Detailed snapshots of photosynthesis at room temperature using SLAC’s X-ray laser show water-splitting reaction

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By mmillikinNov 21, 2016, 11:01 am132 pts
One of its molecular mysteries of photosynthesis involves how the photosystem II protein complex harvests energy from sunlight and uses it to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. Now, an international team of researchers has used femtosecond pulses from an X-ray free electron laser (XFEL) at the Department of…

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