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Peptide Mediated Co-Assembly Of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials For Light Harvesting And Catalysis, Wsm Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
Peptide Mediated Co-Assembly Of Porphyrin: Towards Sustainable Biomaterials For Light Harvesting And Catalysis, Wsm Nadeesha K. Wijerathne
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The diverse molecular functions of naturally occurring biomaterials designed from proteins are fundamentally based on a set of conserved building blocks, namely the 20 gene coded amino acids. The supramolecular structures and functions of proteins dictates by the self-assembly, where the complexity of proteins arise from a large number of amino acids. Generation of biomimetic systems that resemble the structures and functions of proteins is of great interest yet challenging due to the tremendous complexity of the natural systems. It is important to investigate alternative strategies to design much simpler systems that exhibit the same or similar function as proteins. …
Probing The Structure And Photophysics Of Porphyrinoid Systems For Functional Materials, Christopher D. Farley
Probing The Structure And Photophysics Of Porphyrinoid Systems For Functional Materials, Christopher D. Farley
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Porphyrins (Pors) and their many cousins, including phthalocyanines (Pcs), corroles (Cors), subphthalocyanines (SubPcs), porphyrazines (Pzs), and naphthalocyanines (NPcs), play amazingly diverse roles in biological and non-biological systems because of their unique and tunable physical and chemical properties. These compounds, collectively known as porphyrinoids, can be employed in any number of functional devices that have the potential to address the challenges of modern society. Their incorporation into such devices, however, depends on many structural factors that must be well understood and carefully controlled in order to achieve the desired behavior. Self-assembly and self-organization are key processes for developing these new technologies, …