Areas of expertise

• Surfaces And Structural Properties Of Condensed Matter 020406
• Chemical Thermodynamics And Energetics 030602
• Radiation And Matter 030702
• Catalysis And Mechanisms Of Reactions 030601
• Biological Physics 029901
• Electronic And Magnetic Properties Of Condensed Matter; Superconductivity 020404
• Quantum Chemistry 030701
• Transition Metal Chemistry 030207
• Solid State Chemistry 030206
• Structural Chemistry And Spectroscopy 030606
• Enzymes 060107
• Physical Chemistry (Incl. Structural) 0306

Publications

• Hall, J, Picorel, R, Cox, N et al. 2020, 'New Perspectives on Photosystem II Reaction Centres', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 73, pp. 669-676.
• Judd, M, Morton, J, Nurnberg, D et al. 2020, 'The primary donor of far-red photosystem II: ChlD1 or PD2?', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1861, no. 10, pp. -.
• Barson, M, Krausz, E, Manson, N et al 2019, 'The fine structure of the neutral nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond', Nanophotonics, vol. 8, no. 11, pp. 1985-1991.
• Langley, J, Morton, J, Purchase, R et al. 2018, 'The deep red state of photosystem II in Cyanidioschyzon merolae', Photosynthetica, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 275-278.
• Canfield, P, Blake, I, Cai, Z et al 2018, 'A new fundamental type of conformational isomerism', Nature Chemistry, vol. 10, no. 6, pp. 615-624pp.
• Morton, J, Chrysina, M, Craig, V et al 2017, 'Structured near-infrared Magnetic Circular Dichroism spectra of the Mn₄CaO₅ cluster of PSII in T. vulcanus are dominated by Mn(IV) d-d 4A to 2E spin-flip transitions', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1859, pp. 88-98.
• Hall, J, Renger, T, Picorel, R et al 2016, 'Circularly polarized luminescence spectroscopy reveals low-energy excited states and dynamic localization of vibronic transitions in CP43', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1857, no. 1, pp. 115-128.
• Hall, J, Renger, T, Muh, F et al 2016, 'The lowest-energy chlorophyll of photosystem II is adjacent to the peripheral antenna: Emitting states of CP47 assigned via circularly polarized luminescence', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1857, no. 9, pp. 1580-1593.
• Reimers, J, Biczysko, M, Bruce, D et al 2016, 'Challenges facing an understanding of the nature of low-energy excited states in photosynthesis', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1857, no. 9, pp. 1627-1640.
• Mohamed, A, Ahmed, H, Sundaram, A et al. 2016, 'Protonation state of F420H2 in the prodrug-activating deazaflavin dependent nitroreductase (Ddn) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis', Molecular BioSystems, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1110-1113.
• Chuah, W, Pace, R, Krausz, E et al 2016, 'Deprotonation of Water/Hydroxo Ligands in Clusters Mimicking the Water Oxidizing Complex of PSII and Its Effect on the Vibrational Frequencies of Ligated Carboxylate Groups', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 120, pp. 377-385.
• Mohamed, AE, Ahmed, FH, Arulmozhiraja, S et al 2016, 'Protonation state of F420H2 in the prodrug-activating deazaflavin dependent nitroreductase (Ddn) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis', Molecular BioSystems, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 1110-1113.
• Morton, J, Akita, F, Nakajima, Y et al. 2015, 'Optical identification of the long-wavelength (700–1700 nm) electronic excitations of the native reaction centre, Mn4CaO5 cluster and cytochromes of photosystem II in plants and cyanobacteria', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1847, no. 2, pp. 153-161pp.
• Liew, J, Lo, S, Burn, P et al 2015, 'Analysis of the emitting states of an Ir(III) complex with strong blue emission', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 641, pp. 62-67.
• Petersen, C, Krausz, E, Evans, D et al 2014, 'Theoretical analysis of the fluctuation theorem applied to electric circuits', Communications in Theoretical Physics, vol. 62, no. 4, pp. 476-484.
• Reimers, J, Cai, Z, Kobayashi, R et al 2014, 'The role of high-level calculations in the assignment of the Q-band spectra of chlorophyll', International Conference of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2014, ICCMSE 2014, ed. Simos T.E.Monovasili, Conference Organising Committee, TBC, pp. 18-22.
• Morton, J, Hall, J, Smith, P et al. 2014, 'Determination of the PS I content of PS II core preparations using selective emission: A new emission of PS II at 780 nm', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1837, no. 1, pp. 167-177.
• Chuah, W, Stranger, R, Pace, R et al 2014, 'Ab initio modeling of the effect of oxidation coupled with H_nO deprotonation on carboxylate ligands in Mn/Ca clusters', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 118, no. 13, pp. 3553-3558.
• Reimers, J, Cai, Z, Kobayashi, R et al 2014, 'Formation of water-chlorophyll clusters in dilute samples of chlorophyll-a in ether at low temperature', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 2323-2330.
• Reimers, J & Krausz, E 2014, 'An analytical data inversion method for magnetic circular dichroism spectra dominated by the "B-term"', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 16, no. 6, pp. 2315-2322.
• Krausz, E 2013, 'Selective and differential optical spectroscopies in photosynthesis', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 116, no. 2-3, pp. 411-426.
• Reimers, J, Cai, Z, Kobayashi, R et al 2013, 'Assignment of the Q-Bands of the Chlorophylls: Coherence Loss via Q_x - Q_y Mixing', Scientific Reports, vol. 3, pp. 2761-2761.
• Pace, R & Krausz, E 2012, 'Solar Energy Utilisation', in Thomas J Wydrzynski, Warwick Hillier (ed.), Molecular Solar Fuels, RSC publishing, United Kingdom, pp. 20-38.
• Hughes, J & Krausz, E 2012, 'The chemical problem of energy change: multi-electron processes', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 6, pp. 591-596.
• Riley, M, Hall, J & Krausz, E 2012, 'Magnetic dipole origins of the 3A2g→3T2g transition in Ni(II) doped MgO', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 1298-1304.
• Li, Z, Du, A, Sun, Q et al 2011, 'Cobalt-doped cadmium selenide colloidal nanowires', Chemical Communications, vol. 47, no. 43, pp. 11894-11896.
• Hughes, J, Cox, N, Rutherford, A et al. 2010, 'D1 protein variants in Photosystem II from Thermosynechococcus elongatus studied by low temperature optical spectroscopy', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1797, no. 1, pp. 11-19.
• Hughes, J, Conlan, B, Wydrzynski, T et al 2010, 'The assignment of Qy(1,0) vibrational structure and Qx for chlorophyll a', Physics Procedia, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1591-1599.
• Cox, N, Hughes, J, Rutherford, A et al. 2010, 'On the assignment of PSHB in D1/D2/cytb₅₅₉ reaction centers', Physics Procedia, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 1601-1605.
• Cox, N, Hughes, J, Steffen, R et al. 2009, 'Identification of the QY Excitation of the Primary Electron Acceptor of Photosystem II: CD Determination of Its Coupling Environment', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 113, no. 36, pp. 12364-12374.
• Cox, N, Jin, L, Jaszewski, A et al. 2009, 'The semiquinone-iron complex of Photosystem II: structural insights from ESR and theoretical simulation; evidence that the native ligand to the non-heme iron is carbonate.', Biophysical Journal, vol. 97, no. 7, pp. 2024-2033.
• Cox, N, Ho, F, Pewnim, N et al. 2009, 'The S1 split signal of photosystem II; a tyrosine-manganese coupled interaction', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1787, no. 7, pp. 882-889.
• Hughes, J, Rutherford, W, Sugiura, M et al 2008, 'Quantum efficiency distributions of photo-induced side-pathway donor oxidation at cryogenic temperature in Photosystem II.', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 98, no. 1-3, pp. 199-206.
• Dick, A, Rahemi, H, Krausz, E et al 2008, 'The highly resolved electronic spectrum of the square planar CuCl₄^2â?? ion.', Journal of Chemical Physics, vol. 129, no. 21, pp. 214505/1-8.
• Dick, A, Krausz, E, Hadler, K et al 2008, 'The Jahn-Teller Effect in Cu(II) Doped MgO', Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 112, no. 37, pp. 14555-14562.
• Krausz, E, Cox, N & Arskold , S 2008, 'Spectral characteristics of PS II reaction centres: as isolated preparations and when integral to PS II core complexes', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 98, no. 1-3, pp. 207-217.
• Steffen, R, Hughes, J, Cox, N et al. 2008, 'Low temperature secondary pathway donation in Photosystem II of spinach', in Allen, J. F., Gantt, E., Golbeck, J. H., Osmond, B. (ed.), Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis 2007, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 201-206.
• Steffen, R, Jackman, K & Krausz, E 2008, 'Design and application of a high-precision, broad spectral range CCD-based absorption spectrometer with millisecond time resolution', Measurement Science and Technology, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 075601/1-075601/11.
• Cox, N, Hughes, J, Steffen, R et al. 2008, 'The primary electron acceptor of photosystem II is weakly coupled to the accessory chlorophyll', in Allen, J. F., Gantt, E., Golbeck, J. H., Osmond, B. (ed.), Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis 2007, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 43-46.
• Hughes, J, Steffen, R, Cox, N et al. 2008, 'What is the origin of the highly dispersive quantum efficiencies for secondary donor oxidation at low temperature in photosystem II?', in Allen, J. F., Gantt, E., Golbeck, J. H., Osmond, B. (ed.), Photosynthesis. Energy from the Sun: 14th International Congress on Photosynthesis 2007, Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 85-88.
• Hughes, J & Krausz, E 2007, 'Novel characteristics of persistent spectral hole-burning and hole-filling in Photosystem II core complexes', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 127, no. 1, pp. 239-244.
• Hughes, J, Smith, P, Pace, R et al 2007, 'Low-energy absorption and luminescence of higher plant photosystem II core samples', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 122-123, pp. 284-287.
• Krivokapic, I, Zerara, M, Lawson Daku, L et al 2007, 'Spin-crossover in cobalt(II) imine complexes', Coordination Chemistry Reviews, vol. 251, pp. 364-378.
• Hughes, J & Krausz, E 2007, 'Electronic spectroscopy', in R A Scott and C M Lukehart (ed.), Applications of Physical Methods to Inorganic and Bioinorganic Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons Inc, Chichester, pp. 79-98.
• Kelly, J, Samoc, A, Samoc, M et al 2006, 'Anisotropy of second-order nonlinear optical susceptibilities of arsenic triiodide-sulfur addition complex: AsI₃ â‹… 3S₈', Optics Communications, vol. 264, no. 1, pp. 35-44.
• Hughes, J, Smith, P, Pace, R et al 2006, 'Charge separation in photosystem II core complexes induced by 690-730 nm excitation at 1.7 K', Biochimica et Biophysica Acta: Bioenergetics, vol. 1757, no. 7, pp. 841-851.
• Hughes, J, Razeghifard, M, Logue, M et al 2006, 'Magneto-Optic Spectroscopy of a Protein Tetramer Binding Two Exciton-Coupled Chlorophylls', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 128, no. 11, pp. 3649-3658.
• Vargas, A, Zerara, M, Krausz, E et al 2006, 'Density-Functional Theory Investigation of the Geometric, Energetic, and Optical Properties of the Cobalt(II)tris(2,2'-bipyridine) Complex in the High-Spin and the Jahn-Teller Active Low-Spin States', Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC), vol. 2, no. 5, pp. 1342-1359.
• Hughes, J, Picorel, R, Seibert, M et al. 2006, 'Photophysical behavior and assignment of the low-energy chlorophyll states in the CP43 proximal antenna protein of higher plant Photosystem II', Biochemistry, vol. 45, no. 40, pp. 12345-12357.
• Hughes, J, Smith, P, Pace, R et al 2006, 'Spectral hole burning at the low-energy absorption edge of photosystem II core complexes', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 119-120, pp. 298-303.
• Baxter, R, Krausz, E & Norris, J 2006, 'Photoactivation of the photosynthetic reaction center of Blastochloris viridis in the crystalline state', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 110, no. 2, pp. 1026-1032.
• Peterson, S, Smith, P, Shen, J et al. 2005, 'Key cofactors of Photosystem II cores from four organisms identified by 1.7-K absorption, CD and MCD', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 84, no. 1-3, pp. 309-316.
• Francis, P, Barnett, N, Smith, T et al. 2005, 'Near-infrared chemiluminescence from the oxidation of ammonia in aqueous alkaline solution', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 20, no. 6, pp. 442-444.
• Hughes, J, Krausz, E, Smith, P et al 2005, 'Probing the lowest energy chlorophyll a states of Photosystem II via selective spectroscopy: new insights on P680', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 84, no. 1-3, pp. 93-98.
• Krausz, E, Hughes, J, Smith, P et al. 2005, 'Oxygen-evolving Photosystem II core complexes: a new paradigm based on the spectral identification of the charge-separating state, the primary acceptor and assignment of low-temperature fluorescence', Photochemical and Photobiological Sciences, vol. 4, no. 9, pp. 744-753.
• Razeghifard, M, Chen, M, Hughes, J et al. 2005, 'Spectroscopic studies of Photosystem II in chlorophyll d-containing Acaryochloris marina', Biochemistry, vol. 44, no. 33, pp. 11178-11187.
• Krausz, E, Hughes, J, Smith, P et al 2005, 'Assignment of the low-temperature fluorescence in oxygen-evolving Photosystem II', Photosynthesis Research, vol. 84, pp. 193-199.
• Krausz, E & Peterson Arskold, S 2005, 'Identifying redox-active chromophores in Photosystem II by low-temperature optical spectroscopies', in A F Collings and C Critchley (ed.), Artificial Photosynthesis: From Basic Biology to Industrial Application, Wiley-VCH Verlag GMBH, Weinheim, pp. 87-107.
• Ting, V, Liu, Y, Withers, R et al. 2004, 'An electron diffraction and bond valence sum study of the space group symmetries and structures of the photocatalytic 1:1 ordered A2InNbO6 double perovskites (A = Ca2+, Sr2+, Ba2+)', Journal of Solid State Chemistry, vol. 177, no. 3, pp. 979-986.
• Hughes, J, Prince, B, Peterson, S et al. 2004, 'The Native Reaction Centre of Photosystem II: A New Paradigm for P680', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 57, no. 12, pp. 1179-1183.
• Hughes, J, Prince, B, Peterson, S et al. 2004, 'Photo-conversion of chlorohpylls in higher-plant CP43 characterized by persistent spectral hole burning at 1.7 K', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 108, no. 1-4, pp. 131-136.
• Peterson, S, Prince, B, Krausz, E et al. 2004, 'Low-temperature spectroscopy of fully active PSII cores. Comparisons with CP43, CP47, D1/D2/cyt b₅₅₉ fragments', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 108, no. 1-4, pp. 97-100.
• Prince, B, Krausz, E, Peterson, S et al. 2004, 'Persistent spectral hole burning in oxygen-evolving photosystem II cores from cyanobacteria and higher plants', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 108, no. 1-4, pp. 101-105.
• Hughes, J, Prince, B, Krausz, E et al 2004, 'Highly efficient spectral hole-burning in oxygen-evolving photosystem II preparations', Journal of Physical Chemistry B, vol. 108, no. 29, pp. 10428-10439.
• Hughes, J, Pace, R & Krausz, E 2004, 'The exciton contribution to the Faraday B term MCD of molecular dimers', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 385, no. 1-2, pp. 116-121.
• Samoc, A, Samoc, M, Luther-Davies, B et al 2004, 'New second-order nonlinear octupolar materials', Molecular Crystals and Liquid Crystals, vol. 415, pp. 179-195.
• Riley, M, Krausz, E & Stanco, A 2003, 'New Generation MCD Spectrometers', Journal of Inorganic Biochemistry, vol. 96, p. 217.
• Peterson, S, Robertson, V, Prince, B et al. 2003, 'Optical Spectra of Synechocystis and Spinach Photosystem II Preparations at 1.7 K: Identification of the D1-Pheophytin Energies and Stark Shifts', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 125, pp. 13063-13074.
• Lilley, R, Wang, X, Krausz, E et al. 2003, 'Complete Spectra of the Far-red Chemiluminescence of the Oxygenase Reaction of Mn²⁺ -activated Ribulose-bisphosphate Carboxylase/Oxygenase Establish Excited Mn²⁺ as the Source', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 278, no. 19, pp. 16488-16493.
• Lilley, R, Wang, X, Krausz, E et al. 2002, 'Spectroscopic studies of chemiluminescence by Mn++ -activated rubisco: Singlet oxygen is entirely absent and the emission spectrum differs between forms of rubisco', International Congress on Photosynthesis (PS 2001), CSLI Publications, Melbourne, pp. s16-016.
• Smith, P, Krausz, E, Robertson, V et al. 2002, 'Low temperature optical ? MCD and EPR studies on a fully active plant photosystem II complex containing 32 chl per reaction centre', International Congress on Photosynthesis (PS 2001), CSLI Publications, Melbourne, pp. s22-026.
• Kelly, J, Krausz, E, Samoc, A et al 2002, 'Crystal Structure of the Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Addition Complex AsI₃3S₈', Australian Journal of Chemistry, vol. 55, pp. 709-714.
• Flanagan, B, Bernhardt, P, Krausz, E et al 2002, 'A Ligand-Field Analysis of the trensal (H₃trensal = 2,2?,2??-Tris(salicylideneimino)triethylamine) Ligand. An application of the Angular Overlap Model to Lanthanides', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 41, no. 20, pp. 5024-5033.
• Smith, P, Peterson, S, Robertson, V et al. 2002, 'Magneto-optical measurements of the pigments in fully active photosystem II core complexes from plants', Biochemistry, vol. 41, pp. 1981-1989.
• Flanagan, B, Bernhardt, P, Krausz, E et al 2001, 'Ligand-Field Analysis of an Er(III) Complex with a Heptadentate Tripodal N₄O₃ Ligand', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 40, no. 21, pp. 5401-5407.
• Robertson, V, Smith, P, Krausz, E et al. 2001, 'Stark shifts and exciton coupling in PSII Supercores', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 94-95, pp. 267-270.
• Sellars, M, Pryde, G, Manson, N et al. 2000, '50kHz absorption line in Y2SiO5:Eu3+', Journal of Luminescence, vol. 87-89, pp. 833-835.
• Purchase, R, Sellars, M, Krausz, E et al 2000, 'Electric-field-induced broadening of spectral holes in zinc phthalocyanine', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 327, pp. 189-196.
• Purchase, R, Sellars, M, Krausz, E et al 2000, 'Magneto-optic measurements of spectral holes in metallo-porphyrin derivatives in polymer matrices', Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, vol. 2, pp. 3993-3999.
• Dunford, C, Williamson, B & Krausz, E 2000, 'Temperature-Dependent Magnetic Circular Dichroism of Lutetium Bisphthalocyanine', Journal of Physical Chemistry A, vol. 104, pp. 3537-3543.
• Riesen, H, Wallace, L & Krausz, E 2000, 'Probing the Electronic Structures of Coordination Compounds by Transient Spectral Hole-Burning. Applications to Specifically Deuterated [Ru(bpy)3]2+ Complexes', Inorganic Chemistry, vol. 39, pp. 5044-5052.
• Baxter, R, Krausz, E, Wydrzynski, T et al 1999, 'Identification of the Near-Infrared Absorption Band from the Mn Cluster in Photosystem II', Journal of the American Chemical Society, vol. 121, pp. 9451-9452.
• Riley, M, Krausz, E, Manson, N et al. 1999, 'Selectively excited luminescence and magnetic circular dichroism of Cr4+ doped YAG and YGG', Physical Review B, vol. 59, pp. 1850-1856.
• Purchase, R, Plagemann, B, Krausz, E et al 1999, 'Electric�field induced broadening of spectral holes in zinc phthalocyanine', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 309, pp. 29-34.
• Bridgeman, A, Krausz, E & Solanki, N 1999, 'The ground state of a tetragonally compressed copper(II) complex', Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 314, pp. 176?181.
• Hurst, J, Wormell, P & Krausz, E 1999, 'The electronic spectrum of 1,4,5,8-tetraazanapthalene', Chemical Physics, vol. 246, pp. 229-246.

Projects and Grants

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• The role of low-energy excited states in solar-energy capture (Primary Investigator)
• A tunable femtosecond light source for materials and biological sciences (Secondary Investigator)
• Structural and mechanistic studies on Magnganese systems targeting catalytic water oxidation (Primary Investigator)
• The mechanism of water splitting in photosynthesis (Secondary Investigator)