Photosynthetic light-harvesting is tuned by the heterogeneous polarizable environment of the protein

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 133, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 3078-3084

  Curutchet, Carles ^a,b   Kongsted, Jacob ^c   Muñoz Losa, Aurora ^d   Hossein Nejad, Hoda ^b   Scholes, Gregory D ^b   Mennucci, Benedetta ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GIRONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTENNA PROTEINS; ARTIFICIAL LIGHT; DIPOLE DIPOLE INTERACTIONS; ELECTRONIC COUPLING; ENERGY MIGRATION; HETEROGENEOUS DIELECTRICS; LIGHT-HARVESTING ANTENNAS; LOCAL DIELECTRICS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC LIGHT; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; REACTION CENTER; SOLVENT ENVIRONMENTS;

ANTENNAS; CHROMOPHORES; DIPOLE MOMENT; ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTS; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION; PROTEINS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; REFRACTIVE INDEX; SCAFFOLDS (BIOLOGY);

ENERGY HARVESTING;

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOPHORE; DIPOLE; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

CRYPTOPHYTA; ELECTRONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; LIGHT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PHYCOERYTHRIN; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 79952256861     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: 15205126     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja110053y     Document Type: Article

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