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ArticleNature communications2022

Optical cavity-mediated exciton dynamics in photosynthetic light harvesting 2 complexes.

Fan Wu, Daniel Finkelstein-Shapiro, Mao Wang, Ilmari Rosenkampff, Arkady Yartsev, Torbjörn Pascher, Tu C Nguyen-Phan, Richard Cogdell, Karl Börjesson, Tönu Pullerits

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Article in Nature communications, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed, 36 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Fan WuDivision of Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0002-9319-6625
Daniel Finkelstein-ShapiroDivision of Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Mao WangDepartment of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Ilmari RosenkampffDivision of Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Arkady YartsevDivision of Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Torbjörn PascherDivision of Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden.
Tu C Nguyen-PhanSchool of Molecular Biosciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6401-9742
Richard CogdellSchool of Molecular Biosciences, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-2119-6607
Karl BörjessonDepartment of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden.ORCID 0000-0001-8533-201X
Tönu PulleritsDivision of Chemical Physics and NanoLund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. tonu.pullerits@chemphys.lu.se.ORCID 0000-0003-1428-5564
Lund University · SEUniversity of Glasgow · GBUniversity of Gothenburg · SE

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Strong light-matter interaction leads to the formation of hybrid polariton states and alters the photophysical dynamics of organic materials and biological systems without modifying their chemical structure. Here, we experimentally investigated a well-known photosynthetic protein, light harvesting 2 complexes (LH2) from purple bacteria under strong coupling with the light mode of a Fabry-Perot optical microcavity. Using femtosecond pump probe spectroscopy, we analyzed the polariton dynamics of the strongly coupled system and observed a significant prolongation of the excited state lifetime compared with the bare exciton, which can be explained in terms of the exciton reservoir model. Our findings indicate the potential of tuning the dynamic of the whole photosynthetic unit, which contains several light harvesting complexes and reaction centers, with the help of strong exciton-photon coupling, and opening the discussion about possible design strategies of artificial photosynthetic devices.

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PhotosynthesisProteobacteriaLight-Harvesting Protein ComplexesPhotonsSpectrum AnalysisLight-Harvesting Protein Complexes

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