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    J Am Chem Soc. 2009 Feb 4;131(4):1479-87.

    Probing single-molecule interfacial electron transfer dynamics of porphyrin on TiO2 nanoparticles.

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    Bowling Green State University, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA.

    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)/TiO(2) 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.

    PMID:
    19138077
    [PubMed]

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