Natural photosystems from an engineer's perspective: Length, time, and energy scales of charge and energy transfer

Photosynthesis Research

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-35

  Noy, Dror ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

Chlorophylls; Concentration quenching; Electron tunneling; F rster resonance energy transfer; Light harvesting; Reaction center; Redox chains

Indexed keywords

ION;

ENERGY TRANSFER; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; REVIEW; TIME;

ENERGY TRANSFER; IONS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTER COMPLEX PROTEINS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 36749091214     PISSN: 01668595     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11120-007-9269-7     Document Type: Review

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