This page only lists the experimental techniques that were used to explore the spectroscopic and charge-transfer properties of various pigment-protein complexes, pigments/chormophores and polymers.
Stark-effect Spectroscopy
(Resonance) Raman Spectroscopy
Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Electronic-Structure Calculations, Gaussian 98, (Z)INDO, MOPAC
Circular Dichroism Spectroscopy
Fluorescence Microscopy/Imaging
Structure-function relationship of Light-Harvesting complexes of diatoms
Diatoms Cyclotella meneghiniana and Phaeodactylum tricornutum
Light-harvesting Complexes of Diatoms (FCPs) and Dinoflagellates (LHC and PCP)
Carotenoids in vivo and in solution
Photoactive Yellow Protein (PYP)
Electronic properties of PYP and its mutants
Electronic properties of the chromophore of PYP
Electronic properties of Charge Transfer systems
'Two-state' molecules, ESIPT (excited-state intramolecular proton transfer) and TICT (twisted intramolecular charge transfer molecules
Conducting and insulating Polymers (d-PaNi and EB) at CMU, Pittsburgh in collaboration
Electrostatic properties of LMCT complexes
Drug-oligonucleotide binding
Conducting and insulating Polymers (d-PaNi and EB) at CMU, Pittsburgh in collaboration