Evidence map›Paper›PMID 32054851›Full record

ArticleNature communications2020

Long-living and highly efficient bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes with zero-thermal-quenching biophosphors.

Anna Espasa, Martina Lang, Carmen F Aguiño, Daniel Sanchez-deAlcazar, Juan P Fernández-Blázquez, Uwe Sonnewald, Aitziber L Cortajarena, Pedro B Coto, Rubén D Costa

Abstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Nature communications, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
9citing papers in PubMed
–field-weighted citation impact
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Photon-to-Heat Energy Harvesting Fluorescent Protein Coatings for Thermoelectrics.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
    Article
  2. Fluorescent Protein Solid-State Luminescent Solar Concentrators.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
    Article
  3. Ancestral Protein-Based Lighting.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
    Article
  4. Article
  5. Bacterial Hybrid Light-Emitting Diodes.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2024
    Article
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Article
  9. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Anna EspasaIMDEA Materials Institute, Calle Eric Kandel 2, 28906, Getafe, Spain.
Martina LangDepartment of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Staudtstraße 5, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
Carmen F AguiñoIMDEA Materials Institute, Calle Eric Kandel 2, 28906, Getafe, Spain.
Daniel Sanchez-deAlcazarCenter for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Paseo de Miramon 182, 20014, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Juan P Fernández-BlázquezIMDEA Materials Institute, Calle Eric Kandel 2, 28906, Getafe, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0458-3293
Uwe SonnewaldDepartment of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Staudtstraße 5, 91058, Erlangen, Germany.
Aitziber L CortajarenaCenter for Cooperative Research in Biomaterials (CIC biomaGUNE), Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), Paseo de Miramon 182, 20014, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Pedro B CotoDepartment of Physical and Analytical Chemistry, University of Oviedo, Avenida Julián Clavería 8, 33006, Oviedo, Spain.
Rubén D CostaIMDEA Materials Institute, Calle Eric Kandel 2, 28906, Getafe, Spain. ruben.costa@imdea.org.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3776-9158

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bio-hybrid light-emitting diodes (Bio-HLEDs) based on color down-converting filters with fluorescent proteins (FPs) have achieved moderate efficiencies (50 lm/W) and stabilities (300 h) due to both thermal- and photo-degradation. Here, we present a significant enhancement in efficiency (~130 lm/W) and stability (>150 days) using a zero-thermal-quenching bio-phosphor design. This is achieved shielding the FP surface with a hydrophilic polymer allowing their homogenous integration into the network of a light-guiding and hydrophobic host polymer. We rationalize how the control of the mechanical and optical features of this bio-phosphor is paramount towards highly stable and efficient Bio-HLEDs, regardless of the operation conditions. This is validated by the relationships between the stiffness of the FP-polymer phosphor and the maximum temperature reached under device operation as well as the transmittance of the filters and device efficiency.

Indexed as

LightSemiconductorsBioengineeringCircular DichroismColorEquipment DesignGreen Fluorescent ProteinsMutationOrganophosphatesPolymethyl MethacrylateProtein Structure, SecondaryProtein Structure, TertiaryRecombinant ProteinsTemperatureenhanced green fluorescent proteinGreen Fluorescent ProteinsOrganophosphatesPolymethyl MethacrylateRecombinant Proteins

Identifiers

PMID32054851
PMCPMC7018753

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.