Assembly of Photosynthetic Antenna Protein Complexes from Algae for Development of Nano-biodevice and Its Fuelization

Abstract

The purpose of this proposal is to use photosynthetic antenna pigment complex (LH) from algae in order to control the direction and orientation of the complex on electrodes with pattern for development of nanobiodevices (nanobiophotonics) and its fuelization. The advantage of these pigment complexes from algae as well as from plants and photosynthetic bacteria is its high efficiency of light-energy conversion throughout the near UV to near IR region and much higher durability using these methods than ordinary light-harvesting (LH) complex isolated from these photosynthetic membranes. Our goal is to use the LH as a light harvester of the well-established cell in order to construct an efficient energy transfer system analogous to photosynthetic antenna from algae for development of new type of nanobiodevices and nano-baiomaterial constructing fuelization's systems of hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 20, 2013
Accession Number
ADA586787

Entities

People

  • Mamoru Nango

Organizations

  • Nagoya Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Assembly
  • Bacteria
  • Carbon Dioxide
  • Chemistry
  • Construction
  • Electron Transfer
  • Energy
  • Energy Conversion
  • Energy Transfer
  • Fabrication
  • Manufacturing
  • Materials
  • Membrane Lipids
  • Orientation (Direction)
  • Semiconductors
  • Solar Cells
  • Spectra

Readers

  • Chemistry (specifically Chemical Fluorescence)
  • Systems Analysis and Design