Taking Snapshots of Photosynthetic Water Oxidation with an X-ray Laser
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Vittal Yachandra1, Jan Kern2, Athina Zouni3, Johannes Messinger4, Uwe Bergmann5, Roberto Alonso-Mori6, Philippe Wernet7, Nicholas Sauter2, Junko Yano2 1Mol. Biophys. & Integ. Bioimag. Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, 2Mol. Biophys. & Integ. Bioimag. Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboartory, Berkeley, United States, 3Institut für Biologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 4Department of Chemistry, Molecular Biomimetics, Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, 5Stanford PULSE Institute, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States, 6LCLS, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, United States, 7Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany E-mail: [email protected]
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