MTL News Archives for 2012

Researchers explain how dye-based nanotubes can help harvest light's energy


July 6, 2012

Tiny cylinders help reveal how natural-light-harvesting antennae collect light with exceptional efficiency.

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Green sulfur bacteria, whose exceptional light-harvesting capabilities inspired the artificial system analyzed by postdoc Dörthe Eisele and her co-workers, dominate this hot spring at Yellowstone National Park and give it its striking green color.

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