by RIG Admin | Jun 26, 2020 | Research highlights
Krokinobacter eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2) is a light-driven sodium pump that actively transports small cations across cellular membranes. Such pumps are used by microbes to convert light into a membrane potential and have become useful optogenetic tools with...
by RIG Admin | Jan 28, 2020 | Research highlights
The iron-molybdenum (FeMoco) and iron-vanadium cofactors (FeVco) in the molybdenum/vanadium nitrogenase enzymes catalyze the reduction of dinitrogen at ambient temperature and pressure to ammonia according to the reaction equation: N2 +8H+ 8e- +16MgATP→ H2 +...
by RIG Admin | Nov 7, 2019 | Research highlights
GaN is a wide gap semiconductor that is a crucial component of blue light emitting diodes (LEDs), which are essential for solid state lighting. Both n- and p-type layers are required for LEDs, but achieving p-type GaN is very difficult; the only successful method is...
by RIG Admin | Jul 25, 2019 | Research highlights
TiO2 is a key material for photocatalytic water splitting, where it has been found that samples composed of mixtures of the anatase and rutile polymorphs outperform the pure phase samples. Several explanations for this observation were proposed with no consensus being...
by RIG Admin | Apr 23, 2019 | Research highlights
Copper-containing nitrite reductase enzymes (CuNiRs) play a key role in the global nitrogen cycle by reducing nitrite (NO2−) to nitric oxide (NO). CuNiRs come in two-domain and three-domain forms, where the former have one cupredoxin domain and the latter have an...
by RIG Admin | Apr 18, 2019 | Research highlights
The role of oxygen vacancies in the transparent conducting oxides (TCOs) In2O3, SnO2 and ZnO has remained controversial, with some studies indicating that they act as shallow donors, but many computational studies using plane-wave supercell techniques claiming that...
