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 …

Semiclassical path integral dynamics: Photosynthetic energy transfer with realistic environment interactions

MK Lee, P Huo, DF Coker - Annual review of physical chemistry, 2016 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews recent progress in the theoretical modeling of excitation energy transfer
(EET) processes in natural light harvesting complexes. The iterative partial linearized …

Persistent electronic coherence despite rapid loss of electron–nuclear correlation

AV Akimov, OV Prezhdo - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Long-lived coherences of excited states are notable for their positive effect on energy
conversion mechanisms and efficiencies in photosynthetic complexes. Rational engineering …

Biological charge transfer via flickering resonance

Y Zhang, C Liu, A Balaeff… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Biological electron-transfer (ET) reactions are typically described in the framework of
coherent two-state electron tunneling or multistep hop**. However, these ET reactions …

Coherence and uncertainty in nanostructured organic photovoltaics

LG Kaake, D Moses, AJ Heeger - The Journal of Physical …, 2013 - ACS Publications
The effects of fundamental uncertainty present a compelling rationale for a highly
delocalized photoexcitation on ultrafast time scales. This delocalized photoexcitation …

What Makes the Photocatalytic CO2 Reduction on N-Doped Ta2O5 Efficient: Insights from Nonadiabatic Molecular Dynamics

AV Akimov, R Asahi, R **nouchi… - Journal of the American …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Recent experimental studies demonstrated that photocatalytic CO2 reduction by Ru
catalysts assembled on N-doped Ta2O5 surface is strongly dependent on the nature of the …

Atomistic non-adiabatic dynamics of the LH2 complex with a GPU-accelerated ab initio exciton model

A Sisto, C Stross, MW van der Kamp… - Physical Chemistry …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
We recently outlined an efficient multi-tiered parallel ab initio excitonic framework that
utilizes time dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to calculate ground and excited …

Dark states in the light-harvesting complex 2 revealed by two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy

M Ferretti, R Hendrikx, E Romero, J Southall… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Energy transfer and trap** in the light harvesting antennae of purple photosynthetic
bacteria is an ultrafast process, which occurs with a quantum efficiency close to unity …

Photosynthetic energy transfer: Missing in action (detected spectroscopy)?

A Javed, J Lüttig, K Charvátová… - The Journal of …, 2024 - ACS Publications
In recent years, action-detected ultrafast spectroscopies have gained popularity offering
distinct advantages over their coherently detected counterparts, such as spatially resolved …

Persistent interexcitonic quantum coherence in CdSe quantum dots

JR Caram, H Zheng, PD Dahlberg… - The journal of …, 2014 - ACS Publications
The creation and manipulation of quantum superpositions is a fundamental goal for the
development of materials with novel optoelectronic properties. In this Letter, we report …