Atomic Movement During Photosynthesis Photographed With X-Ray Flash

Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have managed, with the help of an advanced X-ray flash, to photograph the movement of atoms during photosynthesis .The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in Grenoble is home of the advanced particle accelerators, whose pulsing X-ray beams are used by researchers to photograph and study life's smallest components atoms, molecules and proteins.Researchers from the Department of Chemistry at the University of Gothenburg and at Chalmers University of Technology have now used this advanced technology to photograph the dynamics of life's most fundamental.
The focus of the study was a protein which is central to the conversion of light to chemical energy during photosynthesis, and which process the Gothenburg researchers have been the first to successfully photograph. The X-ray image shows how the protein temporarily stores the light energy immediately before a chemical bond forms a movement that takes place on a scale of less than a nanometre.

i think that it is good that they are inventing new different things to help out the human body.It is good because we can see the energy of the photosynthesis.It could help us in life.We also could see pictures of very cool energy and see what causes things in our body.






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