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SCIENCE
Volume 313, Issue 5783, Pages 84-86Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1126524
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Rigid p-octiphenyl rods were used to create helical tetrameric p-stacks of blue, red-fluorescent naphthalene diimides that can span lipid bilayer membranes. In lipid vesicles containing quinone as electron acceptors and surrounded by ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid as hole acceptors, transmembrane proton gradients arose through quinone reduction upon excitation with visible light. Quantitative ultrafast and relatively long-lived charge separation was confirmed as the origin of photosynthetic activity by femtosecond fluorescence and transient absorption spectroscopy. Supramolecular self-organization was essential in that photoactivity was lost upon rod shortening ( from p-octiphenyl to biphenyl) and chromophore expansion ( from naphthalene diimide to perylene diimide). Ligand intercalation transformed the photoactive scaffolds into ion channels.
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