Functional supramolecular systems: Design and applications

IS Antipin, MV Alfimov, VV Arslanov… - Russian Chemical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The interest in functional supramolecular systems for the design of innovative materials and
technologies, able to fundamentally change the world, is growing at a high pace. The huge …

Energy transfer with semiconductor quantum dot bioconjugates: a versatile platform for biosensing, energy harvesting, and other develo** applications

N Hildebrandt, CM Spillmann, WR Algar, T Pons… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Luminescent semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) are one of the more popular nanomaterials
currently utilized within biological applications. However, what is not widely appreciated is …

An excitonic perspective on low-dimensional semiconductors for photocatalysis

H Wang, W Liu, X He, P Zhang… - Journal of the American …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Low-dimensional semiconductors provide a marvelous platform for pursuing versatile
photocatalytic solar energy conversion. Compared with the bulk counterparts, low …

Resonance energy transfer: from fundamental theory to recent applications

GA Jones, DS Bradshaw - Frontiers in Physics, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Resonance energy transfer (RET), the transport of electronic energy from one atom or
molecule to another, has significant importance to a number of diverse areas of science …

Nanoscale strategies for light harvesting

S Kundu, A Patra - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Recent advances and the current status of challenging light-harvesting nanomaterials, such
as semiconducting quantum dots (QDs), metal nanoparticles, semiconductor–metal …

Enhanced biological photosynthetic efficiency using light‐harvesting engineering with dual‐emissive carbon dots

W Li, S Wu, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Zhuang… - Advanced Functional …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing solar energy conversion is imperative and maximizing solar energy capture
remains significant. Here, nanotechnology toward engineering hybrid photosystem involving …

Biological applications of supramolecular assemblies designed for excitation energy transfer

HQ Peng, LY Niu, YZ Chen, LZ Wu, CH Tung… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Absorption of light by a molecule (donor, D) generates an excited state, which may
subsequently transfer the excitation to another chromophore (acceptor, A) in the vicinity …

Organic supramolecular aggregates based on water‐soluble cyclodextrins and calixarenes

Z Liu, X Dai, Y Sun, Y Liu - Aggregate, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Macrocycle‐induced formation of pure organic supramolecular aggregates is a challenge
that has attracted considerable attention from researchers in the fields of chemistry, biology …

Lanthanide-metal-doped light-harvesting quantum dots for exceptional X-ray imaging scintillators

X Zhu, R Zhou, Z Wang, S Thomas, P Maity… - ACS Energy …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The energy donor's superlative antenna effect efficiently improves the performance of the
reaction centers of light-harvesting systems. Consequently, we successfully leveraged this …

Far-red carbon dots as efficient light-harvesting agents for enhanced photosynthesis

D Li, W Li, H Zhang, X Zhang, J Zhuang… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Sunlight utilization by plants via the photosynthesis process is limited to the visible spectral
range. How to expand the utilization spectral range via construction of a hybrid …