Bioelectrochemistry

1. Front Matter

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2. Opening Address

   1. Opening Address

      • Harry Bloom

      Pages 1-3

3. Bioelctrochemistry of Energy Transduction

   1. Electrodics in Bioelectrochemical Mechanisms

      • John O’M. Bockris

      Pages 5-17

   2. An Electrodic Mechanism for Photosynthesis: Some Evidence

      • J. O’M. Bockris, M. S. Tunulli

      Pages 19-29

   3. Photo Effects, Space Charges and Energy Level Diagrams for Organic Solids

      • L. E. Lyons

      Pages 31-54

   4. Simulation of Photosynthesis, a Resource for Energy

      • Itamar Willner, William E. Ford, John W. Otvos, Melvin Calvin

      Pages 55-81

   5. Conversion of Light Energy into a Proton Electrochemical Potential by Bacteriorhodopsin

      • R. A. Bogomolni

      Pages 83-95

   6. The Role of Electrochemistry in the Transduction of Light Energy by the Chloroplast Thylakoid Membrane

      • N. K. Boardman, W. S. Chow, J. T. Duniec, S. W. Thorne

      Pages 97-116

   7. Uses and Physicochemical Properties of the Photoprotein Aequorin

      • I. R. Neering, F. G. Prendergast

      Pages 117-142

   8. Discussion

      • Hendrik Keyzer, Felix Gutmann

      Pages 143-157

4. Biological Charge Transfer

   1. Charge Transfer Complexes in Bioelectrochemistry

      • Felix Gutmann

      Pages 159-169

   2. Electrochemical Study of Drug Interactions

      • G. M. Eckert, J. P. Farges, F. Gutmann

      Pages 171-184

   3. Anion Charge Transfer in Biologically Active Systems

      • D. Beltran, S. Chan, H. Keyzer

      Pages 185-207

   4. One and Two Dimensional Solids as Possible Models for Biological Compounds

      • J. P. Farges

      Pages 209-226

   5. Bioelectrochemistry, the Living State, and Electronic Conduction in Proteins

      • Ronald Pethig, Albert Szent-Györgyi

      Pages 227-252

   6. Discussion

      • Hendrik Keyzer, Felix Gutmann

      Pages 253-265

5. Electrochemistry of Biological Interfaces and Transport

   1. Electrophoretic Cell Separation by Means of Immunomicrospheres

      • A. Rembaum, A. J. K. Smolka

      Pages 267-272

   2. Micro-dielectrophoresis of Dividing Cells

      • Herbert A. Pohl

      Pages 273-295

   3. Overvoltage and Solid State Kinetics of Reactions at Biological Interfaces. Cytochrome Oxidase, Photobiology, and Cation Transport. Therapy of Heart Disease and Cancer

      • Freeman W. Cope

      Pages 297-329

   4. On a Molecular Basis of Anaesthesia

      • H. G. L. Coster, D. R. Laver, J. R. Smith

      Pages 331-352

Bioelectrochemistry conferences. journals and texts are be­ ginning to proliferate and to attract researchers and scholars with a bent for multiple disciplines, electrochemistry, electrical engineering, physics, biology and medicine. With the development of highly sophisticated apparatus, new techniques and embracing skills, bioelectrochemistry represents the area where searching questions can now be asked about processes of Life itself, not only how sub­ stances interact in vivo but what distinguishes animate from in­ animate matter. During this Joint Seminar, for example, it was pointed out that a human liver alive appeared mauve while in the isolated state it is brown, even though it is capable of a comprehensive range of biochem­ ical activities ordinarily encountered in laboratory "in vivo" sit­ uations. Bioelectrochemical studies are beginning to elucidate the growth of bone, the genesis and division of living cells, the transfer of energy and matter from one compartment to other compartments in a living system, with great promise for curative and preventative medicine. The organizers of this Seminar have been truly fortunate to be able to bring together workers who have been intimately associated with the origins and development of some of the more powerful concepts which have stimulated progress in the field of bioelectrochemistry. These include the solid state, semiconduction and structured water. By a happy circumstance a number of Australian researchers in this field were present in the United States. or en route thereto, at about the proposed dates of the Seminar.

• Chloroplast
• chemistry
• electrochemistry
• medicine
• transport

• California State University, Los Angeles, USA

  Hendrik Keyzer

• Macquarie University, North Ryde, Australia

  Felix Gutmann

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