Construction of Light-Harvesting Materials

Organic Light-harvesting Materials for Power Generation

Metal-organic framework materials for light-harvesting and energy transfer.

A critical review of the emerging field of MOFs for photon collection and subsequent energy transfer is presented. Discussed are examples involving MOFs for (a) light harvesting, using (i) MOF-quantum dots and molecular chromophores, (ii) chromophoric MOFs, and (iii) MOFs with light-harvesting properties, and (b) energy transfer, specifically via the (i) Förster energy transfer and (ii) Dexter ...

Light-Harvesting Complex: Rings of light

The atomic structure of the bacterial light-harvesting complex helps to explain how the energy of sunlight is efficiently absorbed and transferred between bacteriochlorophyll molecules towards the reaction centre.

Divergent light-harvesting complexes

‡Current address: University of Washington, School of Oceanography, Box 357940, Seattle, WA 98195-7940, USA. †Co first authors. Approximately one-half of the total primary production on Earth occurs in the oceans [1]. Although hundreds of species contribute to oceanic productivity, members of two cyanobacterial genera – Prochlorococcus [2,3] and Synechococcus [4] – are responsible for a signifi...

Construction of kinetic domains in energy trapping processes and application to a photosynthetic light harvesting complex

We develop a formulation allowing construction of various kinetic domains from a master equation for population transfer dynamics and enabling calculation of the time scales of transition between such domains. In this way, a complicated network of energy transfer steps can be simplified to a series of sequential kinetic transitions over the kinetic domains. We illustrate the advantage of this f...