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Marcel Schmidt Am Busch1, Frank Müh2, Mohamed El-Amine Madjet2

  • 1†Institut für Theoretische Physik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Altenberger Strasse 69, 4040 Linz, Austria.

The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
|August 22, 2015
PubMed

Keywords:
FMO complex of Prosthecochloris aestuarii.excitation energy transferoptical properties of a pigment−protein complexsite energiesstructure-based calculations of optical spectra

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