Schlagwort: chemical processes
The Power of light: How light can be used to control processes in synthetic cells
7. Oktober 2022
Synthetic – i. e. artificially produced – cells can imitate certain functions of biological cells. These synthetic cells could open up new medical possibilities in the future. In laboratories, such cells can already help in chemical processes on a miniature scale as „mini-reactors“. Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research have now developed a method to control the course of these chemical processes with the help of light.
Quantum Tunnelling to the Origin and Evolution of Life
23. Februar 2015
Quantum tunnelling is a phenomenon which becomes relevant at the nanoscale and below. It is a paradox from the classical point of view as it enables elementary particles and atoms to permeate an energetic barrier without the need for sufficient energy to overcome it. Tunnelling is being of vital importance for life: physical and chemical processes can be traced directly back to the effects of quantum tunnelling. These processes include the prebiotic chemistry as well as the function of biomolecular nanomachines and has many highly important implications that can be derived from to the field of molecular, prebiotic chemistry and biological evolution, respectively.