Non-Covalent Assembly of Multiple Fluorophores in Edible Protein/Lipid Hydrogels for Applications in Multi-Step Light Harvesting and White-Light Emission.

ABSTRACT: The design and production of biodegradable and sustainable non-toxic materials for solar-energy harvesting and conversion is a significant challenge. Here, our goal was to report the preparation of novel protein/lipid hydrogels and demonstrate their utility in two orthogonal fundamental studies-light harvesting and white-light emission. Our hydrogels contained up to 90% water, while also being self-standing and injectable with a syringe. In one application, we loaded these hydrogels with suitable organic donor-acceptor dyes and demonstrated the energy-transfer cascade among four different dyes, with the most red-emitting dye as the energy destination. We hypothesized that the dyes were embedded in the protein/lipid phase away from the water pools as monomeric entities and that the excitati

SUBMITTER: Ding J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10458872 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature