Spatial distribution of the electric potential from photosystem I reaction centers in lipid vesicles

IEEE Transactions on Nanobioscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 164-171

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

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE ENTRE RÍOS   (Argentina)

^c OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Molecular electronics; Photosynthetic reaction centers; Poisson Boltzmann equation

Indexed keywords

ADDITION REACTIONS; ATMOSPHERIC ELECTRICITY; BEAM PLASMA INTERACTIONS; BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS; BOLTZMANN EQUATION; CELL MEMBRANES; CHARGE DISTRIBUTION; CHARGED PARTICLES; ELECTRIC CHARGE; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; ELECTRONS; FEES AND CHARGES; FINANCE; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LIPIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; REACTION KINETICS; SEPARATION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SOLAR POWER GENERATION;

AQUEOUS MEDIUM; CHARGE SEPARATION (CS); DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; DIVERSE APPLICATIONS; ELECTROSTATIC MODELING; EXCITABLE CELLS; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD (FEM); INTEGRAL MEMBRANES; LIGHT ACTIVATION; LIPID VESICLES; NANO SCALING; NONLINEAR POISSON-BOLTZMANN EQUATION (NPBE); PHOTOSYNTHETIC REACTION CENTERS (PRC); PHOTOSYSTEM I (PS I); PHOTOVOLTAIC (PV); POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; POTENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; REACTION CENTER (RC); SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF; SPHERICAL(PIVOT); STRENGTH (IGC: D5/D6); TRANSMEMBRANE (TM); TRANSMEMBRANE POTENTIAL (TMP); VOLTAGE GATED ION CHANNELS;

IONIC STRENGTH;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; IONIC STRENGTH; LIPID VESICLE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PHOTOSYSTEM I; SIMULATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS; ELECTROSTATICS; LIPID BILAYERS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOTOSYSTEM I PROTEIN COMPLEX; UNILAMELLAR LIPOSOMES;

EID: 45249115075     PISSN: 15361241     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNB.2008.2000748     Document Type: Article

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