Quantum chemical studies of light harvesting

C Curutchet, B Mennucci - Chemical reviews, 2017‏ - ACS Publications
The design of optimal light-harvesting (supra) molecular systems and materials is one of the
most challenging frontiers of science. Theoretical methods and computational models play a …

[HTML][HTML] Photosynthetic light-harvesting (antenna) complexes—structures and functions

H Lokstein, G Renger, JP Götze - Molecules, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
Chlorophylls and bacteriochlorophylls, together with carotenoids, serve, noncovalently
bound to specific apoproteins, as principal light-harvesting and energy-transforming …

Ultrafast dynamics of carotenoid excited states− from solution to natural and artificial systems

T Polívka, V Sundström - Chemical reviews, 2004‏ - ACS Publications
Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, the most abundant pigments found in nature. They
are present in most organisms including humans but can be synthesized only by plants and …

Förster resonance energy transfer—FRET what is it, why do it, and how it's done

RM Clegg - Laboratory techniques in biochemistry and molecular …, 2009‏ - Elsevier
Publisher Summary The chapter examines some general salient features of resonance
energy transfer by stressing the kinetic competition of the Förster resonance energy transfer …

[HTML][HTML] Light harvesting complexes in chlorophyll c-containing algae

C Büchel - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Besides the so-called 'green lineage'of eukaryotic photosynthetic organisms that include
vascular plants, a huge variety of different algal groups exist that also harvest light by means …

Theory and calculation for the electronic coupling in excitation energy transfer

ZQ You, CP Hsu - International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Excitation energy transfer (EET) is a process where the electronically excitation is
transferred from a donor to an acceptor. EET is widely seen in both natural and in artificial …

Carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer in the peridinin–chlorophyll-a–protein complex involves an intramolecular charge transfer state

D Zigmantas, RG Hiller, V Sundström… - Proceedings of the …, 2002‏ - pnas.org
Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, crucial pigments involved in light-harvesting
processes in photosynthetic organisms. Details of carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer …

Excitation energy transfer in condensed media

CP Hsu, GR Fleming, M Head-Gordon… - The Journal of …, 2001‏ - pubs.aip.org
We derive an expression for resonance energy transfer between a pair of chromophores
embedded in a condensed medium by considering the energy splitting of the chromophores …

The quantum physics of photosynthesis

T Ritz, A Damjanović, K Schulten - ChemPhysChem, 2002‏ - Wiley Online Library
Biological cells contain nanoscale machineries that exhibit a unique combination of high
efficiency, high adaptability to changing environmental conditions, and high reliability …

Efficient light harvesting through carotenoids

T Ritz, A Damjanović, K Schulten, JP Zhang… - Photosynthesis …, 2000‏ - Springer
We review the factors that control the efficiency of carotenoid-chlorophyll excitation transfer
in photosynthetic light harvesting. For this we summarize first the recently developed theory …