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van Oijen, Antoine M. ; Ketelaars, Martijn ; Köhler, Jürgen ; Aartsma, Thijs J. ; Schmidt, Jan:
Unraveling the Electronic Structure of Individual Photosynthetic Pigment-Protein Complexes.
In: Science.
Vol. 285
(1999)
Issue 5426
.
- pp. 400-402.
ISSN 1095-9203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.285.5426.400
Abstract in another language
Low-temperature single-molecule spectroscopic techniques were applied to a light-harvesting pigment-protein complex (LH2) from purple photosynthetic bacteria. The properties of the electronically excited states of the two circular assemblies (B800 and B850) of bacteriochlorophyll a (BChl a) pigment molecules in the individual complexes were revealed, without ensemble averaging. The results show that the excited states of the B800 ring of pigments are mainly localized on individual BChl a molecules. In contrast, the absorption of a photon by the B850 ring can be consistently described in terms of an excitation that is completely delocalized over the ring. This property may contribute to the high efficiency of energy transfer in these photosynthetic complexes.
Further data
| Item Type: | Article in a journal |
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| Refereed: | Yes |
| Keywords: | single molecule |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen Köhler Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics Faculties > Faculty of Mathematics, Physics und Computer Science > Department of Physics > Chair Experimental Physics IX - Spectroscopy of Soft Matter |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 500 Science > 530 Physics |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Apr 2018 13:28 |
| Last Modified: | 16 Apr 2018 09:40 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/43412 |