Plasmonic field effects on the spectroscopic and photobiological function of the photosynthetic system of bacteriorhodopsin

The first section of this thesis concerns the study of interactions between the intense local plasmonic field generated by nanostructure and a well known photosynthetic protein system, bacteriorhodopsin (bR). bR is a membrane protein responsible for proton transport. Among the many intermediates f...

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Main Author: Biesso, Arianna
Published: Georgia Institute of Technology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1853/28162