Dynamic localization of electronic excitation in photosynthetic complexes revealed with chiral two-dimensional spectroscopy

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Fidler, Andrew F ^a   Singh, Ved P ^a   Long, Phillip D ^b   Dahlberg, Peter D ^b   Engel, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B800-850 LIGHT-HARVESTING COMPLEX, BACTERIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM;

LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PROCEDURES; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTROSCOPY;

BACTERIAL PROTEINS; LIGHT-HARVESTING PROTEIN COMPLEXES; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; RHODOBACTER SPHAEROIDES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 84893853923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4286     Document Type: Article

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