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Effect of Microtubules Hierarchy on Photoinduced Hydrogen Generation and Application to Artificial Photosynthesis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2014

Kosuke Okeyoshi ,
Kawamura Ryuzo ,
Ryo Yoshida  and
Yoshihito Osada
Kosuke Okeyoshi
Affiliation:
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
Kawamura Ryuzo
Affiliation:
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
Ryo Yoshida
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan
Yoshihito Osada
Affiliation:
RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, 2-1 Hirosawa Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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Abstract

Several strategies have been explored from viewpoint of biomimetics to accomplish artificial photosynthesis by using macromolecules as a medium such as liposomes, supramolecules, and hydrogels.1 Differing from disordered solution systems in which multiple components such as photosensitizer and catalytic nanoparticle are diffusively mixed, the photochemical reactions occur efficiently in medium due to maintenance of the dipersibility of the components and specific molecular arrangement. Here we attempt to clarify the effect of medium hierarchy for photoinduced electronic transmission among multiple components. By conjugating each component on tubulin and integrating them via self-assembly to microtubules, ideal component arrangements with optimum distance for the electronic transmission will be possible.

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photochemicalpolymerizationself-assembly
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1621: Symposium H/C/D/J – Advances in Structures, Properties and Applications of Biological and Bioinspired Materials , 2014 , pp. 229 - 233
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2014 

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