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ZnS-Capped CdSe nanocrystals. J Phys Chem 100:468
52. Xie R, Kolb U, Li J, Basche ´ T, Mews A (2005) Synthesis and characterisation of highly
luminescent CdSe-core CdS/Zn0.5Cd0.5S/ZnS multi shell nanocrystals. J Am Chem Soc
127:7480
53. Kim S, Fisher B, Eisler H-J, Bawendi MG (2003) Type-II Quantum Dots: CdTe/CdSe(Core/
Shell) and CdSe/ZnTe(Core/Shell) Heterostructures. J Am Chem Soc 125:11466
54. Xie R, Zhong X, Basche ´ T (2005) Synthesis, characterization, and spectroscopy of type-II
core/shell semiconductor nanocrystals with ZnTe cores. Adv Mater 17:2741
55. Xie R, Kolb U, Basche ´ T (2006) Design and synthesis of colloidal nanocrystal
heterostructures with tetrapod morphology. Small 2:1454
56. Liu Y, Kim M, Wang Y, Wang YA, Peng X (2006) Highly luminescent, stable, and watersoluble CdSe/CdS coreÀshell dendron nanocrystals with carboxylate anchoring groups.
Langmuir 22:6341
57. Ren T, Mandal PK, Erker W, Liu Z, Avlasevich Y, Puhl L, Mu ¨llen K, Basche ´ T (2008) A
simple and versatile route to stable quantum dotÀdye hybrids in nonaqueous and aqueous
solutions. J Am Chem Soc 130:17242
58. Xu X, Sto ¨ttinger S, Battagliarin G, Hinze G, Mugnaioli E, Li C, Mu ¨llen K, Basche ´ T (2011)
Assembly and separation of semiconductor quantum dot dimers and trimers. J Am Chem Soc
133:18062
59. Gomez DE, Califano M, Mulvaney P (2006) Optical properties of single semiconductor
nanocrystals. Phys Chem Chem Phys 8:4989
60. Koole R, Liljeroth P, Donega CD, Vanmaekelbergh D, Meijerink A (2006) Electronic
coupling and exciton energy transfer in CdTe quantum-dot molecules. J Am Chem Soc
128:10436
61. Antelman J, Wilking-Chang C, Weiss S, Michalet X (2009) Nanometer distance measurements between multicolor quantum dots. Nano Lett 9:2199
62. Peng XG, Wilson TE, Alivisatos AP, Schultz PG (1997) Synthesis and isolation of a
homodimer of cadmium selenide nanocrystals. Angew Chem Int Ed 36:145
63. Smith AW, Nie S (2010) Semiconductor nanocrystals: structure, properties, and band gap
engineering. Acc Chem Res 43(2):190
64. Govorov AO (2008) Enhanced optical properties of a photosynthetic system conjugated with
semiconductor nanoparticles: the role of Fo ¨rster transfer. Adv Mater 20(22):4330
65. Nabiev I, Rakovich A, Sukhanova A, Lukashev E, Zagidullin V, Pachenko V, Rakovich YP,
Donegan JF, Rubin AB, Govorov AO (2010) Fluorescent quantum dots as artificial antennas
for enhanced light harvesting and energy transfer to photosynthetic reaction centers. Angew
Chem Int Ed 49(40):7217
66. Maksimov EG, Kurashov VN, Mamedov MD et al (2012) Hybrid system based on quantum
dots and photosystem 2 core complex. Biochem Mosc 77(6):624
67. Schmitt F (2010) Temperature induced conformational changes in hybrid complexes formed
from CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals and the phycobiliprotein antenna of Acaryochloris marina. J
Opt 12(8):84008
68. Schmitt F, Maksimov E, Suedmeyer H, Jeyasangar V, Theiss C, Paschenko V, Eichler H,
Renger G (2011) Time resolved temperature switchable excitation energy transfer processes
between CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals and phycobiliprotein antenna from Acaryochloris marina.
Photonic Nanostruct 9(2):190
69. Maksimov EG, Gostev TS, Kuz’minov FI, Sluchanko NN, Stadnichuk IN, Pashchenko VZ,
Rubin AB (2010) Hybrid systems of quantum dots mixed with the photosensitive protein
phycoerythrin. Nanotechnol Russia 5(7–8):531
70. Schmitt FJ, Maksimov EG, Hatti P, Weissenborn J, Jeyasangar V, Razjivin AP, Pashchenko
VZ, Friedrich T, Renger G (2012) Coupling of different isolated photosynthetic light
harvesting complexes and CdSe/ZnS nanocrystals via Fo ¨rster resonance energy transfer.
Biochim Biophys Acta Bioenerg 1817(8):1461
71. Erker W, Boggasch S, Xie RG, Grundmann G, Paulsen H, Basche ´ T (2010) Assemblies of
semiconductor quantum dots and light-harvesting-complex II. J Lumin 130(9):1624
110
T. Basche ´ et al.