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Probing Single-molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics Of Porphyrin On Tio2 Nanoparticles
Journal Of The American Chemical Society
  • Yuanmin Wang
  • Xuefei Wang
  • Sujit Kumar Ghosh
  • H. Peter Lu, Bowling Green State University
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Abstract

Single-molecule interfacial electron transfer (ET) dynamics has been studied by using single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and microscopic imaging. For a single-molecule zinc-tetra (4-carboxyphenyl) porphyrin (ZnTCPP)/TiO2 nanoparticle system, the single-molecule fluorescence trajectories show strong fluctuation and blinking between bright and dark states. The intermittency and fluctuation of the single-molecule fluorescence are attributed to the variation of the reactivity of interfacial electron transfer. The nonexponential autocorrelation function and the power-law distribution of the probability density of dark times imply the dynamic and static inhomogeneities of the interfacial ET dynamics. On the basis of the power-law analysis, the variation of single-molecule interfacial ET reactivity is analyzed as a fluctuation according to the Levy statistics.

Publication Date
2-1-2009
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1021/ja806988d
Citation Information
Yuanmin Wang, Xuefei Wang, Sujit Kumar Ghosh and H. Peter Lu. "Probing Single-molecule Interfacial Electron Transfer Dynamics Of Porphyrin On Tio2 Nanoparticles" Journal Of The American Chemical Society (2009) p. 1479 - 1487
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