Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2006-12-18
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
23 pages, 9 figures
Scientific paper
Long range resonance energy transfer (RET) between a donor and an acceptor molecule is increasingly being used in many areas of biological and material science. The phenomenon is used to monitor the in vivo separation between different (bio) polymers/units of (bio) polymers and hence the dynamics of various biomolecular processes. Because of the sensitivity of the rate on to the distance between the donor (D) and the acceptor (A), the technique is popularly termed as "spectroscopic ruler". In this work we examine the distance and orientation dependence of RET in three different systems: (i) between a conjugated polymer and a fluorescent dye, (ii) between a nanometal particle (NMP) and a fluorescent dye and (iii) between two NMP. We show that in all the three cases, the rate of RET follows a distance dependence of d^(- sigma) where exponent sigma approaches 6 at large d (F"orster type dependence) but has a value varying from 3-4 at short to intermediate distance. At short separation, the amplitude of rate is considerably smaller than predicted by the F"orster theory.
Bagchi Biman
Bhowmick Somnath
Saini Sangeeta
Shenoy Vijay B.
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