The results demonstrated that the only parameter consistently required to guide the electron tunneling function was that the redox centers be within 14 angstroms of each other. For electron transfers over greater distances, the molecules used redox centers in series, spaced no more than 14 angstroms apart. With Moser and Dutton, the remaining author is Xiaoxi Chen, PhD. Funding for the work was provided by the National Institutes of Health. In addition, the institution continued to maintain the largest absolute growth in funding for research and training among all 125 medical schools in the country since 1991. News releases from the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center are available to reporters by direct e-mail, fax, or U.S. mail, upon request.
Reduction is the receipt of an electron, and oxidation is the release of an electron.
The new findings have some important implications. For tunneling, that and only that is the relevant characteristic that's evolved. It has not been designed, per se. Chen, PhD. Funding for the work was provided by the National Institutes of Health.