Unraveling the mechanism of tip-enhanced molecular energy transfer.
Journal
Communications chemistry
ISSN: 2399-3669
Titre abrégé: Commun Chem
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101725670
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
15 Feb 2024
15 Feb 2024
Historique:
received:
04
07
2023
accepted:
01
02
2024
medline:
16
2
2024
pubmed:
16
2
2024
entrez:
15
2
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Electronic Energy Transfer (EET) between chromophores is fundamental in many natural light-harvesting complexes, serving as a critical step for solar energy funneling in photosynthetic plants and bacteria. The complicated role of the environment in mediating this process in natural architectures has been addressed by recent scanning tunneling microscope experiments involving EET between two molecules supported on a solid substrate. These measurements demonstrated that EET in such conditions has peculiar features, such as a steep dependence on the donor-acceptor distance, reminiscent of a short-range mechanism more than of a Förster-like process. By using state of the art hybrid ab initio/electromagnetic modeling, here we provide a comprehensive theoretical analysis of tip-enhanced EET. In particular, we show that this process can be understood as a complex interplay of electromagnetic-based molecular plasmonic processes, whose result may effectively mimic short range effects. Therefore, the established identification of an exponential decay with Dexter-like effects does not hold for tip-enhanced EET, and accurate electromagnetic modeling is needed to identify the EET mechanism.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38360897
doi: 10.1038/s42004-024-01118-1
pii: 10.1038/s42004-024-01118-1
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Pagination
32Subventions
Organisme : EC | EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020 | H2020 European Institute of Innovation and Technology (H2020 The European Institute of Innovation and Technology)
ID : PROID 964363
Organisme : Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (Ministry of Education, University and Research)
ID : NExuS
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© 2024. The Author(s).
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