Electrostatics of photosynthetic reaction centers in membranes

Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 4209-4212

  Pennisi, Cristian P ^a,b,c   Greenbaum, Elias ^d   Yoshida, Ken ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

^d OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT ACTIVATION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTERS; POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC EFFECTS; POISSON EQUATION;

BIOLOGICAL MEMBRANES;

LIPOSOME;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; KINETICS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYSTEM I; PHYSIOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

KINETICS; LIPOSOMES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 34047108697     PISSN: 05891019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260623     Document Type: Conference Paper

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