How reduced excitonic coupling enhances light harvesting in the main photosynthetic antennae of diatoms [Biophysics and Computational Biology]

Strong excitonic interactions are a key design strategy in photosynthetic light harvesting, expanding the spectral cross-section for light absorption and creating considerably faster and more robust excitation energy transfer. These molecular excitons are a direct result of exceptionally densely packed pigments in photosynthetic proteins. The main light-harvesting complexes of diatoms,...

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