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A light-driven three-dimensional plasmonic nanosystem that translates molecular motion into reversible chiroptical function

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  • Anton Kuzyk

    (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

  • Yangyang Yang

    (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Yoshida-ushinomiyacho
    Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-oiwakecho
    Present address: Shanghai Key Laboratory of Chemical Biology, School of Pharmacy, East China University of Science and Technology, 130 Meilong Road, Shanghai 200237, China.)

  • Xiaoyang Duan

    (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
    Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg)

  • Simon Stoll

    (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems)

  • Alexander O. Govorov

    (Ohio University)

  • Hiroshi Sugiyama

    (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Yoshida-ushinomiyacho
    Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-oiwakecho)

  • Masayuki Endo

    (Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences (WPI-iCeMS), Kyoto University, Yoshida-ushinomiyacho)

  • Na Liu

    (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
    Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, University of Heidelberg)

Abstract

Nature has developed striking light-powered proteins such as bacteriorhodopsin, which can convert light energy into conformational changes for biological functions. Such natural machines are a great source of inspiration for creation of their synthetic analogues. However, synthetic molecular machines typically operate at the nanometre scale or below. Translating controlled operation of individual molecular machines to a larger dimension, for example, to 10–100 nm, which features many practical applications, is highly important but remains challenging. Here we demonstrate a light-driven plasmonic nanosystem that can amplify the molecular motion of azobenzene through the host nanostructure and consequently translate it into reversible chiroptical function with large amplitude modulation. Light is exploited as both energy source and information probe. Our plasmonic nanosystem bears unique features of optical addressability, reversibility and modulability, which are crucial for developing all-optical molecular devices with desired functionalities.

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  • Anton Kuzyk & Yangyang Yang & Xiaoyang Duan & Simon Stoll & Alexander O. Govorov & Hiroshi Sugiyama & Masayuki Endo & Na Liu, 2016. "A light-driven three-dimensional plasmonic nanosystem that translates molecular motion into reversible chiroptical function," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 7(1), pages 1-6, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:7:y:2016:i:1:d:10.1038_ncomms10591
    DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10591
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