William W. Parson

TL;DR: Natural photosynthesis is compared with present technologies for photovoltaic-driven electrolysis of water to produce hydrogen and opportunities in which the frontiers of synthetic biology might be used to enhance natural photosynthesis for improved solar energy conversion efficiency are considered.

TL;DR: This review considers the current state of simulations of electrostatic energies in macromolecules as well as the early developments of this field and focuses on the relationship between microscopic and macroscopic models, considering the convergence problems of the microscopic models and the fact that the dielectric 'constants' in semimacroscopic models depend on the definition and the specific treatment.

TL;DR: This paper presents a meta-analyses of light-Harvesting systems in Cyanophyta and Rhodophyta using a modified version of the Higgs boson method, which combines a high-resolution 3D image and a low-resolution 2D model, both of which are capable of discriminating between green and purple photosynthetic Membranes.

TL;DR: The absorption changes that occur in reaction centers of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides during the initial photochemical electron-transfer reaction have been examined and no evidence was found for the formation of a bacteriochlorophyll anion, Bchl-, prior to the formationOf Bph-.

TL;DR: Reaction center particles isolated from carotenoidless mutant Rhodopseudomonas spheroides were studied with the aim of determining the pigment composition and the molar extinction coefficients, and revised values are shown to be compatible with those obtained from measurements of fluorescence transients.