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Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Mapping: A New Methodology to Elucidate Global Structural Features
Published on: March 16, 2022
Theoretical model of donor-donor and donor-acceptor energy transfer on a nanosphere
Anna Synak1, Leszek Kułak2, Piotr Bojarski3
1Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Informatics, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 57, 80-308, Gdańsk, Poland. anna.synak@ug.edu.pl.
Abstract:
In this study, we introduce a novel advancement in the field of theoretical exploration. Specifically, we investigate the transfer and trapping of electronic excitations within a two-component disordered system confined to a finite volume. The implications of our research extend to energy transfer phenomena on spherical nanoparticles, characterized by randomly distributed donors and acceptors on their surface. Utilizing the three-body Padé approximant technique, previously employed in single-component systems, we apply it to address the challenge of trapping within our system. To validate the robustness of our model, we conduct Monte Carlo simulations on a donor-acceptor system positioned on a spherical nanoparticle. In particular, very good agreement between the model and Monte Carlo simulations has been found for donor fluorescence intensity decay.
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