How nature harvests sunlight

Physics Today

Volumn 50, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 28-34

  Hu, Xiche ^b   Schulten, Klaus ^a,b  

^a University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign   (United States)

^b Beckman Inst's Theor Biophys Grp

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCHLOROPHYLLS; ELECTRONIC EXCITATION; LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEX; MOLECULAR AGGREGATES; SUNLIGHT;

BACTERIA; BIOSYNTHESIS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES; ENERGY CONVERSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLANTS (BOTANY); PROBES; QUANTUM THEORY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 0031210512     PISSN: 00319228     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.881879     Document Type: Article

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