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
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Series: Springer Series in Chemical Physics, 93
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Chemistry, Physical organic.; Optical materials.; Biomaterials.; Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Optics, Optoelectronics, Plasmonics and Optical Devices.; Physical Chemistry.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02306-4

This book presents a collection of 14 review articles that cover the key topics addressed in the workshop "Energy Flow Dynamics in Biomaterial Systems" which was held in October 2007 in Paris. These reviews illustrate the many facets of today's theoretical picture of electronic and vi...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Excitation Energy Transfer in Complex Molecular and Biological Systems
• Elisabetta Collini, Carles Curutchet, Tihana Mirkovic, Gregory D.Scholes: Electronic Energy Transfer in Photosynthetic Antenna Systems
• Hui Zhu, Volkhard May: Mixed Quantum Classical Simulations of Electronic Excitation Energy Transfer and Related Optical Spectra: Supramolecular Pheophorbide<U+0013>a Complexes in Solution
• Eitan Geva, Jianyuan Shang: Conformational Structure and Dynamics from Single-Molecule FRET
• Part II: The Many Facets of DNA
• Eric R. Bittner, Arkadiusz Czader: Quantum Mechanics in Biology: Photoexcitations in DNA
• Dimitra Markovitsi, Thomas Gustavsson: Energy Flow in DNA Duplexes
• O. K<U+00fc>hn, N. Doslic, G. M. Krishnan, H. Fidder, K. Heyne Anharmonic: Vibrational Dynamics of DNA Oligomers
• Arnab Mukherjee, Richard Lavery, Biman Bagchi, James T. Hynes: Simulation Study of the Molecular Mechanism of Intercalation of the Anti-Cancer Drug Daunomycin into DNA
• Part III: Quantum Dynamics and Transport at Interfaces and Junctions
• Irene Burghardt, Eric R. Bittner, Hiroyuki Tamura, Andrey Pereverzev, John Glenn S. Ramon: Ultrafast Photophysics of Organic Semiconductor Junctions
• D. A. Ryndyk, R. Gutierrez, B. Song, G. Cuniberti: Green Function Techniques in the Treatment of Quantum Transport at the Molecular Scale
• Part IV: New Methods for Open Systems Dynamics
• Ulrich Kleinekathf̲er: Time-Local Quantum Master Equations and their Applications to Dissipative Dynamics and Molecular Wires
• David A. Micha, Andrew S. Leathers: Reduced Density Matrix Equations for Combined Instantaneous and Delayed Dissipation in Many-Atom Systems, and their Numerical Treatment
• Part V: New Methods for Mixing Quantum and Classical Mechanics
• Robbie Grunwald, Aaron Kelly, Raymond Kapral: Quantum Dynamics in Almost Classical Environments
• S. Bonella, D. F. Coker, D. Mac Kernan, R. Kapral, G. Ciccotti: Trajectory Based Simulations of Quantum-Classical Systems
• Giovanni Ciccotti, Sergio Caprara, Federica Agostini: Do We Have a Consistent Non-Adiabatic Quantum-Classical Statistical Mechanics?
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