A critical selection of the recent literature reports on the use of photosynthetic and
photoresponsive bacteria as a source of materials for optoelectronics and photonic devices …

Harvesting solar energy in the form of electricity from the photosynthesis of plants, algal
cells, and bacteria has been researched as the most environment‐friendly renewable …

Gold nanostructure arrays exhibit surface plasmon resonances that split after attaching light
harvesting complexes 1 and 2 (LH1 and LH2) from purple bacteria. The splitting is attributed …

In the context of using portions of a photosynthetic apparatus of green plants and
photosynthesizing bacteria in bioinspired photovoltaic systems, we consider possible control …

While single-molecule fluorescence from emitters with high quantum efficiencies such as
organic dye molecules can easily be detected by modern apparatus, many less efficient …

Strong light-matter interaction leads to the formation of hybrid polariton states and can alter
the light-harvesting properties of natural photosynthetic systems without modifying their …

Photosystem I (PSI) is a∼ 1000 kDa transmembrane protein that enables photoactivated
charge separation with∼ 1 V driving potential and∼ 100% quantum efficiency during the …

Plasmonic metal nanostructures have been known to tune optoelectronic properties of
fluorophores. Here, we report the first-ever experimental observation of plasmon-induced …

Despite the high quantum efficiency of solar energy conversion by photosynthesis, practical
development of photosynthetic solar energy has been limited so far. One of the main …

Plasmonic interactions between metal nanostructures and fluorophores have been
increasingly employed to alter photoexcitation pathways in multichromophore …