[HTML][HTML] Solar energy conversion: From natural to artificial photosynthesis

ME El-Khouly, E El-Mohsnawy, S Fukuzumi - Journal of photochemistry and …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Solar energy has a great potential as a clean, cheap, renewable and sustainable energy
source, but it must be captured and transformed into useful forms of energy as plants do. An …

Structure and energy transfer in photosystems of oxygenic photosynthesis

N Nelson, W Junge - Annual review of biochemistry, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Oxygenic photosynthesis is the principal converter of sunlight into chemical energy on Earth.
Cyanobacteria and plants provide the oxygen, food, fuel, fibers, and platform chemicals for …

Environment-assisted quantum walks in photosynthetic energy transfer

M Mohseni, P Rebentrost, S Lloyd… - The Journal of chemical …, 2008‏ - pubs.aip.org
Energy transfer within photosynthetic systems can display quantum effects such as
delocalized excitonic transport. Recently, direct evidence of long-lived coherence has been …

Structure and function of photosystems I and II

N Nelson, CF Yocum - Annu. Rev. Plant Biol., 2006‏ - annualreviews.org
Oxygenic photosynthesis, the principal converter of sunlight into chemical energy on earth,
is catalyzed by four multi-subunit membrane-protein complexes: photosystem I (PSI) …

Environment-assisted quantum transport

P Rebentrost, M Mohseni, I Kassal, S Lloyd… - New Journal of …, 2009‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Transport phenomena at the nanoscale are of interest due to the presence of both quantum
and classical behavior. In this work, we demonstrate that quantum transport efficiency can …

[HTML][HTML] Structure of photosystem I

P Fromme, P Jordan, N Krauß - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) …, 2001‏ - Elsevier
In plants and cyanobacteria, the primary step in oxygenic photosynthesis, the light induced
charge separation, is driven by two large membrane intrinsic protein complexes, the …

Role of quantum coherence and environmental fluctuations in chromophoric energy transport

P Rebentrost, M Mohseni… - The Journal of Physical …, 2009‏ - ACS Publications
The role of quantum coherence in the dynamics of photosynthetic energy transfer in
chromophoric complexes is not fully understood. In this work, we quantify the biological …

Optimization of exciton trap** in energy transfer processes

J Cao, RJ Silbey - The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 2009‏ - ACS Publications
In this paper, we establish optimal conditions for maximal energy transfer efficiency using
solutions for multilevel systems and interpret these analytical solutions with more intuitive …

Förster energy transfer theory as reflected in the structures of photosynthetic light‐harvesting systems

M Şener, J Strümpfer, J Hsin, D Chandler… - …, 2011‏ - Wiley Online Library
Most life on Earth is powered, directly or indirectly, by photosynthetic light harvesting.
Photosynthetic organisms feature supramolecular assemblies containing hundreds of …

Structure of cyanobacterial photosystem I

I Grotjohann, P Fromme - Photosynthesis research, 2005‏ - Springer
Photosystem I is one of the most fascinating membrane protein complexes for which a
structure has been determined. It functions as a bio-solar energy converter, catalyzing one of …