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1 online resource (x, 388 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Summary |
This book covers all aspecets of energy harvesting materials, ranging from natural plant and bacterial photosystems, through their biologically inspired synthetic analogs, to other photoactive molecular materials such as dendrimers. The theory and underlying principles across the full range of light harvesting sustems is established. -- back cover. |
| Contents |
Preface; Contents; Physical Principles of Efficient Excitation Transfer in Light Harvesting; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PRINCIPLES OF EXCITATION TRANSFER; 3. EXCITATION LIFETIME AND QUANTUM YIELD; 4. REPRESENTATIVE PATHWAYS OF EXCITATION TRANSFER BASED ON MEAN FIRST PASSAGE TIMES; 5. SOJOURN EXPANSION: AN EXPANSION FOR EXCITATION MIGRATION IN TERMS OF REPEATED DETRAPPING EVENTS; 6. ROBUSTNESS AND OPTIMALITY OF A LIGHT HARVESTING SYSTEM; 7. PRINCIPLES FOR DESIGNING ARTIFICIAL LIGHT-HARVESTING SYSTEMS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Design and Synthesis of Light Energy Harvesting Proteins. |
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1. ENGINEERING INSIGHTS FROM NATURAL PHOTOSYSTEM DESIGN2. DESIGNING LHC PROTEIN MAQUETTES; 3. CONCLUSIONS AND PROSPECTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; How Purple Bacteria Harvest Light Energy; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. GENERAL ASPECTS OF ANTENNA COMPLEX STRUCTURE; 3. THE STRUCTURE OF LH2; 4. THE STRUCTURE OF THE RC-LH1 CORE COMPLEX; 5. ENERGY TRANSFER WITHIN THE PSU; 6. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Regulation of Light Harvesting in Photosystem II of Plants Green Algae and Cyanobacteria; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. COMPOSITON STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF LIGHT HARVESTING COMPLEXES; 3. EXCITATION PRESSURE AND PHOTOSTASIS. |
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4. ROLE OF LIGHT HARVESTING IN PHOTOPROTECTION AND PHOTOSTASIS5. NUTRIENT LIMITATIONS; 6. SENSING CELLULAR ENERGY IMBALANCE AND REGULATION OF LIGHT HARVESTING; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; From Biological to Synthetic Light-Harvesting Materials -- The Elementary Steps; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. PHOTOSYNTHEHC LIGHT-HARVESTING -- ENERGY TRANSFER AND TRAPPING; 3. ORGANIC CONDUCTING POLYMERS: LIGHT HARVESTING AND GENERATION; 4. DYE-SENSITIZED NANOSTRUCTURED SEMI- CONDUCTORS -- ENERGY CONVERSION BY ULTRAFAST ELECTRON TRANSFER; 5. TRANSITION METAL SUPRAMOLECULAR COMPLEXES -- ENERGY TRANSFER IN ARTIFICIAL ANTENNAS. |
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSControlling Excitation Energy and Electron Transfer by Tuning the Electronic Coupling; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND; 3. DONOR-BRIDGE-ACCEPTOR SYSTEMS WITH TT-BRIDGES; 4. o-BRIDGES AND SUPEREXCHANGE -- THE THROUGH-BOND COUPLING MECHANISM.; 5. CONCLUSIONS; Energy Transfer and Trapping in Engineered Macromolecules; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. EXPETIMENTAL DETAILS; 3. ENGINEERED POLYMER SYSTEMS; 4. CONCLUSIONS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; Dendrimer-Based Devices: Antennae and Amplifiers; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. DENDRIMERS AS LIGHT HARVESTING ANTENNAE; 3. DENDRIMERIC AMPLIFIERS. |
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Energy Harvesting in Synthetic Dendritic Materials1. INTRODUCTION; 2. METAL-CONTAINING DENDRIMERS; 3. PHENYLACETYLENE DENDRIMERS; 4. DENDRIMERS CONTAINING DISTYRYLBENZENE OR STILBENE UNITS; 5. PORPHYRIN-CONTAINING DENDRIMERS; 6. COUMARIN DYE LABELED POLY(ARYLETHER) DENDRIMERS; 7. TWO-PHOTON LIGHT HARVESTING AND ENERGY TRANSFER; 8. POLYPHENYLENE DENDRIMERS; 9. ENERGY TRANSFER TO ENCAPSULATED GUESTS; 10. CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Fullerenes in Biomimetic Donor-Acceptor Networks; 1. INTRODUCTION; 2. HYDROGEN BONDING MOTIFS; 3. II-STACK MOTIFS; 4. CROWN ETHER COMPLEXATION MOTIFS. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Solar collectors -- Materials.
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Solar collectors -- Materials. |
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Solar collectors. |
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Solar energy.
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Solar energy. |
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Photochemistry.
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Photochemistry. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Andrews, David L., 1952-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Energy harvesting materials. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2005 9812564128 (OCoLC)63174110 |
| ISBN |
9789812700957 (electronic book) |
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9812700951 (electronic book) |
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9812564128 |
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9789812564122 |
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