ELECTRON-TRANSPORT AND REDOX CHAIN-REACTIONS IN A MOSAIC MEMBRANE

A circulating current enhances transports of ions and electrons in a mosaic membrane system with ion-exchange membranes and electron-transport membranes. Electron transport is readily coupled to ion transport in a new mosaic membrane with electron-transport regions and ion-exchange regions. Electrons and ions are transported in the same or opposite direction by the driving forces of the redox potential gradient or the concentration gradient. Redox chain reactions are also generated in the mosaic membrane system as the electron flow in biological membranes.