Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient

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Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient

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Salamander@mander.xyzM to Photosynthesis@mander.xyz · 1 year ago

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For the first time, MIT chemists measured the energy transfer between photosynthetic light-harvesting proteins. They discovered that the disorganized arrangement of light-harvesting proteins boosts the efficiency of the energy transduction.

The actual paper is:

Wang, Dihao, et al. “Elucidating interprotein energy transfer dynamics within the antenna network from purple bacteria.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 120.28 (2023): e2220477120.

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