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Fluorescence resonance energy transfer represents a mechanism to transport light energy at the nano-scale as is exemplified by nature’s light harvesting complexes. Here we used DNA origami to arrange fluorophores that transport excited state energy from an input dye to an output dye. We demonstrate that energy transfer paths can be controlled on the single-molecule level by the presence of a “j...

We examine the potential application of bifunctional dyes in Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) experiments due to their increasing popularity in electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. To do this we conduct molecular simulations of the well characterised all-trans polyproline labelled with both mono- and bifunctional rosamine dyes to understand the influence of bifunctionalisation ...

Vibration energy harvesting is an attractive technique for potential powering of wireless sensors and low power devices. While the technique can be employed to harvest energy from vibrations and vibrating structures, a general requirement independent of the energy transfer mechanism is that the vibration energy harvesting device operate in resonance at the excitation frequency. Most energy harv...

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a popular and powerful technique for measuring protein interactions. Recently, many photoactivatable fluorescent proteins that can be induced to change their emission properties after exposure to a particular light source have been developed and are finding useful biological applications. Day and colleagues combine these two techniques into a met...

Guided by the large-N C limit of QCD, we construct the most general chiral resonance Lagrangian that can generate chiral low-energy constants up to O(p 6). By integrating out the resonance fields, the low-energy constants are parametrized in terms of resonance masses and couplings. Information on those couplings and on the low-energy constants can be extracted by analysing QCD Green functions o...