Student: Jan Česal Leader: Václav Šlouf Effect of the Solvent Environment on Excited-State Properties of an Untypical Carotenoid
Motivation -earlier measurements on LH1-RC of AAP (Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophic) bacteria Bacteriorubixanthinal Bacteriochlorophyll S0S0 S0S0 S2S2 S1S1 QyQy QxQx ET Hu et al., PNAS 1998 c = 0.6 ps ET = ? 1 =... will be the result of this study
Materials and methods Pump–probe spectroscopy -110 fs -1 kHz Pump Crystal Laser system Delay line Light converter Sample Probe Spectrograph
Materials and methods 2 Extraction of Bacteriorubixanthinal (Brx) - HPLC (High-performance liquid chromatography)
Results
Steady-state spectroscopy 500nm
Transient absorption spectra
Kinetics ps
Conclusions - We measured 1 - We calculated ET BrxBChl S0S0 S0S0 S2S2 S1S1 QyQy QxQx = 3.4 ps ET = 0.73 ps
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