Investigating light-harvesting complexes

HOT’ PCCP paper – electronic spectra of light-harvesting complex II

light-harvestingSubsystem TDDFT calculations allow us to investigate structural, environmental, and excitonic effects in optical spectra of (mutated) light-harvesting complexes.

The authors report on a fully quantum chemical investigation of important structural and environmental effects on the site energies of chlorophyll pigments in green-plant light-harvesting complex II – which is very important for future energy research.

Read the ‘HOT’ paper today:

First-principles calculation of electronic spectra of light-harvesting complex II
Carolin König and Johannes Neugebauer
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys., 2011, DOI: 10.1039/C0CP02808H

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