Energy landscape design principle for optimal energy harnessing by catalytic molecular machines
Energy landscape design principle for optimal energy harnessing by catalytic molecular machines
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催化分子机器优化能源利用的能源景观设计原理
DOI:
10.1103/physreve.107.l012102
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Lu, Zhiyue
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文献类型:
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作者:
Zhang, Zhongmin;Du, Vincent;Lu, Zhiyue
Under temperature oscillation, cyclic molecular machines such as catalysts and enzymes could harness energy from the oscillatory bath and use it to drive other processes. Using an alternative geometrical approach, under fast temperature oscillation, we derive a general design principle for obtaining the optimal catalytic energy landscape that can harness energy from a temperature-oscillatory bath and use it to invert a spontaneous reaction. By driving the reaction against the spontaneous direction, the catalysts convert low free-energy product molecules to high free-energy reactant molecules. The design principle, derived for arbitrary cyclic catalysts, is expressed as a simple quadratic objective function that only depends on the reaction activation energies, and is independent of the temperature protocol. Since the reaction activation energies are directly accessible by experimental measurements, the objective function can be directly used to guide the search for optimal energy-harvesting catalysts.