An international team of physicists, chemists and biologists was able to study photosynthesis, where the process of converting sunlight into energy takes place.
Using ultrafast spectroscopy techniques to study the movement of energy, the researchers found that chemicals that can remove electrons from the molecular structures responsible for photosynthesis do so early in the process, not much later than previously thought.
This “reshaping” of the understanding of photosynthesis could improve the way we deal with excess energy and create new, more efficient ways to use it.
“Many scientists have tried to remove electrons from an earlier point in photosynthesis, but said it’s impossible because the energy is so deeply hidden in the protein framework,” said one of the authors of the new study. “It’s amazing that we were able to play them earlier in the process.”
Source: Ferra
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