Overview
- Volume is divided into sections, each dealing with one of the main physical processes in photosynthetic energy conversion
- Research provided by leading scientists in the field
- Examines the main physical processes in photosynthetic energy conversion
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Biophysics for the Life Sciences (BIOPHYS, volume 11)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Light Energy Capture and Energy Transfer
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Underlying Principles of Electron Transport
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Separation and Stabilization of Charge
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Donor Side Intermediates and Water Splitting
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Evolution of the Photosynthetic Apparatus
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About this book
The volume is intended as an introduction to the physical principles governing the main processes that occur in photosynthesis, with emphasis on the light reactions and electron transport chain. A unique feature of the photosynthetic apparatus is the fact that the molecular structures are known in detail for essentially all of its major components. The availability of this data has allowed their functions to be probed at a very fundamental level to discover the design principles that have guided evolution. Other volumes on photosynthesis have tended to focus on single components or on a specific set of biophysical techniques, and the authors’ goal is to provide new researchers with an introduction to the overall field of photosynthesis.
The book is divided into sections, each dealing with one of the main physical processes in photosynthetic energy conversion. Each section has several chapters each describing the role that a basic physical property, such as charge or spin, plays in governing the process being discussed. The chapters proceed in an orderly fashion from a quantum mechanical description of early processes on an ultrafast timescale to a classical treatment of electron transfer and catalysis on a biochemical timescale culminating in evolutionary principles on a geological timescale.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Biophysics of Photosynthesis
Editors: John Golbeck, Art Est
Series Title: Biophysics for the Life Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1148-6
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-1147-9Published: 08 August 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-5305-9Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4939-1148-6Published: 07 August 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 462
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 76 illustrations in colour
Topics: Biological and Medical Physics, Biophysics, Nuclear Medicine, Plant Biochemistry, Biomedicine general, Plant Sciences, Particle and Nuclear Physics