The role of charge-transfer states in energy transfer and dissipation within natural and artificial bacteriochlorophyll proteins.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how specific protein environments affect the mechanisms of non-radiative energy dissipation within densely assembled chlorophylls in photosynthetic protein complexes is of great interest to the construction of bioinspired solar energy conversion devices. Mixing of charge-transfer and excitonic states in excitonically interacting chlorophylls was implicated in shortening excited states' lifetimes, but its relevance to active control of energy dissipation in natural systems is under considerable debate. Here we show that the degree of fluorescence quenching in two similar pairs of excitonically interacting bacteriochlorophyll derivatives is directly associated with increasing charge-transfer character in the excited state, and that the protein environment may control non-radiat

SUBMITTER: Wahadoszamen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4255223 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature