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ReviewNature chemistry2011

Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting.

Gregory D Scholes, Graham R Fleming, Alexandra Olaya-Castro, Rienk van Grondelle

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Review in Nature chemistry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 337 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

337 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Gregory D ScholesDepartment of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St George Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5S 3H6 Canada. greg.scholes@utoronto.ca
Graham R Fleming
Alexandra Olaya-Castro
Rienk van Grondelle

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Solar fuel production often starts with the energy from light being absorbed by an assembly of molecules; this electronic excitation is subsequently transferred to a suitable acceptor. For example, in photosynthesis, antenna complexes capture sunlight and direct the energy to reaction centres that then carry out the associated chemistry. In this Review, we describe the principles learned from studies of various natural antenna complexes and suggest how to elucidate strategies for designing light-harvesting systems. We envisage that such systems will be used for solar fuel production, to direct and regulate excitation energy flow using molecular organizations that facilitate feedback and control, or to transfer excitons over long distances. Also described are the notable properties of light-harvesting chromophores, spatial-energetic landscapes, the roles of excitonic states and quantum coherence, as well as how antennas are regulated and photoprotected.

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Solar EnergySunlightFluorescence Resonance Energy TransferLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesPhotosystem II Protein ComplexPhotosystem I Protein ComplexQuantum TheoryLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesPhotosystem II Protein ComplexPhotosystem I Protein Complex

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PMID21941248

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