Silver Island Film for Enhancing Light Harvesting in Natural Photosynthetic Proteins
Open Access
- 31 March 2020
- journal article
- review article
- Published by MDPI AG in International Journal of Molecular Sciences
- Vol. 21 (7), 2451
- https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms21072451
Abstract
The effects of combining naturally evolved photosynthetic pigment–protein complexes with inorganic functional materials, especially plasmonically active metallic nanostructures, have been a widely studied topic in the last few decades. Besides other applications, it seems to be reasonable using such hybrid systems for designing future biomimetic solar cells. In this paper, we describe selected results that point out to various aspects of the interactions between photosynthetic complexes and plasmonic excitations in Silver Island Films (SIFs). In addition to simple light-harvesting complexes, like peridinin-chlorophyll-protein (PCP) or the Fenna–Matthews–Olson (FMO) complex, we also discuss the properties of large, photosynthetic reaction centers (RCs) and Photosystem I (PSI)—both prokaryotic PSI core complexes and eukaryotic PSI supercomplexes with attached antenna clusters (PSI-LHCI)—deposited on SIF substrates.Funding Information
- Narodowe Centrum Nauki (2017/27/B/ST3/02457, 2016/21/B/ST3/02276, UMO-2014/15/B/NZ1/00975, UMO-2017/27/B/ST5/00472)
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