha-subunits are CN-met liganded, effects can be measured locally, within the alpha-subunit, and also remotely, within the beta-subunit, even though the quaternary structure remains in the T c...

Energy losses experienced by a fast electron probe moving through a dielectric medium have been studied both numerically and analytically, where the response function varies continuously with position in one transverse direction. The frequent assumption that the loss spectrum should exhibit a peak determined by the plasmon energy in a homogeneous medium with the composition found locally at the...

Enhancing the charge transfer process in nanocrystal sensitized solar cells is vital for the improvement of their performance. In this work we show a means of increasing photo-induced ultrafast charge transfer in successive ionic layer adsorption and reaction (SILAR) CdS-TiO2 nanocrystal heterojunctions using pulsed laser sintering of TiO2 nanocrystals. The enhanced charge transfer was attribut...

A combination of experimental data and theoretical analysis provides evidence of a bell-shaped kinetics of electron transfer in the Arrhenius coordinates ln k vs 1/T. This kinetic law is a temperature analogue of the familiar Marcus bell-shaped dependence based on ln k vs the reaction free energy. These results were obtained for reactions of intramolecular charge shift between the donor and acc...

Efficient electronic energy transfer (EET) in the newly synthesized dyads comprised of zinc porphyrin covalently linked to one, two or four numbers of boron dipyrrin (BDP) entities is investigated. Both steady-state and time-resolved emission as well as transient absorption studies revealed occurrence of efficient singlet-singlet energy transfer from BDP to zinc porphyrin with the time scale ra...

In this study we have compared energy and electron transfer reactions in termolecular systems using a nanosecond diffuse reflectance laser flash photolysis technique. We have previously investigated these processes on silica gel surfaces for bimolecular systems and electron transfer in termolecular systems. The latter systems involved electron transfer between three arene molecules with azulene...

Quenched geometric disorder of a wall delimiting a spectator phase can have dramatic effects on the nature of critical wetting transitions. We consider selfaffine walls in 2D with roughness exponent £w. Transfer matrix results for directed interfacial models with short-range interactions suggest that wetting turns firstorder as soon as L,W exceeds £0, the anisotropy index of interface fluctuati...

We use the statistics of photon emission from single molecules to probe the ultrafast dynamics of an unfolded protein via Förster resonance energy transfer. Global reconfiguration of the chain occurs on a time scale of approximately equal to 50 ns and slows down concomitant with chain collapse under folding conditions. These diffusive dynamics provide a missing link between the phenomenological...