Recent advances have brought much new insight into the physiological mechanisms and
required characteristics of the sensory molecules that enable birds to use magnetic fields for …

Capturing and converting solar energy via artificial photosynthesis offers an ideal way to
limit society's dependence on fossil fuel and its myriad consequences. The development …

Artificial photosynthesis comprises the design of systems for converting solar energy into
useful forms based on the fundamental science underlying natural photosynthesis. There …

Spin quantum beats prove the quantum nature of reactions involving radical pairs, the key
species of spin chemistry. However, such quantum beats remain hidden to transient …

Here we propose a mechanism by which spin-polarization can be generated dynamically in
chiral molecular systems undergoing photoinduced electron transfer. The proposed …

A 4th electron transferring tryptophan in animal cryptochromes and (6-4) photolyases is
discovered and functionally analyzed by transient absorption. It yields a much longer-lived …

Recently, there has been much interest in the chirality-induced spin selectivity effect,
whereby electron spin polarization, which is dependent on molecular chirality, is produced …

The fact that many animals, including migratory birds, use the Earth's magnetic field for
orientation and compass-navigation is fascinating and puzzling in equal measure. The …

One of the principal models of magnetic sensing in migratory birds rests on the quantum
spin dynamics of transient radical pairs created photochemically in ocular cryptochrome …

The spin chemistry of photoinduced charge-separated (CS) states of three triads comprising
one or two triarylamine donors, a cyclometalated iridium complex sensitizer and a …