Oct 20, 2015
Engineered viruses provide quantum-based enhancement of energy transport
Posted by Thomas Munyon in categories: biotech/medical, engineering, genetics, quantum physics, solar power, sustainability
How cool is this!
Rendering of a virus used in the MIT experiments. The light-collecting centers, called chromophores, are in red, and chromophores that just absorbed a photon of light are glowing white. After the virus is modified to adjust the spacing between the chromophores, energy can jump from one set of chromophores to the next faster and more efficiently. (credit: the researchers and Lauren Alexa Kaye)
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