Photosynthetic water oxidation by Photosystem II (PSII) is a fascinating process because it
sustains life on Earth and serves as a blue print for scalable synthetic catalysts required for …

Key processes in photosynthesis are the absorption of solar energy by antenna pigments
and the efficient transfer of excitation energy to photochemical reaction centers, where the …

Figures showing species and properties relevant to non-photochemical quenching
studies.(a) Filamentous planktonic cyanobacteria Dolichospermum crassum and D. flos …

The genesis of the exploration of electron transfer (ET) in the condensed phase dates back
to the origins of chemistry in the nineteenth century. In 1808 Humphry Davy observed [1] that …

The. llltl'.. l inlportallt Itlnclioll o| nl; lllg, lllC~, C ill biology is to catalyze Iht conxcrsion ot water
to molecular oxygen. Thb, process t;. ikc~, place in l'tlolos~ Mem II near the lumenal surface …

Photoinhibition is a state of physiological stress that occurs in all oxygen evolving
photosynthetic organisms exposed to light. The primary damage occurs within the reaction …

In oxygenic photosynthesis, electron transport for the generation of reductant, in the form of
reduced ferredoxin and NADPH, and for the formation of ATP takes place in the thylakoid …

The availability of the photosynthetic reaction center's structure at an atomic resolution of
less than three angstroms has revolutionized research. This protein is the first integral …

The concept of the Z-scheme of oxygenic photosynthesis is in all the textbooks. However, its
evolution is not. We focus here mainly on some of the history of its biophysical aspects. We …

The invention of the laser in 1960 gave us the ruby laser, which generally produced chaotic
pulses of light. Six years later, in 1966, a concept called passive mode-locking applied to …