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Plasmonic enhancement of photovoltage generation in hybrid nanostructures

2013/11/B/ST3/03984

Keywords:

plasmonics light-induced electric potential photosystem I metallic nanostructures

Descriptors:

  • ST3_12: Molecular electronics
  • NZ1_3: Biophysics

Panel:

ST3 - Condensed matter physics: structure, electronic properties, fluids, nanosciences, biological physics

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika, Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej

woj. kujawsko-pomorskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr Dorota Kowalska 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 4

Call: OPUS 6 - announced on 2013-09-16

Amount awarded: 478 320 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2014-07-15

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2018-01-14

Project duration:: 42 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Kontroler silnika piezoelektrycznego precyzyjnej śruby mikrometrycznej (5 400 PLN)
  2. Oświetlacz diodowy 570 nm (4 000 PLN)
  3. Piec uniwersalny UN30 z dozownikiem Multipette plus.
  4. Precyzyjna śruba mikrometryczna z silnikiem piezoelektrycznym (3 300 PLN)
  5. Wytrząsarka Vortex.
  6. Dysk zewnętrzny o pojemności 2TB.
  7. Mikrolitrowa wirówka wysokoobrotowa (5 500 PLN)
  8. Precyzyjny stolik piezoelektryczny wyposażony w trzy stopnie swobody (55 000 PLN)
  9. karta kontrolno pomiarowa.
  10. Kontroler stolika piezoelektrycznego (30 000 PLN)
  11. Laser 638 nm (4 000 PLN)
  12. Precyzyjny oscylator kwarcowy z kontrolerem (17 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (6)
  1. Silver island film substrates for ultrasensitive fluorescence detection of (bio) molecules
    Authors:
    Marcin Szalkowski, Khuram U Ashraf, Heiko Lokstein, Sebastian Mackowski, Richard J Cogdell, Dorota Kowalska
    Academic press:
    Photosynthesis Research (rok: 2016, tom: 127, strony: 103-108), Wydawca: Springer Netherlands
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11120-015-0178-x - link to the publication
  2. Large plasmonic fluorescence enhancement of cyanobacterial photosystem I coupled to silver island films
    Authors:
    N. Czechowski, H. Lokstein, D. Kowalska, K. Ashraf, RJ Cogdell, S. Mackowski
    Academic press:
    Applied Physics Letters (rok: 2014, tom: 105, strony: 043701-1 - 043701-5), Wydawca: AIP Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1063/1.4891856 - link to the publication
  3. Plasmon-induced absorption of blind chlorophylls in photosynthetic proteins assembled on silver nanowires
    Authors:
    M. Szalkowski, J.D.J. Olmos, D. Buczyńska, S. Maćkowski, D. Kowalska, J. Kargul
    Academic press:
    Nanoscale (rok: 2017, tom: 9, strony: 10475 - 10486), Wydawca: Royal Society of Chemistry
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1039/c7nr03866f - link to the publication
  4. Spectrally selective fluorescence imaging of Chlorobaculum tepidum reaction centers conjugated to chelator modified silver nanowires
    Authors:
    D. Kowalska, M. Szalkowski, K. Ashraf, J. Grzelak, H. Lokstein, J. Niedziolka-Jonsson, R. Cogdell, S. Maćkowski,
    Academic press:
    Photosynthesis Research (rok: 2018, tom: 135, strony: 329-336), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11120-017-0455-y - link to the publication
  5. Origin of bimodal fluorescence enhancement factors of Chlorobaculum tepidum reaction centers on silver island films
    Authors:
    Sebastian Mackowski, Nikodem Czechowski, Khuram U. Ashraf, Marcin Szalkowski, Heiko Lokstein, Richard J. Cogdell and Dorota Kowalska
    Academic press:
    FEBS Letters (rok: 2016, tom: 590, strony: 2558-2565), Wydawca: John Wiley & Sons
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1002/1873-3468.12292 - link to the publication
  6. Wide-field fluorescence microscopy of real-time bioconjugation sensing
    Authors:
    M. Szalkowski, K. Sulowska, J. Grzelak, J. Niedziółka-Jönsson, E. Rozniecka, D. Kowalska, S. Maćkowski,
    Academic press:
    Sensors (rok: 2018, tom: 18, strony: 290), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/s18010290 - link to the publication