Speaker
Mr
Luke Ugwuoke
(University of Pretoria)
Description
LHCII — the main light-harvesting complex of plants and green algae — is the most abundant membrane protein on earth. Here, we investigate theoretically the effect of exciton-plasmon coupling on LHCII’s fluorescence quantum yield and compare our modelling results to experimental data where plasmon-enhanced fluorescence has been reported in an LHCII–gold nanorod system. One of the models relies on the modified Gersten-Nitzan approach; the other is based on classical plexcitonics. We show that the latter is more robust and leads to more
realistic enhancement factors.
Primary author
Mr
Luke Ugwuoke
(University of Pretoria)
Co-authors
Dr
Farooq Kyeyune
(University of Pretoria)
Prof.
Tomas Mancal
(Charles University, Prague)
Prof.
Tjaart Kruger
(University of Pretoria)
