title: Probing single-molecule interfacial electron transfer dynamics of porphyrin on TiO2 nanoparticles.
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.
authors.affiliation: Bowling Green State University, Center for Photochemical Sciences, Department of Chemistry, Bowling Green, Ohio 43403, USA.
authors.forename: Yuanmin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Xuefei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Sujit Kumar
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Ghosh
authors.forename: H Peter
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Lu