Understanding Förster Energy Transfer through the Lens of Molecular Dynamics

A multiscale approach to the dynamics of resonant energy transfer (RET) is presented, combining DFT and TD-DFT results on the energy donor (D) and acceptor (A) moieties with an extensive equilibrium and non-equilibrium molecular dynamics (MD) analysis of a bound D-A pair in solution to build a coarse-grained kinetic model. We demonstrate that a thorough MD study is needed to properly address RET: the enormous configuration space visited by the system cannot be reliably sampled accounting only for a few representative configurations. Moreover, the conformational motion of the RET pair, occurring in a similar time scale as the RET process itself, leads to a sizable increase of the overall process efficiency.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

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2020

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

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Journal of chemical theory and computation - 16(2020), 12 vom: 08. Dez., Seite 7281-7288

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Englisch

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Anzola, Mattia [VerfasserIn]
Sissa, Cristina [VerfasserIn]
Painelli, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Hassanali, Ali A [VerfasserIn]
Grisanti, Luca [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 08.12.2020

Date Revised 14.12.2020

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

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10.1021/acs.jctc.0c00893

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NLM318044137