Probing and controlling photosynthetic analogues with single chemical bond precision

在分子二联体中，供体和受体基团之间的电荷和能量转移支撑着各种重要的生物化学和生物物理过程。其中最重要的是光合作用（以及更广泛的光化学能量转换现象）;有一个长期存在但仍在迅速扩大的国际研究工作，专注于了解光合作用活性并将相关的化学途径扩展到纳米结构系统和设备。该项目涉及使用扫描探针技术在单分子（和亚分子）水平上对人工光合作用类似物（二元体）进行成像和光谱分析。

Charge and energy transfer between the donor and acceptor groups in molecular dyads underpin a remarkable variety of essential biochemical and biophysical processes. Foremost among these is photosynthesis (and the broader phenomenon of photochemical energy conversion); there is a long-standing, yet still rapidly expanding, international research effort focussed on understanding photosynthetic activity and extending the relevant chemical pathways to nanostructured systems and devices. This project involves the imaging and spectroscopic analysis of artificial photosynthetic analogues (dyads) at the single molecule (and submolecular) level using scanning probe techniques.