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Open AccessCoupling effects in QD dimers at sub-nanometer interparticle distance
Currently, intensive research efforts focus on the fabrication of meso-structures of assembled colloidal quantum dots (QDs) with original optical and electronic properties. Such collective features originate f...
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Fabrication of QDs Dimers with Sub-Nanometer Interparticle Distance
Colloidal semiconductor quatum dots (QDs) are promosing material for the fabrication of optoelectronic photonic and sensing application. This study presents the fabrication and characterization of naostructure...
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Solvent Dispersible Nanocomposite Based on RGO Surface Decorated with Au Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Genosensors
A novel hybrid nanocomposite, formed of Reduced Graphene Oxide (RGO) flakes surface functionalized with 1-pyrene carboxylic acid (PCA) and decorated by Au nanoparticles (NPs), has been synthesized for the elec...
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Deposition Strategies of Nano-TiO2 Photocatalyst for Wastewater Applications
In the present work, we studied two types of deposition techniques, namely the doctor blade method and a developed dip coating procedure (also referred as inverted dip coating), to coat TiO2 nanoparticles on glas...
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Electronic Nose in Combination with Chemometrics for Characterization of Geographical Origin and Agronomic Practices of Table Grape
Nowadays, the protection of food quality attributes (such as geographical origin or method of production) from frauds and adulterations is one of the main concerns of honest producers and aware consumers. In t...
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Post-synthesis phase and shape evolution of CsPbBr3 colloidal nanocrystals: The role of ligands
The surface chemistry of colloidal cesium lead bromide (CsPbBr3) nanocrystals is decisive in determining the stability and the final morphology of this class of materials, characterized by ionic structure and a h...
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pH dependence of the charge recombination kinetics in bacterial RC reconstituted in liposomes
The photosynthetic Reaction Center from the carotenoidless mutant strain of the purple non sulphur bacterium Rhodobacter (R.) sphaeroides was reconstituted in artificial phospholipid vesicles (liposomes) to mi...
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Tracing the Geographical Origin of Lentils (Lens culinaris Medik.) by Infrared Spectroscopy and Chemometrics
The feasibility of applying the infrared spectroscopy for the geographical origin traceability of lentils from two different countries (Italy and Canada) was investigated. In particular, lentil samples were an...
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Modulating the lifetime of the charge-separated state in photosynthetic reaction center by out-of-protein electrostatics
The photosynthetic reaction center (RC) is an integral membrane protein that, upon absorption of photons, generates a hole-electron couple with a yield close to one. This energetic state has numerous possible ...
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Unveiling the compositional variety of cardiolipins in Rhodobacter sphaeroides by liquid chromatography with electrospray ionization and multistage collision-induced dissociation mass spectrometry
Cardiolipins (CL) contained in the lipid extracts of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides (strain R26) were systematically characterized by reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled to electros...
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Crystallographic analysis of the photosynthetic reaction center from Rhodobacter sphaeroides bioconjugated with an artificial antenna
A high-throughput crystallographic investigation on several crystals of photosynthetic reaction center covalently bound to an ad-hoc synthesized artificial antenna (AE600) is presented. The investigation did not ...
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Integrin-targeting with peptide-bioconjugated semiconductor-magnetic nanocrystalline heterostructures
Binary asymmetric nanocrystals (BNCs), composed of a photoactive TiO2 nanorod joined with a superparamagnetic γ-Fe2O3 spherical domain, were embedded in polyethylene glycol modified phospholipid micelle and succe...
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A far-red emitting aryleneethynylene fluorophore used as light harvesting antenna in hybrid assembly with the photosynthetic reaction center
The photosynthetic reaction center (RC) from the purple Rhodobacter (R.) sphaeroides bacterium is a protein with unique photoconversion capability that can be exploited in hybrid systems for energy conversion. We...
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Open AccessPhoto-thermal effects in gold nanorods/DNA complexes
An ingenious combination of plasmonic nanomaterials and one of the most relevant biological systems, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is achieved by bioconjugating gold nanorods (GNRs) with DNA via electrostatic in...
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First-principles study of trimethylamine adsorption on anatase TiO2 nanorod surfaces
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanorods are widely employed in many energy-related applications thanks to their peculiar electronic and physicochemical properties. Here we report a periodic DFT and DFT-D study of the th...
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Applications of nanomaterials in modern medicine
Nanomaterials represent a class of materials based on nanoscale structures. Nanomaterials are currently used in a wide variety of applications, including, optoelectronics, energy conversion, biology health car...
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Semiquinone oscillations as a tool for investigating the ubiquinone binding to photosynthetic reaction centers
Semiquinone oscillations induced by light pulses in the presence of exogenous electron donors are a valuable source of information on the kinetics and thermodynamics of ubiquinone chemistry relevant to the QB sit...
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Erratum to: The lipidome of the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R26 is affected by cobalt and chromate ions stress
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Bio-hybrid photoconverter by covalent functionalization of the photosynthetic reaction center of Rhodobacter sphaeroides with fluorescein isothiocyanate
Organic biological hybrid systems, accessible by covalent functionalization of photosynthetic proteins with molecular antennas, represent a promising novelty to enhance natural photosynthesis. In this paper, w...
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Bursting photosynthesis: designing ad-hoc fluorophores to complement the light harvesting capability of the photosynthetic reaction center
The covalent functionalization of photosynthetic proteins with properly tailored organic molecular antennas represents a powerful approach to build a new generation of hybrid systems capable of exploiting sola...
