Photosynthesis is the natural process that converts solar photons into energy-rich products
that are needed to drive the biochemistry of life. Two ultrafast processes form the basis of …

Photoresponsive nucleic acids attract growing interest as functional constituents in materials
science. Integration of photoisomerizable units into DNA strands provides an ideal handle …

Solar energy has a great potential as a clean, cheap, renewable and sustainable energy
source, but it must be captured and transformed into useful forms of energy as plants do. An …

The design of optimal light-harvesting (supra) molecular systems and materials is one of the
most challenging frontiers of science. Theoretical methods and computational models play a …

Energy is the most important issue of the 21st century. About 85% of our energy comes from
fossil fuels, a finite resource unevenly distributed beneath the Earth's surface. Reserves of …

Modern civilization is dependent upon fossil fuels, a nonrenewable energy source originally
provided by the storage of solar energy. Fossil-fuel dependence has severe consequences …

The photosystem II core complex is the water: plastoquinone oxidoreductase of oxygenic
photosynthesis situated in the thylakoid membrane of cyanobacteria, algae and plants. It …

Understanding how to utilize symmetry-breaking charge separation (SB-CS) offers a path
toward increasingly efficient light-harvesting technologies. This process plays a central role …

In this work, we focus our attention on the influence of 2nd-row transition metals on the
structural geometries, electronic structures, and absorption characteristics of porphyrin …

This review summarizes our current state of knowledge on the structural organization and
functional pattern of photosynthetic water splitting in the multimeric Photosystem II (PS II) …