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Closed Reaction Centers of PS1 Still Can Perform the First Steps of Charge Separation. A Mid IR Pump Probe Study with fs Resolution

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Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future

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Time resolved femtosecond Visible-pump/midIR-probe measurements on photosystem I with open and closed reaction centers are compared, and the formation of the first step of charge separation in the system, A+A0 − is shown for both cases.

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  1. Mariangela Di Donato

    Present address: LENS (European Laboratory for non linear spectroscopy), via N. Carrara 1 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy

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  1. Faculty of Sciences Department of Physics and Astronomy, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Andreas D. Stahl, Mariangela Di Donato, Ivo van Stokkum, Rienk van Grondelle & Marie Louise Groot

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Stahl, A.D., Di Donato, M., van Stokkum, I., van Grondelle, R., Groot, M.L. (2013). Closed Reaction Centers of PS1 Still Can Perform the First Steps of Charge Separation. A Mid IR Pump Probe Study with fs Resolution. In: Photosynthesis Research for Food, Fuel and the Future. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32034-7_27

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