Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0986040

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0986040

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

A New Window on Photosynthesis: Ultrafast Coherence Dynamics in Biomolecules and Semiconductor Nanostructures. Recent research has indicated that the remarkable efficiency of energy capture and transfer in photosynthesis may be due to the effects of quantum coherence, which is an intrinsically non-classical phenomenon. We will investigate these effects in biological and nanofabricated systems using ultrafast laser spectroscopy . An understanding of these energy transfer processes may open the door to the development to a range of new technologies, including clean and virtually limitless energy sources that convert solar energy directly into useful power and quantum computers that will revolutionize our ability to process information.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2009

End Date: 31-12-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $280,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Optical Physics | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Atomic And Molecular Physics | Biophysics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Biological sciences | Physical sciences | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal) |

Other Keywords

Atomic And Molecular Physics | Biological sciences | Biophysics | Optical Physics | Optics And Opto-Electronic Physics | Physical sciences | Renewable energy not elsewhere classified (e.g. geothermal)

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