Energy Transfer Dynamics in Biomaterial Systems

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Burghardt, Irene (Editor), May, V. (Editor), Micha, David A. (Editor), Bittner, E. R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 93
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.; Optics.; Optoelectronics.; Plasmons (Physics).; Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Biomaterials.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Physical Chemistry.

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Table of Contents:

• Excitation Energy Transfer in Complex Molecular and Biological Systems
• Electronic Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Antenna Systems
• Mixed Quantum Classical Simulations of Electronic Excitation Energy Transfer and Related Optical Spectra: Supramolecular Pheophorbide#x2013;a Complexes in Solution
• Conformational Structure and Dynamics from Single-Molecule FRET
• The Many Facets of DNA
• Quantum Mechanics in Biology: Photoexcitations in DNA
• Energy Flow in DNA Duplexes
• Anharmonic Vibrational Dynamics of DNA Oligomers
• Simulation Study of the Molecular Mechanism of Intercalation of the Anti-Cancer Drug Daunomycin into DNA
• Quantum Dynamics and Transport at Interfaces and Junctions
• Ultrafast Photophysics of Organic Semiconductor Junctions
• Green Function Techniques in the Treatment of Quantum Transport at the Molecular Scale
• New Methods for Open Systems Dynamics
• Time-Local Quantum Master Equations and their Applications to Dissipative Dynamics and Molecular Wires
• Reduced Density Matrix Equations for Combined Instantaneous and Delayed Dissipation in Many-Atom Systems, and their Numerical Treatment
• New Methods for Mixing Quantum and Classical Mechanics
• Quantum Dynamics in Almost Classical Environments
• Trajectory Based Simulations of Quantum-Classical Systems
• Do We Have a Consistent Non-Adiabatic Quantum-Classical Statistical Mechanics?.