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 …

Electronic energy transfer is widely used as a molecular ruler to interrogate the structure of
biomacromolecules, and performs a key task in photosynthesis by transferring collected …

Cryptophytes are ancestral photosynthetic organisms evolved from red algae through
secondary endosymbiosis. They have developed alloxanthin-chlorophyll a/c2-binding …

The photo-functional chromophore retinal exhibits a wide variety of optical absorption
properties depending on its intermolecular interactions with surrounding proteins and other …

Excitonic couplings between (bacterio) chlorophyll molecules are necessary for simulating
energy transport in photosynthetic complexes. Many techniques for calculating the couplings …

Haptophyta represents a major taxonomic group, with plastids derived from the primary
plastids of red algae. Here, we elucidated the cryoelectron microscopy structure of the …

Singlet fission duplicates triplet excitons for improving light harvesting efficiency. The
presence of the interaction between electronic and nuclear degrees of freedom complicates …

Excited states of two kinds of bacteriochlorophyll (BChl) aggregates, B850 and B800, in
photosynthetic light-harvesting complex II (LH2) are theoretically investigated by developing …

Abstract 2A g− state of lutein plays a crucial role in photoprotection of higher plants. Due to
its multiconfigurational nature, accurate description of this electronic state and respective …

We investigate the role of excitonic coupling between retinal chromophores of Krokinobacter
eikastus rhodopsin 2 (KR2) in the circular dichroism (CD) spectrum using an exciton model …