Carotenoids are essential pigments in natural photosynthesis. They absorb in the blue–
green region of the solar spectrum and transfer the absorbed energy to (bacterio-) …

Plants collect light for photosynthesis using light-harvesting complexes (LHCs)—an array of
chlorophyll proteins that are able to reversibly switch from harvesting to energy-dissipation …

We demonstrate that transient absorption spectroscopy performed with an ultrashort pump
pulse and a chirped, broad-band probe pulse is capable of recording full vibrational spectra …

In carotenoids, by analogy to polyenes, the symmetry of the π-electron system is often
invoked to explain their peculiar electronic features, in particular the inactivity of the S0→ S1 …

The aim of this work is the verification of symmetry effects on the electronic absorption
spectra of carotenoids. The symmetry breaking in cis-β-carotenes and in carotenoids with …

Photoswitchable nanomaterials are key materials in the development of advanced imaging
techniques, such as super‐resolution fluorescence microscopy. The combination of …

Fucoxanthin–chlorophyll-a/c protein (FCP) complexes from brown algae Cladosiphon
okamuranus TOKIDA (Okinawa Mozuku in Japanese) contain the only species of carbonyl …

Time-resolved absorption spectra from the femtoscecond to sub-millisecond time regimes
were recorded in order to eluciate the photoprotective mechanisms of carotenoid …

Photosynthetic light-harvesting apparatus efficiently capture sunlight and transfer the energy
to reaction centers, while they safely dissipate excess energy to surrounding environments …

Carotenoids containing a carbonyl group in conjugation with their polyene backbone are
naturally-occurring pigments in marine organisms and are essential to the photosynthetic …