Voltage pumping cell

Furan was dimethoxylated to give 2,5-dihydro-2,5-dimethoxyfuran, using electrogenerated bromine molecules generated from bromide salts in electrolyte solutions [71]. This reaction was characterized in classical electrochemical reactors such as pump cells, packed bipolar cells and solid polymer electrolyte cells. In the last type of reactor, no bromide salt or electrolyte was used rather, the furan was oxidized directly at the anode. H owever, high consumption of the order of 5-9 kWh kg (at 8-20 V cell voltage) was needed to reach a current efficiency of 75%. 

Experimental current-voltage characteristic of a pumping cell having the structure shown in Fig. 3b for two different O2 concentrations in N2. The temperature of the device was 750 C. 

However, the central portion of the element consists of a second diffusion chamber to induce the gas to the second detection chamber. The bottom sheet composes the second oxygen pumping cell (lp2 cell). An external voltage is applied to the pumping cell to dissociate NO, into N2 and O2, and finally transfers the generated O2 by the pump. At that time, Ip2 pumping current corresponds to the NO concentration in the exhaust gas. 

Fig. 5. Tentative mixed potential model for the sodium-potassium pump in biological membranes the vertical lines symbolyze the surface of the ATP-ase and at the same time the ordinate of the virtual current-voltage curves on either side resulting in different Evans-diagrams. The scale of the absolute potential difference between the ATP-ase and the solution phase is indicated in the upper left comer of the figure. On each side of the enzyme a mixed potential (= circle) between Na+, K+ and also other ions (i.e. Ca2+ ) is established, resulting in a transmembrane potential of around — 60 mV. This number is not essential it is also possible that this value is established by a passive diffusion of mainly K+-ions out of the cell at a different location. This would mean that the electric field across the cell-membranes is not uniformly distributed.

Synaptic Transmission. Figure 1 Synaptic transmission. The presynaptic terminal contains voltage-dependent Na Superscript and Ca2+ channels, vesicles with a vesicular neurotransmitter transporter VNT, a plasmalemmal neurotransmitter transporter PNT, and a presynaptic G protein-coupled receptor GPCR with its G protein and its effector E the inset also shows the vesicular H+ pump. The postsynaptic cell contains two ligand-gated ion channels LGIC, one for Na+ and K+ and one for Cl-, a postsynaptic GPRC, and a PNT. In this synapse, released transmitter is inactivated by uptake into cells. 

Whole-cell Voltage-Clamp Recordings of Na/K Pump Current Effects of Cellular Glutathione Manipulation... 

Gadsby, D.C., Kimura, J. and Noma, A. (1985). Voltage dependence of Na/K pump current is isolated heart cells. Nature 315, 63-65. 

Shattock M. J. and Matsuura, H. (1993). Measurement of Na -K pump current in isolated rabbit ventricular myocytes using the whole-cell voltage-clamp technique. Inhibition of the pump by oxidant stress. Circ. Res. 72, 91-101. 

In erythrocytes and most other cells, the major structural link of plasma membranes to the cytoskeleton is mediated by interactions between ankyrin and various integral membrane proteins, including Cf/HCOj antiporters, sodium ion pumps and voltage-dependent sodium ion channels. Ankyrin also binds to the =100 nm, rod-shaped, antiparallel a(3 heterodimers of spectrin and thus secures the cytoskeleton to the plasma membrane. Spectrin dimers self-associate to form tetramers and further to form a polygonal network parallel to the plasma membrane (Fig. 2-9D). Neurons contain both spectrin I, also termed erythroid spectrin, and spectrin II, also termed fodrin. Spectrin II is found throughout neurons, including axons, and binds to microtubules, whereas spectrin I occurs only in the soma and dendrites. 

When oxygen is pumped to the catalyst the activity of oxygen on the silver catalyst-electrode increases considerably because of the applied voltage. It thus becomes possible to at least partly oxidize the silver catalyst electrode. In a previous communication it has been shown that the phenomenon involves surface rather than bulk oxidation of the silver crystallites (17). The present results establish the direct dependence of the change in the rates of epoxidation and combustion Ari and Ar2 on the cell overvoltage (Equations 2,3, and 5) which is directly related to the surface oxygen activity. 

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