Scientists at Freie Universität Berlin and Ruhr-Universität Bochum investigate biological production of "energy source of the future"
No 337/2017 from Dec 06, 2017
Researchers at Freie Universität Berlin and the Ruhr-Universität Bochum have uncovered a crucial reaction principle of hydrogen-producing enzymes. Teams led by Dr. Ulf-Peter Apfel in Bochum and Dr. Sven T. Stripp at Freie Universität investigated the production of molecular hydrogen in single-cell green algae. They were able to demonstrate how the enzyme succeeds in transferring two electrons in succession to two hydrogen ions and thereby assume stable intermediate states. Hydrogen gas is viewed as the energy source of the future. ...
