Lessons from nature about solar light harvesting

Nature Chemistry - Tập 3 Số 10 - Trang 763-774 - 2011
Gregory D. Scholes1, Graham R. Fleming2, Alexandra Olaya-Castro3, Rienk van Grondelle4
1Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, 80 St. George Street, Toronto, M5S 3H6 Ontario, Canada
2Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, 94720, California, USA
3Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK
4Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1081, Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands

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