Understanding a protein's dielectric response requires both a theoretical model and a well-defined experimental system. The former has already been proposed by Song (J. Chem. Phys. 116, 9359 [2002]). We suggest that the latter is provided by the complex of coumarin 153 (C153) with apomyoglobin (ApoMb). C153 has been exhaustively studied and has proven to be an excellent probe of the solvation d...

One promising method to pattern full color polymer Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) displays is to print dye from a pre-patterned organic film onto a spin-cast polymer and then diffuse the dye into the film at room temperature in a solvent vapor environment. This method utilizes the well-known tendency for a polymer film to absorb solvent vapor, which depresses the glass transition temperatu...

The effects of deoxycholic acid (DCA) and 4-tert-butylpyridine (TBP) as additives on the photovoltaic performance of coumarin-dye-sensitized nanocrystalline TiO2 solar cells were investigated. DCA coadsorption improved both the photocurrent and photovoltage of the solar cells, even though it decreased the amount of dye adsorbed on the TiO2 electrode. The improved photocurrent may arise from sup...

Abstract Starting with Coumarin-6 dye, two novel D-π-A organic dyes C6X and C6N have been designed by attaching carboxylic acid cyanoacrylic groups as anchoring to Coumarn-6 respectively, understand their potential use in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). The electronic structure photophysical photovoltaic properties of the were studied using density functional theory DFT time-dependent TD-DF...

Large Stokes-shift coumarin dyes with an O-phosphorylated 4-(hydroxymethyl)-2,2-dimethyl-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroquinoline fragment emitting in the blue, green, and red regions of the visible spectrum were synthesized. For this purpose, N-substituted and O-protected 1,2-dihydro-7-hydroxy-2,2,4-trimethylquinoline was oxidized with SeO2 to the corresponding α,β-unsaturated aldehyde and then reduced wit...

For the development of surface-functionalized gold nanoparticles as cellular probes and delivery agents, we have synthesized hetero-bifunctional poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG, MW 1500) having a thiol group on one terminus and a reactive functional group on the other for use as a flexible spacer. Coumarin, a model fluorescent dye, was conjugated to one end of the PEG spacer and gold nanoparticles w...

Herein, we demonstrate the design of multiple fluorophores Coumarin 153 (C153) and Nile Red (NR) encapsulated in semiconducting poly[N-vinylcarbazole] (PVK) polymer nanoparticles (50-70 nm in diameter) by a simple re-precipitation technique, and elucidate their photophysical properties by steady-state and picosecond (ps) time resolved emission spectroscopy. It is interesting to note that multis...