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Monitoring Kinase and Phosphatase Activities Through the Cell Cycle by Ratiometric FRET
Published on: January 27, 2012
Firefly-like Water Splitting Cells Based on FRET Phenomena with Ultrahigh Performance over 12
Yi-Sheng Lai1, Fei Pan2,3, Yen-Hsun Su1
1Department of Materials Science and Engineering, National Cheng Kung University , Tainan 70101, Taiwan.
Abstract:
A firefly-like chemiluminescence reaction was utilized in a ZrO2 nanoparticle matrix of water splitting cells, where the chlorophyll of Lantana camara was used as the major photosensitizer to excite electrons to the conduction band of ZrO2. The fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) was induced by rubrene, a firefly-like chemiluminescence molecule, and Lantana camara chlorophyll combined with 9,10-diphenylanthracene. The ZrO2 nanoparticle film coated by the chlorophyll of Lantana camara and 9,10-diphenylanthracene under chemiluminescence irradiation in 1 M KHCO3 water solution demonstrated the highest photocurrent density (88.1 A/m2) and the highest water splitting efficiency (12.77%).
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