Light activating an Iridium Catalyst (IMAGE)

University of Warwick

Light activating an Iridium Catalyst

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Visible light can activate an iridium (large purple ball) catalyst which has a special coating (gray balls) which homes in on coenzyme NADH (red/gray/purple balls at bottom) in cancer cells and removes an electron from it, so destroying them by cutting off a vital energy source and generating a toxic form of oxygen (in the blue bubble).

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Designed by Huaiyi Huang at Sun Yat-Sen University

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