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 …

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 …

Natural organisms such as photosynthetic bacteria, algae, and plants employ complex
molecular machinery to convert solar energy into biochemical fuel. An important common …

Carotenoids are, along with chlorophylls, crucial pigments involved in light-harvesting
processes in photosynthetic organisms. Details of carotenoid to chlorophyll energy transfer …

The theoretical description of the initial steps in photosynthesis has gained increasing
importance over the past few years. This is caused by more and more structural data …

Spectroscopic properties as well as excited state dynamics of the carotenoid peridinin in
several solvents of different polarities were investigated by time-resolved fluorescence and …

The subtle details of the mechanism of energy flow from carotenoids to chlorophylls in
biological light-harvesting complexes are still not fully understood, especially in the ultrafast …

Abstract Peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) is a unique light-harvesting protein that uses
carotenoids as its primary light-absorbers. This paper theoretically investigates excitation …

Little is known about the microbial diversity of rivers that flow across the changing subarctic
landscape. Using amplicon sequencing (rRNA and rRNA genes) combined with HPLC …

Peridinin chlorophyll a protein (PCP) from Amphidinium carterae has been studied using
absorbance (OD), linear dichroism (LD), circular dichroism (CD), fluorescence emission …