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JOURNAL OF COLLOID AND INTERFACE SCIENCE
Volume 335, Issue 2, Pages 196-202Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2009.03.076
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TiO2 colloid; Fluorescence quenching; Phycocyanin
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- CSIR, Government of India [01(2217)/08/EMR-II]
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Bluish phycocyanin is a water soluble pigment having strong visible light absorption at 615 nm. The dynamics of photoinduced electron injection from phycocyanin to colloidal TiO2 nanoparticles has been studied by absorption, FT-IR, steady state and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopic methods. The phycocyanin adsorbed on the surface of colloidal TiO2 nanoparticles, the apparent association constant (K,pp) for the association between colloidal TiO2 nanoparticles and phycocyanin was measured from both absorption changes (K-app = 4.01 x 10(2) M-1) and fluorescence quenching data (K-app = 5.20 x 10(2) M-1). The value of K-app obtained from the data of fluorescence quenching matches with that determined from the absorption spectral changes. The good agreement between these values of K-app highlighted the validity of assumption proposed for the association between phycocyanin and colloidal TiO2 nanoparticles. The free energy change (Delta G(et)) for electron injection has been calculated by applying Rehm-Weller equation. Electron injection from excited state phycocyanin into the conduction band of TiO2 is suggested. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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