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Stenbjörn Styring

Stenbjörn Styring

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Chemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
16158
World Ranking
5913
National Ranking
75

Overview

Stenbjörn Styring is affiliated with Uppsala University in Sweden, focusing on research within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Their work spans related fields including agricultural and biological sciences as well as neuroscience, with contributions to subfields such as molecular biology, plant science, cellular and molecular neuroscience, atomic and molecular physics, and optics, as well as renewable energy, sustainability, and the environment.

Their research primarily addresses photosynthetic processes and mechanisms, light effects on plants, photoreceptor and optogenetics research, spectroscopy and quantum chemical studies, and electrocatalysts for energy conversion. These topics reflect a multidisciplinary approach to understanding photosynthesis and related molecular processes.

Styring has published several papers in well-regarded scientific journals. Notable recent publications include:

  • Molecular basis for turnover inefficiencies (misses) during water oxidation in photosystem II (2022, Chemical Science)
  • The S1 to S2 and S2 to S3 state transitions in plant photosystem II: relevance to the functional and structural heterogeneity of the water oxidizing complex (2024, Photosynthesis Research)
  • Far-red photosynthesis: Two charge separation pathways exist in plant Photosystem II reaction center (2023, Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics)

Frequent collaborators in Styring's research include Fikret Mamedov, Andrea Pavlou, Guangye Han, Petko Chernev, and Johannes Messinger. These collaborations span multiple publications, indicating ongoing research partnerships particularly with Mamedov and Pavlou.

Their work is regularly published in specialized venues related to photosynthesis and biochemistry such as Chemical Science, Photosynthesis Research, and Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Bioenergetics, underscoring a focused presence within these scientific communities.

Best Publications

  • Towards artificial photosynthesis: ruthenium–manganese chemistry for energy production

    Licheng Sun;Leif Hammarström;Björn Åkermark;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Reversible and irreversible intermediates during photoinhibition of photosystem II: stable reduced QA species promote chlorophyll triplet formation

    Imre Vass;Stenbjorn Styring;Torill Hundal;Antti Koivuniemi

  • Biomimetic and microbial approaches to solar fuel generation.

    Ann Magnuson;Magnus Anderlund;Olof Johansson;Peter Lindblad

  • A low-spin Fe( iii ) complex with 100-ps ligand-to-metal charge transfer photoluminescence

    Pavel Chabera;Yizhu Liu;Om Prakash;Erling Thyrhaug

  • Luminescence and reactivity of a charge-transfer excited iron complex with nanosecond lifetime.

    Kasper Skov Kjær;Nidhi Kaul;Om Prakash;Pavel Chábera

  • Artificial photosynthesis as a frontier technology for energy sustainability

    Tom Faunce;Stenbjorn Styring;Michael R Wasielewski;Gary W Brudvig

  • Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer from Tyrosine in a Tyrosine−Ruthenium−tris-Bipyridine Complex: Comparison with TyrosineZ Oxidation in Photosystem II

    Martin Sjödin;Martin Sjödin;Stenbjörn Styring;Stenbjörn Styring;Björn Åkermark;Björn Åkermark;Licheng Sun;Licheng Sun

  • Energy and environment policy case for a global project on artificial photosynthesis

    Thomas Faunce;Wolfgang Lubitz;Alfred W Rutherford;Douglas Robert MacFarlane

  • Switching the redox mechanism : Models for proton-coupled electron transfer from tyrosine and tryptophan

    Martin Sjödin;Stenbjörn Styring;Henriette Wolpher;Yunhua Xu

  • A hydrogen-atom abstraction model for the function of YZ in photosynthetic oxygen evolution.

    Curtis W. Hoganson;Nikos Lydakis-Simantiris;Nikos Lydakis-Simantiris;Xiao Song Tang;Cecilia Tommos

  • A model for the photosystem II reaction center core including the structure of the primary donor P680.

    Bengt Svensson;Catherine Etchebest;Pierre Tuffery;Paul van Kan

  • Photosystem II: Molecular Organization, Function, and Acclimation

    Bertil Andersson;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Iron sensitizer converts light to electrons with 92% yield

    Tobias C. B. Harlang;Yizhu Liu;Olga Gordivska;Lisa A. Fredin

  • Structure of donor side components in photosystem II predicted by computer modelling.

    Bengt Svensson;Imre Vass;Eila Cedergren;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Proton-coupled electron transfer of tyrosines in Photosystem II and model systems for artificial photosynthesis: the role of a redox-active link between catalyst and photosensitizer

    Leif Hammarström;Stenbjörn Styring

  • An oscillating manganese electron paramagnetic resonance signal from the S0 state of the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II

    Karin A. Åhrling;Sindra Peterson;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Molecular interference of Cd2+ with Photosystem II

    Kajsa G.V. Sigfridsson;Gábor Bernát;Fikret Mamedov;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Artificial photosynthesis for solar fuels

    Stenbjörn Styring

  • Strong light photoinhibition of electrontransport in Photosystem II. Impairment of the function of the first quinone acceptor, QA

    Stenbjörn Styring;Ivar Virgin;Anders Ehrenberg;Bertil Andersson

  • Access channels and methanol binding site to the CaMn4 cluster in Photosystem II based on solvent accessibility simulations, with implications for substrate water access.

    Felix M. Ho;Stenbjörn Styring

  • Deactivation kinetics and temperature dependence of the S-state transitions in the oxygen-evolving system of Photosystem II measured by EPR spectroscopy

    Stenbjörn Styring;A.William Rutherford

Frequent Co-Authors

Leif Hammarström
Leif Hammarström Uppsala University
Licheng Sun
Licheng Sun Royal Institute of Technology
Björn Åkermark
Björn Åkermark Stockholm University
Lauri Niinistö
Lauri Niinistö Aalto University
Kari Rissanen
Kari Rissanen University of Jyväskylä
Eva-Mari Aro
Eva-Mari Aro University of Turku
Reiner Lomoth
Reiner Lomoth Uppsala University
Bertil Andersson
Bertil Andersson Linköping University
Imre Vass
Imre Vass Biological Research Centre
Villy Sundström
Villy Sundström Lund University

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