Recent chemical mixing devices for time-resolved serial femtosecond crystallography

J Park, KH Nam - TrAC Trends in Analytical Chemistry, 2024 - Elsevier
Understanding the enzyme reaction mechanism is important for identifying fundamental
biochemical processes and for providing invaluable information for enzyme engineering for …

Structure function studies of Photosystem II using X-ray free electron lasers

J Yano, J Kern, VK Yachandra - Annual review of biophysics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The structure and mechanism of the water-oxidation chemistry that occurs in photosystem II
have been subjects of great interest. The advent of X-ray free electron lasers allowed the …

Closing Kok's cycle of nature's water oxidation catalysis

Y Guo, L He, Y Ding, L Kloo, DA Pantazis… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Mn4CaO5 (6) cluster in photosystem II catalyzes water splitting through the S i
state cycle (i= 0–4). Molecular O2 is formed and the natural catalyst is reset during the final …

Nature of S-states in the oxygen-evolving complex resolved by high-energy resolution fluorescence detected X-ray absorption spectroscopy

M Chrysina, M Drosou, RG Castillo… - Journal of the …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Photosystem II, the water splitting enzyme of photosynthesis, utilizes the energy of sunlight
to drive the four-electron oxidation of water to dioxygen at the oxygen-evolving complex …

Lighting the way: compelling open questions in photosynthesis research

NA Eckardt, Y Allahverdiyeva, CE Alvarez… - The Plant …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Photosynthesis—the conversion of energy from sunlight into chemical energy—is essential
for life on Earth. Yet there is much we do not understand about photosynthetic energy …

Decomposition of a manganese complex loaded on TiO2 nanoparticles under photochemical reaction

S Madadkhani, S Nandy, P Aleshkevych… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Water splitting, through electrochemical and photochemical methods, is a promising
approach for large-scale hydrogen production. However, the efficiency of these methods is …

Decoding natural strategy: Oxygen-evolution reaction on the surface of nickel oxyhydroxide at extremely low overpotential

N Akbari, MM Najafpour - Inorganic Chemistry, 2023 - ACS Publications
Although nickel (hydr) oxides in the absence of other metal ions are conventionally deemed
inefficient catalysts for the oxygen-evolution reaction (OER) under alkaline conditions, this …

Boosting Efficient and Sustainable Alkaline Water Oxidation on a W‐CoOOH‐TT Pair‐Sites Catalyst Synthesized via Topochemical Transformation

L Wang, H Su, G Tan, J **n, X Wang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The development of facile methods for constructing highly active, cost‐effective catalysts that
meet ampere‐level current density and durability requirements for an oxygen evolution …

Mechanism of proton release during water oxidation in Photosystem II

F Allgöwer, MC Pöverlein, AW Rutherford… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
Photosystem II (PSII) catalyzes light-driven water oxidation that releases dioxygen into our
atmosphere and provides the electrons needed for the synthesis of biomass. The catalysis …

Visualization of Electrooxidation on Palladium Single Crystal Surfaces via In Situ Raman Spectroscopy

YL Sun, X Ji, X Wang, QF He, JC Dong… - Angewandte Chemie …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The electrooxidation of catalyst surfaces is across various electrocatalytic reactions, directly
impacting their activity, stability and selectivity. Precisely characterizing the electrooxidation …