title: Efficient energy transfer within self-assembling peptide fibers: a route to light-harvesting nanomaterials.
abstract: Small peptides offer an attractive starting point for the development of self-assembling materials for a variety of purposes, since they are relatively simple to produce and can be tailored to provide an expansive range of chemical functionality. We have employed a short peptide that spontaneously self-assembles into a multimolecular fibrillar architecture to drive the coassembly of two independent luminescent moieties. We use fluorescence spectroscopy to demonstrate that the resulting complex performs a light-harvesting function.
authors.affiliation: Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB3 0HE, UK.
authors.forename: Kevin J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Channon
authors.forename: Glyn L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Devlin
authors.forename: Cait E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: MacPhee
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D032701:Biomimetics; D004735:Energy Transfer; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D046529:Microscopy, Electron, Transmission; D049329:Nanostructures / Q000737:chemistry*; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D045342:Light-Harvesting Protein Complexes; D010455:Peptides