Optimal fold symmetry of LH2 rings on a photosynthetic membrane

Optimal fold symmetry of LH2 rings on a photosynthetic membrane.

An intriguing observation of photosynthetic light-harvesting systems is the N-fold symmetry of light-harvesting complex 2 (LH2) of purple bacteria. We calculate the optimal rotational configuration of N-fold rings on a hexagonal lattice and establish two related mechanisms for the promotion of maximum excitation energy transfer (EET). (i) For certain fold numbers, there exist optimal basis cell...

A Glutathione Redox Effect on Photosynthetic Membrane

A Distributed Message-Optimal Assignment on Rings

Consider a set of items and a set of m colors, where each item is associated to one color. Consider also n computational agents connected by a ring. Each agent holds a subset of the items and items of the same color can be held by different agents. We analyze the problem of distributively assigning colors to agents in such a way that (a) each color is assigned to one agent only and (b) the numb...

Colloidal quasicrystals with 12-fold and 18-fold diffraction symmetry.

Micelles are the simplest example of self-assembly found in nature. As many other colloids, they can self-assemble in aqueous solution to form ordered periodic structures. These structures so far all exhibited classical crystallographic symmetries. Here we report that micelles in solution can self-assemble into quasicrystalline phases. We observe phases with 12-fold and 18-fold diffraction symm...

On a generalization of central Armendariz rings

In this paper, some properties of $alpha$-skew Armendariz and central Armendariz rings have been studied by variety of others. We generalize the notions to central $alpha$-skew Armendariz rings and investigate their properties. Also, we show that if $alpha(e)=e$ for each idempotent $e^{2}=e in R$ and $R$ is $alpha$-skew Armendariz, then $R$ is abelian. Moreover, if $R$ is central $alpha$-skew A...