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Daniele Narzi1, Giuseppe Mattioli2, Daniele Bovi3,4

  • 1Institute of Chemical Sciences and Engineering, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Av. F.-A. Forel 2, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland.

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X-ray free-electron laserdensity functional calculationsmolecular dynamicsphotosystem IIwater splitting

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