Biological applications of supramolecular assemblies designed for excitation energy transfer

HQ Peng, LY Niu, YZ Chen, LZ Wu, CH Tung… - Chemical …, 2015 - ACS Publications
Absorption of light by a molecule (donor, D) generates an excited state, which may
subsequently transfer the excitation to another chromophore (acceptor, A) in the vicinity …

Adsorchromism: Molecular nanoarchitectonics at 2D nanosheets—Old chemistry for advanced chromism

M Eguchi, AS Nugraha, AE Rowan, J Shapter… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chromism induced by changes in the electronic states of dye molecules due to surface
adsorption is termed “adsorchromism” in this article. These changes of molecular electronic …

Size-matching effect on inorganic nanosheets: control of distance, alignment, and orientation of molecular adsorption as a bottom-up methodology for nanomaterials

S Takagi, T Shimada, Y Ishida, T Fujimura, D Masui… - Langmuir, 2013 - ACS Publications
We have been investigating complexes composed of nanolayered materials with anionic
charges such as clay nanosheets and dye molecules such as cationic porphyrins. It was …

One-dimensional porphyrin nanoassemblies assisted via graphene oxide: Sheetlike functional surfactant and enhanced photocatalytic behaviors

P Guo, P Chen, M Liu - ACS applied materials & interfaces, 2013 - ACS Publications
Surfactant-assisted self-assembly (SAS) has received much attention for supramolecular
nanoassemblies, due to its simplicity and easiness in realizing a controllable assembly …

Ultrafast electron injection at the cationic porphyrin–graphene interface assisted by molecular flattening

SM Aly, MR Parida, E Alarousu… - Chemical …, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
The steady-state and femtosecond (fs) time-resolved data clearly demonstrate that the
charge transfer (CT) process at the porphyrin–graphene carboxylate (GC) interfaces can be …

Unique fluorescence behavior of dyes on the clay minerals surface: Surface Fixation Induced Emission (S-FIE)

D Tokieda, T Tsukamoto, Y Ishida, H Ichihara… - … of Photochemistry and …, 2017 - Elsevier
We have been investigating complexes composed of nano-sheet with anionic charges such
as clay nanosheets and molecules such as cationic organic dyes. Photochemical properties …

Polystyrene nanofiber materials modified with an externally bound porphyrin photosensitizer

P Henke, K Lang, P Kubát, J Sýkora… - … applied materials & …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Polystyrene ion-exchange nanofiber materials with large surface areas and adsorption
capacities were prepared by electrospinning followed by the sulfonation and adsorption of a …

Enhanced visible light photocatalysis using TiO2/phthalocyanine nanocomposites for the degradation of selected industrial dyes

KP Priyanka, S Sankararaman, KM Balakrishna… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Solvent-evaporation method has been successfully employed for the synthesis of titanium
dioxide/metal phthalocyanine (TiO 2/M-Pc (M= Co, Fe)) nanocomposites. Systematic …

“Surface-fixation induced emission” of porphyrazine dye by a complexation with inorganic nanosheets

Y Ishida, T Shimada, S Takagi - The Journal of Physical Chemistry …, 2014 - ACS Publications
This paper proposes a unique phenomenon of the strong enhancement in the fluorescence
quantum yield (φf) and the excited lifetime (τ) of tetra-cationic porphyrazine dye (Pz) upon a …

Manipulation of precise molecular arrangements and their photochemical properties on inorganic surfaces via multiple electrostatic interactions

Y Ishida - Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Multiple (or multivalent) interaction is the key in many biological systems. One of the most
important (photo-) chemical reactions, photosynthesis, is driven by regularly aligned …