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ArticleNature nanotechnology2018

Bacteria photosensitized by intracellular gold nanoclusters for solar fuel production.

Hao Zhang, Hao Liu, Zhiquan Tian, Dylan Lu, Yi Yu, Stefano Cestellos-Blanco, Kelsey K Sakimoto, Peidong Yang

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Article in Nature nanotechnology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 112 papers.

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8 authors.

Hao ZhangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Hao LiuDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Zhiquan TianDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Dylan LuDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Yi YuDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Stefano Cestellos-BlancoDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Kelsey K SakimotoDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Peidong YangDepartment of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. p_yang@berkeley.edu.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The demand for renewable and sustainable fuel has prompted the rapid development of advanced nanotechnologies to effectively harness solar power. The construction of photosynthetic biohybrid systems (PBSs) aims to link preassembled biosynthetic pathways with inorganic light absorbers. This strategy inherits both the high light-harvesting efficiency of solid-state semiconductors and the superior catalytic performance of whole-cell microorganisms. Here, we introduce an intracellular, biocompatible light absorber, in the form of gold nanoclusters (AuNCs), to circumvent the sluggish kinetics of electron transfer for existing PBSs. Translocation of these AuNCs into non-photosynthetic bacteria enables photosynthesis of acetic acid from CO

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