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Rienk van Grondelle

Researcher at VU University Amsterdam

Publications -  479
Citations -  28979

Rienk van Grondelle is an academic researcher from VU University Amsterdam. The author has contributed to research in topics: Excited state & Photosynthetic reaction centre. The author has an hindex of 81, co-authored 476 publications receiving 26434 citations. Previous affiliations of Rienk van Grondelle include University of Sheffield & University of Chicago.

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Charge separation in the reaction center of photosystem II studied as a function of temperature

TL;DR: It is suggested that the slow energy transfer from the trap state to P680 plays an important role in the kinetics of radical pair formation at room temperature.
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Fluorescence and absorption spectroscopy of the weakly fluorescent chlorophyll a in cytochrome b6f of Synechocystis PCC6803

TL;DR: A spectroscopic characterization of the chlorophyll a (Chl) molecule in the monomeric cytochrome b6f complex (Cytb6f) isolated from the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC6803 shows that the Chl binds to a well-defined pocket of the protein and experiences several close contacts with nearby amino acids, and it is concluded that the electron-phonon coupling is moderately strong.
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Three pulse echo peak shift measurements on the B820 subunit of LH1 of Rhodospirillum rubrum

TL;DR: Three pulse photon echo peak shift measurements 3PEPS of the detergent isolated B820 subunit of the light harvesting complex of Rhodospirillum rubrum are presented and compared with3PEPS data for the LH1complex of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, suggesting that excitation is delocalized over only a dimer unit.
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Singlet-singlet annihilation at low temperatures in the antenna of purple bacteria

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that the number of connected antenna molecules between which energy transfer is possible decreases from about 1000 to about 150 when the temperature is lowered from 298 to 4 K.
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Electric field effects on the chlorophylls, pheophytins, and beta-carotenes in the reaction center of photosystem II

TL;DR: The results favor a model that locates both beta-carotene molecules at the same side of the complex, and the red-shifted Stark spectra can be explained by a mixing of exciton states with a charge-transfer state of about equal energy.