In all photosynthetic organisms, light energy is used to drive electrons from a donor chlorophyll species via a series of acceptors across a biological membrane. These light-induced electron-transfer processes display a remarkably high quantum efficiency, indicating a near-complete inhibition of unproductive charge recombination reactions. It has been suggested that unproductive charge recombin...

The corrosion inhibition properties of the benzothiazole BTH and benzotriazole BT inhibitors on the aluminum in 0.25 M HCl solution were studied. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy EIS, electrochemical noise EN and potentiodynamic polarization techniques were used to investigate the inhibition properties of the inhibitors. Scanning electron microscope SEM was also utilized in order to inves...

Establishing mechanisms and intrinsic reactivity in the oxidation of phenol with water as the proton acceptor is a fundamental task relevant to many reactions occurring in natural systems. Thanks to the easy measure of the reaction kinetics by the current and the setting of the driving force by the electrode potential, the electrochemical approach is particularly suited to this endeavor. Despit...

The two primary sites of herbicide action in photosynthetic electron transport are the inhibition of photosystem II (PS II) electron transport and diversion of electron flow through photosystem I (PS I). PS II electron transport inhibitors bind to the DI protein of the PS II reaction center, thus blocking electron transfer to plastoquinone. Inhibition of PS II electron transport prevents the co...

A molecular conjugate made of a free-base diphenyl porphyrin chromophore (DPP) trans-linked to two N-acridinium units has been synthesized and photophysically characterized in acetonitrile. Interestingly, the emission both fluorophores is quenched array at room temperature. Steady-state time-resolved optical analysis proved that an ultrafast electron transfer from acridinium occurs upon excitat...

Heat-transfer through weakly magnetized diffuse astrophysical plasmas excites whistlers. This leads to electron whistler resonant scattering, a reduction of the electron mean-free path, and heat-flux inhibition. However, only whistlers propagating at a finite angle to the magnetic field (off-axis) can scatter the heat-flux carrying electrons. Thus, the level of heat flux-inhibition along the ma...

choline oxidase (chox) was chosen as a model enzyme for evaluating the performance of cnts’ functional groups for development of enzyme electrodes. cnts were functionalized with carboxylic acid, amine or amide groups. carboxylic acid, amine and amide functionalized cnts were obtained by acid treatment, ethylenediamine or tetraethylenepentamine chemically modification and ammonia plasma treatmen...