Biosupramolecular Nanowires from Chlorophyll Dyes with Exceptional Charge‐Transport Properties

Sanchita Sengupta, Daniel Ebeling, Sameer Patwardhan, Xin Zhang, Hans von Berlepsch, Christoph Böttcher, Vladimir Stepanenko, Shinobu Uemura, Carsten Hentschel, Harald Fuchs,

Angewandte Chemie International Edition · 2012 · 96 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

Conductive tubes: Self-assembled nanotubes of a bacteriochlorophyll derivative are reminiscent of natural chlorosomal light-harvesting assemblies. After deposition on a substrate that consists of a non-conductive silicon oxide surface (see picture, brown) and contacting the chlorin nanowires to a conductive polymer (yellow), they show exceptional charge-transport properties.

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