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Paul D. Cunningham, Christopher M. Spillmann, Joseph S. Melinger, Mario G. Ancona, Young C. Kim, Divita Mathur, Susan Buckhout-White, Ellen R. Goldman, Igor L. Medintz
Summary: Experimental results based on a model system show that the dual rail design is more efficient than the split rail design, and optimized dual rails can achieve 50% end-to-end efficiency. By balancing the increase in FRET rate from multiple interacting pathways with undesirable fluorescence quenching between dyes in close proximity, functional photonic wires can be designed.
ADVANCED OPTICAL MATERIALS
(2021)
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Guiwen Luo, Yeqin Chen, Yi Zeng, Tianjun Yu, Jinping Chen, Rui Hu, Guoqiang Yang, Yi Li
Summary: By incorporating a specially designed molecular wire into the TTA upconversion system, the back energy transfer from singlet annihilators to sensitizers was successfully suppressed, leading to an improvement in upconversion efficiency.
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(2021)
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Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Aleksandr Chepak, Denis Balatskiy, Mikhail Tutov, Aleksandr Mironenko, Svetlana Bratskaya
Summary: The increasing flow of toxic heavy metals to the environment urges the development of affordable and sensitive devices for pollutant control. In this study, a new probe for Hg2+ detection was developed and its sensitivity was enhanced by incorporating the probe molecules into coatings or nanoparticles. The optimized nanoparticles showed a detection limit far below the recommended concentration of mercury in drinking water and can be used for the determination of hazardous metal ions.
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Chemistry, Analytical
A. Yu Mironenko, M. V. Tutov, A. K. Chepak, S. Yu Bratskaya
Summary: This paper presents a novel strategy to enhance the performance of popular fluorescent probes by incorporating them into light-harvesting nanoparticles. This approach significantly improves the sensing performance and reduces the detection limit.
ANALYTICA CHIMICA ACTA
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Kuo Fu, Xiaoxuan Zeng, Xinpeng Zhao, Yue Wu, Meng Li, Xin-Shun Li, Chengjun Pan, Zhijun Chen, Zhen-Qiang Yu
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Guangping Sun, Lijuan Cai, Yan Zhang, Yanqiang Hu, Jinli Zhu, Tongming Sun, Yanfeng Tang
Summary: Two novel aqueous artificial light-harvesting platforms (ALHPs) with high efficiency have been developed based on supramolecular interactions. These platforms exhibit excellent quantum yields and antenna effects, as well as biocompatibility and potential prospects in bio-imaging materials.
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Chemistry, Applied
Yi-Meng Duan, Kun-Peng Wang, Qi Zhang, Shaojin Chen, Zhi-Qiang Hu
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Chemistry, Physical
Shuo Yang, Baoyuan Xu, Xingwei Feng, Ru Lin, Yuyu Xu, Shunwei Chen, Zifei Wang, Xue Wang, Xiangeng Meng, Zhenhua Gao
Summary: Multicomponent 2D heterostructures with independent spatial modulation are constructed using an organic alloying strategy. This provides opportunities for materials tracking and information security.
CHEMISTRY OF MATERIALS
(2023)
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Chemistry, Physical
Chieh-Szu Huang, Sergii Yakunin, Jonathan Avaro, Xinyue Kang, Maryna I. Bodnarchuk, Marianne Liebi, Xuemei Sun, Rene M. Rossi, Maksym V. Kovalenko, Luciano F. Boesel
Summary: In recent years, Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) and related topics have gained significant attention due to their scientific and potential applications. Researchers have found that amphiphilic polymer co-networks (APCNs) can serve as versatile matrix materials for efficient FRET between hydrophobic inorganic donors and hydrophilic organic acceptors. APCNs have demonstrated great potential in photonic energy transfer steering.
ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS
(2022)
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Sagnik De, Gopal Das
Summary: This study compares the aggregation-induced emission properties of two naphthalimidetethered amphiphile and non-amphiphile molecules. It demonstrates that these molecules exhibit intense emission signals in aqueous media and can mimic natural light-harvesting processes, as well as have potential analytical applications in detecting explosives.
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Computer Science, Information Systems
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yijia Li, Chunlei Xia, Ruizhen Tian, Linlu Zhao, Jinxing Hou, Jieqiong Wang, Quan Luo, Jiayun Xu, Liang Wang, Chunxi Hou, Bai Yang, Hongcheng Sun, Junqiu Liu
Summary: A controllable protein nanostructures-based On/Off switchable artificial light-harvesting system with sequential multistep energy transfer and photocatalysis was reported, mimicking the natural system in structure and function. Single-layered protein nanosheets were constructed with an ordered arrangement of pigments, and fluorescent chromophores were distributed on the nanosheets via electrostatic interactions. The system achieved sequential energy transfer and high-efficiency photocatalysis. The catalytic process could be regulated by an On/Off switch.
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Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jianmin Jiao, Guangping Sun, Jikun Zhang, Chen Lin, Juli Jiang, Leyong Wang
Summary: A novel water-soluble phospholate-based CTX derivative was synthesized with good yield, and its host-guest properties were studied with model guest molecules to form nanoparticles through supramolecular self-assembly. This system was further used to encapsulate hydrophobic fluorescent dyes to mimic natural light-harvesting systems successfully.
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(2021)
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Galyna Gorbenko, Olga Zhytniakivska, Kateryna Vus, Uliana Tarabara, Valeriya Trusova
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PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY CHEMICAL PHYSICS
(2021)
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Tingwei Cai, Hanchang Hu, Haoyang Xu, Jiani Xu, Chen Meng, Jinxin He, Jin Wen, Qiangqiang Zhao
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(2023)
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Pavel Moroz, William P. Klein, Kiernan Akers, Abigail Vore, Natalia Kholmicheva, Natalia Razgoniaeva, Dmitriy Khon, Sebastian A. Diaz, Igor L. Medintz, Mikhail Zamkov
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(2017)
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(2017)
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Gregory A. Ellis, William P. Klein, Guillermo Lasarte-Aragones, Meghna Thakur, Scott A. Walper, Igor L. Medintz
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ACS APPLIED NANO MATERIALS
(2018)