Organic dye based nanoparticles for cancer phototheranostics

Y Cai, W Si, W Huang, P Chen, J Shao, X Dong - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Phototheranostics, which simultaneously combines photodynamic and/or photothermal
therapy with deep‐tissue diagnostic imaging, is a promising strategy for the diagnosis and …

Formation and function of bacterial organelles

C Greening, T Lithgow - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020 - nature.com
Advances in imaging technologies have revealed that many bacteria possess organelles
with a proteomically defined lumen and a macromolecular boundary. Some are bound by a …

A bioinspired sequential energy transfer system constructed via supramolecular copolymerization

Y Han, X Zhang, Z Ge, Z Gao, R Liao… - Nature Communications, 2022 - nature.com
Sequential energy transfer is ubiquitous in natural light harvesting systems to make full use
of solar energy. Although various artificial systems have been developed with the biomimetic …

Supramolecular approach towards light-harvesting materials based on porphyrins and chlorophylls

J Otsuki - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Photosynthesis is one of the most important processes that supplies the energy required for
the survival of all living things. The initial process is the absorption of sunlight by a …

Porphyrins in bio-inspired transformations: Light-harvesting to solar cell

MK Panda, K Ladomenou, AG Coutsolelos - Coordination Chemistry …, 2012 - Elsevier
Almost two decades after the outstanding X-ray crystallographic studies of light-harvesting
antenna complex LH2 of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas acidophila, a …

Alternating syn-anti bacteriochlorophylls form concentric helical nanotubes in chlorosomes

S Ganapathy, GT Oostergetel… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Chlorosomes are the largest and most efficient light-harvesting antennae found in nature,
and they are constructed from hundreds of thousands of self-assembled bacteriochlorophyll …

Biostabilization of cohesive sediments: revisiting the role of abiotic conditions, physiology and diversity of microbes, polymeric secretion, and biofilm architecture

SU Gerbersdorf, S Wieprecht - Geobiology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
In aquatic habitats, micro‐organisms successfully adhere to and mediate particles, thus
changing the erosive response of fine sediments to hydrodynamic forcing by secreting glue …

Nanoscale assembly of mesoporous ZnO: A potential drug carrier

KC Barick, S Nigam, D Bahadur - Journal of Materials Chemistry, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Highly mesoporus spherical three dimensional (3D) ZnO nanoassemblies have been
fabricated by a simple, facile soft-chemical approach. It has been observed that the …

Two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy reveals ultrafast energy diffusion in chlorosomes

J Dostal, T Mancal, R Augulis, F Vacha… - Journal of the …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Chlorosomes are light-harvesting antennae that enable exceptionally efficient light energy
capture and excitation transfer. They are found in certain photosynthetic bacteria, some of …

Self-aggregates of natural chlorophylls and their synthetic analogues in aqueous media for making light-harvesting systems

T Miyatake, H Tamiaki - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2010 - Elsevier
Chlorophyll molecules are well organized for efficient energy or electron transfer in a light-
harvesting antenna or a reaction center of photosynthetic organisms. In order to make …