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Kinetik des Ionentransports durch supramolekulare Kanäle in Einkristallen

Assouma, Cyrille D. ; Crochet, Aurélien ; Chérémond, Yvens ; Giese, Bernd ; Fromm, Katharina M.

In: Angewandte Chemie, 2013, vol. 125, no. 17, p. 4780-4783

Einkristall-zu-Einkristall-Umwandlungen sind durch Ionenaustausch- und Transportreaktionen durch supramolekulare Kanäle möglich, die aus Kronenether- Molekülen bestehen und Trihalogenid-Ionen als Gerüst nutzen. In kinetischen Messungen des Ionentransports bei unterschiedlichen Temperaturen wurde die Aktivierungsenergie für solche Systeme bestimmt, und ein schneller Austausch zwischen K+-...

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Kinetics of ion transport through supramolecular channels in single crystals

Assouma, Cyrille D. ; Crochet, Aurélien ; Chérémond, Yvens ; Giese, Bernd ; Fromm, Katharina M.

In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2013, vol. 52, no. 17, p. 4682–4685

Single-crystal to single-crystal transformations are possible by ion-exchange and transport reactions through supramolecular channels that are composed of crown ether molecules and use trihalide ions as scaffolds. Kinetic measurements of ion transport at different temperatures provide activation energy data and show that a very fast.

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Kinetics and mechanism of mineral respiration: how iron hemes synchronize electron transfer rates

Chabert, Valentin ; Babel, Lucille ; Füeg, Michael P. ; Karamash, Maksym ; Madivoli, Edwin S. ; Herault, Nelly ; Dantas, Joana M. ; Salgueiro, Carlos A. ; Giese, Bernd ; Fromm, Katharina M.

In: Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2020, vol. 59, no. 30, p. 12331-12336

Anaerobic microorganisms of the Geobacter genus are effective electron sources for the synthesis of nanoparticles, for bioremediation of polluted water, and for the production of electricity in fuel cells. In multistep reactions, electrons are transferred via iron/heme cofactors of c‐type cytochromes from the inner cell membrane to extracellular metal ions, which are bound to outer membrane...

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Radicals and radical ions as intermediates of electron transfer processes through peptides

Giese, Bernd ; Eckhardt, Sonja ; Lauz, Miriam ; Gao, Jian ; Wang, Min

In: Chimia, 2012, vol. 66, no. 6, p. 364-367

Electron transfer (ET) through peptides and proteins is a key biochemical process, which involves radicals and radical ions as reactive intermediates. We have developed an assay that allows us to study this fundamental chemical reaction.

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Fragment orbital based description of charge transfer in peptides including backbone orbitals

Heck, Alexander ; Woiczikowski, P. Benjamin ; Kubař, Tomáš ; Welke, Kai ; Niehaus, Thomas ; Giese, Bernd ; Skourtis, Spiros ; Elstner, Marcus ; Steinbrecher, Thomas B.

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2014, vol. 118, no. 16, p. 4261–4272

Charge transfer in peptides and proteins can occur on different pathways, depending on the energetic landscape as well as the coupling between the involved orbitals. Since details of the mechanism and pathways are difficult to access experimentally, different modeling strategies have been successfully applied to study these processes in the past. These can be based on a simple empirical pathway...

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Charge transfer in model peptides: obtaining Marcus parameters from molecular simulation

Heck, Alexander ; Woiczikowski, P. Benjamin ; Kubař, Tomáš ; Giese, Bernd ; Elstner, Marcus ; Steinbrecher, Thomas B.

In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2012, vol. 116, p. 2284–2293

Charge transfer within and between biomolecules remains a highly active field of biophysics. Due to the complexities of real systems, model compounds are a useful alternative to study the mechanistic fundamentals of charge transfer. In recent years, such model experiments have been underpinned by molecular simulation methods as well. In this work, we study electron hole transfer in helical model...

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Metal nanoparticle–microbe interactions: synthesis and antimicrobial effects

Khan, Mujeebur R. ; Fromm, Katharina M. ; Rizvi, Tanveer F. ; Giese, Bernd ; Ahamad, Faheem ; Turner, Raymond J. ; Füeg, Michael ; Marsili, Enrico

In: Particle & Particle Systems Characterization, 2020, vol. 37, no. 5, p. 1900419

Metal nanoparticles (NPs), chalcogenides, and carbon quantum dots can be easily synthesized from whole microorganisms (fungi and bacteria) and cell‐free sterile filtered spent medium. The particle size distribution and the biosynthesis time can be somewhat controlled through the biomass/metal solution ratio. The biosynthetic mechanism can be explained through the ion‐reduction theory and...