Exciton Delocalization in the Light-Harvesting LH2 Complex of Photosynthetic Purple Bacteria

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 605-610

  Dracheva, Tatiana V ^a   Novoderezhkin, Vladimir I ^a   Razjivin, Andrei P ^a  

^a MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

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PROTEOBACTERIA;

EID: 0042481571     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1997.tb03196.x     Document Type: Article

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