Towards spin torch experiments and artificial reaction centers

Abstract

Harvesting solar energy for human use has long been a cherished dream of scientists. Especially when unprecedented potentials of biological systems are explored, they could shift the paradigm in the field of development of bio-electronic devices. Hence artificial photosynthetic reaction centers can be potential ‘photovoltaic cells at molecular dimensions’. Understanding the chemical environment, structure and dynamics plays an important role towards the effort of achieving an ‘artificial reaction center’. Let us see how S. Karthick Babu, an EMBO student describes how ‘spin torch’ experiments are designed to chase this dream.