europium (eu) doped zno microsphere based nano-sheets were synthesized through hydrothermal method. effects of different concentrations of europium on structural and optical properties of zno nano-sheets were investigated in detail. prepared un-doped and eu-doped zno samples were characterized using x-ray diffraction (xrd), energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy (edx), scanning electron microscop...

We report the results of molecular dynamics simulations of electron-transfer activation parameters of plastocyanin metalloprotein involved as an electron carrier in natural photosynthesis. We have discovered that slow, non-ergodic conformational fluctuations of the protein, coupled to hydrating water, result in a very broad distribution of donor-acceptor energy gaps far exceeding those observed...

Electron-transfer processes, and especially light-induced electron-transfer reactions, play an extremely important role in natural and artificial energy transduction. Following many decades of intensive theoretical and experimental study, it is now opportune to explore electron-transfer processes by way of modern computational chemistry. In essence, this requires the meaningful calculation of t...

Based on the mutational effects on the steady-state kinetics of the electron transfer reaction and our NMR analysis of the interaction site (Sakamoto, K., Kamiya, M., Imai, M., Shinzawa-Itoh, K., Uchida, T., Kawano, K., Yoshikawa, S., and Ishimori, K. (2011) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 108, 12271-12276), we determined the structure of the electron transfer complex between cytochrome c (Cyt c)...

By using laser methods to prepare specific quantum states of gas-phase nitric oxide molecules, we examined the role of vibrational motion in electron transfer to a molecule from a metal surface free from the complicating influence of solvation effects. The signature of the electron transfer process is a highly efficient multiquantum vibrational relaxation event, where the nitrogen oxide loses h...

We report the construction of a synthetic flavo-heme protein that incorporates two major physiological activities of flavoproteins: light activation of flavin analogous to DNA photolyase and rapid intramolecular electron transfer between the flavin and heme cofactors as in several oxidoreductases. The functional tetra-alpha-helix protein comprises two 62-aa helix-loop-helix subunits. Each subun...

Electron transfer, a fundamental chemical process underlying all redox reactions, has been under experimental and theoretical study for many years.1 Theoretical studies of such processes seek to understand the ways in which their rate depends on donor and acceptor properties, on the solvent, and on the electronic coupling between the states involved. Such processes, which dominate electron tran...

Microbially mediated terminal electron accepting processes (TEAPs) to a large extent control the fate of redox reactive elements and associated reactions in anoxic soils, sediments, and aquifers. This review focuses on thermodynamic controls and regulation of H2-dependent TEAPs, case studies illustrating this concept, and the quantitative description of thermodynamic controls in modeling. Other...