Nanjing Tech University

About: Nanjing Tech University is a education organization based out in Nanjing, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Membrane. The organization has 21827 authors who have published 21794 publications receiving 364050 citations. The organization is also known as: Nangongda & Nánjīng Gōngyè Dàxúe.

Amino-Assisted NH2-UiO-66 Anchored on Porous g-C3N4 for Enhanced Visible-Light-Driven CO2 Reduction

Abstract: Constructing heterostructured photocatalysts is an efficient method to improve photocatalytic carbon dioxide (CO2) reduction. Herein, holey g-C3N4 (HGN) with rich amino groups (−NHx) was hybridized...

Enabling Förster Resonance Energy Transfer from Large Nanocrystals through Energy Migration.

Abstract: The stringent distance dependence of Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET) has limited the ability of an energy donor to donate excitation energy to an acceptor over a Forster critical distance (R0) of 2–6 nm. This poses a fundamental size constraint (<8 nm or ∼4R0) for experimentation requiring particle-based energy donors. Here, we describe a spatial distribution function model and theoretically validate that the particle size constraint can be mitigated through coupling FRET with a resonant energy migration process. By combining excitation energy migration and surface trapping, we demonstrate experimentally an over 600-fold enhancement over acceptor emission for large nanocrystals (30 nm or ∼15R0) with surface-anchored molecular acceptors. Our work shows that the migration-coupled approach can dramatically improve sensitivity in FRET-limited measurement, with potential applications ranging from facile photochemical synthesis to biological sensing and imaging at the single-molecule level.