Light transducer

Therefore, investigators have shown considerable interest in the adoption of the Langmuir-Blodgett technique, or its modifications, to make molecular electronic devices using, in particular, as an active component, a light-transducing protein, such as BR. In fact, the ability of BR to form thin films with excellent optical properties and the intrinsic properties themselves make it an outstanding candidate for use in optically coupled devices. 

Chow, W.S., Thome, S.W., Boardman, N.K. The movement of protons during energy transduction in the chloropiast thylakoid membrane. In Light Transducing Membranes (Deamer, D.W., ed.). New York, San Francisco, London Academic Press 1978, pp. 253-268... 

Fox, S. W., Adachi, T., Stillwell, W., Ishima, Y. Photochemical synthesis of ATP Protomembrans and protometabolism, in Light Transducing Membranes Structure, Function, Evolution (ed.) Deamer, D. W., p. 61, New York, Academic Press 1978... 

In biological photosystems (whole cells, thylakoids or isolated PSI) a simple redox catalyst transfers electrons from the terminal acceptor of PSI to oxygen, the light-transducing system being the natural photosynthetic apparatus itself. In artificial model systems, by contrast, it is a redox photocatalyst (flavin or Ru (II)-tris(2, 2 -bipyridine)) who promotes the light-driven transfer of electrons from appropriate electron donors to molecular oxygen. 

R. N. Shchelokov and V. E. Karasev Introduction of Eu(III) complexes into polymeric matrix permits preparation of light transducers for greenhouses... 

H. G. Khorana, Two light-transducing membrane proteins Bacteriorhodopsin and the mammalian rhodopsin, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 90, 1166-1171 (1993). 

I. Retinal Proteins. Visual pigments and light-transducing pigments found in certain bacteria contain a long-chain polyene, retinal, as the active chromophore. On absorption of a visible photon the pigments... 

Chen Z., Samuelson L.A., Akkara J., Kaplan D.L., Gao H., Kumar J., Marx K.A., Tripathy S.K. Sol-gel encapsulated light-transducing protein phycoerythrin a new biomaterial. Chem. Mater. 1995 7 1779-1783... 

Katsume, T., Hiramoto, M., and Yokoyama, M., High photon conversion in a light transducer combining organic electroluminescent diode with photoresponsive organic pigment film, Appl. Phys. Lett., 64, 2546, 1994. 

Israelachvili, J.N. (1978) The packing of lipids and proteins in membranes, in Light Transducing Membranes structure, function and evolution (ed. D.W. Deamer), Academic Press, New York, pp. 91-107. 

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