title: Efficient excited energy transfer reaction in clay/porphyrin complex toward an artificial light-harvesting system.
abstract: The quantitative excited energy transfer reaction between cationic porphyrins on an anionic clay surface was successfully achieved. The efficiency reached up to ca. 100% owing to the "Size-Matching Rule" as described in the text. It was revealed that the important factors for the efficient energy transfer reaction are (i) suppression of the self-quenching between adjacent dyes, and (ii) suppression of the segregated adsorption structure of two kinds of dyes on the clay surface. By examining many different kinds of porphyrins, we found that tetrakis(1-methylpyridinium-3-yl) porphyrin (m-TMPyP) and tetrakis(1-methylpyridinium-4-yl) porphyrin (p-TMPyP) are the suitable porphyrins to accomplish a quantitative energy transfer reaction. These findings indicate that the clay/porphyrin complexes are promising and prospective candidates to be used for construction of an efficient artificial light-harvesting system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Chemistry, Graduate Course of Urban Environmental Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-ohsawa 1-1, Hachiohji, Tokyo 192-0397 Japan.
authors.forename: Yohei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishida
authors.forename: Tetsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: Dai
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Masui
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tachibana
authors.forename: Haruo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Inoue
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takagi