title: Photoinduced electron transfer in zinc phthalocyanine loaded on single-walled carbon nanohorns in aqueous solution.
abstract: Notable electronic communication within ZnPc-SWNHox nanoensembles, where ZnPc is zinc phthalocyanine and SWNHox is an oxidized single-walled nanohorn, in both the ground and excited states is revealed by steady-state absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy measurements. The details of electron transfer reported here with time-resolved absorption and fluorescence measurements may broaden the use of SWNHox nanoensembles in photochemistry and photobiology.
authors.affiliation: Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahidai Nomi 923-1292 (Japan). sandanay@jaist.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Atula S D
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Sandanayaka
authors.affiliation: IMRAM, Tohoku University Katahira, Aoba-ku Sendai 980-8577 (Japan). ito@tagen.tohoku.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.affiliation: Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-856 (Japan).
authors.forename: Minfang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-856 (Japan).
authors.forename: Kumiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ajima
authors.affiliation: Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-856 (Japan).
authors.forename: Sumio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Iijima
authors.affiliation: Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Central 5, 1-1-1 Higashi, Tsukuba Ibaraki 305-856 (Japan). m-yudasaka@aist.go.jp.
authors.forename: Masako
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yudasaka
authors.affiliation: Fujita Health University Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake Aichi 470-1192 (Japan).
authors.forename: Tatsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Murakami
authors.affiliation: Fujita Health University Kutsukake-cho, Toyoake Aichi 470-1192 (Japan).
authors.forename: Kunihiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Tsuchida
keywords: carbon nanostructures; drug delivery; photochemistry