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 …

Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of photosynthetic systems

T Kondo, WJ Chen, GS Schlau-Cohen - Chemical reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Photosynthesis begins when a network of pigment–protein complexes captures solar energy
and transports it to the reaction center, where charge separation occurs. When necessary …

Computational spectroscopy of complex systems

TLC Jansen - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Numerous linear and non-linear spectroscopic techniques have been developed to
elucidate structural and functional information of complex systems ranging from natural …

How nature designs light-harvesting antenna systems: design principles and functional realization in chlorophototrophic prokaryotes

DA Bryant, DP Canniffe - Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Chlorophyll-based phototrophs, or chlorophototrophs, convert light energy into stored
chemical potential energy using two types of photochemical reaction center (RC), denoted …

Manifestation of hydrogen bonding and exciton delocalization on the absorption and two-dimensional electronic spectra of chlorosomes

V Eric, X Li, L Dsouza, SK Frehan… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Chlorosomes are supramolecular aggregates that contain thousands of bacteriochlorophyll
molecules. They perform the most efficient ultrafast excitation energy transfer of all natural …

Atomistic study of energy funneling in the light-harvesting complex of green sulfur bacteria

J Huh, SK Saikin, JC Brookes, S Valleau… - Journal of the …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Phototrophic organisms such as plants, photosynthetic bacteria, and algae use microscopic
complexes of pigment molecules to absorb sunlight. Within the light-harvesting complexes …

Theoretical characterization of the spectral density of the water-soluble chlorophyll-binding protein from combined quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics …

AM Rosnik, C Curutchet - Journal of Chemical Theory and …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Over the past decade, both experimentalists and theorists have worked to develop methods
to describe pigment–protein coupling in photosynthetic light-harvesting complexes in order …

Atomistic modeling of two-dimensional electronic spectra and excited-state dynamics for a light harvesting 2 complex

CP Van Der Vegte, JD Prajapati… - The Journal of …, 2015 - ACS Publications
The Light Harvesting 2 (LH2) complex is a vital part of the photosystem of purple bacteria. It
is responsible for the absorption of light and transport of the resulting excitations to the …

Dynamic disorder drives exciton transfer in tubular chlorosomal assemblies

X Li, F Buda, HJM de Groot… - The Journal of Physical …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Chlorosomes stand out for their highly efficient excitation energy transfer (EET) in extreme
low light conditions. Yet, little is known about the EET when a chlorosome is excited to a …

Benchmarking calculations of excitonic couplings between bacteriochlorophylls

EP Kenny, I Kassal - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2016 - ACS Publications
Excitonic couplings between (bacterio) chlorophyll molecules are necessary for simulating
energy transport in photosynthetic complexes. Many techniques for calculating the couplings …