Endogenous photosensitizers play a critical role in both beneficial and harmful light-induced
transformations in biological systems. Understanding their mode of action is essential for …

Developing light-harvesting systems with efficient photoinduced charge separation and long-
lived charge-separated (CS) state is desirable but still challenging. In this study, we …

The pH dependence of proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions, which are critical
to many chemical and biological processes, is a powerful probe for elucidating their …

Metal nanoclusters (MNCs) represent a promising class of materials for catalytic carbon
dioxide and proton reduction as well as dihydrogen oxidation. In such reactions, multiple …

The reorganization energy (λ) for interfacial electron transfer (ET) and proton-coupled ET
(PCET) from a conductive metal oxide (In2O3: Sn, ITO) to a surface-bound water oxidation …

The blue light using the flavin (BLUF) domain is one of the smallest photoreceptors in
nature, which consists of a unique bidirectional electron-coupled proton relay process in its …

Single-molecule measurements show that many proteins, lacking any redox cofactors,
nonetheless exhibit electrical conductance on the order of a nanosiemen over 10 nm …

The oxidation of tryptophan (Trp) is an important step in many biological processes and
often occurs by sequential or concerted proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET). The …

pH buffer plays versatile roles in both biology and chemistry. In this study, we unravel the
critical role of pH buffer in accelerating degradation of the lignin substrate in lignin …

The proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions of tyrosine (Y) are instrumental to
many redox reactions in nature. This study investigates how the local environment and the …