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Speaker: Benedetta Mennucci - Università di Pisa
Photosynthetic organisms capture sunlight with high efficiency, but they also need to protect themselves when there is too much light, safely getting rid of the extra energy before it causes damage. In this seminar, I will show how multiscale models integrating quantum chemistry with classical models can reveal how these functions are encoded at the molecular level. By comparing cyanobacteria with plants, I will highlight the different strategies these organisms have evolved to balance efficient light harvesting with photoprotection.
Host: Pisa Nano Colloquia Committee