New Publication

In a new publication led by the Sambur Group at Colorado State University, in Chemical and Biomedical Imaging, Lustig et al. use fluorescence microscopy to study energy transfer between ZnO nanocrystals and a fluorescent dye at an individual particle level. This work shows that the energy transfer efficiency is not only limited by binding between the nanocrystal and dye, but also the fact that some bound pairs are energy transfer inactive. The Dukovic Lab contributed kinetic Monte Carlo simulations to further explore this data, and this work was supported as part of Ensembles of Photosynthetic Nanoreactors (EPN), a DOE Energy Frontiers Research Center.

D. R. Lustig, E. Buz, O. F. Bird, J. T. Mulvey, P. R. Prasad, J. P. Patterson, G. Dukovic, K. R. Kittilstved, J. B. Sambur. “Single-Molecule Fluorescence Microscopy Reveals Energy Transfer Active versus Inactive Nanocrystal/Dye Conjugate Pairs.” Chem. Biomed. Imaging, 2025.