A Simple Expression for the Screening of Excitonic Couplings between Chlorophylls as Inferred for Photosystem I Trimers
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theory
Poisson-TrEsp Method and Screening Factor
3. Results
3.1. Screening Factors of PSI Trimer in Many-Cavity versus Two-Cavity Model
3.2. Dependence of Screening Factors on Mutual Orientation and Distance
4. Discussion
Model Calculations
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Abbreviations
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Group | (a) | (b) | (c) |
1 | 0.47 | 2.64 | 0.47 |
2 | 1.06 | 11.38 | 0.94 |
3 | 12.90 | 0.72 | 0.82 |
all | 2.55 | 6.00 | 0.72 |
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Eder, M.; Renger, T. A Simple Expression for the Screening of Excitonic Couplings between Chlorophylls as Inferred for Photosystem I Trimers. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25, 9006. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25169006
Eder M, Renger T. A Simple Expression for the Screening of Excitonic Couplings between Chlorophylls as Inferred for Photosystem I Trimers. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2024; 25(16):9006. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25169006
Chicago/Turabian StyleEder, Matthias, and Thomas Renger. 2024. "A Simple Expression for the Screening of Excitonic Couplings between Chlorophylls as Inferred for Photosystem I Trimers" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 25, no. 16: 9006. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms25169006