Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

High temperature limit of photosynthetic excitons

  • Margus Rätsep,
  • Renata Muru,
  • Arvi Freiberg

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02544-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 5

Abstract

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Excitons in light-harvesting complexes are known to significantly improve solar energy harnessing. Here, the authors investigate and explain extreme robustness against temperature of excitons in purple photosynthetic bacteria.